Roy Eldridge

Hoje, dia 30 de Janeiro de 2011, o trompetista de jazz norte-americano Roy David Eldridge completaria 100 anos.

Foto de "Little Jazz" por William P. Gottlieb

Pois, pois ... # 112

When you've got 'em by the balls,
their hearts and minds will follow.



All the President's Men (1976), Alan J. Pakula

Playlist - Janeiro

O gira-discos Grooveshark está a tocar música nova.
O catálogo ECM domina esta última selecção de música que conta também com 2 grandes formações - as orquestras de Maria Schneider e Christine Jensen.

Anouar Brahem - Le voyage de Sahar (2006)
Le voyage de Sahar (Anouar Brahem)


Mark Johnson - Shades of jade (2005)
Shades of jade (Mark Johnson & Eliane Elias)




Christine Jensen Jazz Orchestra - Treelines (2010)
Dancing sunlight (Christine Jensen)




Norma Winstone - Distances (2008)
Drifter (Klaus Gesing & Norma Winstone)


Marcin Wasilewski - January (2008)
Cinema Paradiso (Ennio & Andrea Morricone)


Charles Lloyd - Mirror (2010)
Go down Moses (Traditional)




Maria Schneider - Sky blue (2007)
The "pretty" road (Maria Schneider)

Gouveia # 1

Chafariz na cidade de Gouveia.

Fotos: O Pescador

Livros de jazz # 7

Stars of jazz
Ray Avery

Álbum fotografias de Ray Avery, a preto e branco, onde os músicos da West Coast têm lugar de destaque.
Os verdes anos de Terry Gibbs, Laurindo Almeida, Bob Brookmeyer, Paul Horn, Dave Pell, Art Pepper, Shorty Rogers, entre muitos outros.

Uma música, um filme # 39

Put the blame on Mame (Allan Roberts & Doris Fisher)

Gilda (Charles Vidor, 1946)



Rita Hayworth dubbed by Anita Ellis

D'ouro te chamam

Tarambola dourada (Pluvialis apricaria), fotografada na estrada entre Monforte da Beira e Rosmaninhal.

Foto: O Pescador

Young Tuxedo Brass Band

Jazz na Cidade 88

A Young Tuxedo Brass Band, no dia 29 de Maio de 1988, no coreto do Jardim da Estrela - Lisboa.

Fotos da Young Tuxedo Brass Band pelo Pescador

Pois, pois ... # 111

"A week ago I bought a rifle, I went to the store - I bought a rifle! I was gonna, you know, if they told me I had a tumor, I was gonna kill myself. The only thing that might-ve stopped me - MIGHT'VE - is that my parents would be devastated. I would have to shoot them also, first. And then I have an aunt and uncle - you know - it would've been a blood bath."

Hannah and her sisters (1986), Woody Allen

Quotes # 166

I stopped defining music a long time ago. It’s just a part of life. This music is my therapy and allows me to put every bit of me into it.
Jason Moran

Clips de letras # 10

Paul Motian recalls the time he played a burlesque club on New York’s 52nd Street in the mid-1950s.
“This stripper would come up to me and stick her tits in my face and say, ‘When I do this grind, you hit that tom-tom!’ she says. “One of them asked me to get her some weed, so I did. She let me hang out in their dressing room. They’re all naked and I’m hanging out with them! It was great! But I got fired after a couple weeks. The owner said, ‘You can’t play here. You don’t look like a burlesque drummer. You’re not bald.’ You had to be bald. I wasn’t bald.”
(in Downbeat Magazine - November, 2010)

Eduardo Gageiro

Os retratos e a música...

Sammy Davis Jr.


Amália Rodrigues


Gilbert Bécaud


Carlos Paredes


Maria João Pires

Fotografias de Eduardo Gageiro.

Pois, pois ... # 110

"I’m the king of the world."



Titanic (1997), James Cameron

Horace Parlan

Hoje, dia 19 de Janeiro, o pianista de jazz norte-americano Horace Lumont Parlan completa 80 anos.

Foto: Sundance music aps

Happy 80th anniversary Mr. Parlan!

Quotes # 165

Artwork: Alastair Graham

The thing that makes jazz so interesting is that each man is his own academy... If he’s really going to be persuasive, he learns about other academies, but the idea is that he must have that special thing.
And sometimes you don’t even know what it is.
Cecil Taylor

What's your name # 30

"Ziggy Elman" - Harry Aaron Finkelman (1914-1968)

Pat "Martino" - Pat Azzara (b. 1944)

"Professor Longhair", "Fess" - Henry Roeland Byrd (1918-1980)

"Bags" - Milton Jackson a.k.a. Milt Jackson (1923-1999)

"Big Joe" Turner, "Boss of the blues" - Joseph Vernon Turner (1911-1985)

Sábado com asas

Poupa (Upupa epops)
(À entrada de Perais)


Rola turca (Streptopelia decaocto)
(Lentiscais)


Cegonha branca (Ciconia ciconia)
(Monte da Coutada - Perais)


Um par de trigueirões (Emberiza calandra)
(Lentiscais)

Fotos: O Pescador

Quotes # 164

All’inizio noi eravamo vestiti di nero, spesso ci presentavamo al pubblico in smoking. La nostra idea era di presentarci come un gruppo, senza lasciare molto tempo alle manifestazioni individuali anche sul piano formale.
John Lewis

3 Desejos # 34

Bernard Atwell McKinney, a.k.a. Kiane Zawadi (b. 1932)
Jazz trombonist and euphonium player


Foto: Brooklyn Arts Council

"To be as fluent on my instrument as Bird was on his.
To be making as much money as Bird should have been making.
To have a gig where I would be free to express myself."

Por Ceclavín

Huerta El Arenal, nos arredores de Ceclavín.

Fotos: O Pescador

Pois, pois ... # 109

The critics? No, I have nothing but compassion for them.
How can I hate the crippled, the mentally deficient, and the dead?



The Dresser (1983), Peter Yates




Peter Yates (1929-2011)

Livros de jazz # 6

American Musicians II – Seventy-two Portraits in Jazz
Whitney Balliett

Ninguém como Whitney Balliett (1926-2007) consegue encontrar palavras mais certas para retratar algumas das personagens marcantes da história do jazz.
De Jelly Roll Morton a Cecil Taylor, estes “Seventy-two portraits” contam-nos episódios, frases, conversas, maneiras de viver e de pensar, libertos das limitações do ensaio biográfico e de outros modelos formais.
Verdadeiramente imprescindível.

Clips de letras # 9

Charlie Parker por Charles Levenson

I remember the time I tried jamming for the first time when I was just starting to learn. It was at the High Hat at Twenty-second and Vine in Kansas City. I knew a little of Lazy River and Honeysuckle Rose and played what I could.

It wasn’t hard to hear the changes because the numbers were easy and the reed men set a riff only for the brass, never behind a reed man. No two horns jammed at the same time.

I was doing all right until I tried doing double tempo on Body and Soul. Everybody fell out laughing. I went home and cried and didn’t play again for three months.
(in Shapiro, Nat e Hentoff, Nat: Hear me talkin’ to ya)

Quotes # 163

Foto de Jimmy Heath por Jimmy Katz

If you don’t have the whole spiritual thing, I don’t think jazz is complete... If I can’t communicate, I don’t care how hip the music is supposed to be, how avant garde, how square or whatever, I don’t think it’s worth producing.
Jimmy Heath

Olhó pardal!

Pardalito (Passer domesticus), em Monforte da Beira.

Foto: O Pescador

Quotes # 162

Artwork: Frederick J. Brown

Seemed to me that drumming was the best way to get close to God.
Lionel Hampton

Pois, pois ... # 108

"Who said that? Gary Cooper? James Stewart? Henry Fonda? Eh?"

"No, Toto. Nobody said it. This time it's all me. Life isn't like in the movies. Life... is much harder."

Cinema Paradiso (1988), Giuseppe Tornatore

Pois, pois ... # 107

"There's nothin' like a good smoke and a cuppa' coffee. You know, some men got the craving for gold and silver. Others need lotsa' land, with herds of cattle. And then there's those that got the weakness for whiskey, and for women. When you boil it all down, what does a man really need? Just a smoke and a cup of coffee."

Johnny Guitar (1954), Nicholas Ray

Segura e o Rio Erges

Aldeia de Segura

Brasão


Pelourinho


Pedras, junto ao Rio Erges

Rio Erges

Ponte sobre o Rio Erges

Fronteira Portugal - Espanha

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