Maceo Parker performed at the San Javier Jazz Festival before closing his Spanish tour tonight at the Port Adriano Festival in Mallorca.
It was when Maceo Parker appeared for the first time on a record recording. It was in Out of Sight by James Brown. Since then we have been able to hear his saxophone in recordings by Red Hot Chili Peppers Keith Richards Ani DiFranco Prince De La Soul or Ryuichi Sakamoto . Fifty-five years of recording career forming part of music history.
Sixteen years later he has returned to the lineup at the San Javier Jazz Festival. That of jazz that it claims to have is enough to justify its presence on the poster of a festival that maintaining the essences of great jazz gives us these delicious morsels of miscegenation.
On stage Maceo Parker looks like a young man who has used FaceApp that fashionable CXB Directory application that claims to predict what we will be like in forty years. Seventy-six years only in the skin. Energy gestures smile and a lot of love in this Almansa Park auditorium that allows you to enjoy each of the gestures looks and movements like in very few outdoor settings.
As if in a living room a wonderfully eccentric Southern lady sets the stage for the band's arrival. The word love written in wooden letters a wall clock and a low table welcome us to this house. Maceo Parker and his band on stage. Greg Boyer on trombone like a faithful squire always attentive and jovial. Green laces to match the tie and handkerchief. Here we have come to dance. Guitar bass and drums that keep the pulse and accompany the maestro in this constant playing with the audience. On the keyboards Will Boulware the serious one of the troupe to play jokes on. An ideal accomplice. And all accompanied by the deep voice of singer Darliene Parker cousin and alter ego who left us a version of Ben E. King's classic 'Stand By Me' to break our souls.
Maceo Parker has a command of the stage and a sense of show business that is only available to the very great. The stage is yours the audience is yours the world is yours. At his suggestion the orchestra of this auditorium built in the style of old Roman theaters is filled with dancing audiences. A parade of legendary pieces and names to which the band gives a fresh and fun touch. Love is everything and so is dancing.
Penultimate date of the XXII edition of Jazz San Javier that is already approaching its end and that continues to maintain that difficult balance between being part of the greats without losing its delicate family aroma welcoming everyone who comes and making them part of their traditions. A festival that is honest with itself and with an audience in which local and foreign jazz music lovers coexist with the neophyte who in other major events seems to feel left out if they have not studied it from home. Jazz or funk in this case to enjoy.
發表於 2024-3-16 14:47:58
