58th San Sebastian Jazz Festival: 100+ Concerts / 15 Venues / Headliner Shows Free from July 21-25 2023!

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Source: San Sebastian Jazz Festival
March 27, 2023
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Norah Jones, Pat Metheny, Joss Stone, Abdullah Ibrahim, Ben Harper + Enrico Rava, Bill Frisell, Yosuke Yamashita, Kenny Barron, Nubya Garcia, Julian Lage, Ladysmith Black Mambazo and many more!

For years the San Sebastian Jazz Festival had harboured the wish of billing

Norah Jones

piano
b.1979

" data-original-title="" title="">Norah Jones in the city. That dream will come true on 22 July when the singer performs at the Kursaal Auditorium.

Another of the aims fulfilled is being able to enjoy two British artists we have tried to bill for several editions, and who will perform in the Plaza de la Trinidad this year: the singer

Joss Stone

vocals

" data-original-title="" title="">Joss Stone and the saxophonist

Nubya Garcia

saxophone

" data-original-title="" title="">Nubya Garcia.

Completing our wish list are

Ben Harper

guitar
b.1969

" data-original-title="" title="">Ben Harper, who will perform for the first time at the Jazzaldia; and

Enrico Rava

trumpet
b.1939

" data-original-title="" title="">Enrico Rava, who had to postpone his show because of the pandemic, and who will finally come to this year��s San Sebastian Jazz Festival.

The programme is varied, intense and hugely attractive.

The Plaza de la Trinidad

This, Jazzaldia��s most iconic stage, will offer a programme of performances by legendary artists and brilliant new arrivals. Alongside classics such as Enrico Rava, with a quintet of emerging Italian musicians, and the great

Abdullah Ibrahim

piano
b.1934

" data-original-title="" title="">Abdullah Ibrahim with his trio, will be a new music quartet brought by a musician whose last performance at our Festival was simply marvellous:

Bill Frisell

guitar, electric
b.1951

" data-original-title="" title="">Bill Frisell. However, the Trini will also feature the presence of fantastic new names: the extraordinary guitarist

Julian Lage

guitar, electric

" data-original-title="" title="">Julian Lage, the above-mentioned Joss Stone and Nubya Garcia, and the superb Austrian keyboard-player

David Helbock

piano
b.1984

" data-original-title="" title="">David Helbock, with his latest project: the superband, Austrian Syndicate.

Kursaal Auditorium

We will celebrate the 80th birthday of

Kenny Barron

piano
b.1943

" data-original-title="" title="">Kenny Barron, the best Jazz pianist still performing today, accompanied by the Basque Youth Orchestra (EGO) in their first appearance at the Jazzaldia.

Norah Jones, the star attraction on the programme, will perform on 22 July in what will be the first ever show given by the great pianist and singer in our city.

On the 23rd Ben Harper, the quintessential leading light of contemporary blues, will take to the stage.

On Monday 24, one of the all-time Jazz greats,

Pat Metheny

guitar
b.1954

" data-original-title="" title="">Pat Metheny, with his Side Eye project, will perform in the company of some of the best up-and-coming names in the new generation of American musicians.

And, finally, on Tuesday 25th July, one of the most creative and exciting proposals on the Spanish scene, the singer Roc��o M��rquez with the musician and producer BRONQUIO.

San Telmo Museum

Next year, 2023, is Basque Country-Japan year. To celebrate it, the 58th Jazzaldia will programme a piano season in the marvellous Museum cloister, exclusively dedicated to Japanese pianists.

The most important of all, and one of the country��s most universal musicians, is

Yosuke Yamashita

piano
b.1942

" data-original-title="" title="">Yosuke Yamashita. His importance on the Jazz scene is enormous and his prestige incomparable. Yosuke will give two concerts: one dedicated to standard numbers and his own compositions, and the other to his particular and passionate take on the classical repertoire including Ravel��s Bolero and G. Gershwin��s Rhapsody in Blue, among others.

The other three pianists,

Kento Tsubosaka

piano

" data-original-title="" title="">Kento Tsubosaka,

Hakuei Kim

piano

" data-original-title="" title="">Hakuei Kim, and

Eri Yamamoto

piano

" data-original-title="" title="">Eri Yamamoto, who already played in the city, complete a thrilling season of the very highest musical quality.

Keler Gunea (Zurriola Beach)��Free Concerts

Diversity is the overriding note of the Keler Gunea programme for San Sebastian��s 58th Jazz Festival. Diversity of styles where you��ll be treated to funk, disco, reggae, Jazz, indie pop-rock and electronic music. Diversity of artist origins: European, African and American. And diversity of generations too, featuring emerging groups and artists like the

Ezra Collective

band / ensemble / orchestra

" data-original-title="" title="">Ezra Collective,

Blue Lab Beats

band / ensemble / orchestra

" data-original-title="" title="">Blue Lab Beats, ZETAK and Arde Bogot��; others more long standing like Tiken Jah Fakoly and Viva Suecia; and veteran legends like

Fred Wesley

trombone
b.1943

" data-original-title="" title="">Fred Wesley and Village People.

KELER, our main sponsor, gives its name to this stage, the KELER GUNEA, which, like in previous years, can be found on the beach, next to the Zurriola breakwater.

This stage will host two free concerts every day from 21-24 July.

Victoria Eugenia Theatre

Also going on sale, although the performing groups won��t be known in detail until April, are tickets for the JazzE?e season, to take place once again in the framework of the San Sebastian Jazz Festival. This will be the ninth edition of JazzE?e during which, for four days from 22-25 July, the audience will have the opportunity to enjoy 8 artists selected by the SGAE Foundation in its endeavour to attract attention to Spanish Jazz and take it into the international arena.

Tickets and Passes

Tickets for the Plaza de la Trinidad, Kursaal Auditorium, San Telmo Museum and the Victoria Eugenia Theatre can be purchased in person from the theatre desk and online, via the Jazzaldia.

We still have heaps to announce on the Jazzaldia programme. Here we refer to the free concerts that will pack the streets of our city like every year. In the coming months we will announce all these free concerts to run on stages such as the Nauticool, the Kursaal Terraces, Txikijazz, Garbera...

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