German pianist Joachim Kühn, ex partner of Ornette Coleman and a reference to the avandgarde European jazz, will kick off the Ibiza Jazz 2009, on 26th and 27th of August at the bastion of Santa Lucia, in old town: Dalt Vila.
Kühn will be launching ‘Out of the Desert’, his last work, inspired by gnauas brotherhood of Morocco; also the Tineke Postma’s quartet, a Holland young saxophonist turned into one of the biggest jazz’s sensations in Europe thanks to works like ‘A journey that matters’. Jazz Ibiza also brings Niño Josele, habitual Paco de Lucía’s collaborator. People say about the guitarist from Almería “his heart pumps as much flamenco blood as jazz blood. ‘Paz’, his latest work, is a good example of this, such tribute to pianist and musical sensibility of Hill Evans, produced by Fernando Trueba and Javier Limón and shared with artists like Joe Lovano, Tom Harrell, Jerry González and Marc Johnson”.
The closing will be performed by the American septet The Goleen Gospel Singers.
All this will be at Ibiza Jazz, a festival with history that this year will be dedicated to the Latin and European jazz schools, plus the Spanish and Balearic ones, where this genre has many, many, followers.