The Xesc Forteza Municipal Theater will be the epicenter of the programming for the third edition of the Palma Jazz Festival. Photo: Palma City Council.

The Xesc Forteza Municipal Theater will be the epicenter of the programming of the third edition of the Palma Jazz Festival, which will take place from February 4 to 13 with a total of 10 main concerts and will feature some of the national and international jazz references and also insular.

“We place the city of Palma within the jazz scene. Despite the current context, we have wanted to continue consolidating this annual event, supporting the group of musicians and dynamizing the city culturally so that the citizens of Palma can continue to enjoy ‘an offer quality culture 365 days a year ”, said the Deputy Mayor for Culture and Social Welfare, Antoni Noguera.

Thus, this year’s festival brings together names such as that of the Israeli saxophonist Eli Degibri, the Menorcan pianist Marco Mezquida or the Galician flutist María Toro.

These 10 concerts will be joined by others such as those that will take place in different neighborhoods of Palma on weekends or the Dones & Jazz series that last year was already held at the Casal Balaguer and was very well received.

Tickets for these 10 main concerts go on sale from today through www.palmacultura.cat where you will also find all the detailed information. It should be noted that until January 16 there will be special prices of € 10 in advance / € 12 box office / Subscription to all concerts € 70.

As of January 17, the prices will be € 12 in advance / € 15 box office / Subscription to all concerts € 85. As on other occasions, the Department launches a policy of reduced prices of € 5 for specific groups such as the unemployed or people in ERTE, students, users with a library card or students of the Conservatory of Music, among others.

The programing

Eli Degibri. Friday, February 4 at 8 p.m.

Internationally accredited saxophonist and composer, Eli Degibri is one of the most prominent Israeli musicians in recent decades; he possesses many gifts as a musician and is recognized for his great talent as a melodic composer (Landau Prize in Jazz Performance, recognizing his success as a remarkable bandleader). With his charismatic performances, Degibri has recorded and performed extensively since the mid-1990s with outright success. Degibri is strongly committed to the long tradition of the jazz world. His current quartet consists of three promising young Israeli musicians, award-winning pianist Tom Oren, bassist Alon Near and drummer Eviatar Slivnik.

Moisés P. Sánchez Project. Saturday, February 5 at 8 p.m.

Changes in rhythm, contrasting textures, rhythmic and melodic developments that are the expression of an overflowing imagination … All this connects with the soul of the most contemporary jazz, without forgetting tradition, from the very personal vision of Moisés P. Sánchez and in company of some exceptional musicians who accompany him in this healthy madness.

There’s Always Madness (UnoMúsica, 2019) is the composer, producer and pianist’s most successful album to date, an intense and emotional album developed from Alan Moore’s comic The Killing Joke, which functions as a common thread. Nominated for the 2019 Latin Grammy for his previous work, Moisés P. Sánchez has woven a conceptual journey full of unexpected twists and turns.

Maria Toro. Sunday, February 6 at 7 p.m.

With an idea that was born in flamenco and grew up in jazz, Toro has spent years preparing the way for his own language. Her permanent physical journey has allowed her to become infected with local musicians without abandoning her roots, which brings accents and textures to her solo work. Whether with prominent European artists, from the New York jazz scene or with leading figures in Brazilian music, the project has a common denominator: Maria’s unmistakable flute. Endowed with a melodic personality distinguishable from the first note, Toro has managed to combine her skills as a composer with a high level of arrangements, production and interpretation.

María Toro presents her new album, Fume (Jazz Activist, 2020), which bears her signature, regardless of her companions, evidencing a truth as topical as it is overwhelming: music knows no borders. And if it is transported through the toro flute, it becomes decidedly universal.

Joan Barbé Group. Monday, February 7 at 8 p.m.

The Ibizan multi-instrumentalist, producer, composer and arranger Joan Barbé has numerous albums and tours of his own projects behind his back, as well as important collaborations with other artists. With more than 40 albums as a music producer and about 100 recordings as a professional musician, in 2021 he published Quorum, his second solo album, in which he also composed and produced all the songs, where jazz fusion mixed with funk, progressive rock predominates. and even Latin music, with influences ranging from Snarky Puppy to Jeff Beck, through Vulfpeck, Dirty Loops, MikeStern or Dave Weckl. The band that presents us is made up of prominent Ibiza musicians or residents of the island.

Le Nuvole di Pier Paolo (Concert tribute to Pier Paolo Pasolini). Tuesday, February 8 at 8 p.m.

This tribute concert aims to commemorate the centenary of the birth of one of the greatest Italian film directors of the 20th century, apart from being a writer and poet. Pier Paolo Pasolini was born in Bologna in 1922. His works have always had a strong link with sound and music. Jazz allows you to explore all the main elements of its philosophy.

Irene Reig Trio. Wednesday, February 9 at 8 p.m.

Irene Reig is one of the most prominent representatives of the new Catalan generation of jazz musicians. Energy, passion and spontaneity is what we find in her repertoire of original songs along with her own versions of the bop and hard bop classics. Now the trio presents their new album, Mira (The Changes, 2021), formed almost entirely by a repertoire of their own compositions, but also by innovative arrangements, ranging from jazz standards to swing, recreates in the listener the sensation of being inside a jazz club packed to overflowing, with easily singable melodies that build an interesting dialogue with each other.

SPAIN in symphonic tribute to Chick Corea. Congress Palace. Thursday, February 10 at 8 p.m.

Chick Corea is one of the most important pianists in the history of jazz, winner of 20 Grammy Awards and with a huge discography. He has been one of the most beloved musicians in our country. His close relationship with flamenco and with Paco de Lucía has offered him inspiring wings to create and compose true works of art dedicated to Spain and its culture. The pianist and composer has several albums recorded with the best Spanish flamenco and jazz-flamenco musicians, with whom he presents this great project accompanied by the Balearic Islands Symphony Orchestra, which bears the title of his best-known work in all parts of the world. world and which is dedicated to the country, SPAIN, and that is how a worldwide visible tribute will be paid to this great musician on the first anniversary of his death.

Ariel Brínguez and Iván “Melon” Lewis. Friday, February 11 at 8 p.m.

Ariel Brínguez and Iván “Melon” Lewis, recently awarded the Grammy for Best Latin Jazz Album, by Voyager, come together in this format to offer a careful selection of Cuban songs of all times where contemporary elements and lyrical-musical heritage converge of the island.

It is about the symbiosis of two of the most prominent representatives of the current music scene, who present their vision of the treatment that organically intertwines popular music and chamber music with a Cuban accent. An appointment with the past, the present and the future highlighting the danzón, the contradanza, the montuno dream, jazz and European classical music to build the path.

Marco Mezquida. Saturday, February 12 at 8 p.m.

The indomitable and unclassifiable artistic nature of the Menorcan pianist Marco Mezquida, who will give us a solo piano concert, is revealed in an aesthetic journey that combines avant-garde jazz, contemporary music and extended piano techniques with popular music, folk sounds and pop melodies.

Brilliant as a composer, pianist, improviser, bandleader, eclectic and versatile; Jarrett, Schubert, Ravel, Gesualdo or Bley, to name a few, blend exquisitely into the musical DNA of Marco, who, at 33, has recorded more than fifty albums and has a dizzying concert activity that has led him to perform in important auditoriums and halls in 32 countries around the world on 4 continents.

Gonzalo del Val Trio. Sunday, February 13 at 7:00 p.m.

Gonzalo del Val is one of the most prominent drummers on the current jazz scene. He has played with some of the most important national and international musicians such as Dave Liebman, Stephane Belmondo, Marco Mezquida, Marco Miralta, Jon Robles, Albert Bover, David Mengual or Joan Albert Amargós, which has quickly made him one of the most valued and requested today.

Gonzalo del Val Trio presents his new album, the third of this group, Cancionero, published by the prestigious international firm Fresh Sound New Talent and awarded as the best jazz album according to the critics at the Enderrock Awards 2021, as well as by the newspaper The country.

The aesthetic proposal of the formation is very varied and is conditioned by the musical concerns of the four interpreters. Currently its repertoire is made up of original compositions, with a special presence and interpretations of the jazz repertoire. Music full of warmth, intimacy and interpretive sensitivity.