DANI MOLINA QUARTET in Barcelona

When Dani Molina announced that he was moving from his native Cullera to Barcelona, his fellow countryman Perico Sambeat warned him: “If you go to Barcelona and don't study jazz, I'll have something to say about it." And he certainly took notice, because today he is one of the great blowers on the new Barcelona jazz scene: a classically-based saxophonist who is not put off by the more dreamlike tendencies of the so-called bop n.g. Author of a celebrated debut album, Toc toc, which was a candidate for the Best New Album of 2009 prize at the awards presented every year by Jaç magazine. A musician surrounded by a group starring guitarist Pere Arguimbau, a solid string plucker whose masterful work decorates the quartet's compositions, including a zamba written by the drummer Ramiro Rosa. The Dani Molina Quartet are fish swimming between tradition and modernity.