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43 Terrassa Jazz Festival 

Dave Specter 

Live at Nova Jazz Cava, Terrassa, Barcelona, Spain - March 8, 2024

Photos     Àngel Zudaire

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Dave Specter 

... ON STAGE

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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