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The Blue Horse, Valdés Brothers & Suzette Moncrief at Portón del Jazz 2026

The Blue Horse, Valdés Brothers & Suzette Moncrief at Portón del Jazz 2026

Portón del Jazz 2026 will host one of its most special performances on Friday, 10 July, with The Blue Horse, Valdés Brothers & Suzette Moncrief, a production created exclusively for this edition of the festival.

The project has been conceived as a musical experience designed for a specific place and moment: the setting of Finca El Portón, the historic home of the festival in Alhaurín de la Torre. This is not simply a concert within a tour, but a proposal created especially for Portón del Jazz, featuring an international line-up and a clear intention to bring different musical styles together.

The performance will unite American vocal blues, modern hard bop and Afro-Cuban jazz in a single musical dialogue. The voice of Suzette Moncrief will bring the emotional depth of North American blues and classic vocal jazz, while the Valdés Brothers and the rest of the guest musicians will build an instrumental foundation shaped by rhythmic richness, improvisation and the elegance of contemporary jazz.

The repertoire will explore the connections between different but deeply related musical traditions: blues, hard bop and Afro-Cuban roots. The result will be a dynamic, sophisticated performance designed to surprise both jazz lovers and audiences discovering the genre for the first time.

The concert is part of the 2026 edition of Portón del Jazz, one of Málaga’s leading jazz festivals, held on Fridays in July at Finca El Portón, an open-air venue where live music blends with the atmosphere of the gardens and summer nights.

Useful information

📅 Date: Friday, 10 July 2026.
🕘 Time: 9:00 pm.
⏱️ Approximate duration: 236 minutes.
🌙 Estimated finish: Saturday, 11 July, at around 12:56 am.
🎷 Event: The Blue Horse, Valdés Brothers & Suzette Moncrief.
🎵 Festival: Portón del Jazz 2026.
📍 Venue: Finca Municipal El Portón.
🏙️ Town: Alhaurín de la Torre, Málaga.
🎟️ Admission: paid entry, with advance online ticket sales.
🚗 Parking: online parking reservation is available as an add-on to the ticket.
🌳 Format: open-air jazz concert in the gardens of Finca El Portón.
👥 Recommended audience: fans of jazz, blues, Afro-Cuban music and summer concerts.

Artists

The artistic line-up published on the ticketing platform includes:

🎤 Vocals: Suzette Moncrief.
🎹 Piano / keyboards: Leyanis Valdés / Håvard Ersland.
🥁 Drums / percussion: Jessie Valdés / Rajiv Jayaweera.
🎻 Double bass / electric bass: Francis Posé / Illya Alabuzhev.
🎷 Saxophone / wind instruments: Pablo García / Inoidel González.
🎸 Guitar: Héctor Quintana.

About Portón del Jazz 2026

Portón del Jazz 2026 will take place in Alhaurín de la Torre on the Fridays of 3, 10, 17 and 24 July 2026. The programme brings together national and international artists in an edition that preserves the spirit of the festival: live jazz, open-air summer nights and performances created to enjoy music under the stars.

In addition to The Blue Horse, Valdés Brothers & Suzette Moncrief, the 2026 edition also includes concerts by Fusion Experience Quartet, Eric Alexander Jazz Syndicate and Alfredo Rodríguez Trío.

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