La recepción del jazz moderno en Barcelona en los años 1940: La aportación de Tete Montoliu

Abstract

This article analyses the controversies generated within the Spanish jazz environment within the context of the reception of bebop, with particular emphasis on the figure of the pianist Tete Montoliu, who was born and developed his musical career in Barcelona, a city that has always been the capital of Spanish jazz, and especially at that time. To this end, and after a brief contextualization of the jazz atmosphere of Barcelona in the late 1940s, the ideas that emerge from the article published by Montoliu in 1950 «Defensa del be-bop» are discussed, within a form of a commentary, and based on a documented discourse and a critical analysis. Montoliu’s article, athough very little studied until now, is an important chronicle of its time, covering musical, aesthetic and sociological aspects.