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David Mengual

David Mengual is a double bassist, composer, arranger, bandleader, and educator whose Barcelona catalog spans small groups and Free Spirits Big Band.

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Career Overview

About David Mengual

Taller de Músics identifies Mengual as a bassist, composer, arranger, bandleader, and educator with a long relationship to Barcelona’s jazz training and performance scene. CCCB documents his work across composition and projects of different sizes.[1][2]

The Free Spirits Big Band catalog preserves Mengual’s large-ensemble writing, while Fresh Sound’s Monkiana and his duo and small-group recordings provide compact settings. Those sources separate big-band leadership from quartet, duo, and sideman appearances.[3][4]

Ensembles and Career Threads

Bands & Projects

Leader, bassist, composer, and arranger

Free Spirits Big Band

The Barcelona large ensemble is Mengual’s dedicated setting for extended compositions and arrangements.[3]

Leader, bassist, and composer

David Mengual small groups

Quartet and other compact editions carry Mengual’s writing outside the big-band format.[1][2]

Co-leader, bassist, composer, and improviser

Duo projects

Recordings with Jon Robles and other partners document a separate chamber-like strand in Mengual’s catalog.[2]

Selected, Not Exhaustive

Recordings to Know

1997 · Fresh Sound Records

Monkiana

Leader, bassist, and arranger

The small-group recording reframes Thelonious Monk repertory through Mengual’s bass and arrangements.[4]

Release details

2011

Univers Evans

Free Spirits Big Band leader, bassist, composer, and arranger

The large-ensemble project engages music associated with Bill Evans through Mengual’s band and orchestration.[3]

Release details

2012

Menta, diari sonor

Leader, bassist, composer, and arranger

The later artist-run edition documents another extended program under Mengual’s direction.[3]

Release details

Artist-Authorized Destinations

Start Listening

Free Spirits Big Band

Stream Mengual’s large-ensemble projects and complete artist-supplied album notes.

Monkiana

Open the complete label-authorized edition of Mengual’s Thelonious Monk project.

Live Calendar

Upcoming Jazz DateBook Shows

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Evidence-Based Connections

Related Musician Guides

Connections below come from shared current Jazz DateBook bills or normalized documented performance roles—not subjective similarity.

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Sources

Career copy is original synthesis from the artist, label, and project sources below. Current dates come from Jazz DateBook event inventory.

  1. [1] Faculty biography and Barcelona career context

    Taller de Músics

  2. [2] Institutional artist and project profile

    CCCB

  3. [3] Artist-run large-ensemble catalog

    David Mengual Free Spirits Big Band

  4. [4] Label-authorized Monkiana edition

    Fresh Sound Records