{"id":4984,"date":"2026-04-14T15:20:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T14:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ljubljanajazz.si\/?post_type=tribe_events&p=4984"},"modified":"2026-04-14T15:33:51","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T14:33:51","slug":"melissa-aldana-filin-cl","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/ljubljanajazz.si\/en\/koncert\/melissa-aldana-filin-cl\/","title":{"rendered":"Melissa Aldana \u2013 Filin (CL)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Melissa Aldana \u2013 Filin (CL)<\/strong><\/h5>\n

[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/2″ icons_position=”left”][vc_single_image image=”4970″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center” css=””][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1776176992905{margin-top: 40px !important;padding-top: 10px !important;padding-bottom: 10px !important;background-color: #FFFFFF !important;}”]Friday, 3 July – CD Park<\/strong>
\n<\/em>Day pass Park CD: <\/strong>presale (until 30 June): EUR 20, on the day: EUR 24
\n<\/em>Festival pass: EUR 115[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1775121353880{margin-bottom: 30px !important;}”]BUY TICKET HERE<\/span><\/span><\/a>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″ icons_position=”left”][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1776177104042{margin-bottom: 20px !important;}”]Melissa Aldana<\/strong>, tenor sax; Pablo Held<\/strong>, piano; Pablo Menares<\/strong>; double bass; Kush Abadey<\/strong>, drums<\/p>\n

After winning the prestigious Thelonious Monk International Jazz Saxophone Competition in 2013 \u2013 making history as the first woman and the first South American to receive the award \u2013 Melissa Aldana\u2019s career skyrocketed. She was given the blessing of none other than Wayne Shorter, who served on the competition jury, while his longtime pianist, Danilo P\u00e9rez, had earlier encouraged her to move to the US from her native Chile and enrol at Berklee in Boston. With a studious approach and a strong work ethic, Melissa Aldana quickly emerged as a brilliant saxophonist with a distinctive flair for storytelling \u2013 a lesson imparted by Wayne Shorter in his emphasis on \u201cthe use of space, the storytelling, how you communicate, how you paint.\u201d This talent finds its fullest expression on Aldana\u2019s penultimate album, Echoes Of The Inner Prophet<\/em>, where she intuitively surrenders to improvisation, building from it tangible, composed impressions.<\/p>\n

Melissa Aldana\u2019s solos on her latest albums have earned her two Grammy nominations. \u201cThe sound itself is a tool to express an emotion. Every single note is a whole world. \u2026but then there is this mystical side of sound that\u2026 I still don\u2019t know exactly what it is,\u201d says Aldana, who honed her expression by listening to and transcribing the titans of jazz: Sonny Rollins, Wayne Shorter, John Coltrane, Joe Henderson, Lester Young, Charlie Parker, and Don Byas, among others. When researching a particular style, she does not focus solely on technical execution but instead probes the very evolution of music, with the transmission of tradition across generations playing a central role. This is why themes of identity, introspection, and perseverance often run through her creative work \u2013 an innovative, contemporary tribute to tradition.<\/p>\n

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