Catalan Arts at inJazz 2023

Supporting Catalan Creativity Worldwide

inJazz Amsterdam and Rotterdam, the Netherlands, 21-23 June 2023

Round

Table

22 June | 14:00 Batavierhuis, Rotterdam

Everything you always wanted to know about jazz in Catalonia but were afraid to ask, by Jordi Pujol (Fresh Sound Records).

Networking Reception

22 June | 17:00

LantarenVenster, Rotterdam

A networking reception organized by the Catalan Institute for Cultural Companies – Catalan Arts Music and with the participation of professional agents on the Catalan jazz scene.

For the first time, through the Catalan Institute for Cultural Companies (ICEC), the Government of Catalonia is supporting the presence at inJazz of a Catalan delegation formed by the three selected Catalan jazz bands, 12 delegates representing festivals, management companies and venues, and 5 professionals representing Catalan institutions.

This booklet gathers information on the companies, artists, managers, venues and institutions attending the event, focusing on Catalan Jazz Music at inJazz 2023. If you want more information on a particular one, please do not hesitate to contact them directly.

You can also get in touch with us at inJazz or by contacting any of our offices located in Barcelona,

Berlin, Brussels, London or Paris for further assistance. We hope you will have a chance to meet all of them and have interesting conversations.

Under the label of Catalan Arts, we strengthen the presence of Catalan bands and creative works at international fairs and key professional events, such as inJazz, in our aim to connect, mentor and support creative companies in their international journey. Please visit our website to find more about us:

www.catalanarts.cat/en

Alba Careta Group

Teia means resinous or splintery wood in Catalan, a type of wood that burns easily. This is the title of the third album by trumpeter and singer Alba Careta from Catalonia. It contains a collection of her latest compositions, inspired by her own experiences, which consolidate the artist in both the Catalan and European jazz scenes after her successes with Alades and Origens

Contact

Alba Careta

+34 605 792 214

Contact management

Diàspora Colab

Olivia Casas

Mànager

JF Trio

JF Trio is the most personal venture of the pianist Jofre Fité. It is a formation halfway between jazz, electronic music and pop in which they explore improvisation and interaction between musicians. The proposal explores various themes through composition and improvisation and fuses acoustic and electronic, traditional and modern sounds. The band is formed by Jofre Fité on piano and keyboard, Carla González on double bass and synthesizer and Pau Gurpegui on drums and pad.

Contact management

Taller de Músics

Rosa Galbany Manager

+34 605 792 214

+34 607 169 494

Martín Leiton Quartet

With each and every note of his double bass, Martín Leiton reveals stories of jazz and Latin American folk music adding Gnawa and Tuareg rhythms. Leiton continues to consolidate his project with his fifth album, Caravana. The quartet of Santi de la Rubia, Toni Saigi, Andreu Pitarch and Martín Leiton, demonstrate just how extraordinary they are when their talents combine.

+34 617 277 126

+34 651 566 918

Diàspora Colab

MANAGEMENT AND BOOKING

Diàspora Colab is an artist management and booking project born in Barcelona in 2021 with a clear idea: to accompany the growth of the musical projects they work with and make their message and essence go as far as possible, following the idea of diaspora of plants for their dispersal and growth. Artists: Alba Careta, Eva Fernández and Selma Bruna.

Contact Olivia Casas Buendia Management and Booking

+34 605 792 214

Festival Jazz Terrassa FESTIVAL

Jazz Terrassa promotes the Jazz Terrassa Festival, a benchmark event in Catalonia, with 42 editions so far, held in March in squares and parks in the city and region, and a programme open to aesthetes, the pillars of jazz and new talents to captivate a heterogeneous audience. For three decades, it has organized the Stable Season of concerts at the Nova Jazz Cava club.

Contact Susanna Carmona Coordinator

+34 630 420 987

Festival de Jazz de Vic FESTIVAL

The Alhambra Festival Jazz Vic celebrates 25 editions, always linked to the cultural entity Vic Bang Jazz Cava and its club, the Jazz Cava, which programmes jazz concerts and offers a snapshot of the Catalan jazz scene. Since 2003, the festival has evolved towards new jazz and new trends in improvised music, emphasizing innovation and exploration of new contemporary languages.

Contact

Jordi Casadesús

Artistic Director

+34 626 345 408

Fresh Sound Records RECORD LABEL

Based in Barcelona, Fresh Sound Records has been dedicated entirely to jazz since 1983, producing hundreds of LP and CD reissues and compilations, and working for the restoration of unreleased historical recordings. Fresh Sound New Talent, the daughter label, took its first steps in 1992. Since then, through its CDs, it has presented some of the best jazz artists to emerge in the last three decades.

Contact

Jordi Pujol Director

+34 607 654 368

Jamboree is the jazz club with the longest history and the most extensive programme in Catalonia and Spain. With three stable rooms for live music and a room dedicated to techno music, an annual programme of more than 1,200 concerts (with jazz, flamenco, soul, R&B, hip hop, techno and other music). Mas i Mas Festival is the August festival in Barcelona, and is held at the Mas i Mas venues and at the Palau de la Música and Sala Paral·lel 62, with a programme of more than 170 concerts.

+34 699 446 323

Jazz Festival l’Estartit

Jazz Festival l’Estartit: four days of jazz in view of the Medes Islands. A festival born in 2014 with the harmonic and rhythmic richness that jazz-fusion music has generated in all its derivations throughout history. From 2018, Jazz l’Estartit acquires new dimension, location and format. From now on the stage of Jazz on the Costa Brava will be El Molinet, with L’Empordà and the western Mediterranean as a reference.

Contact

Montse Faura

General and Artistic Director

+34 663 855 166

Jazz I Am

SHOWCASE FESTIVAL

Jazz I Am has become a benchmark event in the International jazz circuit. The objectives are: to improve the promotion and professionalization of the international jazz music industry; to encourage the internationalisation of culture by expanding opportunities for emerging musicians; to develop collaborations between local and international professionals; to encourage the modernisation of the sector through sharing working tools and knowledge, etc.

and International Booking

607 169 494

MasiMas FESTIVAL

Exactly twenty years ago, a festival was born in Barcelona in August, basically in club format, with a range of genres and styles unthinkable at other major events. What seemed reckless then has become a classic on the cultural agenda of the city.

Contact Josep Mestres

Programming

+34 699 446 323

Milano Jazz Club VENUE

Milano Jazz Club, located in the centre of Barcelona, is a live music venue with more than 14 years’ experience offering a live music programme every day of the year. The programme specializes in African-American roots music in all its stylistic variations (classical/swing, bebop, hard bop, Latin jazz, flamenco jazz, fusion), blues, soul and world music.

Contact Guim Cifré

Programming

+34 662 042 348

Mostra de Jazz i Blues de Cambrils FESTIVAL

A non-profit organization formed by music lovers, especially jazz and blues, in Cambrils (Baix Camp). Since 2010, it has organized the Cambrils Jazz and Blues Festival with more than 120 concerts performed so far, featuring Catalan, Spanish and international artists.

Contact Isaac Albesa Director of Programming

+34 617 811 729

Nova Jazz Cava VENUE

The venue overcomes the dichotomy between club and concert hall. In contrast to the cliché image of the small jazz club, which achieves its calibre through reduced spaces, poor visibility and thick air, we find a large, well air-conditioned room with comfortable furniture and adequate lighting, both scenic and ambient.

Contact Susanna Carmona Coordinator

+34 630 420 987

OIot Cultura VENUE

Olot Cultura is the Olot City Council department that manages the city’s cultural policy: organization of cultural activities; equipment management; heritage conservation, research and dissemination; coordination with other companies and entities that work in the cultural sphere in the city of Olot, and, in general, promote a concept of useful, open, plural and educational culture. Regarding music, we organize stable music series and festivals featuring all kinds of music reaching up 100 concerts a year.

Contact Jordi Serrat

Music programming

+34 637 355 284

Seed Music MANAGEMENT

The agency and record label SEED was born of the experience gained over more than a decade in the field of production, communication and representation of artists of diverse profiles. Led by its founder, journalist and cultural manager Rut Martínez Ribot, SEED offers comprehensive support to its artists and projects.

Contact

Núria Maynou Coordinator and Project Manager

+34 651 669 618

Taller de Músics

MANAGEMENT, EDUCATION, PRODUCTION

Taller de Músics is a breeding ground of artistic activity, though it is also a creative laboratory, an agent of social dynamism and cultural agitation, and a musical institution of international reference. Taller de Músics is more than a pioneering school in the dissemination of jazz, flamenco and modern popular music. In its more than 40 years of history, it has built up its own system of education, creation, production and dissemination of music.

Contact Rosa Galbany

International Booking

+34 607 169 494

Catalan Institute for Cultural Companies (ICEC) - Catalan Arts

Catalan Arts is the brand used for the international promotion of Catalan companies that operate in the music, performing arts, books, visual arts and digital culture sectors. Hosted by the Catalan Institute for Cultural Companies (ICEC), Catalan Arts identifies the activities carried out by ICEC’s Market Development Department following the internationalization strategy implemented by the Government of Catalonia’s Ministry of Culture.

Via ICEC’s network of offices (Barcelona, Berlin, Brussels, London and Paris), we work in a variety of areas: funding, connecting, mentoring, promoting and supporting creative

companies in their international journey.

To this end, Catalan Arts strengthens the presence of Catalan companies at international fairs and key professional events and offers all kinds of resources to professionals.

Maria Basora

ICEC Market

Development Director

Xavier Cester ICEC Music Director

Delegate

Madroñero ICEC Music Project Manager

Mireia

Contact at inJazz

Núria Bultà ICEC Brussels

Institut Ramon Llull

The Institut Ramon Llull is the public institution responsible for promoting Catalan language and culture internationally. Created in 2002, the Institut is a consortium formed by the Government of Catalonia, the Government of the Balearic Islands and Barcelona City Council. It carries out programming in the following areas: Language and Universities, Literature, Performing and Visual Arts, and the Programme for Innovation, Knowledge and Residencies.

Contact at inJazz

Anna Fuster Member of the Music Department

Catalan Institute for Cultural Companies (ICEC)

ICEC Barcelona +34 933 162 770 internacional.icec@ gencat.cat

ICEC Berlin +49 30 551 95 40 berlin.icec@gencat.cat

ICEC Brussel / Bruxelles +32 2 230 72 21 brussels.icec@gencat.cat

ICEC London +44 207 842 0853 london.icec@gencat.cat

ICEC Paris +33 1 43 250 435 paris.icec@gencat.cat catalanarts.cat

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