The 29th Costa Brava Jazz Festival will debut the Museu del Suro as a new stage

2023-10-09 19:00:41

A session for the family audience in the Library courtyard, by Nico Martin Groupand the concert of Manel Fortià Quintetwhich will serve to inaugurate the Auditorium del Museu del Suro as a new stage, will give this Wednesday the kick off at the 29th Costa Brava Jazz Festival, which will take place until Sunday in various spaces in Palafrugell. This year, the event offers up to eleven different activities – including three paid concerts – that aim to open up the municipality more than ever and bring jazz music to its streets and squares.

As has been usual for years, the festival’s programming is committed to mixing local artists and local, with some young talents, with others of renown, both nationally and internationally. In this edition, apart from the performance of the double bassist from Cassana Manel Fortià, who will present his work Liberica live, they will also pass through the town of Baix-Empordà the prestigious Menorcan pianist Marco Mezquida (Friday the 13th) and the quartet led by American saxophonist Jesse Davis (Saturday 14). For these two concerts, along with Manel Fortià’s, you will have to pay a ticket, although a discounted pass is offered for all three.

Organized by the culture area of the Palafrugell Town Council, with the support of the Generalitat de Catalunya and the Provincial Government of Gironathe Costa Brava Jazz Festival is committed this year to offering shows in public spaces such as Plaça Nova and the Can Genís patio, although the Municipal Theater (TeMePé) remains one of the main stages.

Plaça Nova will be the stage for many of the free concerts. Thursday, the day that concentrates the bulk of the programming, you can enjoy the performances of Last Livin’ Souls at noon and one introductory Lindy Hop class and social dance with swing music by Windy Hoppers.

In the evening, Jazz & Cinema will take place, organized by Cine Club Garbí and presented this year Jazz& Cinema. Love Story. The exhibition, which could already be seen a few months ago at the House of Culture in Girona, includes graphic material such as photographs, original posters, programs and film magazines where jazz is the protagonist, as well as first editions of successful soundtracks. The day will end with the screening of the film a glass of whiskey (1958), directed by the filmmaker Julio Coll.

The Costa Brava Jazz Festival will close its 29th edition on Sunday at noon in Plaça Nova with Jazz in Samba. S.A.P (South American Project)the project led by the Argentinian trumpeter resident in Barcelona Guillermo Calliero (Santa Fe, 1973) that fuses South American roots music with the standards of jazz.

Music and audiovisuals with AI

With the aim of presenting a unique show, the 29th Costa Brava Jazz Festival will host the premiere of Kraken in Progressan innovative proposal that fuses artificial intelligence tools, a series of audiovisual projections and live music. Pere Álvaro and Albert Palahí they imagined through AI technology (with modeling created with 3D Studio Max, Photoshop and other digital tools) a kraken (a sea creature very present in Norse mythology) specific to the Formigues Islands, located in front of the Cap Roig area, in Calella de Palafrugell.

Starting from this imaginative creation, a monster with limbs similar to the instruments of jazz music, Paul Alvaro developed a series of audiovisual pieces and the Palamosí musician Marcel Prohias composed the music. The final result will be premiered on Thursday, from 8 pm with free entry, in the Can Genís patio. It will be one of the most groundbreaking proposals that have been seen in the history of the festival.