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The 34th edition of Vitoria-Gasteiz Jazz Festival welcomes a very special guest today: Dianne Reeves, one of the most important and significant jazz singers of our time. She will be performing at Mendizorrotza Sports Arena, where saxophonist Joshua Redman will also play. Tickets are available for 25 euros.

Dianne Reeves is one of the most important and significant jazz singers of our time as recognized in Down Beat Polls where she always occupies one of the first positions.

He has received 4 Grammy Awards, all for the Best Jazz Vocal Album, receiving the first in 2000 and the last for motion picture soundtrack of George Clooney''s Good Night and Good Luck. Dianne was the first singer to sign with the renewed Blue Note record label in 1987.

She has performed with Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra in different projects devoted to the Duke Ellington Centenary, she has recorded with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra conducted by Daniel Barenboim and she was invited by the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Simon Rattle in a special Gershwin program. She has an extensive discography with 19 albums.

She made her debut in the Basque Country in 1992 in the Festival de Jazz de Vitoria and now she returns, nineteen years after, for a concert with special guests to be announced shortly.

Joshua Redman is one of the most famous and charismatic jazz sax players to emerge in the nineties. Son of the great tenor sax player Dewey Redman, he graduated "cum laude" from Harvard. His debut as a professional musician had a great impact because of his maturity and his clear and defined style based on Sonny Rollins and John Coltrane. From the beginning he start to play with great jazz musicians like Pat Metheny, Charlie Haden, Billy Higgins, Elvin Jones, Paul Motian, Joe Lovano and Chick Corea. His admiration for Sonny Rollins led him to form a similar group to his classical ''Way Out West'', with the trio ''Back East'' widening the concept of the trio with two upright bass players and two drummers.

He will present a brilliant and rich performance together with the bass players Matt Penman and Reuben Rogers and drummers Gregory Hutchinson and Bill Stewart.