Colina Miralta

Una formación que ha sido base de muchos proyectos de jazz y otros estilos como el flamenco o la música cubana. Su estreno discográfico fue en marzo de 2007 en el Festival Jazz Terrassa. Desde entonces el grupo ha tenido un recorrido imparable en 2007 y 2008 que le ha llevado a estar presente en ciudades como Madrid, Barcelona, Burgos, Huesca, Londres, Paris, Frankfurt, Montevideo o Buenos Aires.

The good news for connoisseurs of music that is as surprising as Jazz, mysterious as flamenco and the molten mix of these with every other musical idiom, is that Colina Miralta Sambeat – otherwise known as the CMS Trio – has released just their first album of 2015. The repertoire is driven by music that is sinuous, lyrical and magical. And there could hardly be a trio of musicians that created this music and is more self-effacing, scholarly and so filled with ingenuity that their proverbial cup does runneth over. And it does so with the simple joy of playing alto saxophone, contrabass and percussion with compelling brilliance so as to communicate through extreme virtuosity, the simple joy of traversing the musical topography of the world with the eyes and ears of children.

Catalan folk singer Sílvia Pérez Cruz and the Javier Colina Trío (Colina on bass, Albert Sanz on piano, and Marc Miralta on the drums), plus guest saxophonist Perico Sambeat, revisit the Cuban songbook in the gorgeous En la Imaginación. Four years in the making, this genuine labor of love reimagines classics of the bolero, filin, and son, such as "Debí Llorar" and "Ella y Yo" in a jazz trio-and-voice setting.

The new album of Catalan drummer Marc Miralta, entitled 'Flamenco Reunion' (Contrabaix / Karonte) is simply very good, one of those albums worth hearing several times because all the music contained therein excellence rubs and it is always outstanding. Yes, jazz, flamenco and flamenco jazz, enjoys an enviable health. Fifteen years ago Miralta edited 'New York Flamenco Reunion', a great drummer disk where acknowledged his debt to flamenco music that (re) discovered while in the United States. Are those paradoxes of life: Miralta had to go outside to see the value of flamenco for your own music.

Like it happens so often, catalan drummer Marc Miralta discovered that he was a flamenco aficionado while living outside of Spain. He gathered his favourite musicians from both sides of the Atlantic and projected this recording which is another proof of flamenco's influence in contemporany jazz.

Perico Sambeat belongs to the jazz generation of musicians who became known in the 1980s, during the last great international emergence of the genre…

Alto and soprano saxophonist Perico Sambeat is considered today as one of the most important spanish jazz musicians, owning a tremendous prestige with an extraordinary musical career inside and out of Spain. With more than twenty recordings as a leader and near a hundred as a sideman, they´re specially remarkable his works with musicians as Brad Mehldau, Kurt Rosenwinkel, Tete Montoliu, Michael Brecker, Pat Metheny, and many others. Along his life, he´s received numerous awards, such as the "Bird Award" given by the North Sea Jazz Festival to the musician deserving wider recognition (2003), or the one given to the best recording of the year to "Flamenco Big Band" (2008 and 2009)

Over the years, valencian saxophonist Perico Sambeat has become a benchmark in the world of jazz. His prolific career has led him to share the stage at festivals and programming worldwide with artists like Dave Douglas, Sasseti Bernardo, Bob Sands, Chris Kase, George Colligan, Chano Dominguez … and burn discs among them with Crossroads Gerardo Nunez Meldhau Friendship with Brad, Kurt Rosenwinkel and Jeff Ballard (edited by ACT, prestigious German label and international presence), or Flamenco big Band, Miguel Poveda, Javier Colina or Miralta and edited by Marc-Verve Universal.