To the programmer of the initiative, Duarte Mendonça, the coming of this duo to the event is “pride” reason, since the participation of two musicians was scheduled for the festival in 2014, not having realized by budget problems, said the agency itself Lusa.
For Duarte Mendonça, Roseanna Vitro is “undoubtedly an indisputable lady and especially versatile talent, combining the exquisite taste of their choices, always subject to ‘demure swing` laying in their interpretations, almost instrumental treatment of your corner, making it one of the most interesting female voices of our time. ”
As for the pianist, the developer believes that “figure, surely among the half dozen large [musicians] timeless and unclassifiable style that today keep alive the splendor of an instrument that has brought so many glories of jazz.”
“It is at the same time, a creator of musical moments, in which the classicism and modernity come together in an unpredictable and never accommodated, thus enriching, like few others, the music playing and it touches,” he added.
Programming this year’s Estoril Jazz, which runs until May 17, when in the Casino Estoril auditorium, still on the trumpeter Sean Jones Quartet, which operates on Sunday.
On the 16th, we present the trumpeter quartet Ricardo Toscano, the programmer ranks “a serious case in the Portuguese jazz scene”, and that Opus 5, on the 17th, presented the project “The Mingus alumni,” alluding to ” lineage “of” bebop “opened by Charlie Mingus.
According to Duarte Mendonça, Opus 5 is “one of the most formidable groups to emerge in the modern jazz scene in New York.”
The group is formed by trumpeter Alex Sipiagin, saxophonist Seamus Blake, the pianist David Kikoski, bassist Boris Kozlov and drummer Donald Edwards. “All of them leaders in their own right, balanced composition and improvisation in their two albums, Introducing Opus` 5`, 2011, and `PentaSonic`, 2012,” said the programmer.
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