CURAÇAO NORTH SEA JAZZ FESTIVAL 2014

CURAÇAO
NORTH
SEA JAZZ
FESTIVAL
2014
29 & 30 AUGUST 2014
Dear music lovers, visitors, and friends,
This year, we celebrate the fifth edition of Curaçao
North Sea Jazz!
The concept and idea to initiate this unique festival was
to promote and put the isle of Curaçao, in all its cultural
diversity, in front of a world audience. Looking back after
five years, we have accomplished this in a very nice way.
Offering the best in pop, soul, R&B, jazz, and everything
in between, Curaçao North Sea Jazz has become a true
happening that continues to attract a great amount
of visitors to Curaçao each year. According to visitors’
satisfaction surveys conducted by The Rosen College of
Hospitality Management at the University of Florida in
previous years, this event has scored extremely high in
various areas of visitors’ satisfaction.
No wonder Curaçao North Sea Jazz has grown into the
biggest festival of its kind in the entire Caribbean region and
the many surrounding Latin-American countries. A success
Curaçao can be proud of!
We have been able to achieve the above only thanks to you
and your continued support. We truly hope you will also enjoy
this year’s event.
Fundashon Bon Intenshon & Mojo Concerts
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WELCOME
TO CURAÇAO
NORTH
SEA JAZZ!
TABLE OF
CONTENTS
FESTIVAL
INFORMATION
BOZ SCAGGS
BRUNO MARS
CHAKA KHAN DIANNE REEVES
DR. JOHN
& THE NITE TRIPPERS
HENRY BUTLER,
STEVEN BERNSTEIN
& THE HOT 9
JANELLE MONÁE
JOSS STONE
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TIMETABLES
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JUAN LUIS GUERRA
MACEO PARKER
MANÁ
NILE RODGERS & CHIC
ROD STEWART
SEUN KUTI & EGYPT 80
SIERRA MAESTRA
SMOKEY ROBINSON
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JOSÉ JAMES
TRIBUTE TO DOBLE-R
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FESTIVAL MAP
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Curaçao North Sea Jazz takes
place at the site of the World
Trade Center Piscadera Bay
near Willemstad. The festival
is organised by Fundashon Bon
Intenshon and Mojo Concerts.
Tickets are $ 195.00 or
ANG 354.90 per day including
tax and are available at the
following ticket outlets:
Mensing Caminada
Mobile Planet
Tik-Tak (credit card and
Maestro only)
24 Uur uit de Muur (credit
card, Maestro and cash)
Phone: (599-9) 522-JAZZ
Web: www.ticketmaster.com
Payment in installments is
possible via (599-9) 522-JAZZ,
with an additional cost of
ANG 15.00.
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BOZ
SCAGGS
BRUNO
MARS
SATURDAY CELIA STAGE
SATURDAY SAM COOKE STAGE
William Royce “Boz” Scaggs made his name as a guitarist and
sometimes lead singer of the Steve Miller Band in the 1960s.
In the following decade he scored several Top 20 hit singles in
the United States as a solo artist, including the well-known hits
Lowdown, What Can I Say, and Lido Shuffle from the critically
acclaimed album Silk Degrees, which peaked at #2 on the
Billboard Hot 100. Scaggs continues to write, record music,
and tour; his latest album Memphis dates from 2013. It was
recorded in that same city and contains covers of some of his
favourite compositions from other artists. Last year he also did
a tour with Donald Fagen and Michael McDonald called ‘Dukes
of September Rhythm Revue’.
His performance during the Super Bowl halftime show earlier this
year proved yet again that Bruno Mars is an artist to be reckoned
with. Born Peter Gene Hernandez and raised in Honolulu, Hawaii,
in a musical family, Mars started performing in his family’s band
The Love Notes at age four and became known as a young Elvis
impersonator. His international breakthrough came in 2010 with
hitsingle Just The Way You Are and his debut album Doo-Wops
& Hooligans, both reaching the top of the Billboard Hot 100, as
did his second album Unorthodox Jukebox. Within three years,
Mars sold over 10 million albums and 58 singles worldwide. He
is known for his eclectic stage presence, which incorporates
throwback styles from the ’70s & ’80s, vocally, musically, and
choreographically.
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CHAKA
KHAN
DIANNE
REEVES
SATURDAY SIR DUKE STAGE
FRIDAY CELIA STAGE
Singer-songwriter Chaka Khan’s career has so far spanned four
decades in which she won ten Grammys and sold an estimated
200 million records worldwide. Born Yvette Marie Stevens, she
attributes her love of music to her grandmother, who introduced
her to jazz music as a child. Having formed her first group, The
Crystalettes, at age eleven, she first became known in the ’70s
as the frontwoman of funk band Rufus, before becoming a solo
star. Her debut album Chaka was released in 1978 and featured
the smash hit I’m Every Woman, later followed by other hit
singles such as I Feel For You and Ain’t Nobody (with Rufus). She
was part of numerous collaborations throughout the years and in
the ’90s toured with Prince as a co-headlining act.
Dianne Reeves has been considered one of the best female jazz
singers in the world since the late ’80s; a worthy ‘successor’
to Dinah Washington and Carmen McRae. She grew up around
music: her father was a singer and her mother a trumpeter. As
a child, Reeves started playing piano and eventually developed
into a superior interpreter of lyrics and a skilled scat singer.
She also explored areas outside of jazz, working with Sergio
Mendes and touring with Harry Belafonte. Her latest album
Beautiful Life was released earlier this year. Produced by Terri
Lynne Carrington, the album features an all-star cast of, among
others, Esperanza Spalding, Sheila E., and Robert Glasper.
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DR. JOHN
& THE NITE
TRIPPERS
HENRY BUTLER,
STEVEN BERNSTEIN
& THE HOT 9
SATURDAY CELIA STAGE
SATURDAY CELIA STAGE
Malcolm John “Mac” Rebennack, Jr., better known as Dr. John,
started out as a session musician in the late ’50s when he
was a teenager. He gained a cult following in the late ’60s and
became wider known in the early ’70s, with his wildly theatrical
stage show inspired by medicine shows, Mardi Gras costumes,
and voodoo ceremonies. A skilled boogie and blues pianist
with a growly voice, his repertoire ranges from his own brand of
“voodoo” music for which he fused New Orleans R&B, rock, and
Mardi Gras craziness to traditional blues and R&B. Nowadays,
his musical career extends well over five decades in which he
released over twenty albums and won six Grammy Awards.
From the moment that New Orleans legend Henry Butler took up
residence in Brooklyn, it seemed only a matter of time before this
gifted singer and pianist from the Mississippi Delta would look
to collaborate with New York trumpeter and bandleader Steven
Bernstein. Butler, who is blind, is now 64 years old and has
been one of the major stewards of the musical tradition of New
Orleans, the city of his birth. His compositions are unreservedly
modern, his palette is varied – ranging from jazz to Caribbean and
blues, and from funk to pop and R&B. Add Bernstein’s Hot 9 band
to the mix and the result is steamy music with the brass section
taking the lead on top of driving rhythms in a repertoire rich in
classic New Orleans numbers. Their album, Viper’s Drag, will be
released this summer.
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JANELLE
MONÁE
JOSS
STONE
SATURDAY SIR DUKE STAGE
FRIDAY SIR DUKE STAGE
Singer-songwriter Janelle Monáe was born in Kansas in 1985,
but later moved to Atlanta where she met rapper Big Boi of
Outkast. This marked the start of her career. In 2010, her debut
album The ArchAndroid was released on Sean Combs’s label
Bad Boy Entertainment. Monáe creates highly danceable, funky
tunes that are inspired by several sources, ranging from jazz to
soul, and from hip hop to world music. Besides being a talented
vocalist with both brains and balls, it turns out she is a born
performer. Monáe also is a strong-willed young woman, who
ignores all dress codes for young female artists. No sexy outfits
or long, shiny hair for Monáe. She prefers to appear on stage
wearing a tuxedo, flat shoes, and her Little Richard hairdo.
In 2003, British soul singer Joss Stone stunned the music
world with her much-talked-about debut album of covers, The
Soul Sessions. The fact that she was just fifteen when she
recorded it seemed incredible: Stone’s voice sounded nothing
like a teenager’s but rather is reminiscent of a seasoned singer
who has spent years in smoky nightclubs. Her second album,
the similarly multi-platinum Mind Body & Soul, topped the UK
Albums Chart and spawned the top ten hit You Had Me, Stone’s
most successful single on the UK Singles Chart to date. In
2011, she was part of all-star band SuperHeavy with the likes
of Mick Jagger and Dave Stewart; a year later she released The
Soul Sessions Vol. 2, her sixth and latest album.
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FRIDAY 29 AUGUST
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SAM COOKE
NILE RODGERS
& CHIC
SMOKEY
ROBINSON
CELIA
SIR DUKE
ROD
STEWART
SEUN KUTI
& EGYPT 80
MANÁ
DIANNE
REEVES
JOSS
STONE
MACEO
PARKER
SATURDAY 30 AUGUST
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JUAN LUIS
GUERRA
SAM COOKE
BRUNO
MARS
CELIA
DR. JOHN &
THE NITE TRIPPERS
BOZ
SCAGGS
SIR DUKE
SIERRA
MAESTRA
JANELLE
MONÁE
Program subject to change.
HENRY BUTLER,
STEVEN BERNSTEIN
& THE HOT 9
CHAKA
KHAN
For up-to-date information please see www.curacaonorthseajazz.com
JUAN LUIS
GUERRA
MACEO
PARKER
SATURDAY SAM COOKE STAGE
FRIDAY SIR DUKE STAGE
Singer, songwriter and producer Juan Luis Guerra hails from
the Dominican Republic, where he is considered a poet and a
musician of the people. He is also one of the most recognized
Latin artists of the last decades. To date, Guerra has sold over
thirty million albums and won numerous awards including fifteen
Latin Grammy Awards, two Grammy Awards, and two Latin
Billboard Music Awards. He does not limit himself to one style
of music, but incorporates different rhythms like merengue,
bolero-bachata, balada, salsa, rock ‘n roll, and even gospel. His
nickname at school was el niño de las veladas (‘evening party
boy’). He certainly lived up to it when he made his debut at
Curaçao North Sea Jazz in 2011 and turned Sam Cooke stage
into one huge Latin party.
“Maceo, blow your horn!” This message alone will suffice to
get every auditorium filled to bursting, but for those who don’t
know: sax player Maceo Parker was James Brown’s regular
sideman. These days, it’s Prince who regularly calls him to the
stage that way. Since the ’90s, Parker has been a solo artist,
made eleven albums and has blown the roof off at the original
North Sea Jazz Festival in the Netherlands many times. 2012
saw the release of a new Parker album, entitled Soul Classics.
On his own albums he immerses his sax in soul, funk, and R&B.
In doing so he not only likes to take things from the past, but
also to add new songs to an old tradition. Parker always lets
others share in the party on stage.
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MANÁ
NILE
RODGERS
& CHIC
Mexican rockband Maná’s roots go way back, to 1975, when
an earlier formation was playing under the name Sombrero
Verde. As Maná, they had their first hit in 1991 with Rayando
El Sol, from their second album Falta Amor. The band toured
extensively and found even bigger success with their third album,
1994’s Donde Jugaran Los Niños?, which turned them into
Latin rockstars. From 1997 onwards, their fame spread into the
US and the rest of the world, partly due to an MTV Unplugged
session and a collaboration with Carlos Santana on his album
Supernatural. Meanwhile, the band has put four Grammys, seven
Latin Grammys, and five MTV Awards Latin America to their
name, among others, and sold over 25 million records so far.
They released their latest, En Toda Libertad, in 2013.
The mark that American guitarist and producer Nile Rodgers
has made on the music of the past decades is invaluable. He has
worked with major artists like Madonna, Duran Duran, and Diana
Ross and only last year his characteristic guitar sound made
Get Lucky by French dance act Daft Punk the greatest hit of
2013. The single even won three Grammy Awards, and since
its success Nile Rodgers’ disco group, CHIC, is in the spotlight
again. Hits like Le Freak and Good Times characterize the sound
of the seventies; the era of disco. From the original lineup, Tony
Thompson and Bernard Edwards have passed away. But Rodgers
carries on, fed by the enthusiasm of fans all over the world: since
2003, he has been travelling the globe performing historic songs
during his joyful and exuberant shows.
FRIDAY SAM COOKE STAGE
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FRIDAY SAM COOKE STAGE
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ROD
STEWART
SEUN KUTI
& EGYPT 80
In a career spanning more than five decades, Rod Stewart has
amassed sales of more than 150 million albums worldwide,
has had countless chart-topping hits, and received many
industry accolades including 18 Grammy nominations and
two inductions into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. He was
bestowed Commander of the British Empire (CBE) by the Queen
of England in 2007 and became a New York Times bestselling
author in 2012 with the release of his highly-anticipated
autobiography. In 2013, Stewart released Time, his first rock
album in a dozen years. During his high-energy shows, Stewart
treats his fans to iconic rock and R&B hits such as Maggie May,
Da Ya Think I’m Sexy, Hot Legs, I Don’t Want To Talk About It
and many, many more.
Being the son of the world famous Fela Kuti, Seun Kuti was
raised with Afrobeat. As a nine-year-old boy he wanted to sing
and told his father; shortly after, he served as a mascot and
would perform a few songs with Egypt 80 as a warm-up act.
The hypnotizing mix of jazz, funk, and African rhythms came
naturally, as did the political impact of the music. After Fela
died in 1997, Seun, though only 14 years of age then, became
the lead singer of Egypt 80. While in school, he had to choose
between a career in music and one in African Football, for which
he also has an outstanding talent. He released his debut album
Many Things in 2008, his latest album, A Long Way To The
Beginning, was released earlier this year.
FRIDAY SAM COOKE STAGE
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FRIDAY SIR DUKE STAGE
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SIERRA
MAESTRA
SMOKEY
ROBINSON
SATURDAY SIR DUKE STAGE
FRIDAY CELIA STAGE
Sierra Maestra are Cuba’s great survivors. They started out
back in the mid-1970s, then a group of engineering students
at Havana University who decided to form a band reviving
Cuba’s classic son styles. Since then they have just kept going,
mixing old material with new songs in the son tradition, with a
dash of up-tempo big band guaracha or Afro-Cuban jazz thrown
in. There have been changes in personnel over the years but
five of the other original musicians are still in place, including
percussionist Luis Barzaga, now one of the three lead singers.
The band still uses the classic son line-up of tres, trumpet,
bass, and percussion, and the songs are as varied as ever.
Smokey Robinson, along with founder Berry Gordy, is known as
the main representative of Motown. His career spans no less than
seven decades, both as a solo artist and as a member of The
Miracles, and totals more than seventy hits in the Billboard Hot
100. With The Miracles, which he was a member of from 1955
until 1972, Robinson scored two US number 1 hits: The Tears
Of A Clown and Love Machine, Part 1; The Tracks Of My Tears is
another big audience favorite. Robinson also wrote numerous
hits for other artists, such as My Girl, which became one of the
most-covered songs in the last 50 years. September will see
the release of Smokey & Friends, a duets album featuring new
versions of Robinson’s signature songs for which he collaborated
with the likes of Elton John and James Taylor, among others.
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CONCERTS PRIOR TO THE FESTIVAL
JOSÉ
JAMES
TRIBUTE TO
DOBLE-R
WEDNESDAY 27 AUGUST BRAKKEPUT MEI MEI
THURSDAY 28 AUGUST SAM COOKE STAGE, FESTIVAL SITE
American singer José James broke through in 2008 with his
album The Dreamer. He is sometimes called “a jazz singer for
the hip hop generation” and creates his own unique style by
combining jazz, soul, drum ’n bass, and spoken word. He lists
John Coltrane, Marvin Gaye, and Billie Holiday as his influences.
In 2010, he released his second album, Blackmagic, and also
worked together with Belgian pianist Jeff Neve on an album with
standards, For All We Know, which was recorded in just one day.
James has performed at the North Sea Jazz Festival in Rotterdam
several times and toured as a headliner through the US, Europe,
and Asia. 2013 saw the release of his latest album No Beginning,
No End, his first on renowned record label Blue Note.
Doble-R, real name Rignald Recordino, is one of Curaçao’s most
prominent composers and musicians. He has been recording and
releasing records for over forty years, resulting in hit singles such
as E Mundu Ta Lora, Tula Warda, Salomon, and Un Pueblo Mansu.
In the Netherlands he achieved great success with his well-known
song Zullen We Maar Weer (Een Potje Dansen).
To honour this Antillean superstar, the Metropole Orkest will be
performing his songs with a selection of artists stemming from
both the Netherlands and the island itself, among which Izaline
Calister, Giovanca, Ompie Stefania, Randal Corsen, and Shirma
Rouse. Entrance to this concert is free of charge and a gift from
the organisation to the residents of Curaçao. Tickets were handed
out on King’s Day, April 30.
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