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15 Panama Jazz Festival

Latin America / Panama / Panama

Once again, Panama makes its appearance beginning the year at the City of Knowledge and Casco Antiguo – Panama Jazz Festival in its 15th edition, thanks to the “Danilo Pérez” Foundation, where it gives us the opportunity to enjoy music in a healthy way, once again becoming the The largest Jazz stage in the Region, where musicians and fans from different countries such as Costa Rica, Colombia, Chile, USA, Mexico, among others, will participate from January 15 to 20.

15 Panama Jazz Festival
15 Panama Jazz Festival

Its director Danilo Pérez mentions “From the heart of America to the world” giving us a message, which is not just to make and carry out a festival but to show everyone his dedication worldwide by showing us his cultural project that consolidates creativity, exchange and talent. , with a strong commitment to Panamanian education and social welfare, returns with a strong artistic billboard.

Performing artists include the Wayne Shorter Quartet; Latin jazz legend Chucho Valdés; the Brazilian singer, Luciana Souza; the legendary American pianist, Ran Blake, the master composer and pianist, Bill Dobbins accompanied on stage by the Global Jazz Big Band and the Panamanian cumbia patrons, Samy and Sandra Sandoval. Not to mention that the musical billboard is also strengthened with the participation of Panamanian bassist Santi Debriano along with saxophonist Craig Handy, pianist Bill O’Connell and drummer Will Calhoun, as core members of this musical banquet.

Others that will perform are the Panamonk Revisited trio, made up of maestro Pérez together with the Grammy-winning percussionist, Terri Lyne Carrington and bassist Ben Street, who will share this celebration with other renowned ones such as the Italian saxophonist Marco Pignataro and his Almas Antiguas quartet, with the Panamanian saxophonist Carlos Agrazal as a special guest; the Panamanian saxophonist Luis Carlos Pérez, and the famous Pan-African Jazz Project, made up of the Chilean saxophonist Patricia.

Collash of the 15th Panama Jazz Festival
Collash of the 15th Panama Jazz Festival

Zárate Pérez, the Panamanian Luz Acosta (voice and bass) and Graciela Núñez (violin) and the Egyptian musicians Hesham Galal and Balquei.

The Global Stage will be back this year, which will be a stage to enjoy in style with bands from different latitudes such as Rubén Amador and Yahuba (Puerto Rico), The Shuffle Demons (Canada), Paulina Pérez and Luna Mestiza (Chile), Josean Jacobo & Tumbao (Dominican Republic), Marco Pignataro (Italy), Yogev Shetrit Trio (Israel), Fundación Armonía Colectiva (Costa Rica), Four On a Swing (India) and Shea Welsh (United States); and Panamanian talents German Pinzón Jiménez, Tambo Jazz Collective, Digger Descendants Calypso Band, Proyecto Shuruca and Pureza Natural.

In addition, there will be highly prestigious educational institutions, Berklee College of Music, Berklee Global Jazz Institute, New England Conservatory, Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz, New York Jazz Academy and Crossroads High School, which offer great support every year.

And of the institutes that will be: Berklee Global Jazz Institute, New England Conservatory, Thelonious Monk Institute Of Jazz and New Yorl Jazz Academy.

Artists of the 15th Panama Jazz Festival
Artists of the 15th Panama Jazz Festival

And the schedule of activities to be carried out are:

Schedule of the 15th Panama Jazz Festival
Schedule of the 15th Panama Jazz Festival

One of the most important details of the festival is that auditions, countless educational clinics, as well as the VI Latin American Music Therapy Symposium, the I Classical Music Exchange Program and the II Symposium of Musical, Artistic and Cultural Expressions will be held. of Afro-descendants in Panama with the main theme El Calypso:

A unique Latin rhythm being known as an African and Afro-American music that began in Trinidad and Tobago, later being very popular in the highlands of Venezuela, San Andrés and Providencia in Colombia, Trinidad and Tobago, Puerto Rico and others from the Antilles, where they use instruments such as the stellpan (steel drums), trumpet, trombone, flute, Spanish guitar, electric bass, saxophone, congas, bongos, maracas. This rhythm varies depending on the country where it is performed, giving a unique touch to studying Calypso to all fans or interested in it.

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Karina Bernales
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