Sunday 29 August 2010

Martha Argerich

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Since it's Sunday I was looking to pamper my ears with something special, and here´s something with Martha Argerich
(Rachmaninoff's #3rd Concert - "D flat" - for piano & orchestra)

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Fui procurar algo para mimar os ouvidos. Espero que gostem, bom Domingo.




Wednesday 25 August 2010

Nils Landgren, Micheal Brecker & friends..."Don't Let Me Be Lonely Tonight "

far too beauiful for words...




James Taylor's piece - "Don't Let Me Be Lonely Tonight"

Jazz Baltica July 6, 2003
Nils Landgren(vocal & trombone)
Lars Danielsson(bass)
Wolfgang Haffner(percussion)
Esbjörn Svensson(piano)
Pat Metheny(guitar)
Michael Brecker(tenor sax)

Thursday 19 August 2010

E.S.T. "Believe Beleft Below" - Landgren, Svensson, Bergman & Strindberg

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Para além da beleza do tema (de Esbjörn Svensson), Nils Landgren mostra a simplicidade e grandeza da sua alma musical, mesmo sem o seu trombone.
Gostei tanto disto que lembrei-me logo de dois conterrâneos seus que dispensam apresentação: Ingmar Bergman e August Strindberg.
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Besides the beauty of Svensson's piece Landgren without resorting to his excellent trombone talent performs here with such graceful subtley that one can't help but surrender to his call. It is so entralling that I instantly remebered and wished to include something with two of his countrymen, artistic geniuses that need no introduction - Ingmar Bergman e August Strindberg.


Jazz Baltica 2003 with Esbjörn Svensson Trio, Schleswig Holstein Chamber Orchestra, Pat Metheny and Nils Landgren





"I love him as Music" - I. Bergman

Sunday 15 August 2010

Abbey!!!!!!

It is a very sad day that makes us say good-bye to Abbey Lincoln. Yesterday, on the 14th of August 2010 she left us. Just the other day I was celebrating her birthday, sad news indeed!

She'll be sorely missed.





















Thursday 12 August 2010

Concerto LONGITUDE ZERO ao som das Perseidas (estrelas cadentes) logo à noite




Hoje dia 12 de Agosto, integrado no 'Festival dos Oceanos', que acaba depois de amanhã há concerto - LONGITUDE ZERO -
No terraço do reservatório 'Mãe d'Água' em Lisboa (Jardim das Amoreiras), com Lisboa a seus pés, hoje pelas 21H00, com o acompanhamento do espectáculo "espacial" as Perseidas (chuva de estrelas cadentes) marcadas para ocorrer em simultâneo, poderão ouvir tocar este grupo em sexteto. Os temas serão "standards" de jazz e alguns originais.

Ao ar livre com a cidade a seus pés, as estrelas que aguardam os vossos desejos, e os seis a tocar, a noite promete.



LONGITUDE ZERO constituído por:
Guida Costa na voz & no trombone de varas; João Courinha no saxofone; Rodrigo Santo Anastácio na guitarra; Carlos Azevedo no piano; Zeca Neves no contrabaixo; e Paleka na bateria.















Thursday 5 August 2010

Abbey Lincoln's birthday

Tomorrow August 6th, Abbey Lincoln
(originally named Anna Marie Gaby Wooldridge, and now known as 'Aminata Moseka' )
will turn eighty tomorrow. Born in 1930 Abbe's birth is truly a reason to rejoice!!
Here is one of my personal favourites from the album Abbey Sings Abbey released 2007.