Bands

The Sentimental Gentlemen

The Sentimental Gentlemen is a group created in Madrid in 2022 to play exclusively Swing music from the 1930s and 1940s in the style of the ensembles of the time (Benny Goodman, Count Basie, Duke Ellington and a long etcetera of artists).

Their repertoire (more than 90 songs) is carefully selected and arranged for the Lindy Hop and Balboa dancing community, who will enjoy a live performance full of energy, subtlety and, above all, tons of swing.

Yevhen Riechkalov: trumpet
Giorgio Gallina: trombone and vocals
Benjamín Rosado Mitte: piano
Daniel Cabrera: guitar
Paolo Furio Marasso: double bass and vocals
Fernando Lamas: drums

Musical Direction and Arrangements: Daniel Cabrera, Giorgio Gallina and Paolo Furio Marasso

The Swing Rascal

The Swing Rascals is a nine-piece band created in Madrid (Spain) in 2022 to recapture the music, spirit and aesthetics of the 1930s in the United States, the Swing Era. The band is conceived as a dance orchestra and its members have extensive experience in jazz festivals and swing dance events throughout Europe.

The Swing Rascals’ repertoire has been carefully selected and consists entirely of arrangements of the greatest hits of the 1930s.
A performance by The Swing Rascals will feature songs recorded by the Benny Goodman Septet, Fats Waller and The Chocolate Dandies, Teddy Wilson Orchestra featuring Billie Holiday, Louis Armstrong and His All Stars, Count Basie Orchestra, etc.

The Swing Rascals, under the musical direction of trombonist Giorgio Gallina (Milan, Italy), brings together the best musicians of the style in Madrid and features live vocalist Ornella Marconi (Buenos Aires, Argentina).

The aim of the band is to offer an authentic and exciting musical experience to lindy hop, balboa and shag dancers and in general to any fan of traditional jazz.

Yevhen Riechkalov: trumpet
Javier Campos: alto saxophone and clarinet
Albert Carrique: tenor sax and clarinet
Giorgio Gallina: trombone
Lucía Rey: piano
Daniel Cabrera: guitar
Paolo Furio Marasso: double bass
Fernando Lamas: drums
Ornella Marconi: voice

Musical direction: Giorgio Gallina
Arrangements: Mauro l. Porro, Paolo Furio Marasso, Giorgio Gallina, Daniel Cabrera

Danzad Malditas

Danzad Malditas was born from Carlos Moratalla and Martina Mollo’s encounter with swing dance.
It was love at first sight! After learning the odd rudimentary step, they decided to do what they do best, they gathered a group of intrepid music explorers and immersed themselves in that rich period where the classical, the African, the popular, the European, the American, the big, the small, the divine and the human meet in perfect balance.

A repertoire to dance and listen to in which they recover, preserve and redecorate songs that you hum even if you don’t know them. The sardonic stories of Louis Prima, the danceable sermons of a young Aretha, the races against time of Nina Simone or the beauty of the small in the work of Slim Gaillard. Rarities of Italian swing or the vocalese of Eddie Jefferson.

Stories of Austro-Hungarian soldiers returning from war, of destitute miners and odes to the crisp bag.

Martina Mollo: Piano, vocals and arrangements.
Carlos Moratalla: Double bass and vocals
Adrián Jiménez: Drums
Víctor García: Tenor saxophone and vocals
Jaime Fernández: Trombone, guitar and vocals
Estefanía Alpresa: Voice

Djangolines

The Djangolines are a Manouche jazz group, a musical genre that is the result of the fusion between swing and the gypsy musical tradition of Eastern Europe.
The guitarist Django Reinhardt was the protagonist of this style in France in the 1930s and the name of the group refers to this genius creator of the style.
It is also rumoured that it could refer to a new airline travelling to an idealised past where swing and good vibes reign.

Sergio Carmona: Viola and vocals
Perry van Munster and Antonio Gómez: Guitars
Philip Benson: Double bass