Cleveland Watkiss jazzed in Petrozavodsk
The concert of jazz vocalist from Great Britain Cleveland Watkiss took place within the 38th International Festival of Chamber Art "Autumn Lyre" on the Philharmonic stage It was dubbed as "The possibilities of the human voice: audio-encyclopedia of sound extraction"
Concert of jazz vocalist from Great Britain Cleveland Watkiss was held as part of the 38th International Chamber Art Festival "Autumn Lyre" on the Philharmonic stage
It has been dubbed “The Power of the Human Voice: An Audio Encyclopedia of Sound Retrieval.”.
The virtuoso improviser was born in London in a Jamaican family; already at the age of 16 he became the winner of a prestigious vocal competition, and for half a century since then he has received a lot of awards and titles.
It was easy to guess that Cleveland was also a teacher. His students became his students for a while. In some compositions, he attracted people as backing vocals, without leaving seats in the hall. Started with a simple, and in the third approach so raised the bar that the limit of the possible was marked by general laughter.
They are longtime friends with musicians from Moscow. And therefore there were solo fragments of pianist Rodion Goborov as a special delicacy, the musical dialogue of Igor Ivanushkin (contrabass) and Ildar Nafigov (drums) - a real jazz delicacy.
