Quotes # 150

Jazz is neither specific repertoire, nor academic exercise... but a way of life.
Lester Bowie

Uma foto, uma música # 24

Reinhard Goebel
(Foto: Christina Bleier)



Reinhard Goebel & Musica Antiqua Köln
Konzert für 2 chalumeaux d-moll
(Georg Philipp Telemann)

Quotes # 149

Critics must have been created on the seventh day. Because if God had created them on the first day, what on earth would they have done?
Edmond and Jules de Goncourt

(via About last night)

Comédias e saltimbancos # 25

Gidon Kremer
(Foto: Kasskara)


Kremerata Baltica

Quotes # 148

I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
Tony Bennett

Clifford Brown

Hoje, dia 30 de Outubro, o trompetista Clifford Brown completaria 80 anos.

Clifford Brown & Max Roach
(Foto: Herman Leonard)

Walter Payton

Walter Payton (1942-2010)
Preservation Hall Jazz Band bassist


Foto de Walter Payton por Jennifer Zdon

O novo CD de Sara Serpa

Sara Serpa, com o pianista e seu mestre de estudos Ran Blake, lançou o CD “Camera Obscura” no catálogo Inner Circle Music.

Sara Serpa
(Foto: Hervé Hette)


Ran Blake
(Foto: Adam Mills)

Pode ouvi-la a falar sobre este trabalho com Jason Crane, em “The Jazz Session”, no seu último podcast.

Ouça aqui



Ran Blake & Sara Serpa
Camera Obscura

Pode igualmente ouvir esta jovem cantora lusa, em alguns dos temas do CD, em MySpace, no seu site conjunto com Ran Blake.

Ouça aqui

Serpa may well establish herself in the top tiers of singers in the next few years; if she does, her stature will be traced back to the promise these performances exude.
Bill Shoemaker

Quotes # 147

Roberta Gambarini & Hank Jones
(Foto: Groovin' High Records)

Con l'amicizia la musica funziona meglio.
Roberta Gambarini

Pois, pois ... # 95

"There can be no understanding between the hand and the brain
unless the heart acts as mediator."



Metropolis (1927), Fritz Lang

Semana da caldeirada

Esta semana foram servidos pratos de caldeirada rica nos 5 continentes.
O serviço de catering faz o que pode. Entre aulas, magníficas tardes de Outono, novos CDs de jazz, e muitas e boas pescarias de achigãs!

Enjoy!

3 Desejos # 30

John Ore (b. 1933)
Contrabaixista de jazz

"To be able to play-play well.
To be all over the world, in good health.
To have a time-machine."

Eddie Henderson

Hoje, 26 de Outubro, Dr. Eddie Henderson, trompetista de jazz, completa 70 anos de idade.

Happy 70th anniversary Dr. Henderson!

Pelo Vale do Lucriz # 1

Parede de pedra de um palheiro, no Vale do Lucriz.




Pequena ave, no Vale do Lucriz.

Fotos: O Pescador

Quotes # 146

Mary Lou Williams
(Artwork: Keith Henry Brown)

I wonder what an agent would do if he had to travel with the band he's booking.
Mary Lou Williams

Quotes # 145

Foto de Randy Weston por Ariane Smolderen

The heart is the first instrument that man became aware of, and I’m sure that’s how the drum came to be.
It is as old as civilisation itself and if you look around you, you’ll realise that the whole world is based on rhythm.
Randy Weston

Pois, pois ... # 94

"Elsie?... Elsie?... ELSIE!"



M (1931), Fritz Lang



Peter Lorre

Jelly Roll Morton

Hoje, 20 de Outubro, o pianista, chefe de orquestra e compositor, Ferdinand Joseph LaMothe completaria 120 anos.

Jelly Roll Morton

Marion Brown

Marion Brown
(1931-2010)


Foto de Marion Brown por Giuseppe Pino

Clips de letras # 4

As it turned out, Benny [Goodman] was scheduled to play at the same festival on a different night. Somehow he learned I'd [Milt Hinton] be out there and he called me. "I hear we're going to be playing at Concord next month," he said. "Listen, I'd like it if you would play for me."
"Sure, Benny," I told him. “What's it like?"
"How’s one fifty?" he answered.
I was speechless for a couple of seconds. I was going out there for a thousand and transportation, and he was offering me one fifty.
"Oh, Benny, for goodness' sake!".
"Well, look, I want you to be happy. What do you want?"
I thought for a moment, "Five hundred".
He hung up.
(in Hinton, Milt; Playing the changes)

Pois, pois ... # 93

"He'll regret it till his dying day,
if ever he lives that long."



The quiet man (1952), John Ford

Quotes # 144

Cominciai da ribelle, poi il jazz mi ha indirizzato.
Maria João

Pharoah Sanders

Hoje, 13 de Outubro, Farrell Sanders completa 70 anos.

Happy 70th anniversary Mr. Sanders!

Bons amigos. Não os esqueça!

Ente Nazionale Protezione Animali, Italia.

Uma música, um filme # 37

America (Leonard Bernstein & Stephen Sondheim)

West Side Story (Jerome Robbins & Robert Wise, 1961)



Rita Moreno & George Chakiris

Zebreira # 1

Azulejos na vila de Zebreira.

Fotos: O Pescador

What's your name # 25

"Brownie" – Clifford Brown (1930-1956)

"Mex" – Paul Gonsalves (1920-1974)

"The king of rock 'n soul", "Big soul" – Solomon Burke (1940-2010)

"Connie Kay" – Conrad Henry Kirnon (1927-1994)

"Memphis Slim" – John Len Chatman (1915-1988)

As pedras de Ceclavín # 1

Pedras, nos arredores de Ceclavín.

Fotos: O Pescador

Solomon Burke

Solomon Burke
(1940-2010)

Yusef Lateef

E no dia de ontem, 9 de Outubro, William Emanuel Huddleston, a.k.a. Yusef Lateef, completou 90 anos.

Many more years to Mr. Lateef!

Pepper Adams

Hoje, dia 8 de Outubro, o saxofonista barítono Park Adams III (1930-1986) completaria 80 anos.

Pepper Adams e Jimmy Rowles
Fotografia de William Claxton

Pois, pois ... # 92

"Man has a choice
and it's a choice that makes him a man."



East of Eden (1955), Elia Kazan



James Dean

Quotes # 143

Foto de Dizzy Gillespie por William P. Gottlieb

It's taken me all my life to learn what not to play.
Dizzy Gillespie

3 Desejos # 29

Foto de Horace Silver por Jim Marshall

"Immortality.
To be rich.
A baby."

Steve Swallow

Hoje, 4 de Outubro de 2010, Steve Swallow completa 70 anos.

Foto de Steve Swallow por Klaus Muempfer

Happy 70th anniversary Mr. Swallow!

Júlio Resende + Joel Silva

2 Much

Júlio Resende e Joel Silva actuaram a noite passada na Moagem (MOAZZ - Ciclo de Jazz do Fundão).

Júlio Resende - fender rhodes






Joel Silva - bateria

Fotos de Júlio Resende e Joel Silva pelo Pescador

Pois, pois ... # 91

"Today is a good day to die."



Little big man (1970), Arthur Penn





Arthur Hiller Penn (1922-2010)

Clips de letras # 3

"Now Charles [Mingus]," he [Duke] says, looking amused, putting Cartier links into the cuffs of his beautiful handmade shirt, "you could have forewarned me – you left me out of the act entirely! At least you could have let me cue in a few chords as you ran through that Nijinsky routine. I congratulate you on your performance, but why didn’t you and Juan [Tizol] inform me about the adagio you planned so that we could score it?

I must say I never saw a large man so agile – I never saw anybody make such tremendous leaps! The gambado over the piano carrying your bass was colossal. When you exited after that I thought 'That man’s really afraid of Juan’s knife and at the speed he’s going he’s probably home in bed by now'.
But no, back you came through the same door with your bass still intact. For a moment I was hopeful you’d decided to sit down and play but instead you slashed Juan’s chair in two with a fire axe!

Really, Charles, that’s destructive. Everybody knows Juan has a knife but nobody ever took it seriously – he likes to pull it out and show it to people, you understand. So I’m afraid, Charles – I’ve never fired anybody – you’ll have to quit my band. I don’t need any new problems. Juan’s an old problem. I can cope with that, but you seem to have a whole bag of new tricks. I must ask you to be kind enough to give me your notice, Mingus."
(in Mingus, Charles; Beneath the underdog)

Quotes # 142

The things you do to become a good person are relevant in becoming a good jazz musician.
Bill Cunliffe