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By Michael Ricci
September 11, 2025
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AAJ @ 30

Flashback to November 2006. Thanks in part to old friend Joan Anton Cararach, I was a guest speaker at the 38th Edition of the Barcelona Jazz Festival. Joan and the festival rolled out the red carpet and gave me the VIP treatment where I had a chance to meet Omar Sosa, Bebo Valdés and took a puddle jumper for a day trip to Palma de Mallorca (in the Balearic Islands) and met the colorful Roberto Menéndez, the then proprietor of the Jazz Voyeur club. I was interviewed and booked on a local jazz radio show, but the primary reason I was there was to present All About Jazz in an auditorium-sized room. What I remember most about my talk was the translator who coached me up prior to. He asked me to speak slowly and deliberately so he could translate what I was saying to the headphone-wearing, non-English-speaking audience. It took me all of two minutes to completely forget he was up in the booth trying to translate my rapid-fire speaking on the fly. :-) I always wondered how he made out and how it translated.

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