Barcelona Springtime Swing ’23 is the third edition of an initiative that was first presented in 2019 and has been interrupted for two years due to the pandemic. The goal set by the entities that support the project is to give the opportunity to our audiences to discover and enjoy the music of international figures in the current jazz scene – with a broad understanding of what is considered classical jazz – who normally do not visit our stages.
We believe that traditional jazz fans and those who feel an incipient curiosity for this genre will appreciate this initiative that brings them in contact with high quality performers whose music,
while maintaining high standards, is available to all audiences.
This is the intention of the organizers of this cycle of three concerts that we hope with all our heart will be well-received by our public.
PROGRAMMED CONCERTS:
March 4th, 2023
7 pm
Venue: Centre Moral de Gràcia (Ros de Olano, 9)
Vocal Jazz from New Orleans:TRICIA BOUTTÉ & SUNSET RHYTHM KINGS
Tricia Boutté (vocals), Oriol Vallès (trumpet), Pau Casares (clarinet and tenor sax), Dani Alonso (trombone), Marc Martín, (piano), Albert Martínez (double bass), Martí Elias (drums).
TRICIA BOUTTÉ
In New Orleans, musical families are an important part of the social fabric. Tricia “Sista Teedy” Boutté is the current generation of a long line of brilliant New Orleans artists. She started singing almost before she could talk. During her career she has had the pleasure of sharing the stage or studio with some of the world’s greatest performers: Allen Toussaint, Aaron, Cyril and Charmaine Neville, D’Angelo, Corey Harris, Aretha Franklin, Irma Thomas, Dr. John, Ziggy Marley and Melody Makers, Fats Domino, Public Enemy, Shaggy.
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March 15th, 2023
8 pm
Venue: Fundació CIC Auditorium (Via Augusta, 205)
Swing Piano:
CHAMPIAN FULTON TRIO
Champian Fulton (piano and vocals), Albert Martínez (double bass), Esteve Pí (drums).
CHAMPIAN FULTON
Born in Oklahoma, Champian is considered one of the most gifted pure Jazz musicians of her generation. She grew up with music in the home; her mother and father (Jazz trumpeter and educator Stephen Fulton) recognized her fascination with music at an early age. The presence of her father’s musician friends, including Clark Terry and Major Holley, inspired her focus on Jazz. Her first paid musical engagement was with her own band at Clark Terry’s 75th Birthday Party; she was 10 years old. Since then, her piano and voice skills have been recognized by peers and critics as distinctive and sophisticated. This young woman from Oklahoma captivates audiences in New York’s finest Jazz rooms and in concert halls around the world.
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March 29th, 2023
8 pm
Venue: Fundació CIC Auditorium (Via Augusta, 205)
Jazz Clàssic:
HARRY ALLEN QUARTET
Harry Allen (tenor sax), Gerard Nieto (piano), Giuseppe Campisi (double bass), Joan Casares (drums).
HARRY ALLEN
Harry Allen was born in Maryland in 1966, although he grew up in a suburb of Los Angeles. His father, a professional drummer in his youth, encouraged him in his musical career which he began playing clarinet, later switching to tenor saxophone. During his school days in Newport, Rhode Island, he became interested in jazz, listening to records by Lester Young and Ben Webster (his most notable influences to this day). His next step was at Rutgers University, where he graduated with a degree in music in 1988. By then he was already working part-time as a professional, alongside Bucky Pizzarelli, Ruby Braff and George Masso. During the following years Harry worked steadily, in what he defines as “my formative period”, with musicians such as Warren Vaché, Dave McKenna, Kenny Barron, Mayor Holley, Maxine Sullivan, Milt Hinton, Kenny Davern, Jack Sheldon and especially Oliver Jackson, with whom he toured Europe three times. He has released some thirty albums as a leader, including “How long has this been going on” (1989), “Someone to light up my life”, “Are you having any fun” (1991), “I know that you know” (1992), “Tenors anyone” (1999) “Eu nao quero dançar” (1998), “Christmas in Swingtime” (2000) as well as other albums with Bobbie Norris, Ronny White and Oliver Jackson. Harry Allen can be included in the movement known as “neoclassical” within the most orthodox Jazz: drinking from the sources of the great saxophonists of the forties, such as Webster, Young or Hawkins, and incorporating the conceptions contributed by Stan Getz, Zoot Sims and Al Cohn in the fifties, he has developed his own style, which combines a robustness of sound with sensitivity in interpretation. A great specialist in ballads, he is also an excellent swingman, imaginative and direct.
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The Barcelona Springtime Swing 23 series is organized by the Fundació Institut d’Estudis Nord-americans, tha Fundació Jazz Class, the Associació d’Enginyers Industrials de Catalunya, International Jazz Productions and the Centre Moral de Gràcia. With the collaboration of Fundació CIC.
