Results for "Spain"

56th Jazzaldia Festival

by Paul Combs
September 6, 2021

56th Jazzaldia Festival Various venues Donostia/San Sebastián, Spain July 21-25, 2021 This was the 56th edition of the Jazzaldia Festival in Donostia/San Sebastián, the capital of Gipuzcoa province in the Pais Vasco region on the north coast of Spain. With a population of roughly 200,000, and popularity as a tourist ...

Repair Cafe

Born: October 30, 1965

Spain meets Jazz, Flamenco kisses ambient.... nothing true, everything in new combination, like a salsa made from ingredients, everybody knows, But in the end it is a new taste. Repair Cafe is named after the story of Cameron de la Isla, who had his first gigs in a cafe that was opened 24 hours cause they were a service station for motorcycles too. That is the mixture - bikes and bare foots.

Cote Calmet: Cultivating Afro-Peruvian Rhythms

by Ian Patterson
May 17, 2021

What do a dead donkey, a Seat Alhambra and Led Zeppelin's John Bonham all have in common? Whatever images your mind's eye may conjure, these three clues, in fact, all lead to Phisqa, the contemporary jazz band of Afro-Peruvian bent, formed by drummer Cote Calmet in Dublin, Ireland, in 2010. But let's not get ...

Gergo Borlai: Talkin' Drummers and Drumming

by Jim Worsley
March 9, 2021

Most kids have heroes. Whether they be athletes, astronauts, artists, astrophysicists, (and that's just the “A's") or any of the many asundered possibilities. Gergo Borlai needn't go passed the “D's" to find his calling. Drumming came early, incredibly early, and he has never looked back. Determination and commitment can be a powerful force. Before long the ...

Pau viguer

Born: April 15, 1967

Pau Viguer, a pianist and jazz composer born in Valencia, began studying piano at the age of 7. He obtained the superior degree of piano in the Superior Conservatory of Valencia. He studied classical music getting top marks and jazz with pianists Ricardo Belda, Donato Marot and John Serry. He has also taken courses with Xavi Folch, Ximo Tébar, Robert Rodríguez, Jorge Pardo, etc. He has belonged to numerous modern music groups, such as Fernando Poo, Mala Fama, Controversia or Brooklyn, winning various awards in the Valencian Community. He toured Spain with the group "Revolver". He currently performs concerts with the group So Cuban, Elena Martín Trío and leads the group Pau Viguer Trío, a formation that includes songs composed by himself, and has released four recordings. He composes music for various record labels and other artists. He is also an accompanist pianist for various singers and instrumentalists of pop, jazz, funk, soul, etc. He currently works as a specialist teacher of music in Primary Education while teaching classical and modern piano and continues to compose and perform live concerts.

Iago Fernández

Born: March 30, 1987

Iago Fernández is a jazz drummer and composer from Cangas, Galicia (1987). He started his musical studies on classic percussion at the conservatory of his home town with the teacher Luís Carballo. His first contact with jazz was in the "Orquestra de jazz do Morrazo" (conducted by Luís Carballo) and also in the “Seminario Permanente de Jazz de Pontevedra (SPJP)” conducted by Abe Rábade and Paco Charlín, studying there for four years including master classes and concerts with international artists. In 2011 he was graduated with honors in the “Centro Superior de Música del País Vasco, Musikene” (jazz drums performance) where he took lessons from great masters such as Jorge Rossy, Perico Sambeat, Jo Krause, Albert Sanz, Guillermo Klein and Chris Kase among others. In 2018 he was selected for the prestigious Focusyear program (Jazzcampus Basel, Switzerland), were he rehearsed, learned and performed with other 6 musicians plus many incredible artists such as Norma Winston, Dave Liebman, Ambrose Akinmusire, Wolfgang Muthspiel and Guillermo Klein among others. Iago is currently based in Basel, where he has also graduated from a master's degree in jazz composition. 

Manolo Pereira

Born in Seville. Since the beginning of his adolescence he has felt a great interest in music and the guitar in particular, which makes him begin in the world of the six strings and start playing in rock groups. Recordings and live performances that led to the composition and recording of some headers for TV programs.

From the discovery of jazz, his interest and continuous training in the Conservatory of Seville and the Musicians Workshop of Madrid in temporary stays in the capital of Madrid. At the same time, he is part of popular music groups that travel around Andalusia.

After studying with the master Fran Mazuelos is when his vision of music, jazz, harmony and creativity takes another dimension and his musical and personal north turn 180 degrees.

Video: Chick Corea in Spain, 2018

November 29, 2019

On July 28, 2018, the Chick Corea Acoustic Band performed at Jazz San Javier in southeast Spain. Pianist Chick Corea was accompanied by John Patitucci on bass and Dave Weckl on drums. The songs were Morning Sprite, A Japanese Waltz, That Old Feeling, In a Sentimental Mood, Life Line, A Sonata (by Domenico Scarlatti), You and ...

Maureen Choi: A Fusion of Passion and Intent

by Jim Worsley
August 5, 2019

Maureen Choi is certainly not the first musician to find their way into the improvisational jazz world after years of training as a classical violinist. It was an unlikely direction for a woman who grew up with formal classical training and further had never really listened to jazz. Fast forwarding to the present, we now have ...

Two major releases from Ferran Fages

by John Eyles
January 11, 2019

The Barcelona-born guitarist, turntablist, electronicist, improviser and composer Ferran Fages has been releasing albums since the turn of the millennium. If his profile has not been as high as it might have been that may be because many of those albums have not been credited to him but to ensembles of which he is a member ...