How to purchase tickets:

From 1 October and while supply lasts. Tickets can be purchased at Casa de la Cultura, 575 Av de Mayo, Monday to Saturday from 11 am to 6 pm.

Permanent activities

  • Recoleta Cultural Centre - Jazz Lounge
  • Recoleta Cultural Centre - Hall 13 Photograph exhibition
Admission free events until capacity limits have been reached.
No tickets required.

Programme day by day

Wednesday 15
Opening night
8pm

Coliseo Theatre

Randy Weston Sextet & African Rhythms
Special guest: Billy Harper
Host: Juan Carlos “Mono” Fontana soloset
Payable shows: Stalls: $30; first, second and third tier: $15.
International Concerts
10pm

Notorious

Egle Martin
  • Egle Martin (vocals, percussion)
  • Gabriel Sáenz (trumpet)
  • Lucía Díaz (keyboards)
  • Germán López Greco (guitar)
  • Cristian Jahde (bass, double bass)
  • Simón Martínez (drums)
  • Cristian Noguera (tumbadoras, percussion)
  • Special guest: Paul Dourge (guitar)
Admission free show with compulsory minimum purchase
until capacity limits have been reached. No tickets required. Singers
10pm

Thelonious

Zo’loka? Trío
  • Marcelo Katz (piano)
  • Juan Manuel Costa (cello)
  • Victoria Zotalis (vocals)
Admission free show with compulsory minimum purchase
until capacity limits have been reached. No tickets required. Singers
Thursday 16
4.30pm

TGSM (General San Martín Theatre - Casacuberta Hall

Randy Weston solopiano
Host: Mariana Baraj soloset
Payable show: $15.
International Concerts
6pm

Recoleta Cultural Centre - Microcine

Oscar Alemán, vida con swing (Hernán Gaffet, 2002) 95'
  • When delving into the history of Argentinian jazz, we come across several legends of this music genre. Hernán Gaffet leads the journey into some aspects –both known and unknown– of one of them: guitarist Oscar Alemán, his life and music, from his neighbourhood to Josephine Baker’s orchestra in Paris.
Walter Malosetti: Solo de guitarra (Daniel Gagliano, 2004) 55'
  • Daniel Gagliano humbly approaches his admired Walter Malosetti, the legendary jazz guitarist. His bosom friend takes us along the history of one of the most revered names of the local jazz scene.
Admission free show until capacity limits have been reached.
No tickets required. Film Season
7pm

National Library - Jorge Luis Borges Auditorium

Billy Harper Quartet
Admission free show until capacity limits have been reached.
No tickets required. Gatherings
7.30pm

Recoleta Cultural Centre

Manuel Fraga (solopiano)
Porteña Jazz Band
  • Omar Oliveros (trumpet, musical arrangements)
  • Ricardo Alem (trumpet)
  • Juanjo Zentilini (trombone)
  • Carlos Caiatti (first alto sax, clarinet)
  • Gabriel Sabella Rosa (second saxo alt, clarinet)
  • Gabriel Herrera (tenor sax, clarinet)
  • Adrián Segers (banjo)
  • Martín Méndez (piano)
  • Adrián Minuchin (tuba)
  • Freddy Méndez (drums, percussion)
Admission free shows until capacity limits have been reached.
No tickets required. Jazzología
9pm

IFT Theatre

Guillermo Klein interprets “Cuchi” Leguizamón
  • Guillermo Klein (piano, vocals)
  • Daniel “Pipi” Piazzolla (drums)
  • Richard Nant (trumpet, percussion)
  • Juan Cruz de Urquiza (trumpets)
  • Matías Méndez (bass)
  • Gustavo Musso (sax)
Admission free show until capacity limits have been reached.
No tickets required. Committees
9.30pm11pm

Notorious

Perico Sambeat & Paula Shocron Trio
Payable shows: $15. Compulsory minimum purchase. Gatherings
9.30pm11pm

Thelonious

Donny McCaslin Trio
Payable show: $15. Compulsory minimum purchase. Gatherings
10pm

Kebaytina, Resto Jazz

Yamaha House Quartet
Jam session from 11 pm
Admission free show with compulsory minimum purchase. Jam session
Friday 17
2.30pm

Recoleta Cultural Centre

Thinking Music: The Utopia of Critics
Admission free event until capacity limits have been reached.
No tickets required. Talks
3.30pm

Recoleta Cultural Centre

Open percussion lesson held by Neil Clarke
Admission free event until capacity limits have been reached.
No tickets required. Open Lesson
6pm

Recoleta Cultural Centre - Microcine

Lift to the Scaffold (Louis Malle, 1958) 88'
  • Miles Davis envelops this film that is essential to understanding the Nouvelle Vague, with a piece of music that forever altered the relationship between cinema and its soundtracks.
    Highly recommendable doses of suspense and jazz.
Anita O’Day: The Life of a Jazz Singer (Robbie Cavolina, 2007) 90'
  • Robbie Cavolina, Anita O’Day’s manager, is the right person to tell about the intimate, at times troubled world of one of the great jazz singers.
    Premiered in the United States only a few months ago, it has reaped the praise of the audience and the critics alike.
Admission free shows until capacity limits have been reached.
No tickets required. Film season
7pm

National Library - Jorge Luis Borges Auditorium

Guillermo Klein
Enrique Norris
Oscar Giunta
Admission free show until capacity limits have been reached.
No tickets required. Unusual solopianos
7.30pm

Recoleta Cultural Centre

Antigua Jazz Band
  • Claudio Cagegi (trumpet)
  • Mauro Montes De Oca (trumpet)
  • Rolando Vismara (trumpet)
  • Hugo Borgnia (trombone)
  • Leandro Teri (alto sax, clarinet)
  • Julio Juan (alto sax)
  • Orlando Merli (tenor sax)
  • Juan Lacruz (baritone sax)
  • Osvaldo Ricci (blue blowing)
  • Luis Sirimarco (piano)
  • Nicanor Suárez (double bass)
  • Pablo Scenna (banjo, guitar)
  • Hernán Avella (drums, washboard)
Alfredo Espinoza (Chile)
Admission free show until capacity limits have been reached.
No tickets required. Jazzología
8.30pm

Coliseo Theatre

Tolvan Big Band
  • Helge Albin (alto sax, flute, musical director)
  • Inge Petersson (tenor sax)
  • Ulf Holmström (alto sax, alto flute)
  • Cennet Jönsson (tenor sax, soparano sax, bass clarinet)
  • Bernt Sjunnesson (baritone sax, flute)
  • Anders Gustafsson (trumpet)
  • Christer Gustafsson (trumpet)
  • Roy Wall (trumpet)
  • Fredrik Davidsson (trumpet)
  • Peter Asplund (trumpet)
  • Vincent Nilsson (trombone)
  • Olle Tull (trombone)
  • Ola Åkerman (trombone)
  • Ola Nordqvist (trombone)
  • Björn Hängsel (bass trombone, tuba)
  • Jacob Karlzon (piano)
  • Patrik Albin (double bass)
  • Lennart Gruvstedt (drums)
Host: Donny McCaslin & Fernando Tarrés Cuarteto
Payable shows: Stalls $20, first, second and third tier: $10. International concerts
9pm

IFT Theatre

Mariano Otero Disarrangements on Walter Malosetti’s Music
  • Juan Cruz de Urquiza (trumpet, fluegelhorn)
  • Juan Canosa (trombone)
  • Ramiro Flores (alto and tenor sax)
  • Carlos Michelini (alto and tenor sax)
  • Rodrigo Domínguez (tenor sax)
  • Martín Pantyrer (baritone sax)
  • Francisco Lovuolo (piano)
  • Mariano Otero (double bass)
  • Pepi Taveira (drums)
Admission free show until capacity limits have been reached.
No tickets required. Committees
9.30pm11pm

Notorious

Trio Brasil & Pablo Bobrowicky
Payable show: $15. Compulsory minimum purchase. Gatherings
   
9.30pm11pm

Thelonious

Vinicius Dorin & Abel Rogantini Trio
Payable shows: $15. Compulsory minimum purchase. Gatherings
10pm

Kebaytina, Resto Jazz

Yamaha House Quartet
Jam session from 11 pm
Admission free show with compulsory minimum purchase. Jam session
Saturday 18
2:30 pm

Recoleta Cultural Centre

Music Running through our Veins. Jazz by Zuza Homem de Mello and Jorge Andrés
  • Evocation and dialogue. Lucid testimonies of two lives permeated by jazz.
Admission free event until capacity limits have been reached.
No tickets required. Talks
3pm

Recoleta Cultural Centre

Nonet by jazz students from the Conservatory of Music Manuel de Falla
  • Julián López Di Muro (trumpet)
  • Santiago Kurchan (alto saxo)
  • Juan Alonso (baritone sax)
  • Gonzalo Rodríguez (tenor sax)
  • Pablo Pesci (baritone sax)
  • Andrés Elstein (drums)
  • Leonel Cejas (double bass)
  • Nicolás Neira (piano)
  • Matías Traut (trombone)
Admission free show until capacity limits have been reached.
No tickets required. Open air
3.30pm

Recoleta Cultural Centre

Escalandrum
  • Daniel Piazzolla (drums)
  • Nicolás Guerschberg (piano)
  • Mariano Sívori (double bass)
  • Damián Fogiel (sax)
  • Gustavo Musso (sax)
  • Martín Pantyrer (sax)
Admission free show until capacity limits have been reached.
No tickets required. Open air
4.30pm

Recoleta Cultural Centre

Roxana Amed
  • Roxana Amed (vocals, guitar)
  • Claudio Iuliano (guitars)
  • Fernando Galimany (double bass)
  • Carto Brandán (drums)
Admission free show until capacity limits have been reached.
No tickets required. Open air
5.30pm

Recoleta Cultural Centre

Ricardo Cavalli Trio
Admission free show until capacity limits have been reached.
No tickets required. Open air
6pm

Recoleta Cultural Centre - Microcine

Vinicius (Miguel Faria Jr., 2005) 124'
  • Miguel Faria Jr. pays homage to Vinicius de Moraes, singer, composer, poet, one of the cornerstones of bossa nova.
    Fiction and reality combine in this tribute to one of the biggest names of the Brazilian culture of the twentieth century.
Admission free show until capacity limits have been reached.
No tickets required. Film season
6.30pm

Recoleta Cultural Centre

PWR3
  • Lito Epumer (electric guitar)
  • Machi (bass)
  • Cristián Judurcha (drums)
Admission free show until capacity limits have been reached.
No tickets required. Open air
8.30pm

Coliseo Theatre

Guy Klucevsek & Alan Bern
  • Guy Klucevsek (accordion)
  • Alan Bern (accordion, melodica, piano)
CMS Trío
  • Perico Sambeat (saxs)
  • Javier Colina (double bass)
  • Marc Miralta (drums)
Payable shows: Stalls $20, first, second and third tier: $10. International concerts
8.30pm

C. C. Recoleta

Swing Timers
Daniel “Bachicha” Lencina Quartet (Uruguay)
Admission free shows until capacity limits have been reached.
No tickets required. Jazzología
9pm

IFT Theatre

Enrique Norris - Pepi Taveira: Suite for jazz band and ballet
  • Pablo Puntoriero (saxs, flute, percussion)
  • Enrique Norris (cornet, piano, percussion)
  • Cristian Bortoli (double bass)
  • Pepi Taveira (drums, percussion)
  • Sergio Verdinelli (percussion)

    Choreography and dancers:
  • Nelson Barrios (Ares)
  • Romina Sosa
  • Gabriela Pastor
  • Lisa Simkin
  • Brian Moya (Miloo)
  • Celeste Gerardi
  • Mariela Puyol
  • Gerardo Carrot
  • Rodrigo Gallego
  • Laura Zapata
  • Direction: Andrea Servera
Admission free show until capacity limits have been reached.
No tickets required. Committees
9.30pm11pm

Notorious

Jakob Karlzon - Peter Asplund Quartet
Payable show: $15. Compulsory minimum purchase. Gatherings
9.30pm11pm

Thelonious

Luis Nacht - Pablo Arredondo Quartet
Payable show: $15. Compulsory minimum purchase. Gatherings
10pm

Kebaytina, Resto Jazz

Yamaha House Quartet
Jam session from 11 pm
Admission free show with compulsory minimum purchase. Jam session
Sunday 19
2.30pm

Recoleta Cultural Centre

Worded Romance. Borrowings and tributes between jazz and literature
Admission free event until capacity limits have been reached.
No tickets required. Talks
3pm

Recoleta Cultural Centre

Big Band from the jazz course of the Conservatory of Music Manuel de Falla
  • Ingrid Feniger, Ernesto Repeto, Juan Ignacio Méndez, Ada Rave y Juan Alonso (saxs)
  • Santiago Costanza, Julián López Di Muro, Sergio Wagner y Fermín Echeveste (trumpets)
  • Matías Traut, Francisco Salgado y Jesús Silva (trombones)
  • Enrique Mendoza (guitar)
  • Martín De Lasalletta (double bass)
  • Luciano Ruggeri (drums)
  • Alan Zimmerman (piano)
Admission free show until capacity limits have been reached.
No tickets required. Open air
3.45pm

Recoleta Cultural Centre

Néstor Astarita & Buenos Aires Jazz Fusión
  • Bernardo Baraj (saxs, flute, percussion)
  • Alejandro Kalinoski (piano)
  • Bucky Arcella (bass)
  • Pocho Porteño (percussion)
  • Néstor Astarita (drums)
  • María Isabel Flores (a tango touch)
Admission free show until capacity limits have been reached.
No tickets required. Open air
5pm

Recoleta Cultural Centre

Daniel Maza Quintet
  • Daniel Maza (bass, vocals)
  • Fabián Miodownik (drums, backing vocals)
  • Gabriel Juncos (flute, backing vocals)
  • Yeye “Caboca” López (percussion, backing vocals)
Admission free show until capacity limits have been reached.
No tickets required. Open air
6pm

C. C. Recoleta - Microcine

Space Is The Place (John Coney, 1974) 85'
  • Piercing the space is this spaceship propelled by jazz music, in an attempt to rescue the black race by taking it to a safer planet. Sun Ra and his Intergalactic Solar Arkestra lead the mission in this unusual, surrealistic cult movie.
Sun Ra: A Joyful Noise (Robert Mugge, 1981) 60'
  • Robert Mugge introduces us to Sun Ra and the musicians of his Intergalactic Solar Arkestra. A documentary which is packed full of curious reflections but, above all, that is a fascinating insight into Sun Ra and his music.
Admission free shows until capacity limits have been reached.
No tickets required. Film season
6.15pm

Recoleta Cultural Centre

Walter Malosetti Trio
  • Walter Malosetti (electric guitar)
  • Ezequiel Dutil (double bass)
  • Rodrigo Reparaz (drums)
  • Guest musician: Enrique Varela (sax)
Admission free show until capacity limits have been reached.
No tickets required. Open air
8pm

Recoleta Cultural Centre

Sophie Lüssi Quartet (Switzerland)
  • Sophie Lüssi (violín)
  • Ramiro Penovi (guitar)
  • Roberto Terzano (guitar)
  • Adrián De Felippo (double bass)
Estrellas Argentinas de Jazz
  • Ernesto D’amico (trumpet)
  • Juan Carlos Bazán (clarinet)
  • Miguel Piccolo (trombone)
  • Manuel Fraga (piano)
  • Héctor Basso (double bass)
  • Quique Calabrese (drums)
  • Cecilia Escudero (vocal)
Admission free shows until capacity limits have been reached.
No tickets required. Jazzología
Closing night
8.30pm

Coliseo Theatre

Rosa Passos
Host: Argentos
  • Richard Nant (trumpet, percussion)
  • Pablo Rodríguez (saxs, flute)
  • Gustavo Musso (saxs)
  • Matías Méndez (bass)
  • Álvaro Torres (piano)
  • Daniel “Pipi” Piazzolla (drums)
  • Alan Plachta (guitar)
Payable show: Stalls: $30; first, second and third tier: $15. International concerts