3 Desejos # 47

Terry Gibbs

"I would like to have access to all the money I can have.
I’d like to be a billionaire!
I’d like to have my own club and play when I feel like playing."

Pois, pois ... # 146

"There is no life I know to compare with pure imagination.
Living there, you'll be free if you truly wish to be."



Willy Wonka & the chocolate factory (1971), Mel Stuart

Quotes # 202

(Lionel Hampton Orchestra por William Claxton)

Music was our wife, and we loved her. And we stayed with her, and we clothed her, and we put diamond rings on her hands.
Lionel Hampton

Traços de jazz # 1

(Artwork: David Stone Martin, 1958)

Programa dos concertos Jazz at the Philharmonic nos Estados Unidos e na digressão pela Grã-Bretanha.

Rouxinol comum

Rouxinol comum
(Luscinia megarhynchos)



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(Rouxinol comum - Nightingale)

Pois, pois ... # 145

"I want the fairy tale."



Pretty woman (1990), Garry Marshall

What's your name # 42

"Eddie" Gómez - Edgar Gómez (b. 1944)

"Hot Lips" - Oran Thaddeus Page (1908-1954)

"Big T", "The Swingin' Gate" - Weldon Leo Teagarden, a.k.a. Jack Teagarden (1905-1964)

"Tain" - Jeff Watts (b. 1960)

"Slim Harpo" - James Moore (1924-1970)

Sortelha # 2

Sortelha. Aldeia histórica portuguesa, no concelho de Sabugal.

Fotos: O Pescador

Quotes # 201

Foto: O Pescador

Human beings have a natural inclination toward being creative.
Jacob Sacks

Livros de Jazz # 20

The Golden Age of Jazz
William P. Gottlieb

Do final dos anos 30, passando pelos 40, atravessando a Grande Depressão e a 2ª Guerra Mundial.
As big bands, o bop, o jazz moderno. Os retratos de letras e imagens dos grandes músicos. Tatum, Ellington, Basie, Parker, Gillespie, Davis, Holiday, Fitzgerald, e tantos outros, captados pela caneta e pela objectiva do mestre Gottlieb.

Comédias e saltimbancos # 33

Inbal Pinto Dance Company





(Fotos: Elazar C. Harel)

Evan Parker Electro-Acoustic Ensemble

Evan Parker Electro-Acoustic Ensemble no Jazz em Agosto.
Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, 8 de Agosto de 2010.

Evan Parker - saxofone soprano
Ned Rothenberg - clarinete, shakuhachi
Peter van Bergen - clarinete
Peter Evans - trompete
Ko Ishikawa - sho
Agustí Fernández - piano
John Russell - guitarra
Barry Guy - contrabaixo
Aleks Kolkowski - objectos
Phil Wachsmann - violino, electrónica
Paul Lytton - percussões, electrónica

Richard Barret, Lawrence Casserly, Paul Obermayer, Kjell Bjorgeengen
Joel Ryan, Walter Prati, Marco Vecchi, Ikue Mori - electrónica


















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3 Desejos # 46

(Foto de Billy Taylor por Tom Pich)

"Wish I had the time to do all the things that I’m interested in.
Wish I had the time to spend with all the people and things I care about.
I wish I had the time."

Livros de Jazz # 19

Jazz Idiom
(Blueprints, stills and frames)
Charles L. Robinson

As fotografias de jazz de Charles L. Robinson. São cerca de 4 dezenas de fotografias, pequenos textos e notas biográficas alusivos aos músicos, num estilo solto e liberto de moldes.
Monk, Ellington, Mingus, Gillespie, Davis, Mulligan, mas também Joe Morello, Gabor Szabo, Don Ellis, entre outros.