43 Terrassa Jazz Festival
Dave Specter
Live at Nova Jazz Cava, Terrassa, Barcelona, Spain - March 8, 2024
Dave Specter
... ON STAGE
Spain has been at the forefront of European jazz festivals for the last five decades. The Barcelona Jazz Festival and the Donosti Jazz Festival (Jazaldia) both held their first edition in 1966, a year before the Montreux Festival (Switzerland), and the Vitoria-Gasteiz Jazz Festival since 1977 have been the large-format samples that have certified the country as a pioneer of Jazz on the continent.
But if we had to define a Spanish city with Jazz as its cultural DNA, we would be referring to Terrassa. Located twenty miles from Barcelona, the city experiences music in all its extension, in 1971 the Jazz Cava club opened the doors and in a short time it became a place of worship for Jazz fans and programmers from all over the country. Its stage became the favorite of the pianist and modern jazz hero Tete Montoliu and under its spotlights performed all the legends who landed their bands in Europe during the fifteen years of activity. La Jazz Cava closed its doors in 1985 to move to a new location with more facilities for live music, La Nova Jazz Cava, which opened with performances in 1994. Since 1982 the city has uninterruptedly scheduled the Terrassa Jazz Festival, an open and heterogeneous event that has not only maintained the original spirit created in the old club, but has put the city at the forefront of offering the best contemporary Jazz open to the big names of the national and international genre while at the same time It has been a platform for young generations in need of places to show their musical work. With the desire to include the most diverse styles in its programming and give all fans the opportunity to feel represented in the more than 60 concerts and activities, the Festival has dedicated from the first edition a day in which blues music is the only protagonist.
TERRASSA JAZZ FESTIVAL ART HISTORY 1982-2024
THE BLUES IN THE FESTIVAL EDITIONS
List of artists who have played at the Festival (1982-2024)
MEMPHIS SLIM SON SEALS JUNIOR WELLS LOWELL FULSON PHILLIP WALKER ROBERT CRAY JESSIE MAE HEMPHILL SON THOMAS CHAMPION JACK DUPREE MAGIC SLIM HARMONICA ZUMEL BLUES BAND BUSTER BENTON LUTHER ALLISON LONNIE BROOKS CALEDONIA BLUES BAND OTIS GRAND EDDIE C. CAMPBELL LUTHER "GUITAR JR" JOHNSON JIMMY JOHNSON JOE LOUIS WALKER BIG MAMA MONTSE BOB MARGOLIN LITTLE MILTON AUGUST THARRATS MICHAEL HILL STEVE DE SWARDT BILLY BRANCH BIG TIME SARAH TINSLEY ELLIS AMADEU CASAS PHIL GUY ELVIN BISHOP ERIC SARDINAS VICTOR URIS LLUIS COLOMA DUKE ROBILLARD BRYAN LEE ANA POPOVIC TXELL SUST AGUSTI MAS BLUES ENSEMBLE SUE FOLEY CANDYE KANE DEBBIE DAVIS CHARLIE MUSSELWHITE DEBORAH COLEMAN ALEX ZAYAS TERRY EVANS ANGELA BROWN COCO MONTOYA DANI NEL.LO VICTOR PUERTAS ROXANNE POTVIN CHINO SWINGSLIDE LARRY GARNER TROMBONE SHORTY KENNY NEAL JAVIER MAS E.C. SCOTT JOAN PAU CUMELLAS PAUL LAMB TOM PRINCIPATO LUCKY PETERSON BLAS PICON CEDRIC BURNSIDE TRAVELIN' BROTHERS SAX GORDON JOHN NEMETH JUNIOR WATSON VALENTI MOYA POPPA CHUBBY DEMETRIA TAYLOR BERNARD ALLISON AGUSTI MAS TRUDDY LINN KEITH BROWN WAX & BOOGIE THE SUITCASE BROTHERS A CONTRA BLUES JOHN DEL TORO BLUES BAND DAVE SPECTER