Secrets, just the right amount. "Well-made music, in tune, and that's it," says trumpeter Pep Gol (Barcelona, ​​1959), one of the founders of La Vella Dixieland. "And that it reaches the people," he adds to complete the motto of a group born in 1980 out of a love of classic jazz in a broad sense, first instrumental and then also vocal. Just as they understand it in New Orleans, where what counts is playing and not "this mania for intellectualizing the discourse we have in Europe." To celebrate the 45th anniversary of La Vella Dixieland, the Barcelona Jazz Festival dedicates an artist portrait to him that will unfold in four different concerts: three at the Jamboree on October 11 and 24 and November 7, and one at La Paloma on December 4. This is the first time the festival has portrait a collective, not a solo artist.