Scheduled · Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain · Autumn 2027
For quartets, trios, contemporary-jazz ensembles, soloists, independent labels, promoters and invited programmers taking projects to the Vitoria Jazz Festival 2027 in its second edition — vinyl and CD of the tour, project shirts, gifts for jam sessions and material for clinics, all quoted in MXN, invoiced with CFDI 4.0 and Carta Porte 3.0, and delivered to your hotel or to the European freight forwarder's warehouse within the window you need.
The Basque-Navarre circuit of jazz festivals is one of the most alive on the European calendar, and Vitoria-Gasteiz occupies a central place in it for its club tradition, its network of municipal halls and its historic festival. The second edition of the Vitoria Jazz Festival sits in that line and opens a specific window for projects in contemporary jazz, Latin jazz, free improvisation and crossings with experimental electronic music. For a Mexican musician or project — a Mexico City quartet mixing jazz with son jarocho, a Monterrey trio leaning free, a Guadalajara soloist invited to the piano cycle, a Tijuana sextet crossing jazz with electronics, or a Mexican independent label producing the European tour of a bandleader — Vitoria operates as a meeting point with European programmers, with sector specialist press and with European colleagues who then sustain tours and recordings through the following season.
The merch programme of a jazz musician or project on a European tour is different from that of a performing arts festival: the audience is very specific — European programmers, labels such as ECM, Clean Feed, Intakt or Ayler Records, press such as DownBeat, JazzWise or Cuadernos de Jazz, long-time melomanes, subscribers of local clubs, students of Basque conservatories — and the reading of the brand mixes the editorial and the utilitarian. The merch divides into four sets. The first are the physical records — vinyl or CD — of the project's latest album or a live recording from the tour, with a well-finished cover and Spanish-English liner notes, normally in runs of 200 to 500 copies that sell at the merch table and are handed to programmers and press. The second are project shirts and sweatshirts for the members and the technical team, with a compact mark that dialogues with the record's graphics. The third are gifts for jam sessions and night clubs: tote bags, stickers, signed posters, lighters or pins with the project mark, handed to the after-show audience as a tour follow-up tool. The fourth is material for clinics and workshops, when a member of the project is invited to give a master class at a conservatory or a local music school.
The operational challenge for a Mexican project is that the material is shipped from Mexico with the consolidated cargo in TOLUCA or AICM, and enters Europe under a freight forwarder's waybill with the import DUA already processed under temporary admission. The invoice of the order goes out in MXN with CFDI 4.0 on the Mexican leg, with payment complement if the deal closes with 30-day terms, and the CFDI includes the Carta Porte 3.0 complement when the shipment is routed by ground from TOLUCA to the forwarder's gateway in Laredo or McAllen. In Europe the delivery runs through the forwarder to the project's hotel, the club where the concert plays, the festival's common warehouse, or the invited promoter's address, and from there it is distributed to each date by concert time. When the tour covers several cities of the Basque-Navarre, French or German circuit, the distribution is done with child waybills from the central European warehouse with single customs clearance.
For vinyl the production challenge is that of any well-finished independent record: final master in DDP or high-resolution WAV, European pressing plant with 140-gram pressing, gatefold or single sleeve with CMYK selection and finishes such as insert, obi or inlay, and a production time of 8 to 12 weeks for runs of 200 to 500 copies. For CD the chain is shorter: final master, replication plant with digipack or jewel case, CMYK cover with four- to eight-page booklet, and a production time of 4 to 6 weeks. For project shirts and sweatshirts the most used setup is heavy cotton with one-colour screen print for the main mark and compact embroidery for the label or project logo, in a palette that dialogues with the record's graphics. For after-show and club gifts the usual is natural-cotton tote bags, screen-printed posters, stickers and pins with the project mark, handed out at the end of the concert.
If the tour also covers clinics or workshops at conservatories — a common practice for jazz projects with a member of teaching profile — the merch programme extends to notebooks, pencils or pens with the project mark, and to pedagogical dossiers with the ensemble's methodology. That additional line is invoiced in the same master order so the customs and distribution operation closes as a single shipment, and the Mexican invoice includes that material in the same CFDI 4.0 with a clean per-line split, so the project's accounting can distribute the expense between the tour line, the teaching line and the press and communication line.
For VIP gifts to key European programmers — artistic directors of the Basque and French festival network, sector record labels, journalists of specialist publications — we usually work with curated, very short-run pieces: signed test pressings by the project leader, numbered limited editions with exclusive screen-printed art, or graphic pieces produced in collaboration with a Mexican workshop. The curating is done with the project leader and with the label's communication area, and the delivery is scheduled privately during a post-concert cocktail or during a visit to the parallel exhibition of the festival, because the meaning of the VIP gift is to open a recording or future-tour conversation, not to appear in a public photo of the festival.
140-gram vinyl with gatefold or single sleeve, CMYK selection, insert or obi, and bilingual Spanish-English liner notes, in runs of 200 to 500 copies. CD in digipack or jewel case with a four- to eight-page booklet. Available at the merch table and handed to programmers and specialist press.
Heavy-cotton shirts and sweatshirts with one-colour screen print for the main mark and compact embroidery for the label logo, in a palette that dialogues with the record's graphics and sizes for members, technical crew and tour staff.
Natural-cotton tote bags with screen print, signed posters, stickers and pins with the project mark, handed out to the after-show audience as a tour follow-up and loyalty tool with the European club circuit.
Notebooks, pencils or pens with the project mark, pedagogical dossiers with the ensemble's methodology and compact sets handed out to students and teachers of Basque and French conservatories during the invited clinics.
Before starting production, confirm the final record master, the cover art, the runs per item, the liner-note languages, the split between production in Mexico and local delivery in each date, and the named consignee on site — the project manager, the production area of the club where the concert plays, or the festival's common warehouse. The Mexican invoice is issued with CFDI 4.0 and payment complement on the Mexican leg; the cross-border shipment is routed by ground from TOLUCA or AICM to the forwarder's gateway in Laredo or McAllen with Carta Porte 3.0 when applicable, and the final delivery in each European date runs through the local forwarder. If the tour covers several cities of the Basque-Navarre circuit, distribution is done with child waybills from the common warehouse with single customs clearance.
For vinyl, fourteen to sixteen weeks before the tour starts because of the European plant pressing cycle. For CDs, shirts and gifts, eight to ten weeks. Shorter programmes are possible only after written confirmation of stock, marking methods and the delivery window at the club or the festival warehouse.
Yes, with the project manager or the club production area named in writing. The festival's common warehouse works as an alternative delivery point, and from there the material is distributed to each date of the Basque-Navarre circuit by concert time.
Yes. We work with European pressing plants, runs of 50 to 100 copies, manual numbering, exclusive screen-printed art and the project leader's signature. Production takes 10–12 weeks, and the pieces are delivered privately to key programmers and labels during festival week.
No. Corp-Merch is an independent external supplier that helps Mexican jazz musicians and projects prepare their own merch for the European tour. It does not organise, sponsor or represent the artistic direction of the festival or the culture office of the Vitoria-Gasteiz City Council.
Corp-Merch is an independent external supplier for the participating musicians, projects and labels. This page helps Mexican jazz projects prepare their own merch for the Vitoria Jazz Festival 2027 (2nd edition); it does not represent the artistic direction of the festival or any associated club, hall or cultural institution.