Quarta-feira, 25 de Abril de 2012

Quotes # 213


I've found you've got to look back at the old things and see them in a new light.
John Coltrane

Pois, pois ... # 162

"You'll find the shame is like the pain, you only feel it once."



Dangerous Liaisons (1988), Stephen Frears

Sábado, 21 de Abril de 2012

Jazz na Guarda

O Rodrigo Amado Motion Trio, com o convidado Jeb Bishop, estiveram no Café Concerto do Teatro Municipal da Guarda na passada Quinta-feira, 19 de Abril.
Um bom concerto que teve a particularidade de congregar 3 Ceboleiros, e que colmatou um excelente jantar por terras frias da beira.


Rodrigo Amado Motian Trio
Rodrigo Amado - sax tenor
Jeb Bishop - trombone
Miguel Mira - violoncelo
Gabriel Ferrandini - bateria





Rodrigo Amado





Jeb Bishop



Miguel Mira



Gabriel Ferrandini



Rodrigo Amado Motion Trio


Fotos: O Pescador

JJA Awards - 2012 Nominees

Foram anunciadas as nomeações para os JJA Jazz Awards 2012.
No mês de Junho conheceremos os agraciados que serão escolhidos pelos jornalistas profissionais membros da Jazz Journalists Association.
Deixo por cá algumas das categorias mais representativas.

Lifetime Achievement in Jazz
Muhal Richard Abrams
Ron Carter
Wayne Shorter
Horace Silver


Musician of the Year
Ambrose Akinmusire
Vijay Iyer
Joe Lovano
Christian McBride
Sonny Rollins


Record of the Year
James Farm - James Farm (Nonesuch)
Keith Jarrett - Rio (ECM)
Christian McBride's Big Band - The Good Feeling (Mack Avenue Records)
Sonny Rollins - Road Shows, Vol. 2 (Doxy Records)
Wadada Leo Smith's Organic - Heart's Reflections (Cuneiform Records)
Craig Taborn - Avenging Angel (ECM)
Miguel Zenon - Alma Adentro – The Puerto Rican Songbook (Marsalis Music)

Label of the Year
Clean Feed
ECM
Pi Records
Sunnyside Records


Lifetime Achievement in Jazz Journalism
Amiri Baraka
Stanley Crouch
Will Friedwald
Willard Jenkins
Neil Tesser


Blog of the Year
A Blog Supreme - Patrick Jarenwattananon
Do The Math - Ethan Iverson
Jazz Wax - Marc Myers
Rifftides - Doug Ramsey

Todas as nomeações aqui.

Segunda-feira, 16 de Abril de 2012

Jazz em Castelo Branco...

...E do bom !!!

Stacey Kent bisa em Castelo Branco, e Brad Mehldau estreia-se para o público da cidade.
No Cine-Teatro Avenida, a não perder.




Pois, pois ... # 161

"You've never done an honest day's work in your life!"



The barefoot contessa (1954), Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Domingo, 8 de Abril de 2012

Clips de letras # 24


(Foto de Sheila Jordan por David Sinclair)


The Bird meets the Bird

I had a little parakeet that I called Tori. I named him Tori because one of my artist friends, Harvey Cropper, said that Tori means bird in Japanese. I never let the bird out of his cage when anybody came over because he was a real pain in the ass and would land on your face if you were lying down. I taught him to say, “Hello, Bird, hello, sweetheart,” but I would always put him in the cage when anybody came because he wouldn’t talk much when he was in his cage.

So, this one time, Charlie came up to my loft during the daytime. He knocked on my door and said, “Hey, are you home?”
I said, “Yeah, who is it?”
He said, “It’s Bird.”
I said, “Oh yeah, cool. Just a minute, though, I have to get the bird in the cage because otherwise he’ll be jumping all over you.”
Bird said, “No, that’s OK, I don’t really care.”
So I couldn’t get Tori in the cage, but I let Bird in anyway. Bird said, “Can I just rest for a few minutes?”
I said, “Of course.” There was a couch that I called “Bird’s bed,” and I said, “You know where your bed is”.

So Bird goes over to his bed and lies down, and all of a sudden my bird, Tori, flies over to him. I said, “Oh no, look, the bird’s on him.”
Bird was almost asleep, and my bird, Tori, says, “Hello, Bird.”
Bird jumped up because it schocked him. He says to me, “What are you, a ventriloquist?” I said, “No, I didn’t say that. Tori said that.” He says, “Oh, get out of here, of course that was you.”
I said, “No, that was Tori.”
He says, “Oh yeah, right.” So he lies back down again, but this time he’s a little bit more awake. Tori lands right on the side of his shoulder and looks right up in his mouth and says, “Hello, Bird.”
Bird leaps up and says, “Goddamn, that bird does talk.”
I said, “I told you.”

He loved that, because my bird was very clear when he spoke. Tori kept jumping around and saying, “Hello, Bird, hello, sweetheart.”
Bird, needless to say, didn’t get any rest that day. He laughed, gave me a kiss on my cheek, and said, “I’ll see you later.” And he left.
(in Johnson, Ellen and Jordan, Sheila: Jazz child: The story of Sheila Jordan)

Super mulher

A Super mulher e as suas 2 ajudantes, na Barriosa.



Foto: O Pescador

Caíram nas redes # 6



Ali Jackson, Aaron Goldberg & Omer Avital
Yes! (rec. 2009)




NYJazz Initiative
Mad about Thad (rec. 2010)




Westchester Jazz Orchestra
Maiden voyage suite (rec. 2011)

Sexta-feira, 6 de Abril de 2012

3 Desejos # 50


(Foto de Alice Coltrane por Jeff Dunas)

"I'd like to see my little daughter graduate from the University of Paris.
I would dig an artist's colony. Like one block of buildings, or area, where artists and musicians could get together, and teach, and study. Artists could display their art. Writers – we'd allow them in too, but it'd be mostly artists and musicians. We'd have a library, concerts, and sessions, and rooms for tapings. Artists could come in and record. You know, you've got it!"

Terça-feira, 3 de Abril de 2012

Traços de jazz # 5



Artie Shaw and His Gramercy Five
Cover art por David Stone Martin

Pois, pois ... # 160

"Hello handsome. You're a good looking fellow, do you know that?"



Young Frankenstein (1974), Mel Brooks

Quotes # 213


Using drugs didn't help me to play, all it did was to hang me up for about fifteen years.
Joe Pass