ESMUC JAZZ PROJECT

Repertoire

Una Muy Bonita (Ornette Coleman, arrangement by Lluís Vidal)
Els Colors de la Nit (music by Lluís Vidal, lyrics by Carola Ortiz)
Kathelyn Gray (Ornette Coleman, arrangement by Joan Sanmartí)
Ornette or Nothing (Joan Sanmartí)
Lonely Woman/Peace (Ornette Coleman, arrangement by Joan Monné)
Return Around (Joan Monné)
All My Life (Ornette Coleman, arrangement by Joan Díaz)
Etern Cool Man (Joan Díaz)

Artists

Nieves Aliaño, flute and piccolo
Carola Ortiz, clarinet, bass clarinet and vocals
Albert Carrique, alto sax, clarinet and bass clarinet
Albert Abad, alto and soprano sax and clarinet
Santi de la Rubia, tenor and soprano sax
Julián Sánchez, Gregori Hollis, Joan Mar Sauqué, trumpets
Bartomeu Garcías, trombone
Alex Huguet, bass trombone
Blai Navarro, accordion
Joan Pérez Villegas, mallet percussion
Joan Sanmartí, guitar
Apel·les Carod, violin
Miquel Álvarez, double bass
Andreu Pitarch, drums
Xoan Sanchez, percussion
Joan Díaz, Joan Monné, Joan Sanmartí and Lluís Vidal, direction

Program

As part of the Emergents Barcelona Music Festival, THE ESMUC JAZZ PROJECT presents a concert inspired by the saxophonist and composer Ornette Coleman.The Esmuc Jazz Project is an established orchestral training ground, it was started in 2015 in the Jazz and Modern Music Department of the Escola Superior de Música de Catalunya by lecturers Lluís Vidal, Francesc Capella, Joan Díaz, Joan Monné and Joan Sanmartí with the aim of growing a contemporary musical aesthetic, bringing together elements from different musical styles of the 20th century: jazz, rock, contemporary chamber and symphonic music, ethnic music, etc.

The orchestra includes undergraduates from jazz and modern music disciplines as well as those involved in classical and contemporary music, as well as former students and lecturers.

Each year they perform a project concert which is built around a noteworthy musician from the world of jazz and modern music, reworking and reinventing their work, and creating original new material deeply inspired by their music. This year the project is called “Univers Ornette” and is inspired by the saxophonist and composer Ornette Coleman.