Marc Ribot Hurry Red Telephone + Dee Dee Bridgewater
Marc Ribot Hurry Red Telephone
Marc Ribot (guitar), Ava Mendoza (guitar), Chad Taylor (drums)
Born in New Jersey in 1954, Marc Ribot is one of the most innovative and creative guitarists of the last decades. Ribot’s music – he also is a composer and singer – is always linked to the world of experimentation and improvisation, departing from absolute freedom, with a special penchant towards raw rock, direct and loud.
Ribot studied classic guitar and learnt soul by playing with Rufus Thomas and Solomon Burke. He firmly established his style during the time he played alongside John Lurie and the Lounge Lizars. In his over 40 years in the business, he has collaborated with artists of the calibre of Tom Waits, Laurie Anderson, McCoy Tyner, Marianne Faithfull, Alan Toussaint, Caetano Veloso, Jamaaladeen Tacuma, Sun Ra, Norah Jones, Elvis Costello, Iggy Pop, T-Bone Burnett, David Sylvian, Arto Lindsay, David Hidalgo, Vinicius Cantuaria, Marisa Monte, Andrés Calamaro... A significant presence on the New York scene, he usually works with his friend, John Zorn, and has been part of groups such as The Jazz Passengers, Los Cubanos Postizos and The Lounge Lizards.
Ribot is unique and defies categorisation, possessing an amazing technique and seemingly boundless creativity. He can surprise and provoke, make us think and amuse us, with his wonderfully unpredictable concerts. In recognition of his career as a whole, and as a token of gratitude for all the great concerts he has brought to us every time he has come to our festival, Jazzaldia shall give the Donostiako Jazzaldia award this year to Marc Ribot.
Dee Dee Bridgewater Quartet: We Exist!
Dee Dee Bridgewater (vocals), Carmen Staaf (piano), Rosa Brunello (bass), Evita Polidoro (drums)
Dee Dee Bridgewater is one of the great ladies of vocal Jazz. Born in Memphis in 1950, she soon joined, (as early as 1971), The Thad Jones/ Mel Lewis Big Band, a brilliant and ground-breaking orchestra with which she performed regularly until 1974, allowing her to acquire enough to take a big step in her career and start to work with the orchestras of the established figures of Jazz, such as Max Roach, Dizzy Gillespie, Sonny Rollins and Dexter Gordon.
Between 1974 and 1976, she worked in the Broadway musical, The Wiz, winning an important Tony Award. She went on to play Billie Holiday in the musical, Lady Day, and in the musical revue, Sophisticated Lady, on the music of Duke Ellington. As a singer, Dee Dee Bridgewater has won three Grammys. Few artists have stood out so notably on so many different types of stage.
As Goodwill Ambassador for the UN and FAO, Bridgewater continues to push hard for international solidarity to finance area-based projects to fight hunger in the world.
Like the brave, multifaceted explorer she is, and as a true pioneer and guardian of tradition, Bridgewater has straddled different musical genres throughout her career. She is a Jazz icon, a star of the theatre world, a deeply committed cultural ambassador, and a tireless fighter for humanitarian causes, to mention but a few of her many achievements.
On this occasion, the great American singer brings us “WE EXIST!”, a show that is a veritable war cry, an assertion of activism and of the art of great women, a reflection that links the past and the present, a look back at trails blazed as well as a window towards what lies ahead and still remains to be done.
