La Vella Dixieland

Founded in 1980, in Barcelona, La Vella Dixieland is the most well known traditional jazz band in Spain. La Vella jazz Band began as an encounter of friends that would get together to play the music they liked the most: classical jazz. Their proposal has achieved great success, playing at numerous Festivals, recording seven albums of which more than 35.000 copies have been sold, and participating in various events that have been an important part of Spanish cultural life (the '92 Olympic Games), in a task to spread their music throughout a country like Spain that has so little jazz tradition. La Vella has appeared in and around Europe in the year 1996, participating in diverse jazz festivals in Germany, Holland, Hungary, and Scotland, and has been described by the press as being the audience's favorite group in the Dresden Jazz Festival and the group that's done away with the isolation of Spanish jazz in the Breda Jazz Festival. http://www.lavelladixieland.com Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.