Barcelona’s club calendar for Thursday, October 8, through Sunday, October 11 has a compact acoustic route worth taking seriously. It begins with MINGUS 8 at 23 Robadors on Thursday at 22:00, moves through Magda Mañé’s two Saturday sets at the same Raval room, then reaches Guzzo in El Born for Friday’s 20:00 Bossa Nova & Jazz Dinner con Guitarra & Voz. The shared idea is jazz as a working language: a repertoire played by a full ensemble, a flamenco setting shaped by a named group of musicians, and a guitar-and-voice format that places bossa’s economy front and centre. These are different social settings, yet each puts the detail of live interplay ahead of spectacle.[1][2][3][4]

Mingus in the Raval, with the whole band in view

MINGUS 8 gives the thread its largest instrumental frame. Alejandro Vallina, Pere Sancho, Pau Giné, Jan Martínez, Àlex Fortuny, Jana Gallifa, Marc Puyuelo and Silvano Olalla are billed for the Thursday night performance at 23 Robadors. The ensemble has previously been presented as Mingus Reunion, a project led by guitarist and arranger Fortuny that works through Charles Mingus compositions; its listed personnel matches the October booking. That connection matters because Mingus’s music asks a group to balance written architecture with room for individual character. At 23 Robadors, a room whose own agenda moves repeatedly between flamenco and jazz, that collective grain is the point of entry.[1][4]

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Magda Mañé’s two-set flamenco turn

Saturday changes the texture without leaving 23 Robadors. Magda Mañé appears at 20:00 and again at 22:00 with Violeta Barrio, Agustin Batista, Albert Pons and Antonio Villaverde. The venue classifies both sets as flamenco, placing them inside a programme that pairs early flamenco bills with later jazz concerts across the week. The two start times create a practical choice: take the earlier pass for a focused evening, or use the 22:00 set as the late stop after dinner. Either way, this is the guide’s reminder that the Raval room’s scene is built through musicians working across adjacent idioms and recurring local lineups.[1]

Bossa nova at the dinner table

On Friday, Guzzo offers the softer end of the route. Its Bossa Nova & Jazz Dinner con Guitarra & Voz begins at 20:00 and is presented in two 40-minute passes, at 20:00 and 22:00, with Ramiro Pinheiro, Hugo Arán, Alan Da Silva and Ana Rossi named on the event page. Guzzo frames its El Born programme around nightly live concerts and DJ sets, spanning jazz, bossa nova and Latin music. Reserve early if dinner is part of the plan; recheck the official pages of 23 Robadors and Guzzo for timings, personnel and admission details that can change.[2][3]

Sources

  1. AGENDA — 23 Robadors
  2. [BOSSA NOVA & JAZZ] Dinner con Guitarra & Voz — Guzzo Restaurante Musical
  3. Guzzo Restaurante en el Born | Música en directo Barcelona — Guzzo
  4. Concierto de Mingus Reunion - Conservatori del Liceu — Fundació Catalunya La Pedrera