OASIS brings back to Cancun the Jazz Festival in May 2012. This festival reached its peak in the 90s in Cancun and OASIS has wanted to take this event back in order to offer both the destination and its clients the opportunity to enjoy the best Jazz artists starting in 2012.

The first OASIS "JAZZ U" Festival will take place between the 17th and the 26th of May of 2012 in the recently renovated GRAND OASIS CANCUN: THE ALL INCLUSIVE ENTERTAINMENT RESORT.

The Festival will present the performances of the most prestigious world-renowned Jazz artists. These artists all have a high professional track record, from the genius of living legend Chick Corea to Trombone Shorty, undoubtedly the latest revelation in the US. In the past few years they have all been top spots in the Billboard lists, the most relevant magazine worldwide.

"Jazz – U " will consist of concerts of the 6 principal Jazz artists in the world, as well as parallel gigs and performances throughout the Festival period, through different acts that will leave the public with the satisfaction to have enjoyed the true essence of jazz while staying at one of the best resorts in the Mexican Caribbean.

This Festival has the objective to convert Cancun into a reference point for the Jazz public, and to be included in the international circuit of this type of events in the years to come.

Details about the offers and packages can be obtained through the OASIS web pages or through your preferred travel agents and tour operators.

Calendar and Artists of the OASIS JAZZ U FESTIVAL

May 17th, 2012: TROMBONE SHORTY

Troy Andrews (b. 1986), better known as Trombone Shorty, was born in New Orleans, and plays the trombone and trumpet since he was six years old. He moves in the world of Jazz, Funk and Rap, and since 2009 belongs to the band Orleans Avenue.

He has worked with such important artists as US and Green Day, and has participated in several international festivals, like the "New Orleans jazz and heritage festival".

•Trombone Shorty's Swingin' Gate,

•Louisiana Red Hot Records, 2002 (by Troy Andrews)

•12 & Shorty, Keep Swingin' Records, 2004 (by James & Troy Andrews)

•The End of the Beginning, Treme Records, 2005 (by The Troy Andrews Quintet)

•Trombone Shorty Meets Lionel Ferbos (by Trombone Shorty & Lionel Ferbos)

•Orleans & Claiborne, Treme Records, 2005 (by Troy "Trombone Shorty" Andrews & Orleans Avenue)

•"Backatown" \o "Backatown" Backatown

•"Verve Forecast Records" Verve Forecast Records, 2010 (by Trombone Shorty)

•For True

•Verve Forecast Records (to be released Sept 13, 2011

May 18th, 2012: DIANNE REEVES

This winner of 4 Grammy Awards for best jazz vocalist was born in 1956 in Detroit, Michigan, and is considered done of the most important jazz female vocalists of our time. She was discovered by trumpeter Clark Terry, who listened to her during a school conference and decided to help her. Dianne Reeves has sung with the trumpeter while she was still in school at the University of Colorado. She started her career in Los Angeles in 1976. While in California, Dianne Reeves discovered studio work, and immersed herself in musical culture. She has recorded with Lenny White, Stanley Turrentine, Alphonso Johnson, and The Latin Ensemble.

Some of her most important recordings are:

•In The Moment (live, 2000)

•The Calling: Celebrating Sarah Vaughan (2001)

•Best of Dianne Reeves (2002)

•A Little Moonlight (2003)

•Christmas Time is Here (2004)

•Good Night and Good Luck (Soundtrack,2005)

•When You Know (2008).

May 19th, 2012: CHICK COREA Y GARY BURTON

Armando Anthony Corea

(Chelsea, Massachusetts, June 12th, 1941), known as Chick Corea, is a US pianist, keyboard artist, and jazz composer, winner of several Grammy Awards. Corea is very well known for his work during the 1970s in the genre "jazz fusion". During the 1960s he participated in the birth of this current as a member of the Miles Davis Band, and later created the group Return to Forever, joining forces with other instrumental virtuosos.

Gary Burton

During the 80s and 90s he continued with his collaborations with other musicians, like Gary Burton. Alongside with Herbie Hancock and Keith Jarrett, Corea is generally considered as one of the most influential pianists after Bill Evans and McCoy Tyner. His playing style somewhat reminds the style of Hancock, although Corea owns a peculiar style. Moreover, he is a composer of various Jazz standards, through tiles like Spain, La fiesta, and Windows.

Born in 1943 in Anderson, Indiana, is a musician, composer, educator and jazz vibraphonist. Burton has played with numerous jazz musicians, among them Carla Bley, Gato Barbieri, Keith Jarrett, Cick Corea, Steve Lacy, Pat Metheny, Makoto Ozone, Adam Nussbaum, Tiger Okoshi, Stan Getz, Herbie Hancock, B.B. King, Wolfgang Muthspiel, Tommy Smith, Eberhard Weber and Stéphane Grappelli, as well as with the first figure of tango, Astor Piazzolla. Burton has developed a pianistic style of playing the vibraphone through the four-mallet technique (two in each hand) and a complement to the standard two-mallet technique (one in each hand), for which he is considered an innovator in his field and is hence widely imitated. His particular technique consists in the position of his hand with the thumb positioned towards the top, which for some people results in a more relaxed hand position and greater comfort while playing, although it has the inconvenience that the mallet stays higher than the other, making a balance of volume between mallets difficult to achieve. Something also unique to him is the six mallet technique (three in each hand). Burton is also known as one of the pioneers in Jazz Fusion, bringing popularity to the duo format and for being one of the foremost references in the teachings of Jazz.

May 24th,2012: MACEO PARKER

Born in Kingston, North Carolina, in 1943, Maceo Parker is an American Jazz and Funk Saxophonist. Coming out of the James Brown formation, where he coincided in the winds section with the also saxophonist Pee Wee Ellis and the trombonist Fred Wesley – nicknamed the "J.B. Horns" – with whom, besides the Singer, James Brown, he would create different groups, like the Maceo & All The King´s Men, and would participate in different formations led by George Clinton.

Since the beginning of the 1990s and together with Ellis and Wesley, going solo, or with prestigious guests like the Rebirth Brass Band, Maceo Parker has undergone a successful career in which his personal formula, according to him, is 2% Jazz and 98% funk, with excellent results.

His sound at the sax which reminds us of the best King Curtis enriched with his own personality and combined with the complicity of Ellis and Fred Wesley, has taken them to form one of the most emblematic wind sections of soul jazz, where they each have widely demonstrated the highest levels of creativity and a fascinating ability to combine tradition with modernity.

In the last few years he has recorded and toured with Prince, sometimes accompanied by Candy Dulfer.

May 25th, 2012: BRAD MEHLDAU

A Jazz pianist, Mehldau interprets both original compositions as well as classic jazz and popular music. He also has a particular taste for the music of Radiohead and The Beatles. He is mainly known as the lead of the Brad Mehlday Trio, along with the bass player Larry Gernadier and drummers Jorge Rossy and Jeff Ballard (who succeeded Rossy in 2005). His first records were edited by the Spanish studio Fresh Sound Records.

He has played and recorded as a soloist and sharing the lead with Peter Bernstein, Mark Turner, Charlie Haden and others. In 2004, Mehldau toured with Kurt Rosenwinkel and Joshua Redman.

Mehldau has been compared on occasion to Bill Evans, although he does not like such comparison and goes as far as explaining why in the notes to his album The Art of the Trio IV. He is also compared to Keith Jarrett, although he describes Jarrett´s solo work more as an inspiration than an influence. Other influences he quotes himself are Miles Davis, Larry Goldings, Kurt Rosenwinkel, Jesse Davis, David Sanchez and other member of his own trio. With a classical education on his back, Mehldau is able to surprise us often by playing separate melodies, one with each hand, with unusual beats as 5/4 and 7/4.

May 26th, 2012: DIEGO "EL CIGALA"

Diego Ramon Jimenez Salazar (Madrid, December 27th, 1968), known as Diego el Cigala, is a flamenco singer (cantaor). He is one of the most praised heirs of Camaron de la Isla, whose voice was very similar to Diego´s.

Apart from other previous work, in 2002, Fernando Trueba produced Lagrimas Negras, which joined El Cigala with Bebo Valdes at the piano and is later published in 2003. The success is international. In 2004, Diego receives a Grammy, three Music Prizes, one Premio Onda, five Premios Amigo, three Platinum Records in Spain and one in Argentina, Mexico and Venezuela. The New York Times praises it as "best record of the year" under Latin Music and Bebo and Diego el Cigala fill theaters worldwide: Paris, New York, London, La Habana, Buenos Aires, Tokyo, Mexico City, Madrid, Barcelona…. By the end of 2004 the record had sold over 700.000 copies worldwide. After this work El Cigala released Picasso En Mis Ojos, homage to the Malaga artist.