Barcelona Jazz Week is back at Taller de Músics
Del 24 to 30 November 2026the Musician’s Workshop will recover one of its most emblematic events: the Jazz Week from Barcelona. More than forty years after its first edition, the festival returns with the same essence: live music, encounters between artists and an environment of proximity open to the whole world.
All activities are free and will be held in the hall Musicians Workshop 24 (Calle Cendra, 24, Barcelona), with online booking available soon.
The origins of a mythical date
The Jazz Week nation in 1980 in the Shipyards. The first edition gathered about a thousand people – an unexpected success, partly thanks to an initiative driven by young people passionate about music who managed to falsify a few dozen entries (things of the time). The atmosphere was vibrant, relaxed, with musicians who were starting to stand out and others already established who found in that space a free and fresh way to share their art.
Over time, the festival left behind that initial format and began to be held in clubs and halls in the city, closer to the public and the essence of live jazz. Spaces like El Karma in Plaça Reial, the Sala Màgic in the Ribera neighborhood, the Zeleste on Calle Argenteria, Els 4 Gats, the Artículo 26 hall in Gràcia, Otto Zutz, the Eixample hall or the JazzSí Club were the setting for those nights full of improvisation and musical mestizaje.
That evolution gives rise to a spirit of proximity and exchangewhich now wants to be recovered with the new edition.
Since its inception, the festival has been committed to mix of styles: jazz, flamenco, soul and other genres had room. The last day of each edition was celebrated in the Plaza del Solin a popular party that lasted until 1992.
Over the years, the Week grew and became the European Jazz Showwhich attracted musicians from all over the continent and fostered international exchanges. For almost a decade, it was an authentic jazz fair that connected Barcelona with the European scene.
A new generation takes over
Now, more than twenty years later, the Musician’s Workshop he wants to recover that pioneering energy. As he explains Lluís Cabrerapresident of the institution, “there is a new wave of very prepared musicians, and also figures who at the time participated in the Jazz Week and today are referents of music in our country. It’s time to meet again.”
the streets Requesens and Cendra they will be one again meeting point for musicians, students and the public, and a living space for artistic coexistence.
A lineup full of talent
The program of Jazz Week of Barcelona 2026 will include a wide variety of proposals from the Musicians’ Workshop classrooms and the current scene.
They will participate, among others:
Júlia Cruz & Abraham Lojo · Endless Trio · Pablo Martín Trío · Perico Sambeat LAB · Chicuelo · Joan Monné Quartet · Lidia Mora & Ruselito · Javier Rojo 5et · Ramón Díaz Group · Oleandole · Gràcia x De la Cruz · Camarada Ventura · Jow · Miranda Fernández · Bigwé · Paula Peso · LeHat + Vicent Pérez · Nova Big Band.
The week will close with a popular sausage al aire libre, true to its more festive and communal tradition.
Very soon we will announce the full schedule.
More than a festival
The new Jazz Week wants to be one intergenerational encounter and one platform for collective creativity. A space where the jazz and other musical languages they find each other, and where music brings people back together, as it has always done Musician’s Workshop.
Del 24 to 30 November 2026, Barcelona will play jazz again. And the Musician’s Workshop it will be, once again, its epicenter.
