Festival de Jazz de Barcelona: Kyle Eastwood, Samara Joy and Vicente Amigo, plus everything left on the programme until December

The Festival de Jazz de Barcelona is entering its busiest stretch. Between Tuesday 10 and Friday 13 November, Kyle Eastwood, Miguel Zenón, Mark Guiliana and Samara Joy all come through the city, and the autumn programme continues with concerts almost every day until 23 December at the Palau de la Música, the Conservatori Liceu, the Jamboree, L'Auditori and Paral·lel 62.

This week: Kyle Eastwood, Zenón, Guiliana and Samara Joy

There is a last-minute change this week. Because of the general strike called for Wednesday 11 November, the festival, in agreement with the artists, has brought forward the concert by Miguel Zenón and Luis Perdomo at the Conservatori Liceu to Tuesday 10. Anyone with a ticket for the 11th should go on the 10th.

• Tuesday 10, 20:30. Kyle Eastwood at Paral·lel 62. The double bassist presents «Eastwood by Eastwood», a repertoire that brings to jazz soundtracks from the films of his father, Clint Eastwood, written by Morricone, Lennie Niehaus, Lalo Schifrin and John Williams, alongside pieces by his quintet.
• Tuesday 10, 20:45. Miguel Zenón and Luis Perdomo at the Conservatori Liceu. A saxophone and piano duo, focusing on the bolero. In the afternoon, from 17:00 to 18:30, they give a masterclass at the same venue, free with the code printed on the concert ticket.
• Thursday 12, 19:00 and 20:30. Sofia Ribeiro at the Jamboree, in two sets.
• Thursday 12, 20:30. Mark Guiliana with his Beat Music project, at the Conservatori Liceu. The drummer played at Badejazz in Badajoz last week.
• Friday 13, 21:00. Samara Joy at the Palau de la Música Catalana, where the festival website shows «últimes entrades». The singer, who made her festival debut in 2022 with a trio, returns leading a seven-piece band and with Portrait, her latest album, which reinterprets pieces by Charles Mingus, Sun Ra and Barry Harris. She is also on the line-up of the Cartagena Jazz Festival.
• Saturday 14, 20:30. Niño Josele at the Conservatori Liceu.

The rest of the programme, until 23 December

The second half of November splits the load between the Conservatori Liceu, with a series of contemporary jazz soloists and groups, and the Palau, which keeps the flamenco and the larger-capacity shows. The Jamboree has something on almost every night, with two sets, at 19:00 and at 20:30 or 20:45.

• Monday 16: Haydée Milanés and Javier Colina (Conservatori Liceu, 20:30).
• Tuesday 17: Chris Potter Trio (Conservatori Liceu, 20:30).
• Wednesday 18: a meet-and-greet with Horacio Fumero and Andrea Motis (Club del Disco, 17:30); Joan Chamorro presents Pau Garcia, Lola Peñaranda and Clàudia Rostey (L'Auditori Sala 2, 20:00); Playgrxvnd (La Paloma, 20:15).
• Thursday 19: Mary Halvorson with Canis Major (Conservatori Liceu, 20:30).
• Friday 20: Vicente Amigo (Palau de la Música, 21:00).
• Saturday 21: Albert Cirera & Tres Tambors (Jamboree).
• Tuesday 24 and Wednesday 25: Eddie Henderson Quartet (Jamboree), with Lela Soto on the 24th and María Marín on the 25th at Jamboree 3. On the 25th the Sant Andreu Dixie Band also plays at La Paloma, which is sold out.
• Thursday 26: Tríada (Jamboree 3) and the trio of Terraza, Wakenius and Boussaguet (L'Auditori Sala 2, 20:00).
• Friday 27: Bill McHenry and Ethan Iverson (Jamboree 3) and Israel Fernández (Palau de la Música, 21:00).
• Saturday 28: Alicia Grillo and Marta Robles (Jamboree 3) and Ramon Mirabet All Star Jazz Project (Palau de la Música, 20:30).
• Monday 30: Omar Sosa, Marcelo Woloski and Focus Quartet (Conservatori Liceu, 20:30).

December opens with Antonio Serrano and Kaele Jiménez on the 1st and Ethan Iverson with the Liceu Big Band on the 2nd, both at the Conservatori Liceu. Las Migas play the Palau on Thursday 3, and Marco Mezquida plays L'Auditori Sala 2 on Thursday 10. Jamboree 3 continues with Belén Bandera and the Carla Motis Quartet (the 4th), Sara Lilu and Alesander Peña (5th), Lucia Fumero (9th), Carolina Alabau and Èlia Bastida (10th) and Thana Alexa & Friends (15th). On the 12th «Así canta Jerez en Navidad» comes to the Palau, on the 13th the Andrea Motis Guitar Trio performs at the Teatre-Auditori Emma Vilarasau, and the year closes with the Sant Andreu Jazz Band, on Wednesday 23 at the Palau.

The programme is already looking ahead to 2027 with two announced dates: the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra with Branford Marsalis on Monday 8 March at the Palau and Snarky Puppy on Friday 2 and Saturday 3 April at Paral·lel 62.

Tickets and passes: what's worth it at this stage

Tickets are bought concert by concert from the festival's official listings, which link to its ticketing platform. The website does not show prices on each concert page; for Vicente Amigo, for example, tickets start at €48.80, according to La Ganzúa. Members of Amics del Jazz get a 15% discount.

The festival sells two six-concert passes at €99, with limited availability and a masterclass included for each concert:

• Omar Sosa route: Mark Guiliana (12/11), Haydée Milanés and Javier Colina (16/11), Chris Potter Trio (17/11), Mary Halvorson (19/11), Omar Sosa (30/11) and Antonio Serrano and Kaele Jiménez (1/12). All are still to come.
• Ethan Iverson route: includes Kurt Rosenwinkel (5/11) and Vijay Iyer (6/11), which have already taken place, as well as Zenón and Perdomo, Guiliana, Niño Josele and the Liceu Big Band. Bought today, only four of its six concerts remain.

For those who prefer to pick and choose, the festival offers a 10% discount when buying three to four concerts and 20% for five or more. Under-16s can only attend with their father, mother or legal guardian, who must bring the festival's liability form printed and signed.

We covered the September and October programme, with Zucchero and Michel Camilo, in our piece on the festival's autumn season. If you're looking for more jazz this month, the Festival de Jazz de Zaragoza also features Chris Potter, and our guide to November festivals has the rest of the month's jazz events.

Sources: official website of the Festival de Jazz de Barcelona (concert listings, individual concert pages and passes page), consulted on 9 November 2026; La Ganzúa, for the Vicente Amigo ticket price.