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This year,
we are celebrating the 40º
anniversary of the foundation of
this Club, a non-profit
association which started being
called “Club de Música San Juan
Evangelista” although the word
Jazz was added soon later,
turning into the denomination of
“Club de Música y Jazz”. We
wanted to emphasize the value
that the fan residents of this
Madrilenian residence gave to
this music. Since its beginning,
year 1970, we started the
musical events with a concert of
the most universal Spanish
jazzman, Tete Montoliu; jazz
concerts even during the
dictatorship time in which we
have been constantly celebrating
during these past 40 years.
Regarding the live jazz music,
the purpose we have been
following in these past
festivals it has been that the
scheduled concerts had a thread
and, this year, coinciding with
the Spanish Presidency of the
European Union, we have decided
to dedicate this 18º Ciclo de
Jazz es Primavera to Eurojazzz,
which it will take place between
February and March.
During this large career, it is
not the first time the European
jazzmen visit us. We have had a
relevant presence of bands of
every jazz style from all across
Europe, from the traditional
styles to the avant-garde and
the electronic sounds. We could
recount a large list of artists
such as Maria João, Stéphane
Grappelli, Martial Solal, Michel
Petrucciani, Louis Sclavis, Erik
Truffaz, Enrico Rava, Paolo
Fresu, E.S.T. (Esbjörn Svensson
Trio), Atomic, Bugge Wesseltoft,
Jan Garbarek, Joachim Kühn,
Peter Brötzmann, Tomasz Stanko,
John McLaughlin, Dave Holland,
Vienna Art Orchestra and the
most of the Spanish jazzmen like
Tete Montoliu, Pedro Iturralde,
Vlady Bas, Jorge Pardo, Carles
Benavent, Javier Colina, Iñaki
Salvador, Baldo Martínez, Abe
Rábade, Chano Domínguez, Miguel
Ángel Chastang, Perico Sambeat
and many others.
At the time of making up this
program, what we have looked for,
besides its European origin, is
the important quality of the
musicians who will visit us and
their projects, their diverse
music, creative spirit and their
originality from the youngest to
the oldest performers. We will
count on the absolute novelty of
Djabe, the best Hungarian band,
the return to Spain of the
“European Jazz Ensemble”, on its
34º Tour formed by excellent
European musicians, the jewels
of the Trios of Stefano Bollani
(Italy), Nils Wogram (Germany),
Bobo Stenson (Sweden) and Enrico
Pieranuzi (Italy). We are also
very excited in having the new
English vocal jazz star, Jose
James, Carlos “Sir Charles” Glez,
representing the Spanish Jazz,
and the English surprise of the
innovator band of Portico
Quartet.
We are sure that it is a
festival for the memory, with
music based on the folklore of
every country, the free-jazz,
the classical European music and
the roots of jazz, everything
filled of beauty, lyricism and
freshness in this new
presentation of European Jazz.
We have made this possible with
low economic ways. Our budget is
this year even more shrunk
because of the withdrawal of one
of our official sponsors that
have forced us to leave out of
this festival the French jazz,
one of the homelands of jazz in
Europe, as it is known.
In this uncertainty future, the
support of the aficionados and
the media is more needed than
ever. We would also like to
thank one more time the
important collaborations for
this festival of El Corte
Inglés, and its help for the
last 28 years as well, along
with the Embassies of Hungary
and Sweden and the Spanish
Presidency.
Who could think in turning 40
years of jazz, flamenco and the
rest of the world music at the
Johnny, at San Juan Evangelista?
All of this success has been
promoted by its Club de Música y
Jazz and, however, we are still
on the road.
As the Opera Director of the
Teatro Español, Gérard Portier,
says “In those crisis times when
Europe only could be saved by
creative ideas, especially in a
cultural level”, we hope that
our Jazz es Primavera project
will be among them, taking part
of the “Festival Eurojazz 2010”
of the Spanish Presidency of the
European Union.
Club de Música y Jazz San Juan
Evangelista
www.sanjuanevangelista.org
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