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Some 4,000 people ttended this year’s concerts of Xàbia Jazz. Xàbia Jazz 2018 The councilman of Culture, Quico Moragues, howed his satisfaction for the response of the public to one of the most important cycles of the annual cultural program, with an average of daily spectators of between 1,000 and 1,500 people. This acceptance encourages them to start thinking about programming for next year and to continue betting on quality shows to fill summer culture nights. The singer Cyrille Aimeé was the one who closed the festival last night with a concert that managed to transmit to the audience the jazz atmosphere of the New Orleans venues. Aimeé is one of the most important voices of the current jazz scene and has as its hallmark a mixture of Caribbean rhythms, French melodies and vocal jazz in the manner of Ella Fitzgerald.