Chick Corea participated in the San Javier Jazz Festival in three editions; in the second (1999) with the Origin group and with Gary Burton as a special guest, in the 21st edition (2018) with his Akoustic Band, the year in which he received the festival award, and in the 22nd edition (2019) with his Spanish Heart Band. He was one of the most admired and beloved musicians ... +info

Born in Suriname and currently residing in Amsterdam, Steffen Morrison is one of the most interesting references of new soul in the European Union. Influenced by Otis Redding, Marvin Gaye and James Brown, we find in his beautiful compositions ... +info

Born in Kingston (Jamaica), the pianist Monty Alexander moved with his family to Miami (Florida) in 1961, and from there he pursued a brilliant career that has led him to play with other great jazz stars such as Dizzy Gillespie, Benny Golson, Milt Jackson, Ernestine Anderson, Herb Ellis, Ray Brown, ... +info

The accordionist, composer and sound engineer Marc Berthoumieux, is one of the consecrated names in jazz in that beautiful and peculiar instrument that is the accordion, of which France treasures some of its best performers. He has collaborated, among others, with Charles Aznavour, Harry Belafonte, Didier Lockwood ... +info

Giovanni Mirabassi, an Italian pianist based in Paris, is one of the most admired musicians at Jazz San Javier, on whose stage he has given several unforgettable concerts in his previous visits to the festival. Cyril Mokaiesh, rock and chanson singer ... +info

Trained at the Higher Institute of Art in Havana, the Cuban pianist and composer Pepe Rivero moved to Spain in 1998 and in 2001 began a series of concerts with Paquito D'Rivera and Celia Cruz, whom he later accompanied in sessions of recording ... +info

Mauri Sanchis is one of the best European organists and moves in a very wide territory that encompasses diverse styles, such as jazz, blues, funk or soul, being the official endorser in Spain of the prestigious Hammond organs ... +info

In the wake of other greats of flamenco jazz, such as Chano Domínguez, Dorantes or Marco Mezquida, the pianist Daniel García, a native of Salamanca and a student at Berklee College in Boston, where he received the award ... +info

The Plaza de España, the heart of San Javier, will be the scene of the return to the festival of one of its most beloved artists. Lucrecia, considered by many to be the successor to the great Celia Cruz, is multi-talented, as she stands out as a singer, pianist, ... +info

The Cuban pianist, composer and producer Iván “Melón” Lewis, born in Pinar del Río in 1974 and settled in Spain since 1998, after a solid classical training at the National School of Art in Havana, began his career ... +info

The Portuguese singer and guitarist Alana Sinkëy moved to Madrid at the age of 17, where she has resided ever since. Alana is the daughter of a musician and she began ... +info

Renowned masters of the best country rock and alternative country, The Jayhawks have had a long and brilliant career since 1985. Led in the beginning ... +info

The Jazz San Javier audience is aware of the great artistic height of the cellist Matthieu Saglio, due to his previous work in Jerez-Texas, one of the groups that has supported the festival the most. A gold medalist ... +info

The trumpeter, singer and saxophonist Andrea Motis is the most brilliant young talent in Catalan jazz and one of the most admired musicians of Spanish jazz ... +info

One of the most prestigious singers of jazz and Brazilian music in Spain, as well as a guitarist and composer, Anna Luna was born in Barcelona, trained at the Conservatorio de Sabadell in Piano and Musical Language ... +info

Homage to Texas Blues Legends. Guests: Mauri Sanchis y Ñaco Goñi. In its XX edition, Jazz San Javier, in a production of its own, got together Buddy Whittington and Santiago Campillo ... +info

Michael Contat defines Niels Lan Doky as “one of the most convincing disciples of Bill Evans, with a very personal romantic sensibility” ... +info

Argentinean singer Karen Souza is one of the freshest and most original artists we have heard in recent years. She has a surprising musical past ... +info

Organist, pianist and singer, Cory Henry is a native of Brooklyn, New York, where he started playing the Hammond B3 and the piano at the age of two, and who at the age of six offered a concert at the Apollo Theater ... +info

In the XVIII edition of Jazz San Javier, we presented, in his first concert in Spain, the fantastic vocalist, pianist and composer of Glen Falls (New York), Tony DeSare ... +info

Guests: David de Jacoba, Karen Lugo & Ricardo Moreno. The fire and charm of flamenco are enriched by unprecedented colors with the wonderful orchestral arrangements for Big Band by Bernard Van Rossum ... +info

Since his first visit to our festival in its V edition in 2002, Bill Evans given us with unforgettable nights. Such was the first visit of the Randy Brecker — Bill Evans Soulbop Band ... +info

Composed by the great singer Kennedy, Ondre J Pivec on keyboards, Chelton Grey on bass and the spectacular drummer Nathaniel Townsley, a fond memory at Jazz San Javier ... +info

We said a few years ago, after his fantastic first concert at Jazz San Javier, that Antonio Lizana had everything to succeed and that, if nothing stood in his way ... +info

Thierry Lang, the great jazz piano master from Switzerland, has visited Jazz San Javier on two occasions, both left a magnificent memory, for his elegance when playing the piano ... +info

Legendary vocalist Jon Hendricks has said of her, “Jazzmeia has one of the best voices I've heard in forty years.” Indeed it is so and this is why this fantastic singer and songwriter ... +info

We enjoyed the music and art of Toni Zenet in San Javier for the first time in the XIX edition of the festival, in a fantastic night that he shared with the fusion supergroup Spyro Gyra ... +info

Winner of the 2012 “The Thelonious Monk Institute International Jazz Competition” for drums, one of the most prestigious awards for jazz artists in the United States ... +info

Myles Sanko is a big name of the European soul music with an impressive professional advancement. Every year he gets more followers, France, Spain and the United Kingdom the countries where he is has most admirers ... +info

In 2006, at the IX edition of Jazz San Javier, we had the privilege of enjoying a concert by the legendary pianist Hank Jones with Roberta Gambarini and Roy Hargrove as special guests ... +info

One of the most beautiful nights in the history of Jazz San Javier was on July 30, 2017, at the closing of the XX edition, with the concert of the legendary endearing Michel Legrand ... +info

A living legend of funk and soul jazz, the saxophonist and singer Maceo Parker has been one of the most respected and beloved American musicians in Jazz San Javier ... +info

Living legend, symbol of the best classical tradition within jazz and one of the best bassists, if not the best of this musical style, in history ... +info

Considered one of the most influential musicians on the planet and one of the best bass players of all times, Marcus Miller, winner of two Grammy awards, has let us hear the characteristic sound of his electric bass in countless hits ... +info

Living legend of the drums, Steve Gadd is one of the most admired drummers in the world. Chick Corea said of him: “all the drummers want to play like Gadd because he reaches perfection”. ... +info