Sharing my first cultural experience in a Jazz Bar in Barcelona, a cultural and exciting city with several Jazz Bars and Jazz clubs and restaurants. After having a tasteful Spanish dinner at a tapas bar in the centre of Barcelona we wanted to go to a Jazz Club to extend our evening of pleasure and cultural delight with a visit to one of Barcelona’s JAZZ CLUBS, but where to go? After having consulted our waiter for the evening, who happened to be a “golfo” (someone that goes out on a continuous basis) we were recommended to go to Jazzsí, a small cozy place at a stone’s throw from mercat sant antoni at calle Requesens 2, where different days different types of live music are preformed and our Wednesday evening happened to be the Jazz evening of Jazz club Jazzsí. We were told to go straight away because the place would be packed at 20:30.

We arrived at the Jazz Club and there were already around 20 people waiting outside for this small venue of which the doors would open in half an hour. The entourage was great, to be honest I don’t think the performers of the evening were well known but they made the evening buzz. The tiny and cozy place made the atmosphere even more jazzy probably the reason why the called the place Jazzsí, anyway the guy with the trumpet was appearing to be in another world or at least another state of conscience something took over him and he played so naturally you could see how it affected everybody there. The crowd was amazed, it was the kind of evening you will never forget.

So if you are in the city and looking for a great evening in Barcelona with Jazz or flamenco or a night of Jazz or Rock jam sessions it’s a must to go and experience a night of live music at Barcelona Jazz bar Jazzsí. You have to be early at 20:30 it opens and then be patient because the music starts at 22:00 and the place will be packed, you won’t regret it. There happens to be other Jazz bars in Barcelona similar places on which I will tell you more later, very recommendable because those are not the type of places to meet tourists, making it a more Spanish cultural experience like a true traveler that avoids musea and touristic attractions and looks for local areas to get a taste of the culture. On another occasion I was at the Barcelona jazz club Jazzsi when there was a flamenco performance. We were waiting patiently when I noticed a typical Spanish worker a hardhead drinking his beer and eating a tapa and shouting something in southern Spanish to the guy behind the bar making the waiter laugh. Then he got on stage and started singing this raw Flamenco straight from his gut, while another guy was playing the guitar accompanying his singing, this seemed so unreal because usually the performers are dressed up like the well known groups of flamenco artists that came from the conservatory or like the gypsy dressed southern style flamenco performers. Another unbelievable event took place at Jazzsí.

The entrance fee differs from 5 to 8 euro including a consumption, 5euro for the Jazz Jamsession 7,50 for the Jazz evening and 8 euro for the flamenco evening. After having such a great night out I wondered whether if there are a lot of other places like this and apparently there are some others to be found worth mentioning.

How to get there: metro Purple line 2 stop mercat sant antoni, as soon as you come above ground you will see Els Tres Tombs, at the left side behind it you take a right and you’re at the street c/ requesens number 2 at your left hand side you will find Jazzsí.

Besides the Barcelona Jazz bars and jazz clubs there are the Jazz festivals of Barcelona worth mentioning, autumn is the best time of the year to visit Barcelona if you love jazz, the months of October and November the organisation Jazzvrienden offers an event with an interesting international line up. Another organisation that offers great performances is Voll Damn that had its 41st edition of the international jazz festival in December of 2009. The 28th of October there was a concert of the sax player Wayne Shorter, who in the ‘60ies was part of the group of Miles Davis, one of the many binightt not only the artists as well as the venues are impressive. Jimmy Cobb for instance played in the breathtaking Palau de la Musica one of the icons of Catalan modernism.

Jazz bar Jamboree is one that has been around for over several decades, a small and cozy place where you have to be in time to be able to get in. Next to las ramblas there is placa real if you have your back to placa Cataluña and you’re walking down las ramblas it is on your left hand side and you will find it at number 17 of placa real.

Jazz club Terrassa, just outside of Barcelona in the village called terrassa the Jazz club is a well known place with Jazz evenings all evenings it is open and it has been in business for over a couple of decades, it has hosted great artists such as Chet baker, Ella Fitzgerald and many more.

Harlem Jazz club a well known Barcelona Jazz bar in el bari Gotic in the street comtessa de sobradiel number 8 that does not only have jazz but flamenco or blues or salsa evenings to, entrance differs between 3-5 euro and the evenings start at 22:30.

Bel luna has Jazz evenings all evenings of the year and opens at 21:00 till 02:00 it’s a specialized Jazz club of Barcelona that offers all kinds of Jazz like jumpin jive, it has a restaurant and cocktail bar to, entrance fee is 12 euro. It is located at rambla Cataluña 5 next to placa Cataluña. We will update this section regularly and will be posting more on Jazz bars in Barcelona.

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