XIV CANARIAS JAZZ SHOWROOM FESTIVAL // Vanesa Diaz & The Woodii Orchestra

kike perdomo quartet

Tenor sax - Kike Perdomo
Piano - Jerry Kuan
Bass - Yannick Heselle
Drums - Elie Gouleme

Kike Perdomo opens this first Brussels edition of the XIV CANARIAS JAZZ SHOWROOM FESTIVAL. Kike is a saxophone player, producer, arranger, sound engineer, educator and composer from Tenerife, where he is currently the president of the Association of Professional Musicians of the Canary Islands, PROMUSIC and member of the Spanish Society of Artists AIE.

Alongside his jazz career as band leader or band member, he has worked and toured with famous Spanish singers Luz Casal, Miguel Rios and Joaquin Sabina whom he has toured in all Spain and covered most of Latin America with. On the international scene, he's recorded, played and collaborated with an impressive selection of A list musicians, such as Richard Bona, Bill Evans, Tom Coster, Rocky Bryant, Jon Herrington, Pedro Iturralde, Jim Beard, Chuck Loeb, Dick Oatts, Joe Magnarelli, Dave Santoro, Paquito de Rivera, Anthony Jackson, Eric Marienthal, Till Bronner, Torsten de Winkel, Audun Wage, Josh Dion, Nantha Kumar, Symphonic Orchestra de Tenerife  and last but not least, the “Big Band de Canarias'' which he has founded and keeps producing and directing to this day. 

vanesa gil diaz & the woodii orchestra

Voice & conductor - Vanesa Diaz Gil
Tenor sax - Joos Vandueren
Bass clarinet - Luis Miguel Aguilar
Strings - Amèle Metlini, Dahud Le Meur, Marie Ghitta, Federico Bragetti
Piano - Leonard Steigerwald
Electric guitar - Gabriele Di Franco
Double bass - Federico Stocchi
Drums - Daniel Jonkers

Composer, saxophonist and singer Vanesa Díaz Gil, from Lanzarote, is a jazz musician based in Brussels since 2018. In 2021 she finished her Master studies in Jazz Composition and Arranging at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels graduating cum laude under the tutelage of Kris Defoort and Michelino Bisceglia.

This year The Canarias Jazz Showroom Festival expands its network and invites Vanesa to present a program of her own compositions for the ensemble The Woodii Orchestra at Werkplaats Walter, Brussels.

“The Woodii Orchestra is a musical project for a mixed ensemble with a wide variety of musical influences. A small crossover orchestra of 11 musicians comprising a classical string quartet, a jazz quartet extended with woodwinds (tenor sax and bass clarinet) and voice. For this project Vanesa has chosen to work with Brussels based musicians from different nationalities.

The musical landscape of this project embodies many of the sonic cultures she has been exposed to throughout her life, such as Latin and South-American Folk, Flamenco and Spanish Pop, Canarian folk and Indian Music; all linked through Jazz and Western Classical Music. She takes different elements of these styles to construct a new scenery of sound, resulting in a form of expression that connects without imitating any of the previously mentioned genres. 

“I strive to embrace mixture with simplicity; I compose to invite the listener to travel to uncharted spectrums of their imagination. The propulsive force of the music lies on its strong yet emotionally accessible melodies, lifted by modern harmonies and driven by captivating grooves. In sharing my vulnerabilities and weaving beauty into them, I might bring light to the darkness, might reach the other, might help us all to attain a healthier mind and a wider heart.”

practical info

Tickets: 15 EUR
Students: 10 EUR

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