Pianist-composer Brittany Anjou blends the influences of a wide range of jazz and classical piano, and a fascination with the Esperanto language, on her stunning debut Enamiĝo Reciprokataj, set for a February 15 release on Origin Records. A trio album featuring bassist Greg Chudzik and drummer Nicholas Anderson (as well as two tracks with special guests, bassist Ari Folman-Cohen and drummer Ben Perowsky), it also includes 10 original compositions, highlighted by an eponymous five-part suite that showcases both Anjou's ambition and her originality.
Enamiĝo Reciprokataj (pronounced En-ah-mee-joh Reh-sih-pro-kah-tye) translates into English as Reciprocal Love -- or, alternately, as Mutual Breakdown. "[It's] a double entendre about improvisation and the push/pull of relationships," Anjou writes. She also refers to multiple levels of relationships: "It represents the enigma improvisers face to spontaneously fall in love with their instrument/the sound/the situation/each other," she says. "And additionally, to convince an audience to fall in love with their love."
If the concept sounds somewhat esoteric, the music itself is anything but. The album's bookend tracks, "Starlight" and its reprise "Reciproka Elektra," alternate instantly compelling, electronically processed washes with warm and confidently swinging piano-trio melodies. Each of the suite's five parts comprises an expressive, hook-filled tune and improvisation set to a joyful dance of a rhythm, from the whirlwind "Reciprokataj I: Cyrene (Flight of the Butterfly)" to the 5/4 bounce of "Reciprokataj IV: Olive You." Even the grim determination Anjou presents on "Reciprokataj V: Flowery Distress" is offset by Folman-Cohen and Perowsky's irrepressibility.
The album also honors Anjou's most important pianistic influences. Her phrasing and chord voicings channel the respective spirits of Oscar Peterson and Red Garland; in addition, she separates the parts of the suite with songs that directly pay tribute to favorites Ahmad Jamal ("Snuffaluffagas") and McCoy Tyner ("Hard Boiled Soup"). "All of the music celebrates my love affair with great jazz pianists," she says.
Anjou's use of Esperanto is not incidental: With Enamiĝo Reciprokataj, she begins a planned trilogy of albums based on the concepts and structures of world languages. (The next two installments will center on Dagara and Arabic, respectively.) "To me, Esperanto is a romance," she says. "The language mirrors jazz improvisation . . . . Jazz and Esperanto are both contemporary languages of the last century, and both promote intercultural dialogue, democracy, and self-expression."
Brittany Anjou was born in 1984 in Minot, North Dakota, moving to Seattle as a very young child. Her mother was a pianist, flutist, and music teacher, and Brittany began playing piano herself at age five. Her mother also played a lot of jazz recordings around the house, and at 12, hearing a solo by the Panamanian pianist Danilo Perez, Brittany was inspired to begin studying jazz.
As a high school student, she joined and toured with Seattle's Roosevelt High School Jazz Band, meeting and performing with Wynton Marsalis in New York. Attending the Stanford Jazz Workshop at 16, she worked with Clark Terry, who became her idol. It was around that same time that Anjou began composing -- including much of the material that eventually became Enamiĝo Reciprokataj.
Arriving in New York to study music at NYU, Anjou studied with Stefon Harris, Tony Moreno, and Sherrie Maricle, as well as with Jason Moran and Vijay Iyer at School for Improvised Music. She also studied classical music in Prague with composer Milan Slavický, and West African gyil music in Ghana with master player Bernard Woma and his protegees. She has since performed in 13 countries on three continents with a number of ensembles including the New York Arabic Orchestra, the Shaggs, Bi TYRANT, and the LARCENY Chamber Orchestra (founding and leading the latter two).
Anjou began performing selections from Enamiĝo Reciprokataj while living in Prague in 2005 and continued honing it thereafter, including in a well-received performance with Bi TYRANT at New York's Zinc Bar during the 2018 Winter Jazz Festival. In the fall of 2018, she returned to Kuwait to teach piano and jazz ensembles as part of a nine-month residency at the Sheikh Jaber Al-Ahmad Cultural Center opera house, in an experimental music program, the first of its kind in the country.
Brittany Anjou will perform CD release concerts at the Royal Room, 5000 Rainier Ave S, Seattle, on Sat. 12/29, with Evan Flory-Barnes, b, and Matt Jorgensen, d, plus special guests Rose Rutledge, ss/fl, and Johnny Butler, ts, among others; at Threes Brewing, 333 Douglass Street, Brooklyn, on Mon. 1/7, with Greg Chudzik, b. and Shirazette Tinnin, d.; and at Le Poisson Rouge, 158 Bleecker Street, NYC, on Mon. 2/25, with Chudzik and Tinnin. Anjou will also be playing with the Women in Jazz Organization collective at Jazzahead (Schwankhalle), Bremen, Germany on Sat. 4/27.
Photography: Jeff Chase
Web Site: brittanyanjou.com
Thursday, November 29, 2018
Friday, November 16, 2018
Arnaldo DeSouteiro 2018 Bio
Arnaldo DeSouteiro – Biografia ultra-resumida
Produtor de discos, com cerca de 530 álbuns em sua discografia (incluindo novos CDs, reedições, coletâneas, trilhas sonoras, projetos especiais), conforme consta no All Music Guide, principal e mais acessado website sobre música no mundo. Jornalista e publicitário (formado em Comunicação pela PUC-RJ), tendo escrito para os jornais Tribuna da Imprensa (de 1979 até sua extinção em 2009, com 3.200 artigos publicados), Última Hora, O Globo e O Estado do Paraná, revistas Billboard, Keyboard (USA), Cuadernos de Jazz (Espanha), Swing Journal (Japão), Revista do CD (Brasil) etc.
Roteirista de shows (João Gilberto, João Donato, Ithamara Koorax, Renato Piau, Marcos Valle, Eumir Deodato, Bjork, Antonio Carlos & Jocafi, Pingarilho, João Donato, Rodrigo Lima, Doris Monteiro etc) e de especiais de TV para as emissoras Globo (Antonio Carlos Jobim & João Gilberto) e Manchete (Dizzy Gillespie, Tony Bennett, Chuck Mangione, Airto Moreira & Flora Purim etc) no Brasil, e também na Europa e Ásia (o especial "Bossa Nova Saúde, Saudade", Diana Krall, João Gilberto, CTI All Stars, Dave Brubeck etc). Dirigiu e roteirizou shows de Ithamara Koorax em mais de 20 países, incluindo Japão, Coréia, EUA, Inglaterra, França, Portugal, Alemanha, Sérvia, Bulgária, Finlândia etc.
Nascido no Rio de Janeiro (Brasil) em 1963, radicou-se em Los Angeles (EUA) em 1999. Estudou piano clássico e harmonia com sua mãe, a pianista e maestrina Delza Agricola. É membro da Associação Brasileira de Imprensa (ABI) e da Ordem dos Músicos do Brasil (OMB) desde 1979, membro catedrático titular efetivo da Academia Internacional de Música desde 1985, membro votante do Grammy-Naras (National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences) desde 2006, membro votante da Los Angeles Jazz Society (único brasileiro) desde 2007, e também único brasileiro que é membro votante da Jazz Journalists Association (sediada em Nova Iorque) desde 2002. Atua como consultor e parecerista para diversas empresas, centros culturais e festivais de música no Brasil e no exterior.
Também foi membro honorário e primeiro membro brasileiro da Associação Internacional de Educadores de Jazz (IAJE – International Association of Jazz Educators) durante 12 anos, até sua extinção em 2008, tendo realizado palestras e "panel sessions" nas convenções anuais realizadas nos EUA.
Fundador e Presidente da gravadora JSR (Jazz Station Records), sediada em Los Angeles – EUA desde 2001, uma divisão da Jazz Station Marketing & Consulting. Dirige também a JSR Casting e a LaCalifUSA Pictures, empresa de cinema que produz conteúdo e trilhas sonoras (composição, produção, seleção) para filmes e séries de TV.
Produziu discos e sessões de gravação com artistas como Luiz Bonfá, João Gilberto, Dom Um Romão, João Donato, Palmyra & Levita, Mario Castro-Neves, Claudio Roditi, Gaudencio Thiago de Mello, Dexter Payne, Bjork, Rodrigo Lima, Don Sebesky, Hubert Laws, Fabio Fonseca, Marcos Ozzellin, Herbie Hancock, Jorge Pescara, Paula Faour, Anna Ly, Pascoal Meirelles, Yana Purim, Carlos Pingarilho, Nelson Angelo, Marcelo Salazar, Ithamara Koorax, Ron Carter, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Steve Swallow, Herbie Hancock, Hugo Fattoruso, Larry Coryell, Sadao Watanabe, Jurgen Friedrich, Claus Ogerman, Gazzara, Eumir Deodato, Azymuth, Marcio Montarroyos, Sivuca, Laudir de Oliveira, Marcos Valle, David Matthews, Gene Bertoncini, John McLaughlin, Raul de Souza, Hermeto Pascoal, Jadir de Castro, Lew Soloff, George Young, Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Alphonso Johnson e muitos outros.
Como compositor e letrista, tem parcerias com Dave Brubeck (“Broadway Bossa Nova”), Francesco Gazzara (“O Passarinho”), Mamoru Morishita (“Hotaru”) e Fabio Fonseca (“Samba da Copa”, executado na cerimônia de abertura da Copa do Mundo de 2006).
Produziu reedições de discos de Sergio Mendes, Flora Purim, Tamba Trio, Ivan Lins, Carlos Lyra, Miucha, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Ron Carter, Idris Muhammad, Hank Crawford, Lonnie Smith, Johnny Hammond, Luiz Bonfá, Phil Upchurch, Tennyson Stephens, Eumir Deodato, Grant Green, Mario Castro-Neves, João Donato, Claus Ogerman, David Matthews, Esther Phillips, Joe Beck, Eric Gale e muitos outros.
Produziu as séries “A Trip To Brazil” (cujo Volume 1 chegou ao primeiro-lugar na parada de world-music na Europa em 1998, superando “Buena Vista Social Club”), “Brazilian Horizons”, “CTI: Acid Jazz Grooves”, “Jazz Club”, e retrospectivas - lançadas mundialmente entre 2006 e 2010 pelo selo Verve – das carreiras de Quincy Jones (“Summer In The City: The Soul-Jazz Groves of Quincy Jones”), Eumir Deodato (“Do It Again: The Fantastic Jazz Funk of Eumir Deodato”) e Chick Corea (“Electric Chick”).
Desde 1981, tem realizado, como free lancer, produção musical para diversas gravadoras, como RCA/BMG, Sony, Verve/PolyGram/Universal, CTI, King, Paddle Wheel, Pausa, Milestone/Fantasy, Warner/WEA, Motor Music, JVC/Victor, Sanyo, Movieplay, Imagem, Eldorado, CID, Alfa, RGE, Mr. Bongo, Terra Música, Blue Moon, Bomba, Cedar Tree, Treasure Trove, Irma, Vivid Sound, Motéma, e Huks Music, no Brasil, Europa, Estados Unidos, Japão, China, Taiwan e Coréia.
Entre 1982 e 1984, atuou como assessor cultural do Serviço de Comunicação Social da Petrobras. Em 1983, criou, produziu e apresentou o programa "Jazz espetacular", transmitido pela Rádio Tupi FM. Em 1984, assumiu a responsabilidade da programação de bordo (musical e audiovisual) transmitida nos vôos internacionais da Varig, função que exerceu durante 14 anos. Também nesse período (1985 a 1987), participou da comissão de seleção do Free Jazz Festival.
Escreveu textos de contracapa para discos de diversos artistas, como Toots Thielemans, Ella Fitzgerald, Eliane Elias, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Jeff Kinsky, Paulo Bellinati e Carlos Barbosa Lima, entre outros. Assinou textos para divulgação ("press releases") de artistas como João Gilberto, Stan Getz, Oscar Peterson, Pat Metheny, Bill Evans, Jimmy Smith, Elvin Jones, Stanley Turrentine e Tony Bennett.
Atuou como entrevistador em depoimentos prestados para o Museu da Imagem e do Som (Rio de Janeiro e São Paulo) por João Donato, Stellinha Egg, Maestro Gaya, Eumir Deodato, Airto Moreira, Flora Purim e Carlos Barbosa Lima. Em 2001, recebeu o prêmio de International Man of The Year, concedido pelo International Biographical Centre, de Londres. Foi o primeiro brasileiro a receber essa premiação, oferecida anteriormente a apenas quatro outros produtores: Arif Mardin, Tommy LiPuma, Quincy Jones e Phil Ramone. Ainda nesse ano, a JSR (Jazz Station Records), de sua propriedade, foi considerada uma das cinco melhores gravadoras de jazz do mundo, em relação publicada na edição de dezembro da revista especializada norte-americana "Down Beat", premiação que se repetiu por quatro anos (7º lugar em 2003, 9º lugar em 2004, 5º lugar em 2005 e 6º lugar em 2006).
Foi entrevistado em vários programas de TV, seriados (incluindo o documentário "Laurindo Almeida, Muito Prazer" exibido pelo canal GNT) e filmes como o premiado documentário "Beyond Ipanema", no qual foi entrevistado ao lado de Creed Taylor, Lalo Schifrin, Wayne Shorter, Gene Lees e Norman Gimbel. Depois de apresentado em diversos festivais de cinema nos Estados Unidos e Europa, "Beyond Ipanema" foi transformado em série de televisão transmitida em território brasileiro pela emissora Canal Brasil em 2014.
Trabalhou como roteirista, consultor e entrevistador para o documentário "LA + Rio", em 2017, entrevistando nomes como Arthur Verocai, João Donato, Alex Malheiros (Azymuth), Wanda Sá, Chico Batera, Ricardo Silveira, Dori Caymmi, Hermeto Pascoal, Laudir de Oliveira, Raul de Souza, Marcos Valle e Cesar Camargo Mariano. É especialista também em gestão de carreira e gerenciamento artístico, tendo trabalhado em 2017 e início de 2018 com a cantora Zanna.
Também em 2018 escreveu a letra da música "Until We Meet Again" para o álbum "Mamoru Morishita Songbok" lançado no Japão pela Universal Music; produziu novos discos para Daniel Migliavacca, Jorge Pescara e Ithamara Koorax; fez o roteiro para o show de lançamento da caixa "A Mad Donato" (de João Donato) no Blue Note-Rio, e para os shows de Ithamara Koorax na Sala Baden Powell e no Blue Note-Rio; e criou/dirigiu a série "Discos Históricos da MPB" que incluiu shows de João Donato ("Quem É Quem") e Wanda Sá ("Vagamente") realizados na Sala Baden Powell-Rio de Janeiro.
CEO & Founder · Los Angeles
(Arnaldo DeSouteiro during a recording session in 2014)
"People are going to talk about you, especially when they envy you and the life you live. Let them. You affected their lives, they didn't affect yours... you will eventually lose someone you love & love someone you never thought you'd find..."
Arnaldo DeSouteiro - Short Bio
Music Producer (with over 530 albums to his credit according to the All Music Guide), Voting Member of NARAS-GRAMMY and Jazz Journalists Association (NY), Member of LAJS (Los Angeles Jazz Society), Musical Philosopher, Journalist, Jazz & Brazilian Music Historian, Publicist, Public Relations, Composer (having written successful jazz & pop songs, some dance hits like "O Passarinho" for the Italian TV reality show "La Pupa e Il Secchione", and "Samba da Copa" for the "2006 World Cup" in Germany, plus many other soundtracks for movies, soap operas & TV series in the USA, Europe and Asia), Lyricist (he wrote lyrics to Dave Brubeck's "Broadway Bossa Nova" at the invitation of Brubeck himself, among other songs), Arranger, Percussionist, Keyboardist, Programmer, Educator (conducting clinics and panel sessions worldwide as the first Brazilian member of IAJE-International Association of Jazz Educators during its existence). He has also acted as consultant for several companies and jazz festivals all over the world.
Founder and CEO of JSR (Jazz Station Records), a Division of Jazz Station Marketing & Consulting - LA, Calif. Most recently, founded LaCalifUSA Pictures and JSR Casting in 2007 for movie & TV productions featuring music & fashion.
Produced the acclaimed CD compilation series "A Trip To Brazil," "CTI Acid Jazz Grooves," "Brazilian Horizons," "Focus on Bossa Nova," "Focus on Brazilian Music Grooves", "Bossa Nova Singers," "Bossa Nova Guitar","Jazz Rock" etc.
Produced special compilations for Quincy Jones ("Summer in the City - The Soul Jazz Grooves of Quincy Jones"), Chick Corea ("Electric Chick") and Deodato ("Do It Again - The Fantastic Jazz-Funk of Eumir Deodato"), all released by Verve/Universal. His latest CD for Verve is "Bossa Nova USA," featuring Dave Brubeck's title track performed by Quincy Jones.
Supervised and/or Directed TV specials featuring João Gilberto, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Dizzy Gillespie, Chuck Mangione, Flora Purim & Airto Moreira, Dom Um Romão, Eliane Elias, Diana Krall, Eumir Deodato, Bjork et al. Worked with producers Creed Taylor, Yoichi Nakao, Susumu Morikawa, Matthias Kunnecke, and photographers Pete Turner, Victor Skrebneski, Robert Mappelthorpe, Duane Michals.
Mr. DeSouteiro has also worked in his native Brazil for TUPI-FM radio station (as musical programmer-DJ as well as hosting his own radio show, "Jazz Espetacular"), Manchete TV network (anchoring & supervising the "Terça Especial" series for which he interviewed such jazz giants as Dizzy Gillespie, Tony Bennett, Chuck Mangione, Airto Moreira, Flora Purim etc), Globo TV network (screenplay, coordination and mix for the TV special "João Gilberto & Antonio Carlos Jobim - O Grande Encontro" in 1992, the last time these 2 geniuses performed together, plus the texts and screenplay for the "Minuto da Bossa" series), and as the jazz columnist for the "Tribuna da Imprensa" (Press Tribune) daily newspaper during 29 years (from 1979 to 2008). Before moving to the USA, he also worked as Brazilian correspondent of "Keyboard" magazine (from 1985 to 1994), as a free-lancer to Billboard, Cuadernos de Jazz, Swing Journal and International Music Magazine, and as entertainment-in-flight programmer for several airline companies like Varig Brazilian Airlines (from 1983 to 1998).
Produced over 530 albums and sessions featuring: Luiz Bonfa, João Gilberto, Dom Um Romão, Thiago de Mello, Dexter Payne, João Donato, Palmyra & Levita, Mario Castro-Neves, Jorge Pescara, Paula Faour, Fabio Fonseca, Claudio Roditi, Rodrigo Lima, Hermeto Pascoal, Ithamara Koorax, Don Sebesky, Sammy Figueroa, Bjork, Anna Ly, Carlos Barbosa-Lima, Pascoal Meirelles, Yana Purim, Pingarilho, Nelson Angelo, Marcelo Salazar, Ron Carter, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Steve Swallow, Herbie Hancock, Hugo Fattoruso, Larry Coryell, Sadao Watanabe, Jurgen Friedrich, Eloir de Moraes, Gazzara, Deodato, Jadir de Castro, Azymuth, Marcio Montarroyos, Sivuca, Laudir de Oliveira, Marcos Valle, Jay Berliner, George Young, David Matthews, Lew Soloff, Alphonso Johnson, Gene Bertoncini, John McLaughlin, Claus Ogerman, Raul de Souza, Gonzalo Rubalcaba and many others.
Produced and supervised CD reissues of albums by Ron Carter, Hank Crawford, Johnny Hammond, Sergio Mendes, Hubert Laws, Grant Green, Idris Muhammad, Joe Beck, Esther Phillips, Lonnie Smith, David Matthews & Whirlwind, Phil Upchurch, Tennyson Stephens, Miucha, Flora Purim, Carlos Lyra, Tamba Trio, Ivan Lins, Raul de Souza, Trio 3-D and many others. As annotator, he wrote liner notes and press releases for albums by Toots Thielemans, Hank Crawford, Stan Getz, Ella Fitzgerald, Pat Metheny, Eliane Elias, Carlos Barbosa-Lima, Jeff Linsky and dozens of others for labels like RCA, CTI, Kudu, Milestone, Fantasy, Verve, Columbia, Irma, Alfa, JVC, Caju, Sonet, Paddle Wheel, JHO, Mercury, Imagem etc.
Worked as musical director and screenplay writer for concerts by Joao Gilberto, Diana Krall, Ithamara Koorax, Marcos Valle, Renato Piau, Deodato, Bjork, Joao Donato, Pingarilho, Rodrigo Lima, Maria Luiza, Antonio Carlos & Jocafi etc.
Mr. DeSouteiro also had the honor to be associated with some of the world's greatest photographers like Pete Turner (who did the cover photos for Rodrigo Lima's "Saga" and Jorge Pescara's "Grooves in the Temple," released on his own JSR label and featured on Turner's new book "The Color of Jazz"), Victor Skrebneski (the CD reissue of "Upchurch/Tennyson"), Bruce Weber (Esther Phillips' "For All We Know"), Robert Mappelthorpe ("Brazilian Horizons"), Alen MacWeeney, William Cadge, and Duane Michals (many of the CTI CDs) and so on.
He has appeared in several movies and TV series such as the Award Winning documentary movie "Beyond Ipanema," for which he was interviewed alongside Creed Taylor, Lalo Schifrin, Wayne Shorter, Gene Lees and Norman Gimbel. In 2017, he contributed to the "LA + Rio" documentary as screenplay writer, interviewer and consultant, interviewing such artists as Arthur Verocai, Cesar Camargo Mariano, Dori Caymmi, Hermeto Pascoal, Wanda Sá, João Donato, Laudir de Oliveira, Raul de Souza, Ricardo Silveira, Chico Batera, Alex Malheiros (Azymuth) and Marcos Valle. In 2018, worked with singer Zanna, wrote songs for Mamoru Morishita, directed concerts by João Donato, Wanda Sá and Ithamara Koorax, and produced new albums for Daniel Migliavacca and Jorge Pescara.
CEO & Founder: Arnaldo DeSouteiro
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Wednesday, November 14, 2018
Herbie Hancock live in Brazil! Don't miss!
A living legend of contemporary music, Herbie Hancock will be back in Brazil this month for concerts in São Paulo (November 17 @ Credicard Hall) and Rio de Janeiro (November 19 @ Km de Vantagens Hall). Don't miss! I have attended dozens of Hancock's concerts for the past 5 decades (!), all over the world, and each and every one was unique and unforgettable. Trust me, this man is a genius!
LENDA DO JAZZ, HERBIE HANCOCK RETORNA AO BRASIL EM NOVEMBRO PARA DUAS APRESENTAÇÕES
O multipremiado artista se apresentará em duas cidades:
17 de novembro, no Credicard Hall em São Paulo
19 de novembro, no Km de Vantagens Hall RJ no Rio de Janeiro
O lendário pianista e compositor Herbie Hancock - gênio renovador do jazz, do funk e da música contemporânea - volta ao Brasil para duas apresentações, dia 17 de novembro no Credicard Hall, em São Paulo, e dia 19 de novembro no Km de Vantagens Hall RJ, no Rio de Janeiro.
Os ingressos para ambas as apresentações podem ser adquiridos pela internet (www.ticketsforfun.com.br), nos pontos de venda oficial (sem taxa de conveniência – Credicard Hall em São Paulo; Km de Vantagens Hall RJ no Rio de Janeiro) e nos pontos de venda por todo o país. As apresentações no Brasil são produzidas pela TIME FOR FUN.
Em sua sexta década de carreira, Herbie Hancock permanece na vanguarda da cultura mundial. Como membro do Miles Davis Quintet, considerado o melhor grupo da história do jazz, ele também desenvolveu novas abordagens em suas próprias gravações, seguido pelo seu trabalho nos anos 70 – com álbuns recordistas de venda como "Head Hunters" – que combinava jazz com funk e rock em um estilo inovador que continua a influenciar a música contemporânea. "Rockit" e "Future Shock" marcaram a incursão de Hancock nos sons de dance eletrônico; durante o mesmo período, ele continuou a trabalhar em um ambiente acústico com a banda V.S.O.P. que incluia ex-colegas do grupo de Miles (Wayne Shorter, Ron Carter e Tony Williams) e o trompetista Freddie Hubbard.
O pianista tem um ótimo relacionamento com o Brasil, com um histórico de diversas visitas ao país e parcerias musicais com artistas como Milton Nascimento (além de Herbie ter participado de vários discos do cantor, eles tocaram juntos no Dia Internacional do Jazz 2013, em Istambul), Flora Purim ("Everyday Everynight"), Yana Purim (no disco "Harvest Time", produzido por Arnaldo DeSouteiro), Airto Moreira (para quem produziu o álbum "Identity") e Céu (ela é uma das estrelas do grupo que participou da gravação do aclamado "The Imagine Project" e abriu seu show no Credicard Hall, São Paulo, em 2013). A cantora Ithamara Koorax é outra apaixonada pela obra de Hancock, tendo gravado sua canção "Butterfly" nada menos que três vezes!
Em 2010, Hancock lançou o aclamado CD "The Imagine Project", vencedor de dois prêmios Grammy. Usufruindo da linguagem universal da música para expressar temas centrais como paz e responsabilidade global, o álbum foi gravado em diversas partes do mundo, com participações especiais dos músicos Jeff Beck, Seal, Rosa, Dave Matthews, The Chieftains, Lionel Loueke, Anoushka Shankar, Chaka Khan e Céu, entre outros.
Fora dos palcos e dos estúdios, Hancock também mantém uma carreira de sucesso. Recentemente indicado como responsável pelo departamento de jazz da Filarmônica de Los Angeles, ele também é presidente do Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz, a principal organização internacional dedicada ao desenvolvimento do jazz e da educação em todo o mundo. Além disso, Hancock é um dos fundadores do “Comitê Internacional dos Artistas para a Paz” e recebeu o título de "Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres" do primeiro-ministro francês, François Fillon.
Em julho de 2011, Hancock foi designado “Embaixador da Boa Vontade” da UNESCO. Lançou sua autobiografia, "Possibilities", em 2014, pela editora Penguin Group. Em honra a seu trabalho, foi premiado com o Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award em fevereiro de 2016. Hancock está, atualmente, trabalhando em seu estúdio para um novo álbum.
Com uma ilustre carreira de seis décadas e mais de 14 Grammy® Awards, incluindo Álbum do Ano por "River: The Joni Letters" (2007), Hancock continua a encantar as platéias ao redor do mundo e está voltando ao Brasil para mostrar todo seu talento.
Para mais informações sobre Herbie Hancock, acesse:
https://www.instagram.com/herbiehancockofficial/
https://open.spotify.com/artist/2ZvrvbQNrHKwjT7qfGFFUW
https://www.facebook.com/herbiehancock/
http://www.herbiehancock.com/
HERBIE HANCOCK
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CREDICARD HALL – SÃO PAULO
Copatrocínio: Budweiser
Meio de pagamento preferencial: Credicard
Data: Sábado, dia 17 de novembro de 2018
Horário: 22h00
Local: Credicard Hall SP – Av. das Nações Unidas, 17.955 – Santo Amaro – São Paulo (SP).
Capacidade: 3.990 pessoas.
Duração: Aproximadamente 1h40.
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- Clientes do cartão Credicard contarão com pré-venda exclusiva, entre os dias 4 de outubro e 10 de outubro de 2018. Venda limitada a 08 ingressos por CPF.
- Desconto de 15% na venda de ingressos limitado a 10% da capacidade da casa. O benefício não é cumulativo com meia-entrada, demais descontos e ações promocionais. Desconto aplicável para diversos setores (camarote, pista, mesa, entre outros). Vendas de ingresso com desconto limitadas a 8 ingressos por CPF.
- Para a validade dos benefícios, é necessário apresentar os ingressos comprados com cartões Credicard na entrada exclusiva ou apresentar um dos cartões de crédito no acesso (válido apenas para o titular ou adicional do cartão e um acompanhante).
- Clientes do cartão Credicard contarão com entradas e guichês exclusivos no Credicard Hall.
- Todas as condições acima poderão ser alteradas sem aviso prévio.
BILHETERIA OFICIAL – SEM TAXA DE CONVENIÊNCIA
Credicard Hall - Av. das Nações Unidas, 17.955 - Santo Amaro – São Paulo (SP).
Segunda-feira – FECHADA
Terça-feira a Sábado – 12h às 20h
Domingo e feriados – 13h às 20h
LOCAIS DE VENDA - COM TAXA DE CONVENIÊNCIA
- Pontos de venda no link:
http://premier.ticketsforfun.com.br/shows/show.aspx?sh=pdv
- Pela Internet: www.ticketsforfun.com.br
Entrega em domicílio - taxas de conveniência e de entrega.
FORMAS DE PAGAMENTO VÁLIDAS TICKETS FOR FUN
Internet:
- Cartões de crédito MasterCard, American Express, Elo Crédito, Visa, Diners Club.
Bilheteria e Pontos de Venda:
- Dinheiro;
- Cartões de Credito MasterCard, American Express, Elo Crédito, Visa, Diners Club e Hipercard;
- Cartões de débito Visa Electron, MasterCard débito, Elo Débito e Hipercard.
- Vale Cultura
KM DE VANTAGENS HALL RJ – RIO DE JANEIRO
Copatrocínio: Budweiser
Meio de pagamento preferencial: Credicard
Data: Segunda-feira, dia 19 de novembro de 2018
Horário: 21h30
Local: Km de Vantagens Hall RJ – Rio de Janeiro
Av. Ayrton Senna, 3000 - Shopping Via Parque - Barra da Tijuca
Capacidade: 3.088 pessoas.
Duração: Aproximadamente 1h40.
Ingressos: A partir de R$ 70
Classificação etária: Menores de 8 a 13 anos podem entrar desde que estejam acompanhados. A partir dos 14 anos: Permitida a entrada desacompanhados.
Abertura da casa: 1h30 antes do espetáculo.
Acesso para deficientes
Ar-condicionado
Venda de ingressos no site: www.ticketsforfun.com.br
Venda a grupos: grupos@t4f.com.br
Estacionamento do Shopping: Carro: R$12,00 as primeiras 4 horas. R$2,50 por hora ou fração excedente. R$50,00 pernoite. Desistência: 10min / Moto: R$5,00 - preço único. R$20,00 pernoite. Desistência: 10min (só válido quando validado no estacionamento de motos). Das 17h às 20h não há período de desistência.
Venda a grupos: grupos@t4f.com.br
INGRESSOS:
SETOR MEIA ENTRADA INTEIRA
MESA LATERAL R$ 70,00 R$ 140,00
MESA CENTRAL R$ 90,00 R$ 180,00
POLTRONA R$ 100,00 R$ 200,00
MESA ESPECIAL R$ 125,00 R$ 250,00
MESA PALCO R$ 175,00 R$ 350,00
MESA VIP R$ 200,00 R$ 400,00
CAMAROTE R$ 210,00 R$ 420,00
- Meia-entrada: obrigatória a apresentação do documento previsto em lei que comprove a condição de beneficiário: no ato da compra e entrada do evento (para compras na bilheteria oficial e pontos de venda físicos) / na entrada do evento (para compras via internet).
- Participantes do Km de Vantagens tem ingresso com desconto.
BILHETERIA OFICIAL – SEM TAXA DE CONVENIÊNCIA
Km de Vantagens Hall RJ: Segundas -feiras: Fechada
Terças-feiras a sábados, das 12h às 20h
Domingos e feriados, das 13h às 20h
Av. Ayrton Senna, 3000 - Shopping Via Parque - Barra da Tijuca.
LOCAIS DE VENDA – COM TAXA DE CONVENIÊNCIA
Pontos de venda no link: http://premier.ticketsforfun.com.br/shows/show.aspx?sh=pdv
Pela Internet: www.ticketsforfun.com.br
Retirada na bilheteria e E-ticket – taxas de conveniência e de entrega
FORMAS DE PAGAMENTO VÁLIDAS TICKETS FOR FUN
Internet:
- Cartões de crédito MasterCard, American Express, Elo Crédito, Visa, Diners Club e Hipercard.
Bilheteria e Pontos de Venda:
- Dinheiro;
- Cartões de Credito MasterCard, American Express, Elo Crédito, Visa, Diners Club e Hipercard;
- Cartões de Débito Visa Electron, MasterCard débito, Elo Débito e Hipercard.
- Vale Cultura
Visite as redes sociais da T4F (Time For Fun):
fb.com/t4f
instagram.com/t4f
twitter.com/t4f
spotify.com/user/t4fbrasil
Visite as páginas oficiais da T4F:
t4f.com.br
ticketsforfun.com.br
Sunday, November 11, 2018
Gifts from my family / Discos que ganhei da minha família
Gifts from my father / Discos que ganhei de presente do meu pai, Walter Souteiro
Meirelles e Sua Orquestra: "Brazilian Beat Vol.2" (Copadisco) my first 12" LP
João Donato: "Quem É Quem" (Copadisco)
George Benson: "White Rabbit" (Toc Discos)
Eumir Deodato: "Os Catedráticos 73" (loja no Ed. Avenida Central)
Eumir Deodato: "Prelude"
Wayne Shorter feat. Milton Nascimento: "Native Dancer" (Toc Discos)
Tamba Trio: "Tamba 74" (Copadisco)
Airto: "Identity" (Discadoro)
Gifts from my mother / Presentes da minha mãe, Delza Agricola
Freddie Hubbard: "First Light"
João Donato: "A Bad Donato"
Stanley Turrentine: "Sugar"
Antonio Carlos Jobim: "Stone Flower"
Astrud Gilberto: "Gilberto with Turrentine"
Hermeto Pascoal: "Hermeto"
Zimbo Trio: "Tristeza"
Massimo Ranieri: "Meditazione"
Eumir Deodato: "Percepção" (Discadoro)
Eumir Deodato: "O Som Dos Catedráticos" (Copadisco)
Pino Calvi: "Piano Fantástico"
Airto: "Fingers"
Flora Purim: "Stories To Tell" (Discadoro)
Antonio Carlos Jobim: "Tide" (loja em uma galeria na Rua Miguel Lemos)
Severino Araujo & Orquestra Tabajara: "Série Depoimento Vol.1" (Discão)
Deodato: "First Cuckoo"
Deodato: "Very Together"
Deodato: "Love Island"
Egberto Gismonti: "Academia de Danças" (Discadoro)
Egberto Gismonti: "Corações Futuristas" (Discadoro)
Dom Salvador & Abolição
Michel Legrand: "The Concert Legrand" (Discadoro)
Gifts from my grandmother / Presentes da minha avó, Aurea Agricola
Flora Purim: "Butterfly Dreams" (Modern Sound)
Flora Purim: "500 Miles High At Montreux" (Modern Sound)
Stanley Turrentine: "The Sugar Man"
Stanley Turrentine: "The Baddest Turrentine"
Phil Woods & Michel Legrand: "Images"
Michel Legrand: "Legrand & Friends"
Gifts from my aunt / Presentes da minha tia, Elge Agricola
Poly: "Dominique"
Sivuca: "Sivuca" (Modern Sound) my first "imported" album
Eumir Deodato: "Deodato 2" (Loja Palermo)
Luiz Bonfá: "Jacarandá" (Mesbla)
Moacir Santos: "The Maestro" (Symphony)
Ahmad Jamal: "Jamalca" (Billboard)
Milt Jackson: "Sunflower" (Toc Discos)
João Donato: "Donato/Deodato" (Sears)
CTI All Stars: "California Concert" (Sears)
Azymuth: Trilha Sonora do Filme "O Fabuloso Fittipaldi" (Copadisco)
Alan & His Orchestra: "Il Guarany" - single
Presentes da minha tia-avó Aurette Palermo
Eumir Deodato: "Artistry"
Oswaldo Nunes: "Ogunhê" (single)
Meirelles e Sua Orquestra: "Brazilian Beat Vol.2" (Copadisco) my first 12" LP
João Donato: "Quem É Quem" (Copadisco)
George Benson: "White Rabbit" (Toc Discos)
Eumir Deodato: "Os Catedráticos 73" (loja no Ed. Avenida Central)
Eumir Deodato: "Prelude"
Wayne Shorter feat. Milton Nascimento: "Native Dancer" (Toc Discos)
Tamba Trio: "Tamba 74" (Copadisco)
Airto: "Identity" (Discadoro)
Gifts from my mother / Presentes da minha mãe, Delza Agricola
Freddie Hubbard: "First Light"
João Donato: "A Bad Donato"
Stanley Turrentine: "Sugar"
Antonio Carlos Jobim: "Stone Flower"
Astrud Gilberto: "Gilberto with Turrentine"
Hermeto Pascoal: "Hermeto"
Zimbo Trio: "Tristeza"
Massimo Ranieri: "Meditazione"
Eumir Deodato: "Percepção" (Discadoro)
Eumir Deodato: "O Som Dos Catedráticos" (Copadisco)
Pino Calvi: "Piano Fantástico"
Airto: "Fingers"
Flora Purim: "Stories To Tell" (Discadoro)
Antonio Carlos Jobim: "Tide" (loja em uma galeria na Rua Miguel Lemos)
Severino Araujo & Orquestra Tabajara: "Série Depoimento Vol.1" (Discão)
Deodato: "First Cuckoo"
Deodato: "Very Together"
Deodato: "Love Island"
Egberto Gismonti: "Academia de Danças" (Discadoro)
Egberto Gismonti: "Corações Futuristas" (Discadoro)
Dom Salvador & Abolição
Michel Legrand: "The Concert Legrand" (Discadoro)
Gifts from my grandmother / Presentes da minha avó, Aurea Agricola
Flora Purim: "Butterfly Dreams" (Modern Sound)
Flora Purim: "500 Miles High At Montreux" (Modern Sound)
Stanley Turrentine: "The Sugar Man"
Stanley Turrentine: "The Baddest Turrentine"
Phil Woods & Michel Legrand: "Images"
Michel Legrand: "Legrand & Friends"
Gifts from my aunt / Presentes da minha tia, Elge Agricola
Poly: "Dominique"
Sivuca: "Sivuca" (Modern Sound) my first "imported" album
Eumir Deodato: "Deodato 2" (Loja Palermo)
Luiz Bonfá: "Jacarandá" (Mesbla)
Moacir Santos: "The Maestro" (Symphony)
Ahmad Jamal: "Jamalca" (Billboard)
Milt Jackson: "Sunflower" (Toc Discos)
João Donato: "Donato/Deodato" (Sears)
CTI All Stars: "California Concert" (Sears)
Azymuth: Trilha Sonora do Filme "O Fabuloso Fittipaldi" (Copadisco)
Alan & His Orchestra: "Il Guarany" - single
Presentes da minha tia-avó Aurette Palermo
Eumir Deodato: "Artistry"
Oswaldo Nunes: "Ogunhê" (single)
Thursday, November 1, 2018
Adi Meyerson live in NY, tomorrow night!
Adi Meyerson Debut Album Concert in NY!
The great bassist will be leading her quintet on tunes from her superb CD "Where We Stand," voted "Jazz Instrumental Album of the Month" last June here on the Jazz Station blog.
Tomorrow, Friday, November 2nd, 8pm
The DiMenna Center for Classical Music
450 West 37th St. (between 9th & 10th Aves.) - Benzaquen Hall (elevator to 1st floor) www.dimennacenter.org .
Doors open 7:30p.m.
Concert - 8:00p.m. - 10:00p.m.
Quintet: Adi Meyerson - Bassist & Composer; Camila Meza - Guitar & Vocals; Godwin Louis - Alto Sax; E.J. Strickland - Drums; Glenn Zaleski - Piano
A Project 142 Concert Series concert at the DiMenna Center. "Where We Stand" was publicly released July 2018 at the Jazz Standard in NYC, and will be available for purchase tomorrow!
Visit please for Adi Meyerson www.adimeyersonmusic.com
Concert Donation -
$15.00 General Admission (cash at door please)
Refreshments provided by Project 142
Subway Stop for DiMenna Center - 7 Line - Hudson Yards
West 34th St. & 11th Ave.
www.mta.info
Project 142 Concert Series is a 501 (c)(3) Non Profit Organization -
ALL DONATIONS Tax Deductible - Online via
www.project142.org/donation-page-new
The great bassist will be leading her quintet on tunes from her superb CD "Where We Stand," voted "Jazz Instrumental Album of the Month" last June here on the Jazz Station blog.
Tomorrow, Friday, November 2nd, 8pm
The DiMenna Center for Classical Music
450 West 37th St. (between 9th & 10th Aves.) - Benzaquen Hall (elevator to 1st floor) www.dimennacenter.org .
Doors open 7:30p.m.
Concert - 8:00p.m. - 10:00p.m.
Quintet: Adi Meyerson - Bassist & Composer; Camila Meza - Guitar & Vocals; Godwin Louis - Alto Sax; E.J. Strickland - Drums; Glenn Zaleski - Piano
A Project 142 Concert Series concert at the DiMenna Center. "Where We Stand" was publicly released July 2018 at the Jazz Standard in NYC, and will be available for purchase tomorrow!
Visit please for Adi Meyerson www.adimeyersonmusic.com
Concert Donation -
$15.00 General Admission (cash at door please)
Refreshments provided by Project 142
Subway Stop for DiMenna Center - 7 Line - Hudson Yards
West 34th St. & 11th Ave.
www.mta.info
Project 142 Concert Series is a 501 (c)(3) Non Profit Organization -
ALL DONATIONS Tax Deductible - Online via
www.project142.org/donation-page-new
CD Reissue of the Month - "Jim Hall: Concierto/Big Blues/Studio Trieste"
CD Reissue of the Month
Jim Hall: "Concierto/Big Blues/Studio Trieste" (CTI/BGO) 2018
Rating: ***** (music performance & sonic quality)
Original albums produced by Creed Taylor and engineered by Rudy Van Gelder
Cover Photos: Alen MacWeeney (Big Blues) and Pete Turner
"Concierto" (1975) features Jim Hall (guitar), Paul Desmond (alto sax), Chet Baker (trumpet), Roland Hanna (piano), Ron Carter (bass) and Steve Gadd (drums). Music Supervision and Arrangements: Don Sebesky
"Big Blues" (1978) features Jim Hall (guitar), Art Farmer (flugelhorn/trumpet), Mike Mainieri (vibes), Mike Moore (bass) and Steve Gadd (drums). Arranged by David Matthews
"Studio Trieste" (1982) features Jim Hall (guitar), Hubert Laws (flute), Chet Baker (trumpet), Jorge Dalto (Fender Rhodes, synthesizers), Kenny Barron (piano and Fender Rhodes), Gary King (electric bass), George Mraz (bass), Steve Gadd (drums), Sammy Figueroa (percussion, congas) and Jack Wilkins (guitar). Arranged by Don Sebesky
Jim Hall: "Concierto/Big Blues/Studio Trieste" (CTI/BGO) 2018
Rating: ***** (music performance & sonic quality)
Original albums produced by Creed Taylor and engineered by Rudy Van Gelder
Cover Photos: Alen MacWeeney (Big Blues) and Pete Turner
"Concierto" (1975) features Jim Hall (guitar), Paul Desmond (alto sax), Chet Baker (trumpet), Roland Hanna (piano), Ron Carter (bass) and Steve Gadd (drums). Music Supervision and Arrangements: Don Sebesky
"Big Blues" (1978) features Jim Hall (guitar), Art Farmer (flugelhorn/trumpet), Mike Mainieri (vibes), Mike Moore (bass) and Steve Gadd (drums). Arranged by David Matthews
"Studio Trieste" (1982) features Jim Hall (guitar), Hubert Laws (flute), Chet Baker (trumpet), Jorge Dalto (Fender Rhodes, synthesizers), Kenny Barron (piano and Fender Rhodes), Gary King (electric bass), George Mraz (bass), Steve Gadd (drums), Sammy Figueroa (percussion, congas) and Jack Wilkins (guitar). Arranged by Don Sebesky
Instrumental Jazz CD of the Month - "Anne Sajdera: New Year"
Instrumental Jazz CD of the Month
Anne Sajdera: "New Year" (Bijuri Records) 2018
Rating: ***** (music performance & sonic quality)
Produced by Ray Obiedo & Anne Sajdera
Engineers: David Luke, Jeff Cressman, Carlos Yutaka del Rosario
Mixed by Ray Obiedo
Mastered by Phil Hawkins
Photos & Cover Design: Fifi Larue
Painting "Segment bleu" by Vassily Kandinsky, 1821
Featuring: Anne Sajdera (piano), Miroslav Hloucal (trumpet. flugelhorn), Jan Fečo (alto sax), Bob Mintzer (tenor sax), Erik Jekabson (trumpet, flugelhorn), Lyle Link (alto sax), Rita Thies (flute), Joyce Lee (violins, cellos), Dan Feiszli and Gary Brown (bass), Jason Lewis, Deszon Claiborne and Alan Hall (drums)
Anne Sajdera’s remarkable acumen as both a pianist and a composer finds rejuvenation on New Year, set for November 2 release on her own Bijuri Records. The album hits close to home for Sajdera—her ancestral home, that is, of the Czech Republic and its storied capital, Prague. A 2014 trip to Europe’s “Golden City” was the catalyst for the album’s creation.
Sajdera’s journey wasn’t planned as a musical one. While in Prague, however, she encountered trumpeter/flugelhornist Miroslav Hloucal and alto saxophonist Jan Fečo, who became her chief collaborators on New Year. In addition to supplementing her working San Francisco trio (bassist Gary Brown and drummer Deszon Claiborne) and other special guests with their sparkling instrumental work, Hloucal and Fečo brought in four of the album’s nine tracks. “What electrified me was the tremendous skill level,” explains Sajdera (pronounced sazh-dair-uh). “I don’t think there are many Czech jazz musicians who want to say, ‘This is Czech jazz’ the way Brazilian musicians would refer to ‘Brazilian jazz.’ They’re influenced by the same players as we are.” Indeed, New Year’s music is firmly in the vein of acoustic post-bop: sophisticated, straight-ahead, and thoroughly swinging.
Even “It Depends on That,” Fečo’s stellar arrangement of a Roma folk song, feels perfectly at home in the 21st-century jazz repertoire with its deceptively jagged rhythms and sumptuous harmony. Likewise, Hloucal’s trio of melodic delights—“Pictures,” “Butterfly Effect,” and “Changeling”—positively simmer in straight-ahead seasoning. In the case of the urgent, album-opening “Pictures,” tenor sax luminary Bob Mintzer’s vital, muscular work adds an extra ingredient to that seasoning.
Sajdera’s five original compositions naturally provide the backbone of the album, and rival Hloucal and Fečo’s contributions in their freshness and craftsmanship. Her haunting romantic ballad “Treasure” also highlights Sajdera’s ambition: It doesn’t include the Czech musicians, but does expand her trio to include flugelhornist Erik Jekabson, alto saxophonist Lyle Link, flutist Rita Thies, and violinist/cellist Joyce Lee. Link and Jekabson also appear on “Bright Lights,” a bare-bones platform for improvisation that’s both taut and joyful. The album also includes a live rendition of “Azul,” the dreamy samba reggae title track to Sajdera’s 2012 debut album, here balancing sensitivity with astonishing rhythmic assurance.
Born in Portsmouth, Virginia in 1965 to a military family, Anne Sajdera grew up in San Diego. Piano lessons as a child led her to form a tight circle of musical friends who often gathered to play together. She maintained a steady diet of Chopin waltzes, Bach inventions, and Beethoven sonatas in her piano studies, but at the age of 13 became intrigued by Chick Corea’s My Spanish Heart. After relocating to the Bay Area in 1985, she auditioned at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and was accepted as a piano performance major, switching to a composition major at the end of her sophomore year.
Sajdera’s investigation of jazz took off when she began a relationship with an accomplished jazz guitarist, with whom she was soon playing casuals. A class at Berkeley’s Jazzschool with the great Brazilian pianist/composer Marcos Silva sparked her enduring passion for Brazilian music. Before long she was gigging around the Bay Area with her own band Pelo Mar, and as an original member of Bat Makumba.
Her debut album, 2012’s Azul, also reflects this deep and abiding passion, mixing her ravishing original pieces with classic tunes by the Brazilian masters. It received a place on one of Jazziz magazine’s 2012 Critics Polls and was named one of Latin Jazz Corner’s Great Latin Jazz Albums that same year.
The six-year gap between Azul and New Year reflects Sajdera’s ongoing evolution as an artist looking for new expressive avenues. “I was writing new music all along and I could see it was rapidly changing,” she says. “By 2015, the Prague musicians’ influence was coming in.” Shortly thereafter, the musicians themselves came in, too, to join the music making. (Sajdera’s next recording featuring this same ensemble has been awarded grant funding from Intermusic SF.)
It was in 2015, in the spirit of International Jazz Day, the project launched by Herbie Hancock in his role as UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador, that Sajdera began to connect the Czech jazz scene to the Bay Area scene. After she produced a pair of pilot concerts featuring sax virtuoso Karel Růžička and organ maestro Ondre J, two Brooklyn-based musicians who originally hailed from the Czech Republic, the plan to collaborate in the studio with Jan and Miroslav began to take shape.
Anne Sajdera will be performing a series of CD release shows, all featuring Miroslav Hloucal and Jan Fečo, in November: Fri. 11/2 Savanna Jazz, San Carlos (8pm); Sat. 11/3 Piedmont Piano Company, Oakland (8pm); Mon. 11/5 Luna’s Café, Sacramento (7:30pm); Fri. 11/9 Café Pink House, Saratoga (7:30pm); Sat. 11/10 Hotel Healdsburg, Healdsburg (6:30pm).
Anne Sajdera: "New Year" (Bijuri Records) 2018
Rating: ***** (music performance & sonic quality)
Produced by Ray Obiedo & Anne Sajdera
Engineers: David Luke, Jeff Cressman, Carlos Yutaka del Rosario
Mixed by Ray Obiedo
Mastered by Phil Hawkins
Photos & Cover Design: Fifi Larue
Painting "Segment bleu" by Vassily Kandinsky, 1821
Featuring: Anne Sajdera (piano), Miroslav Hloucal (trumpet. flugelhorn), Jan Fečo (alto sax), Bob Mintzer (tenor sax), Erik Jekabson (trumpet, flugelhorn), Lyle Link (alto sax), Rita Thies (flute), Joyce Lee (violins, cellos), Dan Feiszli and Gary Brown (bass), Jason Lewis, Deszon Claiborne and Alan Hall (drums)
Anne Sajdera’s remarkable acumen as both a pianist and a composer finds rejuvenation on New Year, set for November 2 release on her own Bijuri Records. The album hits close to home for Sajdera—her ancestral home, that is, of the Czech Republic and its storied capital, Prague. A 2014 trip to Europe’s “Golden City” was the catalyst for the album’s creation.
Sajdera’s journey wasn’t planned as a musical one. While in Prague, however, she encountered trumpeter/flugelhornist Miroslav Hloucal and alto saxophonist Jan Fečo, who became her chief collaborators on New Year. In addition to supplementing her working San Francisco trio (bassist Gary Brown and drummer Deszon Claiborne) and other special guests with their sparkling instrumental work, Hloucal and Fečo brought in four of the album’s nine tracks. “What electrified me was the tremendous skill level,” explains Sajdera (pronounced sazh-dair-uh). “I don’t think there are many Czech jazz musicians who want to say, ‘This is Czech jazz’ the way Brazilian musicians would refer to ‘Brazilian jazz.’ They’re influenced by the same players as we are.” Indeed, New Year’s music is firmly in the vein of acoustic post-bop: sophisticated, straight-ahead, and thoroughly swinging.
Even “It Depends on That,” Fečo’s stellar arrangement of a Roma folk song, feels perfectly at home in the 21st-century jazz repertoire with its deceptively jagged rhythms and sumptuous harmony. Likewise, Hloucal’s trio of melodic delights—“Pictures,” “Butterfly Effect,” and “Changeling”—positively simmer in straight-ahead seasoning. In the case of the urgent, album-opening “Pictures,” tenor sax luminary Bob Mintzer’s vital, muscular work adds an extra ingredient to that seasoning.
Sajdera’s five original compositions naturally provide the backbone of the album, and rival Hloucal and Fečo’s contributions in their freshness and craftsmanship. Her haunting romantic ballad “Treasure” also highlights Sajdera’s ambition: It doesn’t include the Czech musicians, but does expand her trio to include flugelhornist Erik Jekabson, alto saxophonist Lyle Link, flutist Rita Thies, and violinist/cellist Joyce Lee. Link and Jekabson also appear on “Bright Lights,” a bare-bones platform for improvisation that’s both taut and joyful. The album also includes a live rendition of “Azul,” the dreamy samba reggae title track to Sajdera’s 2012 debut album, here balancing sensitivity with astonishing rhythmic assurance.
Born in Portsmouth, Virginia in 1965 to a military family, Anne Sajdera grew up in San Diego. Piano lessons as a child led her to form a tight circle of musical friends who often gathered to play together. She maintained a steady diet of Chopin waltzes, Bach inventions, and Beethoven sonatas in her piano studies, but at the age of 13 became intrigued by Chick Corea’s My Spanish Heart. After relocating to the Bay Area in 1985, she auditioned at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and was accepted as a piano performance major, switching to a composition major at the end of her sophomore year.
Sajdera’s investigation of jazz took off when she began a relationship with an accomplished jazz guitarist, with whom she was soon playing casuals. A class at Berkeley’s Jazzschool with the great Brazilian pianist/composer Marcos Silva sparked her enduring passion for Brazilian music. Before long she was gigging around the Bay Area with her own band Pelo Mar, and as an original member of Bat Makumba.
Her debut album, 2012’s Azul, also reflects this deep and abiding passion, mixing her ravishing original pieces with classic tunes by the Brazilian masters. It received a place on one of Jazziz magazine’s 2012 Critics Polls and was named one of Latin Jazz Corner’s Great Latin Jazz Albums that same year.
The six-year gap between Azul and New Year reflects Sajdera’s ongoing evolution as an artist looking for new expressive avenues. “I was writing new music all along and I could see it was rapidly changing,” she says. “By 2015, the Prague musicians’ influence was coming in.” Shortly thereafter, the musicians themselves came in, too, to join the music making. (Sajdera’s next recording featuring this same ensemble has been awarded grant funding from Intermusic SF.)
It was in 2015, in the spirit of International Jazz Day, the project launched by Herbie Hancock in his role as UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador, that Sajdera began to connect the Czech jazz scene to the Bay Area scene. After she produced a pair of pilot concerts featuring sax virtuoso Karel Růžička and organ maestro Ondre J, two Brooklyn-based musicians who originally hailed from the Czech Republic, the plan to collaborate in the studio with Jan and Miroslav began to take shape.
Anne Sajdera will be performing a series of CD release shows, all featuring Miroslav Hloucal and Jan Fečo, in November: Fri. 11/2 Savanna Jazz, San Carlos (8pm); Sat. 11/3 Piedmont Piano Company, Oakland (8pm); Mon. 11/5 Luna’s Café, Sacramento (7:30pm); Fri. 11/9 Café Pink House, Saratoga (7:30pm); Sat. 11/10 Hotel Healdsburg, Healdsburg (6:30pm).
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