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O cornetista de Chicago tem a seu cargo o fecho do Jazz em Agosto. Com ele traz músicos de dois dos seus principais projectos, Chicago Underground e São Paulo Underground, e um convidado muito especial: o saxofonista Pharoah Sanders. Aqui ficam alguns indícios do que irá acontecer nos jardins da Gulbenkian, pelas suas próprias palavras…
Quando se pensa num power trio, pensamos num grupo de pessoas que bombardeia rock pelos instrumentos e pelos poros, cuspindo torrente atrás de torrente de electricidade juvenil. O jazz é coisa de velhos, ou uma influência que passa despercebida. E no entanto os The Thing não são outra coisa que não um power trio, misturando essas duas vertentes musicais numa pequena grande granada que rebenta se não nos aproximarmos com cautela - e no entanto a curiosidade move-nos mais do que o perigo. Ao longo de mais de uma década, o trio escandinavo colaborou com nomes como Jim O'Rourke, Otomo Yoshihide e Joe McPhee, e deu-nos também uma magnífica discografia onde se contam álbuns como Action Jazz, de 2006, ou Bag It!, de 2009, voltagem free nos píncaros. Antes de actuarem no Jazz Em Agosto, na Calouste Gulbenkian, falámos com Paal Nilssen-Love, o Gabriel Ferrandini norueguês, que foi amável o suficiente para não notar a ignorância jazzística do entrevistador. Eis então o que há para saber.
Como descreverias o free jazz a alguém que não se familiarize com o género, como é o caso de muitos dos leitores desta webzine?
Diria que a música representa algo político, social, inclusivo, energético, celebratório, incompreensível e capaz de mudar a vida de alguém.
Quando os The Thing começaram a tocar, eram bastante influenciados pelo Don Cherry, verdade? No ano passado, lançaram um disco com a enteada dele. Achas que com isto o trio fechou o círculo?
De certa forma, sim. E sentimos que fazê-lo era o mais acertado naquele momento. Agora estamos a seguir o nosso próprio caminho e o tempo dirá até onde iremos musicalmente. Ainda assim, espere-se muita energia e música estonteante!
© Vera Marmelo, Consultório, Community art space in Barreiro
Vera Marmelo (b. 1984) is a photographer that came to be very well known in a specific art scene, particularly in the music subsystem of the Lisbon area. She was born in Barreiro, a city facing Lisbon from the other side of Tejo, a city with a very strong sense of community and strong comprehension of how important autonomy and individuality are to redefining culture. So, it could be stated, the natural conditions of her environment conditioned the nest of social relations she started to care for. There is a fizzy underground scene and young people are organized in a community that seems to come together to support each other. They show up in events, bars, concerts, assemblies, etc.
It’s not like this is an ideal place, but these people have strong roots. They’re from a land that is used to resistance and to put of a fight. Needless to say, there is a leftist ideology behind it all. So what makes Vera’s photographs appealing? I suggest it is exactly her proximity to her subjects and the sense of joy and bond her photographs portray.
Writing for the “On the Side Project”, Vera, a professional engineer, explains how photography came into her life: My friends played music and I was around, with a camera in my hands, just for fun, just to give me a reason to hang out with them. [...] What started out as an hobby, a reason to hang out with some people and meet new, ended up being a second job, a second life. From 8.30 am until 5.30 pm I am an engineer and then a Photographer for the rest of the day. Weekends don’t exist and I use my vacations to photograph and edit the work.
© Vera Marmelo, Baltazar Molina
Vera photographs a lot. I mean, really a lot. She does the promo shots, she is there for the videoclips, for the side projects, she goes to concerts, she does portraits and she hangs out on weekends with musicians even when no music is playing. And she has cameras and now there is the digital snapshot so there are hundreds of photographs taken by her that you can glimpse at. I’ll put it up front, that’s not what I’m interested in, though this unedited archive will be very relevant as a document of the music and art scene in the Lisbon area in the beginning of the 21st century.
What interests me is her portraiture, specially the one shot on film. The so-called promo shots. Not only are these the ones I can relate to, as photographic objects, but also because they are the ones revealing the thought behind her process of relating to her subjects. The life of these photographs is not on their indexical signs or their configuration, but on the illusion they create. And this illusion is nothing but a document of a reality which, portrayed like this, leaves out the mundane and small verities of the people in them. So these ambiance which Vera shows us, is put up front as a chimera. Vera is a dreamer, no doubt. A believer and an achiever. She gives us happiness, sense of togetherness, wholeness, there’s no strong sense of individuality (not to be mistaken with style or with the jargon of individuality), as if that was never needed.
Of course it’s not everybody’s dream and it references a iconography that is perhaps overworked, but its influences are the same shared by the musicians so it seems genuine. Yes, it’s the same old America, the Christian style, the Brooklin style, the Californian style, the multicultural New-York style. It’s all that but with our Mediterranean light and a clumsier sense of style. Vera’s photographs are so attached to their signifiers that it is as if they don’t have the risk to be over-stylized unless the people in them do.
Vera should be praised for her commitment to her lifestyle. What these photographs sell is exactly that: a sort of life that is “cool”. And that’s what her public (within the art scene she portrays) wants. She mastered the moment of desire and she managed to find subjects that seems perfectly comfortable as objects of desire. And we get to be witnesses of that exclusivity and that exclusivity is the ultimate price: the privacy of their relation.
It’s not about whether you studied photography or arts, but about your willingness to challenge visual culture. And how can one do that? If you commit to show people as authentic as they are. Well, of course there are other things beside the notion that you are “selling” a lifestyle. The use of old films, blurriness, appeal to the sense of nostalgia and temporality, so they dislocate our memories to the place of our childhood, for the smiles, the colors, the smilingly genuine happiness in the air.
Things are never about what they are because they are nothing beyond the cultural notion of what convention told they should be. So Vera’s photographs here shown, though beautiful and extremely honest on their own, are a promise of a chimeric land where music will always live.
More of Vera’s work can be seen here and here
Sofa Hunting!
It's not a job for the faint hearted.
This is one task that positively can't be undertaken online. There is no substitute for actually plonking your arse on a chair to see if it works for you. The most comfortable looking ones are often the most uncomfortable to sit in.
Grande Empresse Gillian has been on the hunt for several months now. After she endured biblical floods in her flat not one but 5 times, her insurance company have finally settled. Happily on Saturday she finally found the couch of her dreams.
Later that night, I was online when I did too!
Behold The Mini Moog Sofa...
“This product is manufactured and distributed by Woouf! under license from Moog Music Inc.”
Is that not the most wonderful thing you ever did see?
It also comes as a beanbag
Mini Moog Beanbag €199
These and a host of other genius items are brought to you by those clever people at Woouf. a young multi disciplinary design studio from Barcelona who were only formed in 2008. To say they just make bean bags and cushions is like saying that Cristobal Balenciaga made frocks.
"The basic concept of our first bean bags collection comes from the idea of inverting the dimensions of some of the objects that are part of our universe in relation with the spectactors and reinterpretate them.We want to surprise and provoke a reaction with our products. We want the first one to be an exclamation: Woouf!"
Woufall €135
I want them all...
Queen Marie
Richard Avedon was a man of many “firsts,” photographing Steve McQueen for the February cover of Harper’s Bazaar in 1965, a cover that would serve as the first instance in which a man was featured on the cover of a women’s fashion magazine, albeit, 60s model Jean Shrimpton does make a cameo with her bracelet-stacked arm snaked around McQueen. In 2010, GQ Australia dubbed Ryan Kwanten the Man of the Year, celebrating with a cover story photographed by David Slijper after Avedon’s 1956 cover.
Comparison Courtesy of Igor Vander
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Her name is Julia Robbs. This french native girl travelled across different cities & countries to finally end up working in one of the best cities in the world: New York City. Great photographer, we’re featuring some her work for Tattly, a start-up that creates & sells beautiful & humorous temporary tattoos. Discover more of Julia’s work on her own website.
Julia Robbs - Tattly - Cat
Julia Robbs - Tattly - Love
Julia Robbs - Tattly - Make it happen
Blogues Maravilha
Olá, olá!
Aqui no Tumblr temos de passar horas a pesquisar blogues com a finalidade de encontrar material com qualidade, criativo, giro e divertido. Super aborrecido este trabalho, não é? :)
No entanto, temos uma preferência: derretemo-nos com blogues temáticos. Aqueles blogues dedicados só e exclusivamente a uma pessoa, a uma atividade ou um assunto. E, confessamos, vemo-los sempre de ponta a ponta com um sorriso nos lábios.
Esta semana, temos em destaque o blogue Legolive, do Nuno Oliveira. O Nuno fotografa legos em contextos reais. É isto. E nós adoramos.
Depois, temos o blogue Corta-Unhas, em que perfeitos desconhecidos são apanhados em locais públicos a…a cortar unhas. So funny!
Para fechar com chave de ouro temos nada mais nada menos do que The Gold Digger, uma verdadeira homenagem a meninas (cof, cof) em trajes, reduzidos ou não, dourados. As mulheres invejam, os homens babam-se. Mas todos gostamos do que ali vemos.
obrigado!
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Nuno CatarinoEvan Parker <3
Quase um ano depois, o saxofonista britânico está de volta a Portugal para tocar com os 17 músicos nacionais que, no último Verão, com ele percorreram algumas das aldeias do xisto. O reencontro vai ser em Coimbra, durante o Jazz ao Centro, estando ainda marcado um solo nas ruínas de Santa Clara-a-Velha.
Before he scored that iconic goal against Greece, married a Spice Girl, won the treble, became the Pied Piper for MLS and got into the underpants racket, David Beckham was just a spiky-haired 14-year-old signing a schoolboy contract in a wood-paneled room with a man who had never won anything for Manchester United. Now, almost exactly 24 years and 4,872 Beckham hairstyles later, David Beckham is one of the most recognizable humans on the planet with a 14-year-old son of his own (who had a trial with Chelsea) and Sir Alex Ferguson is one of the most accomplished managers in the history of sports.
They're both retiring at the end of the season and they're both doing it as champions – Beckham in France, age 38, and Ferguson still in the Premier League, age 71. Though their relationship was marred by Ferguson kicking a boot at Beckham and opening up a cut above his eye before the midfielder left Man United for Real Madrid in 2003, there was nothing but hopes and dreams in that antiquated room with too many phones on the table in 1989.
But well before that momentous day, David Beckham had already made his television debut. Here he is at the age of 12 on Thames Television's daytime show, quietly talking about his participation in the Bobby Charlton Soccer School...
A lot has changed for Beckham over all these years, but his voice is still the same.
A contrabaixista portuguesa tem feito um percurso discreto mas em clara ascensão, tendo já tocado com algumas das grandes figuras da improvisação mundial. Planos é algo que não faz; deixa simplesmente que as coisas aconteçam. E o certo é que lhe têm acontecido…
Se clicarem neste link, que são estas letras azuis aqui em baixo, vão dar a uma página onde está a entrevista.
Foi o Rui Marçal da revista VICE que me entrevistou, já me disseram que ele é o melhor entrevistador de Portugal. Tem uma foto minha nova que acho que também ficou boa.
http://www.vice.com/pt/read/o-jorge-dani
Nuno Catarinoo novo jazz.pt já tem rss a funcionar
É com um enorme prazer que a equipa do projecto editorial jazz.pt volta ao convívio dos seus leitores e agora de uma forma que cremos ser mais próxima e até mais interactiva. A ferramenta Internet permite-nos isso, bem como uma maior regularidade no acompanhamento da cena nacional e internacional do jazz e da música improvisada.
Hoje (6 de Abril de 2013) é o primeiro dia de uma nova fase, passados sete anos de edições em papel. Por um lado, trata-se de continuar o que fazíamos, mas por outro estamos cientes de que é um outro caminho que começamos a percorrer. Por isso mesmo, inevitável é que o sítio jazz.pt – este – ainda tenha incompletas as suas funcionalidades e que apresente um ou outro erro.
A sua construção ainda não está terminada: os próximos dias e semanas serão de optimização e de acerto de alguns eventuais problemas, só possíveis de detectar com o uso. E com o vosso apoio, pelo que desde já agradecemos que nos enviem reparos, sugestões e opiniões que nos permitam melhorar este serviço público prestado pelo Jazz ao Centro Clube à grande comunidade do jazz.
Uma comunidade que junta melómanos dedicados, gente que tem curiosidade pelo jazz e quer saber mais, além de músicos, técnicos, formadores, produtores, programadores, editores – em suma, todos aqueles que, de alguma maneira, se dedicam ao desenvolvimento desta prática musical. Esta é uma plataforma concebida para vos servir. Digam-nos quais são as vossas expectativas, que nós tentaremos corresponder-lhes, com o objectivo de ir sempre mais longe…
Nuno Catarino!!!