Hace ya 25 años de uno de los mejores conciertos que he escuchado... por la TV. Era 1990 y se realizaba en Santiago de Chile el concierto Internacional de Amnesty. Televisaba para el mundo la TV Nacional de Chile. Se presentaba el Septeto de Wynton Marsalis ante una audiencia multitudinaria ávida de Rock. Lo que ocurrió fue impresionante. El septeto se despachó, para empezar, con un impactante versión de Gracias a la Vida. Y cuando la gente se prendió con la improvisación de los jazzeros en los temas siguientes, fue impagable. Como me hubiese gustado estar presente esa noche en el Estadio Nacional de Santiago de Chile. A continuación comparto lo que escribió el propio Wynton en su Facebook sobre estos 34 minutos de música -y comunión- sublimes.
My Septet played for the Amnesty International Concert in Santiago on October 13, 1990. I remember playing a concert with Art Blakey in Chicago for a crowd that wanted to hear rock and roll. When we played they started throwing things on the stage. I remember telling cats before we walked out on the stage in Chile, if they start throwing things on the stage be cool walking off. We started with a song everyone knew “Gracias a La Vida” I had arranged it the night before. Then we went straight to the universal language, the blues. Cone played a phrase in his solo that sounded like a song the native crowd sang at soccer matches. Then, and what I’m sure is the only time this ever happened in the history of music, all of the people began to sing that song which happened to fit the blues in the right place in the form. Normally a crowd has a two or three note chant but as you can hear, this song was involved and it took place over a chorus of blues. We couldn’t believe it, and the rest of the set continued in that vein. People loving the music. We had never experienced anything like that before or after.
Wynton
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