Live music and stuff in Santander and Las Palmas, December 2022

This is what I’ve seen in the last month of 2022:

• 1 December: Víctor Antón Group @ Rvbicón, Calle del Sol, 4, Santander
  A modern jazz quartet featuring Naíma Acuña (drums), Víctor Antón (guitar), Javier Moreno (double bass) and Juan Sebastián Vázquez (piano), presenting their brand new album Centennial Light. Watch the full concert here.

  

• 3 December: Live de Objetos y Cassettes @ Eureka Santander, Calle San Simón, 8
  Sarah Rasines used cassettes and mechanical objects in her live electronic music show. It lasted about 15 minutes, which was about as long as I was prepared to listen to it.

  

• 4 December: Jazz Jam @ Rvbicón
  The base band of Nadir Ibarra (tenor sax), Rafa Santana (piano), Toño Gutiérrez (bass) and Marcial García (drums), plus students of the Conservatorio Ataulfo Argenta and the usual suspects Manuel Cavero (double bass), Adela San Miguel (drums), Rodri Irizábal (drums), Manuel San Emeterio (guitar), Pancho Arredondo (trumpet, vocals), Carlos Pizarro (guitar) and others.
• 7 December: The New World Band @ Rvbicón
  A different line-up compared to that of 25 May, featuring Sean Clapis (guitar), Darío Guibert (double bass), Daniel Juárez (tenor sax) and Marc Pinyol (drums). Watch the full concert here.

  

• 11 December: La Mala Hierba @ Rvbicón
  With Gema Martínez (vocals) and Nico Rodríguez (guitar); this happened to be the last concert I saw in Rvbicón this year. Watch the full concert here.

  

Back to Las Palmas, I was lucky to attend all eight — well, seven and a half — concerts from the cycle «Jazz entre muros» at Museo Castillo de Mata (Calle Domingo Guerra del Río, 147):

• 21 December, 20:00: Javier Infante and Jose Alberto Medina
  Say no more.
• 21 December, 21:00: Pablo Queu
  Energetic jazz-funk band featuring Alberto Díaz (trombone), Emilio Diena (drums), Ruyman Franco (bass guitar), Claudio Marrero (tenor sax) and Pablo Quintana Guillén (guitar).



• 22 December, 20:00: Chano Gil Quartett
  Chano Gil (trumpet, flugelhorn), Yul Ballesteros (guitar), Paco Perera (double bass) and Javier Montero (drums).
• 22 December, 21:00: Trijazzic
  Luis Merino (guitar), Esther Suárez (vocals), Miriam Fleitas (vocals), José Carlos Cejudo (bass guitar) and Juan Pérez (drums).



• 29 December, 20:00: Alba Serrano and Cristóbal Montesdeoca
  Alba Serrano (vocals) and Cristóbal Montesdeoca (piano) performed songs from their new, mostly Lusophone, album Viagem.
• 29 December, 21:00: Alba Gil Aceytuno «Aguayro»
  It started to rain during the first song; luckily, the concert was not interrupted. With Alba Gil Aceytuno (sax, flute, keys, vocals), Alberto Díaz (trombone), José Carlos Cejudo (bass guitar), Luis Merino (guitar) and Juan Pérez (drums).



• 30 December, 20:00: Takeo Takahashi
  Would you believe it, by 19:45 it was full so I had to wait another half an hour till somebody left and they allowed me to enter. As a result, I only heard the last three songs. Kervin Barreto (trumpet, percussion), José Carlos Cejudo (bass guitar), Octavio Hernández (guitar), Santiago “Chago” Miranda (guitar) and Takeo Takahashi (drums, guitar), with a special guest Patricia Legardon (vocals).
• 30 December, 21:00: Bjazz «EnCanto de Mujer»
  With Sara Brito (flute), Samantha de León (double bass), Judith Martín González (trumpet), Amelia Gutiérrez (drums), Moneiba Hidalgo (vocals) and Sun-Young Park (piano), performing standards by Nina Simone, Consuelo Velázquez, Aretha Franklin and others.

In the same Castillo de Mata one can see the exhibition «Ars Botanica, simbólica naturaleza», a tribute to David Bramwell (1942—2022), director of Jardín Botánico Canario Viera y Clavijo between 1974 and 2012. The exhibition features works by Fernando Álamo, Juan Pedro Ayala, Kōno Bairei, Marisa Culatto, Marta Chirino, Pepe Dámaso, César Manrique, Néstor, Nellie Roberts and various illustrators of 18^th and 19^th centuries. Until 18 March 2023.

Happy New Year, everybody.