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Barcelona Jazz Orquestra

The first permanent Big Band in Barcelona

The aim of the Barcelona Jazz Orquestra is to bring jazz closer to the general public, respecting the accuracy and proximity typical of the genre.

The BJO combines tradition and innovation, merging a classic repertoire - Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Thad Jones, Dizzy Gillespie - with a great variety of contemporary composers and arrangers.

The great musicians who accompany the orchestra and the excellent combination of repertoires make this band approachable to both jazz lovers (either classical or modern) and to people who have never listened to jazz before, and even to children, as we are working to introduce jazz in schools.

The BJO performs regularly on stages all over Spain and France including for example the San Javier Jazz Festival, Marbella, San Sebastián, Lleida, Xàbia, Foix, Ramatuelle and Marciac. Also at Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York, 2012.

Have performed with Jazz Masters as Phil Woods, Jon Faddis, Frank Wess, Benny Golson, Jesse Davis, Terell Stafford, Ann Hampton Calloway, Nicholas Payton...

CDs:

Dizzy's Business: CD + DVD , with Jon Faddis. Tribute to Dizzy Gillespie. My Man Benny: CD + DVD , with Phil Woods. Tribute to Benny Carter. Once Upon a Time: with Nicholas Payton September in the rain: with Jesse Davis and Randy Greer.

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