The Sant Andreu Jazz Band filled with swing Avenida de la Catedral

The Sant Andreu Jazz Band starred last night, Sunday, September 20, 2015, the concerts of Barcelona’s Mercè party excepting Maldita Nerea in Plaza España. This peculiar Big Band, formed by musicians from 8 to 21 years old, was presented at the Avenue of the Cathedral with special guests including Luigi Grasso saxophonist and pianist Ignasi Terraza, Estevi Pi and Josep Traver.

The audience filled the pedestrian avenue and many couples were dancing the swing music that the big band was offering. Joan Chamorro, director of the Sant Andreu, thanked them for coming.

During the concert appearances were happening and the role of musicians: from the most famous Andrea Motis, Magalí Datzira or Rita Payés, which have already recorded disc, to other such Alba Armengou, Paula Esteban or the very young Koldo Munné of just 9 years old. They played classics and standards like 'Unchain my heart'.

In the same night, at the Jamboree Club in Barcelona’s Plaza Real, was playing an ex-Sant Andreu Jazz Band, now with more than 20 years, Eva Fernandez, invited by the veteran pianist Francesc Burrull and the presence also of David Pastor.

The Sant Andreu Jazz Band this year held its second festival, Jazzing, who has already performed some of their activities. Here you can read all the program and details.

Later, this band with "the youngest wind section of Europe", as stated by Chamorro himself, will also participate in the Voll-Damm International Jazz Festival, on which you can also read all about it here.

But the night gave more with a rather eclectic result. In the Plaza Joan Coromines, Erik Urano with his rhymes and the company of Zar1 and the surprise appearance onstage of Juan Solo. Later, Roseau (British Kerry Leatham), Georgia substitutes -battery of rhyming Kate Tempest-, was presented at the Plaza dels Angels with an electronic pop that gave the public a chance to jump and dance even slow times predominated her performance. Back in the Plaza Joan Coromines, Le Parody -Sole Parody- deployed its electronic pop with the company of a trumpeter and a guitarist.

Photos of the Sant Andreu Jazz Big Band under the direction of Joan Chamorro in the Avenue of the Cathedral of Barcelona.

Photographies of Erik Urano & Zar1, at Plaça Joan Coromines

Photographies of Roseau, at Plaça dels Àngels

Photographies of Le Parody, at Plaça Joan Coromines