The Big Jamboree

 THE BIG JAMBOREE 

(6CD/DVD)

 BIOGRAPHY 

To explain the history of The Big Jamboree you have to go back in time more than two decades, back in the early 80s when they called themselves Chevy & the Hot Wheels. They were later renamed the Big Frank Jamboree; and finally, to this day, The Big Jamboree. At the end of the 90s Miguel Ángel García, ex-singer of one of the rock & roll formations widely known both inside and outside the Spanish borders (The NuNiles) joined the band and has been part of it for 8 years participating in the recording of his album "New Times Old Stuff". Since the end of 2007 it is Agustí Burriel who leads the band, coming from styles like the Doo-Woop and other bands like the Velvet Candles. Definitely,

The Big Jamboree is a band that is dedicated to interpreting Rhythm & Blues, Jump & Jive, Jump Blues and Rock'n Roll of the 50s. Their repertoire includes their own compositions and arrangements of the band along with versions of songs from the years 40 and 50 of artists as important as: Louis Prima, Big Joe Turner, Louis Jordan, Roy Brown, Wynonie Harrys etc ... The good atmosphere that is breathed on stage at all times, makes it not only a music concert where basically the sound predominates, but a musical show in which they also provide an interpretive blow of grace, as was done in the 40s and 50s. Hence its name: THE BIG JAMBOREE ("The great party").

The Big Jamboree is a group that has participated in important national and international events (BCNHayride festival, Screaming Festival, Crossroad Festival, Mediatic Festival, Duke's festival Cittaducale, Festival Country rock de Prat-Bonrepaux etc .....) and played in the most renowned venues on the Catalan music circuit; for a long time they have been regularly programmed in the Barcelona room "El Café de Belgrado", in Sant Cugat del Valles; a room that has been its springboard from the beginning, and in it part of a report on the current scene of Swing and classic Rock'n'Roll was shot that was broadcast on the Canal33 program "Sputnik", audience leader in its style in Catalonia. Thanks to the success of the documentary they were required to act several times in the program "

They were also scheduled for a long time at Club La Boite in Barcelona. A highly reputed venue where national and international Blues and Rhythm & Blues stars performed every week. They have performed on numerous occasions at the Sala Jamboree in Plaza Real de Barcelona, ​​a venue where renowned international and national jazz musicians currently perform. They have also shared the stage with North American rock'n'roll stars such as Carl Perkins, and accompanied, among others, Hayden Thompson, Dale Hawkins, Barrence Whitfield, LLoyd Price in Rhythm Riot in the United Kingdom or Extraordinaires in Barcelona in 2015.

Currently they continue to appear on the night program "Cava de Blues " on TV3 and can be seen at the time of the weekly broadcast, or online from the same website of the Catalan Audiovisual Media Corporation http: //www.ccma. cat / tv3 / alacarta /

With the premiere of the new album "A Night of Jump Blues" on February 11, 2017 at the Luz de Gas venue in Barcelona, ​​The Big Jamboree takes a qualitative leap in the way it shows the product that has been in its blood for so many years. They have bet on quality in all aspects, such as the production carried out by the well-known Mike Mariconda, or the El Toro Records record label very representative of this style. This latest album takes us back to the 40s and 50s with the best Jump Blues, Rhythm & Blues and Rock & Roll of the time and which, for the first time in the band's discography, has a large number of its own compositions.