James Carter - Darkest Light (2017)

James is excited to announce the upcoming release of his second album Darkest Light in February 2017, recorded with ARIA award winning musicians Stephen Magnusson and Dave Beck.

1. White Jude by Jy James Carter & Stephen Magnusson 6:19

2. So It Goes by James Carter, Stephen Magnusson & Tom Barton 4:27

3. Left (For Ellery) by James Carter & Stephen Magnusson Left (For Ellery) 6:22

4. New by James Carter & Stephen Magnusson 5:06

5. Fractured in the Middle by James Carter, Stephen Magnusson & Dave Beck 5:13

6. Can't Read Mags Like a Book by James Carter, Stephen Magnusson & Dave Beck 5:55

7. To Be by James Carter & Stephen Magnusson 5:52

8. Eclipse by James Carter & Stephen Magnusson 6:23

9. Fractured in the Middle (Alternative Take) by James Carter, Stephen Magnusson & Dave Beck 7:07

CONCERTOS PORTA-JAZZ: Sala Porta-Jazz Sábado, 11 fevereiro - 19:00

CONCERTOS PORTA-JAZZ

Sala Porta-Jazz Sábado, 11 fevereiro - 19:00

PEDRO NEVES TRIO

Pedro Neves - piano

Miguel Ângelo - contrabaixo

Miguel Sampaio - bateria

Depois do álbum de estreia Ausente, lançado pelo Carimbo Porta-Jazz em 2013 com grande aceitação pela crítica especializada e com distribuição internacional no Japão, Pedro Neves apresenta o seu novo repertório original gravado em Março de 2016 e reunido neste disco. 

05:21 descreve o primeiro momento do amanhecer. A narrativa do álbum sugere o percurso de alguém que atravessa esta hora do dia recorrentemente, enfrentando um turbilhão de pensamentos e sensações que o levam numa viagem alucinante que apenas termina quando por fim consegue adormecer.

Esta é uma história escrita pela mão do pianista e compositor Pedro Neves, e ilustrada pelo trio.

05:21 é o 27º disco com Carimbo Porta-Jazz, a apresentar neste concerto.

PRÓXIMOS LANÇAMENTOS CARIMBO PORTA-JAZZ

Auditório da FEUP

- entrada livre - 

2 março, 21:30

MAP - "Guerra e Paz"

Paulo Gomes - piano

Miguel Moreira - guitarra

Miguel Ângelo - contrabaixo

Acácio Salero - bateria

27 março, 21:30 

Rui Filipe Freitas Sexteto - "Axis Mundi"

Rui Filipe Freitas - vibrafone

José Pedro Coelho - saxofone tenor e clarinete-baixo  

João Mortágua - saxofone alto e saxofone soprano

Mané Fernandes - guitarra

Filipe Teixeira - contrabaixo

João Martins - bateria

18 abril, 21:30

The Nada

João Guimarães - saxofone

Eurico Costa - guitarra

Simon Jermyn - baixo

José Marrucho - bateria

18 maio, 21:30

AP Quarteto

AP - guitarra

Carlos Azevedo - piano

Filipe Teixeira - contrabaixo

Acácio Salero - bateria

19 junho, 21:30

João Mortágua "AXES"

João Mortágua - saxofone alto e soprano

José Soares - saxofone alto

Hugo Ciríaco - saxofone tenor 

Rui Teixeira - saxofone barítono e clarinete baixo

Pedro Vasconcelos - bateria e percussões

Alex Lázaro - bateria e percussões

CICLO JAZZ DE SANTO TIRSO

Centro Cultural de Vila das Aves

- entrada livre -

25 fevereiro, 21:30 - João Paulo Rosado | Sinopse

João Paulo Rosado - contrabaixo / baixo eléctrico

João Guimarães - saxofone alto

AP - guitarra

Hugo Raro - piano

António Torres Pinto - bateria

1 abril, 21:30 - Renato Dias Trio

Renato Dias - guitarra

Filipe Teixeira - contrabaixo

Filipe Monteiro - bateria

16 junho, 21:30 - AP Quarteto

AP - guitarra

Carlos Azevedo - piano

Filipe Teixeira - contrabaixo

Acácio Salero - bateria

1 julho, 21:30 - Rui Filipe Freitas Sexteto

Rui Filipe Freitas - vibrafone

José Pedro Coelho - saxofone tenor e clarinete-baixo  

João Mortágua - saxofone alto e saxofone soprano

Mané Fernandes - guitarra

Filipe Teixeira - contrabaixo

João Martins - bateria

Nicholas Payton - Afro-Caribbean Mixtape (2017) 2 CD

The trumpeter’s new album fuses the traditions of his hometown, New Orleans, with modern jazz, hiphop, mixtape and spoken-word cultures.

By LARRY BLUMENFELD / WSJ

Early in a recent performance at Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola, within Jazz at Lincoln Center, a casual listener might have assumed Nicholas Payton to be a keyboardist with a fondness for Fender Rhodes electric piano and a way with a slow tempo. Minutes later Mr. Payton lifted a trumpet to his lips with his right hand and began to blow, while playing keyboard with his left, and a fuller profile began taking shape. Soon—his horn now gripped in both hands—Mr. Payton revealed the strength, agility, sweetness and bite upon which he established a career more than 20 years ago.

On trumpet, Mr. Payton can ignite a room with a fiery solo or silence it with a tender passage; he did both at Dizzy’s. Yet these days his music doesn’t rely on those abilities or that horn.

Mr. Payton arrived on jazz’s scene cast as a gifted neotraditionalist. He has spent the decades since departing from that mold. His new release, “Afro-Caribbean Mixtape” (Paytone/Ropeadope), out Friday, is his clearest and boldest expression of an aesthetic he’s long pursued. It’s sprawling (two CDs with more than two hours of music), involves more than a dozen musicians, and yet sounds focused and personal.

That cohesion is due largely to tightly interlocked elements: the flexible, quicksilver rhythmic dialogue between Joe Dyson’s trap set and Daniel Sadownick’s hand percussion; the layers of texture woven by Mr. Payton and Kevin Hays, who both play keyboard and piano on several tracks; and the dance of accents from bassist Vincente Archer and turntablist DJ Lady Fingaz.

There’s also a strong conceptual through-line. Beginning in 2011, Mr. Payton has raised a fuss online with blog posts rejecting the term “jazz” as limiting, or worse; he proposed the moniker, “Black American Music.” This new album lends more graceful expression to his argument—for an enduring black aesthetic that bows to jazz masters without implying servitude, and that embraces African influence across several genres. Words prove critical here, too. In the mix—sometimes buried, other times clear—are sampled snatches of spoken-word sources, manipulated by the turntablist. On “Jazz Is a Four-Letter Word,” the voice of Max Roach (from a 1993 interview that Mr. Payton found on YouTube) describes an unbroken line of ingenuity from Charlie Parker to Michael Jordan to Michael Jackson. On the title track, Greg Kimathi Carr, head of Howard University’s Afro-American Studies Department, explains “African ways of knowing.”

Still, nothing seems academic. The album flows, moving joyously from, say, Mr. Payton’s trumpet playing, supporting by a string quartet, on “Jewel,” to the disco-tinged funk of “Junie’s Interlude.” Some tracks ride easy grooves, others move fitfully within densely constructed soundscapes. There are compelling examples of Afro-Cuban rumba and, yes, modern jazz, but these all seem like momentary means toward a larger and unified end.

Mr. Payton’s wide-ranging liner note cites a paternal ancestor in his native New Orleans, who is said to have played with Buddy Bolden and to have formed Henry Payton’s Accordiana Band “before anyone was thinking about jazz.” His own problem with the word “jazz” is the sense that someone else is trying to box him in. “Afro-Caribbean Mixtape” is a work of great rigor and discipline, steeped in jazz tradition and yet utterly unbound.

David Gilmore - Transitions (CRISS CROSS RECORDS 2017)

Available: February 15, 2017

On his Criss Cross leader debut, Transitions, guitarist David Gilmore pays tribute to recently deceased masters Bobby Hutcherson, Toots Thielemans and Victor Bailey, the legendary trumpeter Woody Shaw, and living elders Annette Peacock and Hermeto Pascoal, by interpreting their music along with two original compositions.

Joined by a top-shelf New York quartet comprising tenor saxophonist Mark Shim, pianist Victor Gould, bassist Carlo DeRosa and drummer E.J. Strickland (vibraphonist Bill Ware plays on Hutcherson's "Farallone"; harmonicist Gregoire Maret plays on Thieleman's "Bluesette"), Gilmore navigates both the acoustic and plugged-in spaces with equal fluency, showcasing his lovely sound, improvisational prowess and focused intention within an array of stylistic formats.

A glimpse at Gilmore's distinguished discography (it includes four prior leader records, and consequential sideman stints with -- to name a short list -- Steve Coleman, Wayne Shorter, and Meshell Ndegeocello, as well as more recent Criss Cross dates with Donald Edwards [Criss 1365 ; Criss 1386] and Boris Kozlov [Criss 1389]), gives a sense of the breadth and accomplishment of this bracing recital.

1. End Of Daze (David Gilmore) 6:28

2. Beyond All Limits (Woody Shaw) 5:31

3. Blues Mind Matter (Bobby Hutcherson) 7:06

4. Bluesette (Toots Thielemans) 5:57

5. Both (Annette Peacock) 5:05

6. Spontanuity (David Gilmore) 6:32

7. Kid Logic (Victor Bailey) 5:37

8. Farralone (Bobby Hutcherson) 9:13

9. Nem Un Talvez (Hermeto Pascoal) 4:36

David Gilmore (G)

Mark Shim (Ts)

Victor Gould (P)

Carlo DeRosa (B)

E.J. Strickland (D)

Grégoire Maret (Hca) [4]

Bill Ware (Vib) [8]

Total Time: 56:10

Recorded September 19, 2016 in Brooklyn, NY, USA by Joe Marciano

David Binney - The Time Verses (CRISS CROSS RECORDS 2017)

Available: February 15, 2017

For his eighth date for Criss Cross as a leader or co-leader, alto saxophonist-composer David Binney documents the quartet with which he most frequently works in New York City (pianist Jacob Sacks, bassist Eivind Opsvik, and drummer Dan Weiss) for the first time since the 2009 recording Aliso (Criss 1322 CD).

It's an episodic, thematically cohesive, 65-minute suite on which Binney and his upper-echelon bandmates solo through the shifting moods and environments -- tracking his responses to the diurnal cycle -- with characteristic inspiration and derring-do.

01. Dawn (David Binney)  0:26

02. Walk (David Binney)  10:55

03. Arc (David Binney)  5:10

04. Morning Tide (David Binney)  0:24

05. Strange Animal (David Binney)  8:55

06. Seen (David Binney)  7:25

07. Noon Tide (David Binney)  0:25

08. The Reason To Return (David Binney)  6:08

09. Time Takes It's Time (David Binney)  6:12

10. Evening Tide (David Binney)  0:18

11. Where Worlds Collide (David Binney)  11:24

12. Fifty Five (David Binney)  6:15

13. Arc Reprise (David Binney)  1:14

14. Dusk (David Binney)  0:27

David Binney (As / Vc / Electronics)

Jacob Sacks (P)

Eivind Opsvik (B)

Dan Weiss (D)

Jen Shyu (Vc) [6]

Shai Golan (As) [11]

Total Time: 65:59 

Recorded February 17, 2016 in Brooklyn, NY, USA by Max Ross