Jazz in August: Music beyond the stage – Overview

Marcia Lessa

More than three decades passed since the first edition, the jazz in August remains a reference in the jazz scene in Portugal, with insightful posters, as risky as comprehensive, which have consolidated their identity over time. at usual concerts, will be 14 in total, the festival together this year a vast and ambitious program, which includes exhibition of documentary films, conversations and conferences on music and the presentation of a book.

the American guitarist Marc Ribot starts to this year’s Jazz in August

the beginning of this true jazz marathon is already given this Thursday, 4 at night, the Open Air Amphitheatre, where the American guitarist Marc Ribot, who has already had acted two years ago, presents the new project the young Philadelphians, a concert created exclusively for this occasion, in partnership with the Portuguese group Lisbon String Trio. Friday 5, the same musician presents the soil, this time in the room Polivalente the Modern Art Centre, to follow up with your guitar display of Shadows Choose Their Horrors, a Jennifer Reeves movie inspired by the movie horror classic mute. Also on this day, but in the amphitheater, still operates the American quintet Tim Berne Snakeoil, led by saxophonist Tim Berne.

Saturday night, 6, marks the return of the acclaimed American trumpeter Peter Evans, habitual visit festival in various formations and that this time is presented with the trio Pulverize the Sound, while on Sunday, 7, takes the stage at the White Desert Orchestra, a collective led by French pianist Eve Risser, considered one of the greatest composers of the current European jazz .

In the second, 8, the Tetterapadequ are presented, a project of Italian Daniele Martini (saxophone) and Giovanni di Domenico (piano) and the Portuguese Goncalo Almeida (bass) and John Wolf (drums); and Tuesday, 9, the French quartet Petite Moutarde, which will play over clips from films of directors René Clair, Marcel Duchamp and Man Ray.

On Wednesday, 10, the national jazz back to be highlighted with the joint concert of Portuguese tubist Sérgio Carolino and Swiss tuba player Oren Marshall, habitual collaborator of people as different as Bobby McFerrin, Radiohead or Charlie Haden). The festival then continues until the 14th, with the presence of names like Ava Mendoza Unnatural Ways, Z-Country Paradise, Paal Nilssen-Love, Thomas De Pourquery Supersonic, Frank Gratkowski and Paal Nilssen-Love Large Unit.

the jazz will also be off the stage, with the screening of three documentaries French publisher RogueArt and two conversations between the saxophonist Evan Parker and musicologist David Toop, which will have as its theme the traditional music endangered and new improvised music. the book will be presented The Sound of the North , the Italian journalist Luca Vitali, over the last 50 years of the Scandinavian jazz scene.

Jazz in August & gt; Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation & gt; Avenida de Berna, 45, Lisbon & gt.; T. 21 782 3000 & gt; August 4-14 & gt; € 7.50 to € 110 (pass)