MIXCITY - TRANSEO (2017)

✭ MIXCITY ( Jazz / Pop / Hip Hop - France) ✭ 

Nouvel album " TRANSEO " sortie le 24 Février

Emmené par le compositeur et pianiste nantais Jean-Patrick Cosset, MIXCITY est un projet qui confronte le hip-hop au jazz sans pour autant renier quelques accointances pop et afro-beat. Percutant sur scène, le répertoire du groupe à la fois brillant et accrocheur prône un retour aux sources du groove, moderne, classieux et élégant. 

Le quatuor présentera lors de ce concert son tout nouvel album "Transeo", Inspiré par les grands espaces arides des États-Unis, cette nouvelle production est parsemée de belles collaborations d’Outre-Atlantique (Brian Lopez, Grey Reverent, Raashan Ahmad ou encore Baba Israel).

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RELEASE PARTIES

NANTES LE 28 MARS

PARIS LE 6 AVRIL

Les Hay Babies, a lyonnais bouchon meal and an illuminated curling!

CONCERTOS PORTA-JAZZ: Sábado, 25 fev - 19:00 + 22:00 - Mané Fernandes / José Soares / Ricardo Coelho

Sala Porta-Jazz 

Sábado, 25 fevereiro

19:00 + 22:00

MANÉ FERNANDES / JOSÉ SOARES / RICARDO COELHO

Mané Fernandes - guitarra

José Soares - saxofone

Ricardo Coelho - vibrafone

Desde cedo que é notória a cumplicidade musical existente entre estes músicos, amigos e parceiros habituais de palco.

Este concerto surge assim como uma vontade natural de explorarem, em contexto de trio, música original e canções.

PRÓXIMOS CONCERTOS SALA PORTA-JAZZ

Sábados 19:00 + 22:00

4 março

Espécie de Trio

Hugo Raro - piano

Filipe Teixeira - contrabaixo

António Torres Pinto

11 março

Iago Fernandez Quarteto

José Pedro Coelho - saxofone

Wilfried Wilde - guitarra

Demian Cabaud - contrabaixo

Iago Fernandez - bateria

18 março

Talmor - Irniger "CounterpointS"

Ohad Talmor - saxofone tenor

Christoph Irniger - saxofone tenor

André Fernandes - guitarra

Demian Cabaud - contrabaixo

Vinnie Sperrazza - bateria

25 março

Miguel Ângelo Quarteto

João Guimarães - saxofone alto

Joaquim Rodrigues - piano

Miguel Ângelo - contrabaixo

Marcos Cavaleiro - bateria

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

Alexandre Da Costa, The Festival of our cheeses and Illuminart!

Vocalist, composer, educator Mili Bermejo dies at 65

It is with great sorrow and a profound sense of loss that we announce the passing of Mili Bermejo on February 21 after a nine-month battle with cancer. She was 65.

A beloved fixture on the Boston music scene for more than three decades, Mili was a prolific vocalist, composer and educator. Her singular sound was defined by its unique combination of the emotionally resonant poetry and musical traditions of her Latin American heritage with the language of jazz, which she studied with such well-known masters as Jerry Bergonzi, Ran Blake and Mick Goodrick.  

Throughout her long career, she worked extensively as a bandleader and recording artist, joined by such frequent collaborators as Bruce Barth, Gary Chaffee, Eugene Friesen, Bertram Lehman, Vardan Ovsepian, Claudio Ragazzi, Tim Ray, Bert Seager and George Schuller among many others. Her final recording, Arte del Dúo (Ediciones Pentagrama), celebrates her 35-year musical partnership with her husband, bassist Dan Greenspan, and was included on Jon Garelick’s Best Jazz releases of 2016 list in the Boston Globe.

During her 32 years as a Professor at the Berklee College of Music, Mili lovingly passed on her experiences as a third-generation musician, as well as the lessons of her mentors, including soprano Elisabeth Phinney, to such next-generation talents as Chiara Civello, Lauren Kinhan (NY Voices), Alex Panayi, Sara Serpa, Luciana Souza, Esperanza Spaulding and Tierney Sutton. Her long-awaited first book, Jazz Vocal Improvisation: An Instrumental Approach, will be published by Berklee Press this Spring.

More information is available on her web site at milibermejomusic.com.

Donations in her memory may be made to the Elizabeth Evarts de Rham Hospice Home in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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Jonathan Rowden Group - Skyward Eye (2017)

"Jonathan Rowden is a name to watch as a signature voice and self-motivated organizer on the Los Angeles jazz scene." –Joe Woodard, Downbeat Magazine 

Almost immediately following his bold 2014 debut, Becoming, saxophonist and composer Jonathan Rowden dove into writing a follow-up album that would continue the aesthetic and spiritual progression that defines his music. Teaming up with friend and pianist Ryan Pryor, they composed music that launched a two-year conceptual transformation, culminating in the Jonathan Rowden Group’s new release on Orenda Records, Skyward Eye. 

“Becoming felt like this visceral, raw expression; tumultuous, impassioned and often freewheeling in spirit,” says Rowden. “However, as the new music churned within us, we knew we wanted to take an entirely different approach not only to the music of Skyward Eye, but to the process of making the music from the ground up.” 

For Skyward Eye, the quartet enlisted producer Alex Chaloff and embarked on a three-day session of self discovery. In Rowden’s words, “Together, we agreed that our quest was not to simply record the music, but to collectively discover the greater meaning and narrative and find the deeper character of each song and the album as a whole, WHILE recording it. What resulted was three cathartic days filled with creativity and purpose, filled with the happy accidents that come with the luxury of having that amount of time to create and album.” 

Alex Chaloff, who has recorded all of Rowden’s music and films since 2013, described the recording experience in their video documentary mini-series, Making Skyward Eye. “Good music is extremely visual and [though it] transports you into another world sonically, you’re being drawn by the visual, whether your eyes are closed or not. If you feel like you're on top of a mountain, you’ll hear a song and you'll feel a cold breeze come past, you know…it puts you right there.” He went on. “These aren't one or two minute solos where we're 'taking you somewhere'... no, we're REALLY taking you somewhere. These songs have really taken on a life of their own and take you on a visceral journey.” 

The music of Skyward Eye is presented in two chapters, both full of compositional breadth, improvised soundscapes and purposeful solos. Rowden and Pryor split the composing load 50/50 on Skyward Eye. They both share many of the same roots and aesthetics - the interplay between their composing styles allowed them to tell a similar story from two perspectives. Drummer and percussionist, James Yoshizawa’s diverse and massive arsenal of instruments (including Japanese taiko drums, homemade metallics, and celtic percussion) are responsible for the majority of the soundscape creation. Bassist Jordan Richard’s bass-choir overdubs create the heart-wrenching soul of the album on the track “Flight.” Songs flow in and out of one another, crafted with care and purpose. Voices and metal chairs became drum hits, saxophone mouthpieces became war-cries, and the breath of a choir became the sound of ghosts of battle, and the laughter of children in the distance. For the group, Skyward Eye became a film without actors, a book without words. 

The inspiration in literature, video games and all things now called “nerd-culture” runs deep. For the first 19 years of Rowden’s life, he was obsessed with fantasy worlds found in mediums like video game RPG’s of the 1990’s, where he found a certain depth in the idea that one could literally take control of the characters and live out one’s life through these characters and their experiences. As a child, he immersed himself in drawing, writing, creating universes, cultures, worlds, characters, and mythologies. In this respect, Skyward Eye represents his first literal parallel from his early and deep interests in these other mediums. These interests aligned with the talents of New York Times bestselling author and graphic novelist, Kazu Kibuishi, whose works such as ‘Flight’ inspired much of Skyward Eye’s ethos. 

For Rowden, the artwork Kazu Kibuishi created for Skyward Eye is inseparable from the music. After a chance encounter, Rowden reached out to Kazu, who was immediately interested in collaboration. Their first collaboration was in the summer of 2014 where Kibushi painted a massive digital mural during a live performance of Becoming. Two years later, he agreed to create the original artwork for the Skyward Eye album covers, as well as an inner mural and art-book edition.

In a recent interview with Los Angeles-based writer and pianist, Gary Fukushima, Rowden explained what he hoped to convey to listeners of Skyward Eye: “I want listeners to feel like it's okay to escape.” he explained. “I want listeners to imagine themselves on this ‘intrepid airship’ as Kazu delightfully described it, and that they are there with a group of strangers and friends, flying through the horizon into the unknown. Life brings with it so much uncertainty. We can't ever know what will happen. But none of us is meant to face it alone.” Solitude in this binding sense, would run opposed to what Rowden believes it means to be human: “to live as a being imbued with the need for connection and communion.” Skyward Eye is meant to bring people together. From it’s very sound, emphasis on ensemble over solos to its interactive, hand-bound art-book and listening parties the band has hosted. 

Jonathan Rowden and his band expressly hope people connect with a sense of spirituality in their music: “that willingness to reach beyond oneself, and embody a larger sense of what it means to be ‘part of all this’ embracing a certain amount of uncertainty, or mystery surrounding it all. In this way, our music is spiritual… The escape doesn’t have to mean running from your quest - a righteous quest can open doors you never saw until you crossed a different bridge, or climbed a different mountain. I am reminded of this little dialogue from the Super Nintendo Role Playing Game “Chrono Trigger”, when a young scientist names Lucca, having been transported through time and thrown in prison on a quest to restore time and order, finds that their robotic companion Robo has been badly damaged and attempts to bring it ‘back to life’. 

Robo: [visibly shaken] “C…can you r…repair…me? 
Lucca: “Shh, don’t talk” [while fixing him] 
Robo: “You…are trying to save our world?” 
Lucca: “I don’t know how far we’ll get, but that’s the plan. Anyway Robo, what are you 
going to do when you’re repaired?” 
Robo: “What am I…going to do?” 
Lucca: “Yeah. I mean, what plans do you have for the future?” 
Robo: “Lucca, no one has ever asked me that before!” 

For Rowden, Skyward Eye asks this simple but challenging question. “What will you do once you lift yourself up, out of the mire - your eyes turned towards the vastness - and see the adventure before you?”

1. The Dawn of Reclamation 05:17

2. Song of Hiraeth 00:49

3. Ruins 08:21

4. Flight 05:09

5. The Wait 06:03

6. Floating Isle 05:56

7. Carried By The Song 06:06

8. Flight Afield 01:55

Jonathan Rowden tenor & soprano saxophones / electronics / vocals 

Ryan Pryor piano / rhodes / synths / vocals 

James Yoshizawa drumset / taiko / percussion / vocals

Harri Kuusijärvi Koutus - Music For A Family Picnic (ECLIPSE MUSIC 2017)

”Harri Kuusijärvi Koutus totally renews ones image of accordion music. ★★★★★ 5/5 stars”
Juha Seitz / Soundi

”Unexpected, curious, striking, offbeat, rockin’, avant-garde, and fucking good. Koutus is one of the best discs to emerge this year, regardless of category.”

Harri Kuusijärvi Koutus is a Finnish band led by accordionist Harri Kuusijärvi. Drawing on various contemporary influences the group creates a distinctive soundscape with taste of 70´s prog rock, jazz and world music fueled with improvisation.

1. Naltio (3:03)

2. Music For A Family Picnic (3:37)

3. La Route De Pokka (5:34)

4. UFO Bar (4:34)

5. I Was Driving 160 Miles Per Hour From Turku In The Midnight When I Felt The Time Was Slowing Down (6:40)

6. 78 Days (1:15)

7. Shelter (4:16)

8. 100 m (4:50)

9. Naava (4:12)

Harri Kuusijärvi / accordeon, effects, composer

Veikki Virkajärvi / electric guitar

Eero Tikkanen / bass

Teho Majamäki / vibraphone, effects, percussion

Jesse Ojajärvi / drums