Jazz em Agosto 2016

Jazz em Agosto 2016

Thursday, 4 August 2016, 9.30pm

The 33rd edition of the festival Jazz em Agosto, happening together with the 60th anniversary of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, will present twenty events from 4 to 14 August: eleven concerts in the open-air amphitheatre, three solo concerts, three documentary films, two conversations on music in the multi-purpose hall and a book presentation.

This year, the programme presents groups of varying styles from North America and Europe, who continue to share the festival stage. Coming to us from France are three important proponents: Eve Risser|White Desert Orchestra in a big band format, Théo Ceccaldi|Petite Moutarde with a multimedia component inspired, among others, by the film Entr’Acte by René Clair and Thomas de Pourquery|Supersonic, dedicated to Sun Ra. Also notable from Europe are: Z-Country Paradise, a German, Finnish and Serbian quintet based in Berlin, featuring the distinctive voice of Jelena Kuljic under their indispensable leader Frank Gratkowski, and also Large Unit, the most ambitious project of the Norwegian Paal Nilssen-Love which closes Jazz em Agosto 2016. 

The presence of American jazz in the festival reveals its vitality with five projects: Marc Ribot with the project The Young Philadelphians + Lisbon String Trio – who will also give a solo performance with the film Shadows Choose Their Horrors by Jennifer Reeves -, the new five-piece format of Tim Berne’s group Snakeoil, and two radical trios: Pulverize The Sound with Peter Evans and Ava Mendoza’s group Unnatural Ways. Portugal will be represented at Jazz em Agosto 2016 by an unprecedented association in the world premiere of the Tuba and Drums Double Duo with tuba player Sérgio Carolino and the drummers Mário Costa and Alexandre Frazão, and also by Tetterepadequ, an Italian Portuguese quartet including drummer João Lobo and bass player Gonçalo Almeida. 

The Festival also offers various free events in the multi-purpose hall: two solo concerts by Frank Gratkowski and Paal Nilssen-Love, two sessions in the series Sharpen Your Needles with Evan Parker and David Toop, three documentary films that evoke Peter Kowald and the Electric

Ascension project of the Rova Saxophone Quartet, from the RogueArt catalogue, the guest label for this edition of Jazz em Agosto, and finally, the launching of the book The Sound of The North, by 

the Italian journalist Luca Vitali, a look back at Norwegian jazz.

 

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Published by jazzemagostofestival on 27 April 2016

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