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Bigas Luna

Bigas Luna
(1946-2013)

- ¡Eres un guarro!
- ¡Y tú una jamona!

Jamón, jamón (1992), Bigas Luna

Silvia, la Jamona
(Penélope Cruz)

Os melhores CDs de Jazz de 2012

Os críticos votaram!
Foram 119, nos EUA, que elegeram os melhores do jazz em 2012.

Album of the Year

1. Vijay Iyer Trio, Accelerando (ACT)

2. Sam Rivers / Dave Holland / Barry Altschul, Reunion: Live in New York (Pi)

3. Wadada Leo Smith, Ten Freedom Summers (Cuneiform)

4. Ryan Truesdell, Centennial: Newly Discovered Works of Gil Evans (ArtistShare)

5. Ravi Coltrane, Spirit Fiction (Blue Note)

6. Henry Threadgill Zooid, Tomorrow Sunny/The Revelry Spp (Pi)

7. Branford Marsalis Quartet, Four MFs Playin' Tunes (Marsalis Music)

8. Tim Berne, Snakeoil (ECM)

9. Steve Lehman Trio, Dialect Fluorescent (Pi)

10. Billy Hart, All Our Reasons (ECM)


Best Reissue

1. Charles Mingus, The Jazz Workshop Concerts: 1964-65 (Mosaic)

2. Coleman Hawkins, Classic Sessions 1922-1947 (Mosaic)

3. Charles Mingus, The Complete Columbia and RCA Albums Collection (Sony Legacy)


Best Vocal Album

Neneh Cherry & The Thing, The Cherry Thing (Smalltown Supersound)


Best Debut Album

Ryan Truesdell, Centennial: Newly Discovered Works of Gil Evans (ArtistShare)


Best Latin Album

Bobby Sanabria Big Band, Multiverse (Jazzheads)

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Nagisa Ôshima

- You want to make love all the time, huh?
- You don't think it's wrong, do you?
- I think it's wonderful. You're beautiful.



Ai no korîda (1976), Nagisa Ôshima





Nagisa Ôshima
(1932 – 2013)

Uma foto, uma música # 31

David Warren Brubeck
(1920 - 2012)



(Dave Brubeck por Bruce Weber)

Three to get ready

Dave Brubeck Quartet

Pelos campos

Flor



Lagartixa



Pisco de peito ruivo



Raposa


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Pois, pois ... # 171

- Are you really saying the President can do something illegal?
- I'm saying that when the President does it, it's *not* illegal!



Frost/Nixon (2008), Ron Howard

Uma música, um filme # 48

"It's lonesome for a guy to be without a dog."



Of mice and men (1939), Lewis Milestone




Betty Field (1913-1973)



Threshing machines (Aaron Copland)

Of mice and men (Lewis Milestone, 1939)

New Philharmonia Orchestra

Aaron Copland, Conductor

Caíram nas redes # 10

Walter Smith III
III (rec. 2010)




Ryan Truesdell
Centennial (rec. 2011)




Conrad Herwig
The tip of the sword (rec. 1994)

Quotes # 219

(Foto de John Lee Hooker por Elde Stewart)

The stuff they're doin' now – the disco and everything else – it's taken from the blues. The music they cal "soul music", you know, it's the blues. So disco is not soul; rock'n'roll is not soul. The blues is soul.
John Lee Hooker

John Tchicai

John Martin Tchicai
Saxofonista de jazz e compositor


(Foto de John Tchicai por Jacob Ehrbahn)

(1936-2012)

Pois, pois ... # 170

"If you want justice, go to a whorehouse.
If you wanna get fucked, go to court."



Primal fear (1996), Gregory Hoblit

Pessoas

Pastor, na Ribeira do Açafal.






Pescador, na Lagoa de Óbidos.

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Uma foto, uma música # 30

Tierney Sutton por Pamela Springsteen

Wayfaring stranger (Traditional)

The Tierney Sutton Band - American road

Quotes # 218

(Foto: Rose Anne Colavito)

Jazz is there and gone. It happens. You have to be present for it. That simple.
Keith Jarrett

Os bosques da Marateca

Esquilo vermelho





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Pois, pois ... # 169

"- How'd you sleep?
- Like a baby. Woke up every two hours and cried."



The greatest game ever played (2005), Bill Paxton

Quotes # 217

(Artwork: Antonio Montanaro)

Tomorrow is the question.
Ornette Coleman

Caíram nas redes # 9

Myra Melford - Trio M
The guest house (rec. 2011)




Gianluigi Trovesi & Gianni Coscia
Frère Jacques - Round about Offenbach (rec. 2009)

Von Freeman

Earl Lavon Freeman Sr.
saxofonista tenor



(1922-2012)

Uma música, um filme # 47

Solid potato salad (Don Raye & Gene de Paul)

Broadway rhythm (Roy Del Ruth, 1944)



The Ross Sisters

3 Desejos # 51

(Foto de Cedar Walton & Art Blakey por Francis Wolff)

"I don’t know how to word this... I’d like to have immediate access to the world, you know? Anywhere I wanted to go.
To have my own band and to be able to swing no matter how I feel. Playing with Art [Blakey] demands that!
I wish jazz was accepted like everything else."

"Uncle" Lionel Batiste

Lionel Batiste



(1931-2012)

Pois, pois ... # 168

"Can't trust a woman in a pants suit. Men wear the pants.
The world doesn't need anymore Hillary Clintons."




Breach (2007), Billy Ray

Pois, pois ... # 167

"You don't get to be good-hearted by accident.
You get kicked around long enough, you become a professor of pain."



Marty (1955), Delbert Mann





Ermes Effron Borgnino
(1917-2012)