April 8-18, 2010
Sponsored by Tunisiana
This event presents world jazz stars over 10 days. The jazz artists represent eight countries namely Tunisia, the United States, Portugal, Cuba, Netherlands, Belgium, Spain, and Brazil will give 16 concerts including "jazz club" performances.
Artists include:
Born in Detroit, John Lee Hooker, Jr., is the son of blues legend John Lee Hooker. The family blues pedigree took hold early, and Hooker was performing live on Detroit's WJBK radio station when he was only eight years old, and by his teens he was touring with his father. At 18, he was a featured vocalist on Hooker, Sr.'s Live at Soledad Prison album and the future looked bright for the young musician, but drug and alcohol problems derailed things for some 25 years until family and friends helped Hooker through his problems and he emerged healthier, wiser, and ready to resume his career.
Guitarist, singer and songwriter Sherman Robertson is a product of the region of the country that he grew up in: he's one part zydeco, one part swamp blues, one part electric blues and one part classic rhythm and blues. His guitar playing style is extremely rhythm-based, but at the same time, he plays some extraordinary slide guitar and in the course of one of his typical three hour shows, he'll play a lot of great solos. Robertson's rhythmic playing is no doubt an outgrowth of his several years on the road in the 1980s with the king of zydeco, Clifton Chenier.
Singer-songwriter Peter Cincotti is jazz-influenced pianist and vocalist with a bent toward adult-alternative pop and '70s influenced rock. Born in the Park Avenue apartment of his parents, Cincotti displayed a talent for music after being given a toy piano
by his grandmother at age three, and when he was four he began taking piano lessons.
The son of legendary actor Clint Eastwood
, bassist Kyle Eastwood inherited his father's well-known love of jazz music, becoming a respected session player during the early '90s; later fronting his own quartet, he contributed a track to the 1997 Eastwood After Hours: Live at Carnegie Hall tribute LP, and a year later issued his solo debut, From There to Here. He then returned with the pop- and soul-influenced Paris Blue in 2005 and Now in 2006. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Music Guide
Alto saxophonist Candy Dulfer was brought into the limelight by Prince, who introduced her to the world via his video for "Partyman." Raised in a family heavily involved in the Dutch jazz scene, Dulfer is the daughter of Hans Dulfer
, a respected jazz tenor saxophonist.
Chucho Valdes
Nationality: Cuban
Born: Oct 9 1941 (68 years old)
The son of the noted musician Bebo Valdes, Chucho began playing piano when he was three and by the time he was 16 he was leading his own group. In 1960 his father defected from Cuba but Chucho stayed behind. In 1967, he formed the Orquesta Cubana de Musica Moderna and, in 1973, he founded Irakere, the top Cuban jazz orchestra; among its original members were Arturo Sandoval and Paquito D'Rivera. Valdes has been Irakere's musical director almost from the start and has recorded with the full band, in small groups, and as an impressive solo pianist.
Jonathan Vandenbroeck is the 27 year-old Belgian singer-songwriter, otherwise known as Milow. This last year has seen Milow have enormous chart success right across Europe with his version of 50 Cent's 'Ayo Technology'. In 2008 it was time for Milow’s career to skyrocket. It began when a Belgian radio station asked Milow to play a cover song as part of a live session. Milow opted for ‘Ayo Technology’, an acoustic guitar cover version of 50 Cent’s original 2007 hit which featured Justin Timberlake. And it worked, to striking, creepy effect. Milow’s everyman yearning and the eerie desperation in his vocals and acoustic-guitar interpretation of the track work incredibly and ingeniously, especially considering its total transformation.
Tickets to the events can be purchased in advance online at
JazzaCarthage.com and JetSetMagazine.net
Locations of the concerts:
Room CARTHAGE 1
at Barcelo Carthage Thalasso*****
Zone Touristique - Gammarth
Tel : +216 71 910 111
Fax : +216 71 913 140
Email : carthagethalasso@barcelo.com
Map in PDF
Google Map
Room "Carthage 1" at the Barcelo Carthage Thalasso Hotel will host the 6th Carthage Jazz Festival "Jazz à Carthage." The Barcelo Hotel is hiring acoustics professionals to plan the sound and seating for the events.
Jazz Club Papa Joe
Espace Virgile
Hôtel Golden Tulip Carthage Tunis *****
Les Cotes de Carthage - Avenue de la Promenade
B.P 606 - 2078 - La Marsa
Tel : +216 71 913 000
Fax : +216 71 912 812
Jazz Club PDF Map
Google Map
For more information, booking and venue details visit
http://www.jazzacarthage.com
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