Festa do Jazz book
European Jazz Conference 2018
Headquarter Orquestra Jazz de Matosinhos
L.U.M.E.
Pedro Melo Alves
João Paulo Esteves da Silva (c)Vitorino Coragem
Presentation Jazz School during European Jazz Conference 2018 in Lisbon
Carlos Bica (c) Vitorino Coragem
Carlos Martins (c) Vitorino Coragem
My first encounter with jazz in Portugal happened in 2008 after I had joined a tour of the group of oud-player Rabih Abou-Khalil collaborating with Portuguese singer Ricardo Ribeiro in the project “Em Portugues”. The most surprising thing then and in the following years was the perception of a highly characteristic, thriving scene of free improvisation with cross-generational musicians and audiences In Portugal. That perception was my entrée and in subsequent years my anchorage. Getting acquainted then with record store Trem Azul and associated Clean Feed label near Cais de Sodre in Lisbon was another inspirational factor and influential guidance into Lusitanian jazz spheres and its free impro circles for the next years. Last but not least I gained my first experiences with the festival Jazz em Agosto , an extraordinary, weighty two-week summer festival at the exclusive park of famous Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon. Viewed from today’s perspective, the program of Jazz em Agosto I witnessed, was – quite thrilling and fairly advanced in a clearly distinctive way compared with other festivals: a good number of Japanese musicians, Anthony Braxton in configurations with Mary Halvorson and Taylor Ho Bynum, Sylvie Courvoisier’s Lonelyville, Barre Phillips with Pascal Contet, John Zorn in duo with Fred Frith and Brötzmann’s Chicago Tentet (for an account of this see here). Jazz em Agosto would become a place to discover and experience thrilling music and coming in close contact with colorful personalities as Butch Morris, Bill Dixon, Jack DeJohnette, Wadada Leo Smith, Tim Berne, Darius Jones, Julien Desprez, Eve Risser among others as well as Portuguese musicians and groups like the Red Trio). At my first encounter the scene turned out as a close active network of firing lines. The Trem Azul store and its collection was heaven on earth, a paradise for finding and discovering albums and the (night) sessions there were legendary (a closer look at it you can find here).
Henning Bolte, Amsterdam
(c) Eric van Nieuwland
Writer, radio maker, visual artist, advisor (Performing Arts Fund NL, Dutch Arts Council), curator/concert presenter (Pianolab.Amsterdam) and university teacher/researcher (University of Utrecht, Utrecht University College). Born and raised in the Harz mountains (Germany), he did a university study in Göttingen (Germany) in Linguistics and Political Sciences, migrated to the Netherlands and obtained his Ph.D. at the University of Utrecht. As a European out of passion, the past ten years he intensely traveled Europe attending numerous Jazz Festivals writing about regional (inter)cultural characteristics and European collaboration for different magazines in Germany, The Netherlands, Belgium, Estonia, Great Britain, France and the US.
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