The L'Hora del Jazz festival ends today with a tribute concert to Tete Montoliu, on the 25th anniversary of his death. In addition to the musical evening, the closing day will also include a round table on the figure and legacy of the glorious pianist and the possibility of visiting the exhibition El racó d'en Tete.
The acts of this curtain drop will take place in the Auditorium of the ONCE headquarters in Barcelona. The musical download will begin at 8:00 p.m. and will feature performances by the pianists Ignasi Terraza, Xavi Torres and Manel Camp, as well as the group The Changes. Both of them will go through some of the most referential pieces of the honoree.
Before the actual concert, there will be a round table discussion (7 p.m.) about the person and the legacy of Montoliu's work in current music, moderated by Pau Bombardó and with the participation of Ot Ordreig, Jordi Blesa Montoliu - grandson of Tete - and Nono Fernández.
These acts of tribute-homage are the aforementioned end point of L'Hora del Jazz, a call promoted by the Association of Jazz Musicians and Modern Music, which had as honorary president precisely the honoree Tete Montoliu.
In this edition that ends today, L'Hora will have offered a total of 15 concerts and two special events in memory of figures such as the aforementioned Montoliu and the guitarist Joan Vinyals, who died earlier this year.
The dimension of Montoliu's legacy is an event of the first order, not only in the local jazz scene but in the music scene in general. Proof of this is that it was also one of the proposals offered at past Mercè festivities, with a successful evening at the Teatre Grec.
And another proof of this dimension that characterizes the work and the person of the late blind pianist can be seen in the aforementioned exhibition El racó d'en Tete, which is permanent and includes personal objects such as his piano or the tuxedo he wore in his last concert in Barcelona at the Palau de la Música on March 21, 1997.
