Horacio Fumero
By Kit Macdonald
This has the looks of a gloriously cosy and intimate winter evening of jazz with a legendary figure who was born in Buenos Aires and studied at the city's Manuel de Falla Conservatory and subsequently at the Higher Conservatory of Geneva, Switzerland. In 1980 he made Barcelona his home, and the following year he became a part of the regular trio of Tete Montoliu, working constantly with Montoliu on festivals and tours, TV programmes and recordings until Montoliu's death in 1997.
Now in his mid-70s, Fumero has over the decades worked with artists including Freddie Hubbard, Johnny Griffin, Horace Parlan, Danilo Perez, Joe Newman, Harry ‘Sweets' Edison, Philip Catherine, George Cables, Idris Muhammad, Bobby Hutcherson, Cedar Walton, Sal Nistico, Jerome Richardson, Oliver Jones and Woody Shaw and collaborated with the Chamber Orchestra of Barcelona's Teatre Lliure, the Granada Symphonic Orchestra and the Lluis Vidal Trio. At this show he will also tell stories about his extraordinary life in music, and share the genesis of the songs he will play.