The 60th Jazzaldia presents this edition's poster
San Sebastian's Jazzaldia, which will be held from 22 to 27 July 2025, presents the poster designed by José Luis Lanzagorta
JOSÉ LUIS LANZAGORTA, CREATOR OF THE POSTER FOR THE 60th EDITION OF JAZZALDIA
Graphic designer and musician, founder and creative director of Estudio Lanzagorta, a graphic design company that works mainly in the domain of art and culture.
Among its clients: Artium, Donostia Kultura, Koldo Mitxelena Kulturunea, Tabakalera, San Telmo Museoa, Musée Basque de Bayonne, Kutxa Fundazioa, Donostia Zinemaldia, Donostiako Jazzaldia, Fundación Kursaal, Quincena Musical de San Sebastián, Euskadiko Orkestra, Orfeón Donostiarra, Warner Music, Sony Music and Get In Producciones.
Lanzagorta is the person who has most often created the poster for Donostiako Jazzaldia. In all, he has done so on twelve occasions.
As a musician, he has been involved for decades in many different projects within the world of pop in San Sebastian. He was one of the founders of Orquesta Mondragón, of Puskarra and Amateur. He was also a member of Amor a Traición and La Buena Vida, both of them groups from San Sebastian.
POSTER FOR THE 60th EDITION OF JAZZALDIA: The Return of Max
There was never any doubt in José Luis Lanzagorta’s mind that he wanted to pay a special tribute to the sixty-year life path of Jazzaldia, which has brought us so much wonderful music. Of all the posters from the 59 previous editions, there was one in particular that drew the author towards the notion of Jazz in the city, and for which he always felt a special weakness: the one created by Tomás Hernández Mendizabal for the festival in 1970, with vibrant colours and with a drummer taking the limelight, at the forefront.
Drawing upon this as his elements of departure, and having noticed that there are hardly any posters with that instrument taking centre stage, as it were, he decided that the image for the 60th edition of Jazzaldia was going to pay tribute to Max Roach, a musician born just over a hundred years ago now, a drumstick maestro who would have turned 101 in 2025. Max “makes his return” to Jazzaldia, since he had already visited us in 1999, when he received the Donostiako Jazzaldia Award, and played in a concert with pianist Randy Weston.
To complete his composition, Lanzagorta went for hand-written lettering, lightly and casually traced, and neatly worked into the graphic style of the illustration.”
