Complying twenty-five years of a route marked by a recognized consistency and artistic integrity, Guimarães Jazz presents in 2016 a program with eyes on the future and mainly engaged in the unraveling of fruitful horizons for contemporary jazz.
the date which this year is celebrated, although important symbolic point of view, should not, however, be used as an excuse to turn away from its most fundamental aspect – the notion that there is a timeline through between starting point and arrival point at which it has developed a tough but consistent work that allowed, a quarter century after its founding editor, Guimarães Jazz is now in a position to claim the reference festival status in panorama Portuguese music, and that the building of the future is your most urgent task.
The most distinctive feature of the presented alignment in this its 25th edition will be, perhaps, the fact that the festival does not yield to the temptation of autocelebrarão, opting instead to focus their attention on the new contemporary jazz, represented by a set projects and emerging musicians who, although not classified in any stylistic trend, add to jazz vitality, dynamics, rhythmic energy and multidirecionalidade, crossing with ease and fluidity diverse musical languages.
The Indian descent saxophonist Rudresh Mahanthappa, the American trumpeter Ambrose Akinmusire (Steve Coleman recruited for their Five Elements), both considered two of the best musicians in 2015 by the prestigious Downbeat magazine, and saxophonist Donny McCaslin (the leader of the band that recorded Blackstar, the last album released in life by David Bowie, joined by some of the musicians who were part of that band) are therefore strong moments of a poster which stands the great young musicians involved, something also evident in drummer Matt Wilson quartet, which includes the trumpeter Kirk Knuffke and saxophonist Jeff Lederer, and the septet of flautist Jamie Baum, who will be responsible for the sessions and workshops jam, working alongside a composite forming by a remarkable group of young musicians from the American jazz scene, as well as three Polish jazz musicians.
The return of the Liberation Music Orchestra (founded by the late Charlie Haden, who attended the festival in 2006, and now led by pianist Carla Bley) is the great “historical” project jazz present in this edition of Guimarães jazz, whose alignment also includes the San Francisco jazz Collective, composed of some of the most renowned musicians of the current jazz, including David Sanchez, Miguel Zénon, Robin Eubanks and Matt Penman, among others. The third edition of the partnership project between the festival and the Porta-Jazz will have as main guest saxophonist John Mortágua who will perform alongside other young European musicians, and will have the collaboration of the artist Hernani Reis Baptista.
The twenty-five years of the Guimarães Jazz will be marked with a concert directed by Portuguese composer Marco Barroso, leading a broad education that included his Big Band LUME (which has gone through an upward path statement in the panorama jazzy Portuguese and European), the Band of the Musical Society of Pevidém and BJazz Choir Jazz Coexistence School, a project that aims to establish communicating vessels between the festival and the local community. It will also be released a book summary of the history of the festival, conceived as an exercise in honor of the musicians and the public who participated in its construction, in which it presents a perspective that is to be factual and objective of the path trodden by Guimarães Jazz from the moment from its founding to the present – oriented narrative for that, according to the sociologist Zygmunt Bauman, is the spirit of modern man: a being who goes through the world, “shaping the report, giving continuity to the episodic and making fragmentary whole “.
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