San Sebastian Jazz Festival
The Heineken Jazzaldia ( the official name ) or San Sebastian Jazz Festival and Festival de Jazz de San Sebastián is since 1966 in San Sebastián, held annually over four days in the third week of July Music Festival. It is the oldest Spanish and one of the oldest existing European jazz festivals.
Here were many well-known jazz musicians such as Ella Fitzgerald, Oscar Peterson, Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie, Dexter Gordon, Art Blakey, Stan Getz, Sarah Vaughan, Charles Mingus (1974 and 1977 ), Ray Charles, McCoy Tyner, Weather Report, Don Cherry, Gerry Mulligan, Ornette Coleman, Keith Jarrett, Chick Corea ( to the concert at Velodrome 1981 15,000 listeners came from), Wynton Marsalis, Diana Krall, Hank Jones, Herbie Hancock, Pat Metheny, Sonny Rollins, and musicians from other areas such as Van Morrison, BB King, Liza Minnelli. 2013 included performances by Hiromi Uehara, Vijay Iyer, Dave Douglas, Pharoah Sanders, China Moses, Youn Sun Nah and John Zorn on ( with a five-hour Masada Marathon, in which 32 musicians were involved in twelve formations ).
The addition of Heineken in Jazzaldia comes from the sponsor.
History
The first festival was held on 10 and 11 September 1966 but was postponed as early as next year in July. Its origins had it in a competition for amateur musicians. In his early period entered here as the only professional musicians living in France American blues guitarist Mickey Baker ( 1925-2012 ). Pierre " Pedro " Lafont ( who died on July 3, 2012) was instrumental in helping through his contacts - he came out of the Hot Club of Saint -Jean -de -Luz - and his commitment to the festival in its early years to an international level to. raise
The festival was first held in the Plaza de la Trinidad. As in the 1970's big stars came they switched to larger places, the football stadium of Anoeta and then the Velódromo. 1992 they changed over to a dozen different places in the city ( theaters and museums, the Yacht Club on the harbor, the Kursaal Auditorium and others), again in the Plaza de la Trinidad. There are also free concerts on the beach, which are particularly popular among the youth (Playa de la Zurriola, Green Stage ).
Initially the festival was mainly traditional jazz and blues as well as mainstream in the program ( for example, Jo Jones, Milt Buckner, Cab Calloway, Arnett Cobb, Illinois Jacquet, John Lee Hooker, Muddy Waters), but that changed, however, in the 1970s.
Festival Prize
The festival awards since 1994 Donostiako Jazzaldia Award (Donostia is the Basque name of town), for striking musicians of the festival. Prize winners were:
Disco Graphical Notes
Some recordings of concerts at the festival published on sound and image carriers.
- Gary Bartz / Jeanne Lee / Jorge Pardo Music for ebb: Live in San Sebastian (El Dilirio 1997)
- Diana Krall Doing All Right (2008, Bootleg )
- Return to Forever Live in San Sebastian ( Jazz Door, 2008 - Video)
- Ron Carter Golden Striker Trio San Sebastian ( In & Out, 2012 with Mulgrew Miller & Russell Malone )