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Artur Moral

An Absolute Listener

About Me

I worked in an insurance IT department for almost 40 years, but now I finally enjoy the (hard) pleasure of trying to write about jazz from the perspective of a serious fan: a recently published book in Catalan and Spanish entitled “Jazz Per La Pau” (“Jazz For Peace”, as it would be in its possible English edition), a blog named ArturJazzDetour (in Catalan and Spanish) and a collaboration that has been going on for four years with a virtual collective called IP (more than two thousand outstanding-on-their-fields people spread throughout the world) to whom I send weekly jazz pickups in email format, are my small achievements; thousands of records, hundreds of concerts, a handful of readings and a few talks and interviews with extraordinary musicians, these are my credentials.

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My Jazz Story

Jazz rescued me in the eighties, a disoriented fan who came from a somewhat exhausted symphonic/progressive rock scene, so '70s and first '80s fusion was my first jazz immersion. From there I gradually opened up to all classical eras and styles, but when I got more into the avant-garde, free jazz and loft jazz, things really got terrific. “Tradition In Transition,” as Chico Freeman said, is perhaps a good definition of my favorite tastes: but, obviously, Satchmo, Ellington, Tatum, Parker, Holiday, Clifford, Miles, Trane, Mingus, Getz or Evans are in my musical backpack, among thousands of other magnificent creators. From the climax of bebop to the first years of the new millennium, these are my areas of greatest interest, but I keep an ear open to quite a few things in the current scene.