The 33rd edition starts tonight. Another Jazz in August at the Gulbenkian in Lisbon, with concerts in the magnificent setting of the outdoor amphitheater and multipurpose room. Two weeks of music is to be enlightening and demanding. We will see names returning, as Marc Ribot, who will inaugurate the festival at 21.30 with its Young Philadelphians, and projects that première in this scenario, as the White Desert Orchestra of French pianist Eve Risser.
the balance and dialogue between the two sides of the Atlantic, between jazz that buzzes in North America and which bears fruit in Europe. This is Jazz in August and is so long. Already we know it. But do not be deceived. This familiarity born of an essential characteristic:. Knowing the Jazz in August, we know that we will be surprised, challenged
This is most perspective is, on the issue that coincides with the 60th anniversary of the Gulbenkian Foundation Gulbenkian. Until August 14, we will see the 14 concerts. We will film in the Multipurpose Room: will show Off the Road and Chicago Improvisations , Laurence Petit-Jouvet, both dedicated to the German bassist Peter Kowald, who died in 2002, and Electric Ascension Live at Guelph Jazz Festival 2012 , John Rogers, recording a concert in the Rova Saxophone Quartet recreates Ascension , the 1966 album history of John Coltrane (free entry) . We will also debate and reflection, with saxophonist Evan Parker and writer and musician David Toop conversation in the Multipurpose Room of the traditional songs that are extinct on the planet and the born improvised music in the 1960s (also free admission).
also written work, with the presentation of the Sound of North – Norway And the European Jazz Scene , the Italian Luca Vitali, the first book dedicated to telling exhaustive history Scandinavian jazz. The presentation will take place on 13, Saturday and precedes the solo concert of one of the musicians, Paal Nilssen-Love, which is the gift of story that the book evokes. The drummer, one of the most active and virtuous in the current picture is, moreover, one of the festival highlights. Apart from this action solo, the Jazz will end honors in August, Sunday 14, with a concert of the Large Unit. Formed in 2013, gather around the drummer on the Peter Brötzmann and Ken Vandermark 13 musicians who, as noted in the presentation of the festival its artistic director, Rui Neves, represent “some of the most promising talents of the Scandinavian jazz.” With them will be the farewell of Jazz in August. But back to the beginning.
Marc Ribot needs no introduction. The guitarist who returns to the festival after the celebrated passage in 2014, the musician who over the years have become accustomed to see next to adventurers like John Zorn and Tom Waits, but who have long followed the trodden path independently, star in two concerts. In the first, the opening of the Jazz in August, will be presented with the Young Philadelphians, quartet dedicated to cross the path between electrical vertigo Ornette Coleman in their Prime Time and the groove and orchestral opulence of Philly Soul 1970s – not by chance, the group will be accompanied by the Lisbon String Trio assembled for the occasion. Friday will also Ribot the first to climb the stage, this time the soil and Multipurpose Room – or almost: the soil that star in accompanying the pictures Shadows Choose Their Horrors , Jennifer Reeves, film worked from the horror movie memories of the early twentieth century.
the close link between music and film will come also through the Petite Moutarde. The group led by violinist and violist Theo Ceccaldi (elected musician French revelation by Jazz Magazine in 2014) will eliminate temporal distances Tuesday, November 9, at 21:30, when you do hear in the Amphitheatre on Snippet Man Ray’s films, René Clair and Marcel Duchamp.
over the 11-day festival, we will have the opportunity to take the pulse to the vitality and diversity of contemporary jazz. As usual, the proposals make up a healthy diversity. As for the Portuguese presence in theaters, highlight, the 10th, at 21.30, for the premiere of Tuba And Drums Double Duo – Sérgio Carolino and Oren Marshall on tuba, Alexandre Frazão and Mario Costa on drums – , and attention, 8th, at the same time, to the Portuguese-Italian meeting, signed in the Hague, played by Tetterapadequ, quartet of drummer John Wolf, bassist Goncalo Almeida, pianist Giovanni di Domenico and saxophonist Daniele Martini.
on the eve of the end of the Jazz in August, the 13th, the French saxophonist Thomas Pourquery leads the Supersonic an idiosyncratic tribute to the legacy of unmatched Sun Ra. Sunday, March 7, at 21:30, we find the Amphitheater the White Desert Orchestra vehicle for the talents as songwriter leader Eve Risser. The day before, at the same time, same place, Peter Evans, Tim Dahl and Mike Pride, the Pulverize The Sound show music without reins since 2010 are creating dawn in a Brooklyn studio. We meet again Tim Dahl 11, part of the trio led by Ava Mendoza, guitarist whose jazz contaminated by blues founder and the punk rawness caught the attention of John Zorn, who included it in the catalog of his Tzadik.
Other type of cross propose the Z-Country Paradise German Frank Gratkowski. In the New York City Jazz Record , given this new project saxophonist born in Hamburg as “punk cabaret”. Truth is there in them an unbridled energy motivated by the poetry of Rimbaud, among others, sung by singer and actress Serbian Jelena Kuljic. The Z-Country Paradise act on 12 September at 21.30 and Gratowski presents itself again in Jazz in August, the soil, the festival’s closing day, at 18:30.
Before that, already tomorrow, Friday -feira, come the Snakeoil saxophonist Tim Berne, leader of a quintet formed in 2011 to explore what comes when it chooses to ignore that there are rules to be followed. The Jazz in August has rules, but is animated by a similar spirit: to defend the risk and challenge, reveal the history that is renewed in this
Tickets for the concerts vary between 7.5 and. 20 euros. The overall pass costs 110 euros and performances soil Paal Nilssen-Love and Frank Gratkowski and conversations between Evan Parker and David Toop and all the films shown have free entry.
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