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Paco de Lucia - Lagartijo

03.07.2012

Live at Miles Davis Hall

 

Musical genius, Paco de Lucia transformed the Flamenco guitar from a marginal instrument into a worldwide phenomenon. Simply by introducing the cajun drum, the bass and percussion, he ays the foundation of the current Flamenco idiom. I have never lost the roots in my music, de Lucia said during a late-'90s interview, because I would lose myself. What I have tried to do is have a hand holding onto tradition and the other scratching, digging in other places, trying to find new things I can bring into flamenco. (FFJM © 2012)

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Live Music at its best, Since 1967

Founded by Claude Nobs in 1967, over the years the Montreux Jazz Festival has become an unmissable event for music fans in Switzerland and around the world. Its stages have been graced by all of music’s greats, from Miles Davis to Ray Charles and from David Bowie to Prince.

Whereas Jazz constitutes the Festival’s historic core, other styles of music were quickly integrated into the Festival, bound together by a common thread of mutual curiosity and enthusiasm.

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