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Andrew Bird

Ted Poor (drums), Alan Hampton (bass)

American singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, recognised for his unique style of violinplaying, whistling and his ability to mix genres like folk, Jazz, indie and classical music. His songs usually have poetic lyrics and innovative arrangements. His music blends technical sophistication with the folklore tradition of North America and Europe, making for deeply evocative records that ooze sensitivity, andwhich are, at the same time,easily accessible.

Bird will present his latest record,Sunday Morning Put-On(2024),at this 60thedition of Jazzaldia. It is quite different from anything he’s done to date. It is a journey in time, a return to the music he’s loved all his life,Jazz of the 1930s and 40s, and the North American songbook of classics and all the Jazz standards. Accompanied by a remarkable rhythmic section, -Ted Poor on drums and Alan Hampton on bass, -Bird reinterpretsgreat works of the giants who have deeply influenced his music, virtuallymaking them into his own:works by Cole Porter, Duke Ellington, Lerner & Loewe, Richard Rodgers & Lorenz Hart... As he himself says: “My love for a certain era of Jazz up through the mid-20th century has been constant through many transmutations in my own work, the bulk of which is not Jazz at all. Once I had some distance between myself and this time when I was under its spell, I wanted to immerse myself in it again.”