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Carmen Cortés and Rafael de Utrera / Gerardo Núñez and Perico Sambeat / Pablo Martín
and Cepillo (Photos: Daniel Muñoz)

Gerardo Núñez Ensemble combines jazz and flamenco at the 2004 Madrid Jazz Festival.
The Jerez-born guitarist showed on Wednesday 20th October at Centro Cultural de la Villa the other side of the intimate performance which he triumphed with at the recent Seville Bienal . His guitar was not alone this time, but rather accompanied by the band formed as a result of the project ‘Cruce de caminos’. Perico Sambeat on sax, Marc Miralta on drums, Pablo Martín on contrabass, Cepillo on box drum, Rafael de Utrera on cante, Carmen Cortés on dancing - who, by the way, received a standing ovation - and Mariano Díaz on piano took part in a concert which dazzled the jazz crowd. The guitar was alone in ‘Yerma’, was surrounded by the contrabass and box drum in the bulerías and was wrapped up by all the instruments in great compositions such as the soleá through ‘Templo del lucero’, the lullaby ‘Nido en el aire’, the tangos ‘Marqués de Porrina’, the soleá ‘Un son eterno’ and the final rumba ‘La Habana a oscuras’. The celebrating tone of the concert was brought out in the encore, an unusual party through bulerías in which even Pablo Martín and Perico Sambeat did a bit of footwork.

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