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QUINTA 09 NOVENBRO - 21H30
In 2017, the world is celebrating the centenary of the first studio recording of a new musical genre – jazz – which, at the time of its birth, was not stabilized in terminological terms susceptible of identifying it as a specific style of music. Based on an informal musical background – the rhythmic patterns brought to the United States of America by African slaves and the chants sung by black farm workers –, which were also the roots of other great North-American genre, the blues, and, although real-time improvisation played a very important role in the creation of this kind of music, jazz has evolved to the point of its crystallization in a sound recording (performed by the Original Dixieland Jass Band), therefore establishing itself as an autonomous musical genre and initiating the process of artistic recognition which, some decades later, would lead to its affirmation as one of the most important musical forms invented in the twentieth century. The celebration of such ephemeris is the main objective of the project Jazz – The Story, an ensemble led by the saxophonist Vincent Herring and formed by some of the most distinguished jazzmen of the present, such as trumpeter Jon Faddis, saxophonist James Carter and drummer Carl Allen, among others.
Vincent Herring (USA, 1964) studied in the University of California and moved to New York in 1982, where we began his prolific career in jazz, collaborating as sideman for some of the most influential jazz musicians of the twentieth century, such as Jack DeJohnette, Dizzy Gillespie, Freddie Hubbard, Carla Bley and Wynton Marsalis, among others, and as a member of Lionel Hampton’s big band, of Art Blakey’s Jazz Passengers and of Mingus Big Band. Herring developed an artistic partnership of great complicity with pianist Cedar Walton, with whom he recorded several albums. In parallel, Vincent Herring pursues a relevant career as leader of several projects under his own name or in band format, alongside with some of his most frequent accomplices, namely saxophonist Eric Alexander and drummer Joris Dudli.
The ensemble Jazz – The Story was conceived as the vehicle of a musical journey through one hundred years of jazz, since its primordial origins to its most extreme and intellectually sophisticated manifestations, following every evolutionary stages, from ragtime to fusion jazz, from swing to the post-bop declinations. Narrated by vocalist Nicolas Bearde, the Jazz – The Story project constitutes simultaneously a moving evocation of jazz’s extraordinary legacy and an eloquent reinterpretation of its musical heritage, performed by a group of talented musicians now touring in Europe after the debut, in January, in the New York jazz club Birdland. Guimarães is one of the destinies of this tour, and Guimarães Jazz one of the festivals chosen to present this dignifying synthesis of the history of one the most outstanding and prolific artistic manifestations of contemporaneity – jazz.
Preço 15,00 eur / 12,50 eur c/d
Vincent Herring, saxofone alto, soprano, flauta, clarinete, direção musical
Jon Faddis, trompete
Jeremy Pelt, trompete
Eric Alexander, saxofone tenor
James Carter, saxofone tenor, saxofone barítono, flauta, clarinete
Wycliffe Gordon, trombone, shells
Mike LeDonne, piano
Kenny Davis, contrabaixo, baixo elétrico
Carl Allen, bateria
Nicolas Bearde, voz, narração