Spanish jazz

Jazz in Spain began with an interest in Dixieland or New Orleans jazz. In that time it evolved into other styles often influenced by visiting Americans. In 1947 Don Byas introduced Tete Montoliu to bebop and later efforts to fuse jazz with flamenco occurred. Catalan and Galician music is also an influence in some regions.

Still, jazz in Spain initially suffered from many difficulties. One example being that the cultural, political, and economic climate was unsuitable for the creativity and freedom required of a jazz movement. This predates Francisco Franco's regime to some extent, but his rule placed far more restraints on jazz, due in part to his regime's restrictions and in part due to Spain being isolated on various cultural fronts, preferring an inward-looking, more easily digested form of culture. Thus, a particularly fruitful period for jazz in general – the period spanning the 1940s, 1950s and the early 1960s – passed almost unnoticed in Spain. The return to democracy, and the development of the economy, has allowed for there to be an increased jazz scene in the last twenty years.[1]

One particular feature of live jazz in Spain is the multitudinous attendance at outdoor jazz festivals, the first of which, the Donostia-San Sebastian Jazz Festival dates back to 1966. It would not be until the mid-1970s, however, that major international figures would attend the festival, including, over the years, Charles Mingus, Tete Montoliu, Ella Fitzgerald, Oscar Peterson, Dizzy Gillespie, Herbie Hancock, Lionel Hampton, John Lee Hooker, Sonny Rollins, B.B. King, Woody Herman, Freddie Hubbard, Weather Report, Gato Barbieri, Art Blakey, Mercer Ellington, McCoy Tyner, Chick Corea, Clark Terry, and Miles Davis.

The festival held in Vitoria-Gasteiz, set up in 1977, also attracts major international names.

In a related vein Spanish classical or folk music has been an influence on jazz musicians both inside and outside of Spain. Concierto de Aranjuez by Joaquín Rodrigo has been interpreted by Miles Davis.

Jazz festivals

Jazz musicians in Spain

References

  1. ↑ Apoloybaco
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  5. ↑ Alex Conde Website
  6. ↑ Diego Amador's Website
  7. ↑ Biography All About Jazz
  8. ↑ website
  9. ↑ Jazz Magazine
  10. ↑ Biografías del Jazz: Carme Canela
  11. ↑ Jazz Magazine
  12. ↑ Alberto Conde website
  13. ↑ Alberto Conde Tomajazz bio
  14. ↑ Biography Biography All About Jazz
  15. ↑ NPR
  16. ↑ Biography All About Jazz
  17. ↑ Jose Luis Gamez's website
  18. ↑ All About Jazz
  19. ↑ Tomajazz bio
  20. ↑ Apoloybaco bio
  21. ↑ bio Jazz Magazine
  22. ↑ Tomajazz bio
  23. ↑ CitizenJazz bio
  24. ↑ Biography Jazz Magazine
  25. ↑ Chick Corea's website
  26. ↑ Biography All About Jazz
  27. ↑ Biography All Music
  28. ↑ Criss Cross Jazz
  29. ↑ National Geographic World Music site
  30. ↑ Perico Sambeat's website
  31. ↑ Biography All About Jazz
  32. ↑ Biography Apoloybaco
  33. ↑ Biography All About Jazz
  34. ↑ Biography Apoloybaco
  35. ↑ Biography Tomajazz
  36. ↑ Xavier Dotras
  37. ↑ Igor Prochazka Trio

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