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Joan Fort (1997) is a Spanish guitarist and composer based in Amsterdam (NL). He holds a Master’s degree in Jazz Guitar from the prestigious Conservatorium van Amsterdam and Temple University in Philadelphia.

Throughout his career, Joan has had the privilege of touring, performing and collaborating with renowned musicians such as Dick Oatts, Jeremy Pelt, Vincent Herring, Grant Stewart, Sarah Hanahan, Jorge Rossy, Bill McHenry, Jesse Davis, Benjamin Herman, Michael Weiss, Jasper Blom, Rita Payés, and Virginia MacDonald.

His latest acclaimed record, Hangin' In (2026), was recorded in New York among a stellar line-up: Grant Stewart on tenor sax, Michael Weiss on piano, David Wong on bass, and Aaron Kimmel on drums.

One of his co-led projects, The Dam Jawn, has released two critically acclaimed albums: Master St (2023) and Forward (2024), both featuring the legendary New York saxophonist Dick Oatts

Album

Too Soon, Too Late

By Simon Osuna

Label: Fresh Sounds Records
Released: 2026
Track listing: Too Soon, Too Late; In Walked Ray; Skipper's Blues; In Undertone; The Lamp Is Low; 'Tis Autumn; Poor Butterfly

Album

Triphasic

By The Dam Jawn

Label: Dox Records
Released: 2026
Track listing: Sooryaast; Triphasic; Influx; Checkin' In; Hotel 17; Floatin'; I Got A Boogaloo; Don't You Know I Care; Tongue Twister.

Album

Hangin' In

By Joan Fort

Label: 45Jazz
Released: 2026
Track listing: Javastraat; A Day At The Kings County; 5 In 1 Flat; Miradouro Da Pederneira; Up, Over & Out; Hangin' In; TJI; She; Philly Twist

Article: Album Review

The Dam Jawn featuring Jeremy Pelt: Triphasic

Read "Triphasic" reviewed by Artur Moral

by Artur Moral
May 15, 2026

Philadelphians know 'jawn' well--a term embedded in their local slang that is not easily grasped by the uninitiated. So what are Joan Fort and Martin Diaz (two Catalans), Philip Lewin (a German), and Nitin Parree and Frank Groenendijk (two Dutch men) doing forming a band whose name fuses that Philly word with a wink at the ...

Article: Album Review

Joan Fort: Hangin' In

Read "Hangin' In" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
May 13, 2026

Hangin' In is the second recording under his name by Spanish-born, Netherlands-based guitarist Joan Fort who shows on every one of the album's nine radiant and alluring themes--six of which he wrote--why his star is rapidly rising in the jazz world at large. Fort, who was not yet thirty years old when the album ...

Article: Live Review

Sarah Hanahan Meets Joan Fort Quartet at DAI, Heidelberg

by Matty Bannond
February 26, 2026

Sarah Hanahan, Joan Fort, Philip Lewin and Frederik Villmow Jazzclub at the DAI Heidelberg, Germany February 14, 2026 Two incongruent events busied media outlets in Germany on February 14. In the morning, Secretary of State Marco Rubio grabbed headlines with a speech outlining the US government's plans to upend the geopolitical ...

Album

So Far, So Good

By Joan Fort

Label: Fresh Sound Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: So Far, So Good; Fly with the Wind; So Nice; Bush Baby; Hocus-Pocus; Escapade; Where's the Plunger?; You Taught My Heart to Sing; Book's Bossa; With a Song in My Heart

Article: Album Review

The Dam Jawn: Forward!

by Jack Bowers
February 12, 2025

An addendum to the title of the Amsterdam-based quintet Dam Jawn's latest album, Forward!, reads “featuring Dick Oatts," which is perfectly suitable, as the acclaimed alto saxophonist plays a pivotal role in the tight-knit group's latest discourse, as he did on its earlier recording, Master Street (Challenge Records, 2023). For those who may ...

Album

Forward!

By The Dam Jawn

Label: Cellar Music Group
Released: 2024
Track listing: Wayne's Mind Eye; Song For Wong; After The Morning; Doors; Blues For Oatts; Fairmount Park; Forward; Maria's Lament; Shifts.