Welcome to 23 th Terrassa Jazz Festival

It's been a whole year and we already celebrate another edition of the Terrassa Jazz Festival. And with this one are already 23! We like to welcome you to the Festival and invite you to attend its concerts that will take place from the 3 to the 28 of March.

This year, 265 artists in some of the diverse stages of the contest will participate about, that will count on 42 concerts, 12 of which are free open-air performances. We are sure that the festival will return to increase its reputation, since we have bet by the quality of concerts for all the pleasures. As you will see, the names of consecrated musicians will be next to emergent jazzmen exploring new proposals and musical languages in jazz.

Concerts will begin on March the 4th, with Eliane Elias Expanded Trio, in her first performance at Nova Jazz Cava, for all those years, and will continue with interesting exclusive proposals for Spain, like the group Medeski, Martin & Wood; the new projects of Roy Hargrove and the quintet from the Festival old friend Dave Holland, also Richard Galliano and Michel Portal Duo. Mythical musicians like Eddie Palmieri and its orchestra La Perfecta II, Niels-Henning Orsted Pedersen leading his own trio with special guest Phil Woods, or the Joe Lovano Trio Fascination.

Also we must emphasize symphonic Jazz the honour to welcome the Mingus Big Band, formation that it wants to maintain alive the Charles Mingus legacy. Commemorating this year the 25º anniversary of its death. Also an important date will be the concert of the Big Band Terrassa Jazz with the trompetist Bobby Shew, a bebop Master who has never perform in Spain and he will approach to the classic subjects of the Jazz.

Blues lovers of the, are lucky, we have to emphasize two important concerts. The traditional "Nit de Blues", we will have the presence of Duke Robillard & His Band Blues, and we will wait for Bryan Lee at open-air massive act Picnic Jazz Vallparadís.

National scene is represented with names like Guillermo McGill quartet with guest Dave Liebman or the new electrical project of Llibert Fortuny. This year, we emphasize the a Jaç night, in order to celebrate the birth of this Catalan magazine, we have programmed a double concert with Francesc Capella Septet, performing some Bach music versions and Antonio Serrano & Jose Reinoso leading the South American Project Jazz. Jorge Pardo , who, will receive the Jazzterrasman 2004 award at the end of an evening performing with the best musician along Spanish Scene.

Don't forget to visit and attend the parallel activities, like the different exhibitions, the lectures or the record and photography fair causing as every March that Terrassa is, again, the capital of the Jazz. Enjoy the Festival!