GRANADA INTERNATIONAL JAZZ FESTIVAL

This festival was one of my favorite moments of the whole year ... surely one of the worlds leading festivals". Anthony Strong

Granada is the privileged environment where concerts of one of the longest-running, awarded and respected jazz festivals in Europe take place: the Granada International Jazz Festival. Since that first edition in 1980, the Granada International Jazz Festival has been welcoming the excellence of jazz history for forty years, uninterrupted: Miles Davis, Oscar Peterson, Charlie Haden, Art Blakey, Tete Montoliu, Dizzy Gillespie, Wayne Shorter, Abbey Lincoln, Herbie Hancock, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Bebo y Chucho Valdés, Ron Carter, Eliane Elias, Robert Glasper, among an endless list of musicians.

Fans, who travel from many parts of Spain and Europe come to this event, to enjoy extraordinary concerts in the beautiful and emblematic Theater Isabel la Católica and throughout the city with Jazz in parallel with more than 80 concerts and activities, generating an exciting jazz atmosphere. The Granada International Jazz Festival, in autumn, is a must.

"Although I have only performed at the Granada Jazz Festival once, the memory of the experience has haunted me for over a decade. Between the creative, welcoming direction of the festival, and the intense flavors of mystery and history that permeate this city, I have always longed to return ". Charles Lloyd