San Javier Jazz essential details The San Javier Jazz Festival for 2019 (Friday 28th June to Saturday 27th July) offers a quality selection of varied and exciting music at affordable prices from the end of June and throughout the month of July, with a flavoursome blend of Jazz, blues and soul, an eclectic selection of artists ensuring each concert is a unique and memorable experience. The open air auditorium offers great acoustics and plenty..

FRIDAY JULY 19TH    ROBERTA GAMBARINI andFABRIZIO BOSSO HOMAGE CONCERT TO ROY HARGROVE MARCUS MILLER Tickets 25 euros. Click here to buy tickets Roberta Gambarini and Fabrizio Bosso In 2006, at the IX edition of Jazz San Javier, we enjoyed a concert by the legendary pianist Hank Jones with Roberta Gambarini and Roy Hargrove as special guests. After the death of the great trumpeter Roy Hargrove, who visited us that year and once..

SATURDAY JULY 20TH KAREN SOUZA STEVE GADD BAND Tickets 25 euros. Click here to buy tickets online NB: This concert begins at 21:00 Karen Souza Argentinean singer Karen Souza is one of the freshest and most original artists we have heard in recent years. She has a surprising musical past in electronic music, chill house, deep house and roots in rock. Her first albums, “Essentials” and “Essentials II”, with fantastic jazz..

SUNDAY JULY 21ST RON CARTER FOURSIGHT QUARTET Tickets 15 euros. Click here to buy tickets online Ron Carter Living legend, symbol of the best classical tradition within jazz and one of the best bassists of this musical style, in history, Ron Carter is also the bass player who has the most recordings in the history of jazz (more than 2,500 or 3,000, depending on the source). Elegant and inconspicuous, this fantastic musician has an innate..

TUESDAY JULY 23RD     VÍCTOR ANEIROS BAND + MIKE WHEELER, ALEX ZAYAS andANTONIO SERRANO - AT BARNUEVO EXPLANADE, SANTIAGO DE LA RIBERA Free concert The return of the great guitarist and Galician singer Víctor Aneiros and his band, plus three exceptional guests. Víctor Aneiros, one of the best blues guitarists in Spain and pioneer of blues in Galician, has just released an album entirely in Spanish, "Un extraño entre la multitud..

WEDNESDAY JULY 24TH ZOOT SUITERS – AT THE “TOMÁS MAESTRE” PORT, LA MANGA Free concert Start time 22:00 Zoot Suiters The spectacular swing band from Murcia, Zoot Suiters, composed of seven great musicians, integrating in its repertoire the great classics of swing and lindy hop of the 30s and 40s of the 20th century, as well as great current pop versions adapted to the swing. Two years ago, they offered an impressive party..

THURSDAY JULY 25TH CHICK COREA AND THE SPANISH HEART BAND Tickets 35 euros. Click here to buy tickets online. Start time: 21.30 One of the most féted musicians, inside and outside the world of jazz, winner of over twenty Grammy awards, Chick Corea is one of the most brilliant pianists and composers in the history of jazz. Chick Corea was also the winner of the annual San Javier Jazz Award in 2018 when, with his Akoustic Band, he offered..

FRIDAY 26TH JULY    NIELS LAN DOKY TRIO MACEO PARKER Tickets 25 euros. Click here to buy tickets online. Start time 21.30 Niels Lan Doky Trio Michael Contat defines Niels Lan Doky as “one of the most convincing disciples of Bill Evans, with a very personal romantic sensibility”. His musical history is impressive, because at fifteen he had already worked with Thad Jones, and, in addition to his group The Doky Brothers..

SATURDAY JULY 27TH “SAN JAVIER LOVES MICHEL LEGRAND” WITH PIERRE BOUSSAGUET QUARTET andNATALIE DESSAY BUDDY WHITTINGTON andSANTIAGO CAMPILLO HOMAGE TO TEXAS BLUES LEGENDS; GUESTS: MAURI SANCHIS andÑACO GOÑI Tickets 15 euros. Click here for online purchases “SAN JAVIER LOVES MICHEL LEGRAND” WITH PIERRE BOUSSAGUET QUARTET andNATALIE DESSAY One of the most beautiful nights in the history of Jazz San Javier was on July 30..