From this Thursday until Sunday 7 November, a new installment of the Buenos Aires International Jazz Festival will take place, encounter that will bring together more than 250 artists.

Offering a wide repertoire with all the best of the genre and divided into 19 spaces and 46 antique dealers, this edition of the Festival will have the peculiarity of being directed for the first time by a woman: the singer Julia Moscardini.

It should be noted that each of the activities will be carried out freely and for free. As for programming, It will be available through the Vivamos Cultura platform.

For this new edition, The objective of the meeting will be for the festival to become a tool that accompanies and encourages the reactivation of the sector, linking with iconic private spaces of the genre such as Jazz clubs.

In that sense, programming will include more than 40 concerts, face-to-face and virtual workshops. There will be crossovers between musicians from different parts of the country and musicians residing in Buenos Aires. The selection of most of the artists arises from the different calls open to the entire country, as part of the Open Culture program. further, A large part of those registered will be part of Vidriera de Jazz, a virtual visibility space where the public can discover new artists of the genre. Virtual activities can be enjoyed from the Vivamos Cultura website.

According to Moscardini, “The festival's programming generated a great dialogue with the local scene from the calls open to the whole country and to all kinds of groups, summoning

not only to young artists but to musicians with trajectory and experience, all this deployed in a very diverse framework between outdoor settings, historic helmet, and the now traditional headquarters that is the Usina del Arte ".

The chosen one has been the singer Julia Moscardini, who will also direct today The Night of the Antiques, both events complement each other to discover and rediscover the different antique dealers in the Historic Center of the City, with the landscapes and sounds of Buenos Aires jazz.

In the streets of the Historic Center of the City there will be guided tours of the antique dealers in the area, shows by the swing quartet Hot Shooters and the festive fanfare Desmadre Orkesta, performances and theatrical experiences, illustrators intervening stained glass windows and Swing classes. In Arte Antica at 18.30 the Páez-Boccanera-Gatica trio will be presented and at 20 hs the musician Miguel Tarzia. This year the Scala de San Telmo is added as the venue with concerts throughout the festival. At the opening at 19 Norris Trío will play and at 21:30 hs Pablo Raposo Quintet. These and all La Scala shows will be broadcast on the Vivamos Cultura website.

The Usina del Arte will be one of the venues that will host a large number of concerts. Among them, Friday at 19 the singer Magali Fernández will present her album Don´t Get Scared. At 20 Cavalli-Romero Jazz Duo will be presented. Saturday at 20 Hernán Jacinto Trío and Barbie Martínez Septeto will be presented. Sunday at 19 Ernesto Jodos Quintet will be presented.

There will also be concerts in the classic Parque Centenario. Saturday at 19 will be Flopa Suksdorf septet and on Sunday at 18 The Funk Foundation. In Chile and Balcarce the Calle de la Música will operate. Different bars in the area will host proposals: jazz trios and quartets, acoustic shows, swing classes and big bands.

Sunday at 17 Basting Jazz will be performed, a bicycle tour in which public, musicians and the festival will rediscover the city. It will start at the Lanteri subway station on line H , with stops on the Paseo del Bajo esplanade, the Buenos Aires Museum (BAM) y I Am Lacan. The activity will be guided by the dj Bad Boy Orange who will set the tour to music with the best of Jazz.

At the closing of the festival, on Sunday 7 to 20 in La Usina, Escalandrum will be presented. Born at the beginning of the year 1999, is one of the most original groups on the Argentine jazz scene. Formed by Damián Fogiel in tenor saxophone; Nicolás Guerschberg on piano; Gustavo Musso on tenor and soprano saxophones; Martín Pantyrer on baritone sax and bass clarinet; Mariano Sivori on double bass and Daniel Pipi Piazzola on drums, grandson of the mythical Astor Piazzolla who is one hundredth anniversary of his birth.

Jazz clubs, will be an important part of the Festival. Each one with its particularities, will bring the sounds of jazz to the streets of Palermo. In Bebop there will be intimate shows and on the outdoor terrace. Virasoro joins the festival by hosting the JAM. At Thelonious there will be a crossover and concert. And Borges, space that has been strongly positioned in the jazz scene, will have two concerts and two clinics.

There will also be proposals to enjoy outdoors. Between them, Saturday 6 to 17 in the Japanese Garden, Delfina Oliver Quintet will play. The singer will present her album Tokyo Sessions live (2020), recorded in japan. These are standards with references to Japanese culture, Includes Old Love Tune, key composition of folklore, and the Japanese lullaby Takeda No Komoriuta , sung in its original language. The Japanese drum group Buenos Aires Taiko will participate as guests.