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Tue 8 Jul 08

Patrick Metheny

Enrique Morente

9pm at Palau de la Musica Catalana (C/ Palau de la Música, 4-6) 30- 60€ Buy tickets

Patrick Metheny is an American jazz guitarist and composer. One of the most successful and critically acclaimed jazz musicians to come to prominence in the 1970s and ’80s, he is the leader of the Pat Metheny Group and is also involved in duets, solo works, and other side projects. His style incorporates elements of progressive and contemporary jazz, post-Bop, jazz-rock fusion, and folk-jazz.

Enrique Morente, is a singer and controversial figure in contemporary flamenco. After his orthodox beginnings, he plunged into experimentalism, writing new melodies for “cante” (flamenco singing) and jamming with musicians of all styles, without renouncing his roots in traditional flamenco singing, which he keeps on cultivating. In spite of severe criticism from the most “purist” amongst the critics and public, he is probably the most influential contemporary flamenco singer, who not only innovates, but could also be said to create tradition: some of his cantes have been performed by other singers such as Camarón de la Isla, Mayte Martín, Carmen Linares, Miguel Poveda, Segundo Falcón and Arcángel.

(Taken from http://w3.bcn.es, www.wikipedia.org, www.enriquemorente.com & www.palaumusica.org)