Espigas

Castro Verde (Abril, 2019)

Atrás do osso...

Avenida de Roma - Lisboa (c. 1980)

Magnum, Magnum, ...

Magnum Magnum
Schirmer / Mosel






Fotografia por Josef Koudelka

Os melhores CD's de jazz de 2017

The 2017 NPR Music Jazz Critics Poll (December, 2017)


1. Vijay Iyer Sextet - Far From Over







(Foto de Vijay Iyer Sextet por Lynne Harty)




2. Steve Coleman's Natal Eclipse - Morphogenesis

3. Tyshawn Sorey - Verisimilitude

4. Craig Taborn - Daylight Ghosts

5. Nicole Mitchell - Mandorla Awakening II: Emerging Worlds

6. Cécile McLorin Salvant - Dreams And Daggers

7. Roscoe Mitchell - Bells For The South Side

8. Matt Wilson's Honey And Salt - Music Inspired By The Poetry Of Carl Sandberg

9. Charles Lloyd Quartet - Passin' Thru

10. Ambrose Akinmusire - A Rift In Decorum: Live At The Village Vanguard

As escolhas individuais de cada um dos votantes encontram-se aqui.

Um quinteto de ECM's

Blue maqams
Anouar Brahem







Tribute to Lester
Art Ensemble of Chicago







The dreamer is the dream
Chris Potter







Bells for the South Side
Roscoe Mitchell

Partiram...

Benjamin Alexander Riley Jr. (1933 – 2017)
Jazz drummer



Fotografia de Ben Riley por Dennis C. Owsley





Hugh Ramapolo Masekela (1938 – 2018)
Jazz trumpeter, flugelhornist, cornetist, composer and singer



Fotografia de Hugh Masekela por Bra Hugh





John Carl Hendricks (1921 – 2017)
Jazz lyricist and singer



Fotografia de Jon Hendricks @ atlaandmatt.com





Roswell Hopkins Rudd Jr. (1921 – 2017)
Jazz trombonist and composer



Fotografia de Roswell Rudd @ twitter.com




James Marcellus Arthur Murray (1936 – 2017)
Jazz drummer



Fotografia de Sunny Murray por Frans Schellekens

Tradition...

New jazz sounds
Benny Carter & Dizzy Gillespie






Some other time
Bill Evans






Chet Bakes sings
Chet Baker






Nat King Cole & me
Gregory Porter

Hi-Fi

"I can't fire them. I hired these guys for three days a week and they just started showing up every day. That was four years ago."

High fidelity (2000), Stephen Frears

Richard Lewis Abrams

Muhal Richard Abrams (1930–2017)
Jazz pianist, composer and educator



Fotografia de Muhal Richard Abrams por Molly Sheridan

Guimarães Jazz 2017

25º Guimarães Jazz

Mais um par deles

Morphogenesis
Steve Coleman's Natal Eclipse







Najwa
Wadada Leo Smith

50 Anos

Ronnie Scott's at Fifty
The story of the most famous jazz club in the world







Jimmy Scott photographed by David Sinclair

Improvisation

Brad Mehldau fotografado por Michael Wilson

… In a strictly formal sense, the music on this record sits well within the “theme and variations” model that has long been the dominant approach of small ensembles in jazz. Defined succinctly, it goes as follows: The theme is stated first, often reffered to as the material, whose structure is repeated indefinitely – like in a classical theme and variations setting – until the soloing is concluded. Generally, the theme is reprised at the end of the composition. Period.

That is an admittedly provisional definition of what takes place very often in jazz, but the approach itself has a provisional logic. In one sense, the beginning thematic material has a merely temporary role because it doesn’t develop further. The improvisation that ensues will usually constitute the bulk of the performance. On the other hand, the improvisation is bound to the initial thematic structure for its duration, repeating it over and over again…

… So, the theme and variations approach allows the soloist to correspond with the rest of the band. The efficacy of the approach lies in its expediency: It provides a quick and clear way for the soloist to improvise with a high degree of spontaneity. The harmonic material that underpins the solo, though, with its tension and resolution, will provide a narrative backdrop – a place of origin and a destination. A balance is reached between something fixed and something open-ended. For me, this technique has always been rewarding as an improviser, but can be confining as a composer.

It strongly implies a specific relationship betwen harmony and melody. In much of tonal music, the union of those two elements is an ideal. Harmony – simply two or more tones sounding in unison – is not so much an end in itself; rather, it is the outcome of two or more melodies taking place simultaneously. Melody has primacy always, and the relationship between two or more melodies creates harmony, which is secondary…

Brad Mehldau (in "House on Hill" liner notes )

Uma capa

Artie Shaw and His Gramercy Five



Cover art by David Stone Martin

O terceiro vampiro

Nº 3 da Colecção Vampiro


The case of the velvet claws, Erle Stanley Gardner

Um telhado...

Brozas - España (Outubro, 2017)

Uma parede...

Hoyos - España (Agosto, 2011)

Casal do Rei

Casal do Rei - Serra da Estrela (Julho, 2017)

Contando peixinhos

Pinofranqueado - España (Agosto, 2010)

Alvoco da Serra

Alvoco da Serra - Serra da Estrela (Julho, 2017)