You’re in luck if you are a Jazz fan because November in Granada is The Festival de Jazz de Granada month.
The jazz festival runs intermittently all month, although the main concerts happen between the 7th and 27th. Even though cut down in the number of performances – 28, down from 60 in 2010 – you’ll have a chance to see over a hundred jazzmen in action.
The 34th edition of the festival gives you, Christian Scott (whom many consider the new Miles Davis), China Moses, (daughter of Dee Dee Bridgewater) Eric Alexander, Chano Dominguez and last but far from least, Hammond keyboard demigod Dr. Lonnie Smith.
The same cuts that have shut down jazz festivals in Madrid have snipped savagely at the Granada budget so that the whole festival has been put together with a 50,000 budget – that might sound a lot but in 2008 the budget was 260,000 euros. If you go back a decade it was nearly 400,000 euros.
The full programme is as follows:
Thursday 7th: Christian Scott Quintet
Friday 8th: Dr. Lonnie Smith Trio (only concert in Spain)
Saturday 9th: Suhail Sound System
Thursday 14th: China Moses & Raphaël Lemonnier
Friday 15th: Eric Alexander Quartet
Entrance tickets on say at the box office of Teatro Isabel La Católica, from 11:00h to 14:00h & 1700h to 20:00h. Bookings & telephone sales: 958 222 907.
Prices
Patio: 15 euros
Anfiteatro I: 12 euros
Anfiteatro II: 10 euros
Complete concert pass: 50 euros
Parallel activities
Jazz en la Provincia
Wednesday 27th: Chano Domíguez
Teatro Mira de Amescua (Guadix). 20:30h
Jazz en el Hospital
Monday 4th: Hispanistán
Hospital Materno-Infantil. 7th Floor. 11:30h
Friday 15th: Jazz con Cualquier Cosa, Vibra-Tó
Hospital Materno-Infantil. 7th Floor. 11:30h
Note: these two concerts in the hospitals are for patients and their families only.
Jazz entre Amigos
Sunday 17th: Magic. 21:00h
Homage for Juan Claudio Cifuentes “Cifu,”
with Arturo Cid Quartet
Entrance: 8 euros
Wednesday 27th:
Orquesta de Ida y Vuelta, Big Band
Salón de actos. Caja Rural. 20.00h
Entrance: 5 euros (one hour before at the venue)
Thursday 7th: Hispanistán
XX Universijazz
Salón de Actos.
Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingeniería de Edificación.
Campus Universitario Fuentenueva
Free Entrance.
Sunday 17th: Dubi Dubi Band
La Chistera. Monachil. 18:00h
Sunday 24th: La otra cara de los Beatles, Pecos Beck & Tito Poyatos Band
Boogaclub (Calle Santa Bárbara 3). Granada. 21:00h
Entrance 5 euros (one hour before concert)
Saturday 16th: Casi en blanco y negro, Alessia Desogus
Teatro Municipal Isabel La Católica. 21.00h
Entrance 10 euros at the box off of Teatro Isabel La Católica.
Friday 8th: Grand Soul Party VIII, Bashiyra – The Voice
Sala Molly Malone (Mae West). 23:00h
Entrance free with invitation
More info: www.jazzgranada.es
(News/Events: Granada, Andalucia)