The Dubai International Jazz Festival SDIJF is not just about big names like James Morrison's favorite of the charts, the energetically exciting David Gray, James Blunt, the splen person and the amazing Dee Dee Bridgewater. Dubai International Jazz Festival is not so much a pleasant pastime in the fresh air under the stars, shaded by the futuristic silhouette of new Dubai and its many skyscrapers. The Dubai International Jazz Festival is not only a place where singles are even more lonely from the sight of couples lounging on pillows of lawns. And not even so much a place where they sell cheap beer and Russian pancakes without caviar in a French way. The Dubai International Jazz Festival is not even jazz at all. What his slogan says "Much more than jazz." The Dubai International Jazz Festival is essentially a manifesto of the triumph of music over non-music. Real art over consumer goods. And everyday fuss over the beautiful and the eternal. For this he is appreciated. Already a long eight years.
To be honest, it was possible to get confused in the SDIJF 2010 program: such a choice did not give a chance to lose, but left in complete misunderstanding how to stretch the time so as not to iron clothes in the evenings and cook dinner, and sit by the stage and listen, listen, listen! This year, the SDIJF was launched on February 3 under the auspices of the Dubai Trade Festival: the audience began to enjoy delicious music at the most popular Dubai promenade in the Jumeirah Beach Residence (JBR). The scene of the World of Jazz program, set almost in one of the ends of the promenade, literally thundered from eight to eleven in the evening for the entire area. A total of 16 concerts were given, one of the other is better.
A variety of and absolutely healthy musical "dishes" went with a bang, coupled with dishes from local restaurants. The promotional step of the festival organizers, Cillout Productions, was a success - more than 30,000 people came to the main program from February 10 to 19. However, even without this, SDIJF has enough fans. Do not consider all sublime maxims as cunning: SDIJF is indeed one of the highest quality products ever created in Dubai.
By February 10, all the action was traditionally transferred to the Dubai Media City lawns, where the next seven evenings the audience was prepared for the festival's finale from February 17 to 19. Like last year, thanks to the sponsorship of Network International, the Network Jazz Garden program was launched, bringing together those who were already crowded on the stage in JBR.
The program was opened by the favorites of the New York public. Americans, famous at home for their creative interpretations of jazz classics and modernity, have produced great jazz full of breathtaking improvisations and masterful swing. Americans are able to start and keep the audience.
Another pleasant set was obtained in collaboration with the Office-Representative Office of the city of Hamburg in the United Arab Emirates, famous in Europe for its best jazz players, its music academy with the faculty of jazz music and the world-famous NDR Big Band orchestra. One of Hamburg's top promoters, Karsten Jahnke Konzertdirektion, brought to Dubai assorted best Hamburg jazz and blues.
The final three days were marked by the strongest national concerts. On the first day, Dubai welcomed the founders of British acid jazz, The Brand New Heavies. Before the grandees on stage, no less interesting characters performed such as the record charts of the American charts of the American magazine Billboard, the French jazz guitarist Emmanuel Abitebul (aka U-Nam), whose game is compared with luminaries such as George Benson and Pat Matani, and the quartet James Taylor Quartet (JTQ), which also stood at the origins of acid jazz.
The concept of "not only jazz" with his virtuoso playing on the traditional Arabic lute "ud" was supported on the first night by Lebanese Charbel Ruhan, a professor at the University of Beirut, who has received numerous international awards and is simply very respected in the Arab world of music.
The second final evening, which traditionally began at 18.00, was no less eventful. It was opened by jazz pianist virtuoso Attila Molnar, followed by the gorgeous American jazz vocalist Jane Monhight, a beautiful girl with a strong, deep voice, who performs the soul-catching retro-club jazz, which she performs, perhaps, better than anyone else, in the re-singing of famous compositions.
Lao Tizer, now known as a composer, was followed by a surprisingly talented Briton, David Gray, who is called modern troubadour. High-quality texts, music and a good voice brought David fame and a Grammy nomination in the category "Best New Artist", which was somewhat strange after 4 successful albums and 10 years of active touring.
Most of the public gathered the last concert of the third final day, which gave the British Stevie Wonder, the talented James Morrison. A young and early rocker from West Midland County in a matter of days managed to win the hearts of millions with his hoarse voice and good lyrics and make his debut album platinum. Dubai enthusiastically accepted not only his hits “You Give Me Something” and “Wonderful World”, but also less well-known compositions: people did not want to leave even after midnight.
Morrison’s “opening act” included artists who could finish the final night themselves: American tenor co-saranosaxophonist Marion Meadows playing smooth jazz, red-haired talent Brett Dennen, recognized as a phenomenon from his “young nails”, and magnificent Laura Izibor. As in previous releases, SDIJF 2010 was rich in really good music. So high-quality, real and organic that after the end of the festival in the city of Dubai it became somehow sad and dreary from pops screaming from radios.
A little about jazz
The cradle of jazz was the American South and, above all, New Orleans. “Once the editor-in-chief of the most famous American jazz magazine“ Down Beat ”, distributed in 124 countries of the world, some reporter during an interview asked:“ What is jazz? ”.“ You never saw a person get caught so quickly on a place with such a simple question! ", this editor later said. Unlike him, some other jazz figure could tell you about this music for two hours or more, without explaining anything specifically, as reality still doesn’t exist t ary, short and at the same time, "Jazz", "full and objective definition of the word and the concept itself.
From the book of Marshall Stearns "History of Jazz."
The all-knowing Wikipedia tells us that "jazz (English Jazz) is a form of musical art that emerged in the United States at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries as a result of the synthesis of African and European cultures and subsequently became widespread. Improvisation originally became the characteristic features of the musical language of jazz , polyrhythmia based on syncopated rhythms, and a unique set of techniques for performing rhythmic textures - swing. "
From the book of Mikhail Mitropolsky "A Brief History of Jazz for Beginners".
“First of all, wherever you hear jazz, it is always much easier to know than to describe in words. But in the very first approximation, we can define jazz as semi-improvisational music, resulting from a 300-year mix of two great musical traditions on the North American land - Western European and West African, that is, the actual fusion of white and black culture, and although the European tradition played a dominant role here musically, the rhythmic qualities that made jazz so distinctive bychnoy and easily recognizable music will surely have their origin in Africa. Therefore, the main components of this music are European harmony, melody evroafrikanskaya and African rhythm. "
