The Orquestra Jazz de Matosinhos invites Carlos Bica & Azul (feat: Frank Möbus and Jim Black) proposing new arrangements, specially designed for this concert, on a selection of themes of the trio.

The Orquestra Jazz de Matosinhos invites Carlos Bica & Azul (feat: Frank Möbus and Jim Black) proposing new arrangements, specially designed for this concert, on a selection of themes of the trio.

The Orquestra Jazz de Matosinhos invites Carlos Bica & Azul (feat: Frank Möbus and Jim Black) proposing new arrangements, specially designed for this concert, on a selection of themes of the trio. This concert is included in the Jazz Sonae cycle, organized by Casa da Música.

Sofia Ribeiro launches the new project of Orquestra Jazz de Matosinhos which aims to give visibility to the Portuguese new generation of jazz. Sofia is the first guest of a cycle dedicated to the voice that presents some of the best soloists of the country at the Teatro Municipal de Matosinhos Constantino Nery.

With a steady trajectory in jazz, Sofia Ribeiro is acknowledged for her strong and emotional performances and for a contained and intimate style that surpasses the boundaries between music genres. Widely applauded by the critics, she graduated in ESMAE – Superior School of Music, Arts and Performance of Porto and frequented international schools in Boston, Brussels, Paris and Barcelona. In 2005 she recorded her first album under her own name, Dança da Solidão, in collaboration with the composer Marc Demuth.

It is a unique opportunity to listen to Sofia Ribeiro accompanied by a wider instrument formation, OJM, which allows a new perspective and more complex arrangements of the soloist’s themes. In this concert Sofia re-interprets themes that the big band had already interpreted with the singer Maria João: Maria Beatriz (by Edu Lobo and Chico Buarque), and the standards Skylark and Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most.

The same applies to themes by the Brazilian Maria Rita and the Cape-Verdean Mayra Andrade. In Maria Rita’s case, Sofia interprets the themes Agora só Falta Você (by Rita Lee) and Casa Pré-Fabricada (by Marcelo Camelo). In Mayra Andrade’s case the chosen theme is Stória, Stória, from the singer’s album with the same title. Telmo Marques did the arrangements of the theme Beatriz; Carlos Azevedo did the arrangements of the theme Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most; all the other arrangements were done by Pedro Guedes.

In this concert in Matosinhos Sofia also presents some picks from her forth album, Ar (2012), with the Brazilian music as main reference: Mercedes (by Djavan), here with arrangement by Gileno Santana; A Medida da Paixão (by Lenine and Dudu Falcão), arranged by Andreia Santos.

Ar is another Sofia Ribeiro’s success. Produced in collaboration with the Colombian pianist Juan Andrés Ospina, this album was awarded the Revelation prize from the prestigious French magazine Jazzman. It thus makes sense to include in this concert with OJM some of Sofia’s original themes recorded in this album, marked by the simplicity of the lyrics or by a contagious rhythm: Os Teus Olhos, based on a poem by Florbela Espanca (arrangement by Paulo Perfeito), Bola de Chumbo (arrangement by Tomás Marques) and Adversidade (arranged y Telmo Marques)

Participation in the 46th International Jazz Festival of Barcelona, ​​where various arrangements of Carlos Azevedo, Pedro Guedes and Ohad Talmor, included in the 2010 album “Our Secret World” that joined Rosenwinkel to the OJM after the collaboration initiated in 2008, will be recovered.

Two months after the first performance that joined on the same stage the Orquestra Jazz de Matosinhos and Manuela Azevedo, which was sold out in the Suggia room of Casa da Música, the Big Band and the vocalist of the Clã meet again by invitation of NOS in D’Bandada, on the 13th and at Praça dos Leões, the main stage of the event which is known as the “St. John of the music”; the concert is at 23h30 and the access is free.

The Orquestra Jazz de Matosinhos will play again with Mayra Andrade in a single performance integrated in the celebration of the 500th anniversary of the granting of the royal charter of Matosinhos by king D. Manuel I. The Orchestra, directed by Pedro Guedes and Carlos Azevedo, together with Mayra Andrade recover themes from the repertoire of this Cape Verdean singer, namely from the album "Navega", "Stória, Stória", but also from the most recent "Lovely Difficult".

The concert will take place on the waterfront of Matosinhos at 10 pm and the admission is free.

The "candies" - as Manuela Azevedo called - offered by Pedro Guedes and Carlos Azevedo, directors of the OJM, are part of the repertoire. Tom Waits, The Beatles, Elvis Costello, Chico Buarque, Serge Gainsbourg and Queens Of The Stone Age are some of the artists and bands that will be remembered. This music was chosen by the lead singer of the Clã with original arrangements created for big band.

Tom Waits, The Beatles, Elvis Costello, Chico Buarque, Serge Gainsbourg and Queens of The Stone Age are some of the artists and bands whose music Orquestra Jazz de Matosinhos will recreate with the help of Manuela Azevedo in this show in the Suggia room of Casa da Música. With original arrangements, these themes never heard in big band version will be interpreted by the voice of the charismatic lead singer of the Clã, for the first time that the OJM and Manuela Azevedo work together.

Pilot project of the Grand Sound Fishing, a partnership between Orquestra Jazz de Matosinhos and Augusto Gomes Secondary School. After the presentation to the school community of a call for music students, curious and amateurs interested in the participation in a criative workshop with OJM musicians, a group of people who worked conventional jazz repertoire throughout regular sessions was created. The work will culminate in a concert that integrates traditional jazz repertoire as well as original music compositions.

Entre abril e julho de 2013, o Cine-teatro Constantino Nery recebeu o ciclo Jazz Composers Forum programado pela Orquestra Jazz de Matosinhos. Oito concertos centrados em oito importantes criadores contemporâneos de música para orquestra de jazz, confrontando as personalidades musicais de quatro americanos e quatro europeus. Tendo também interpretado temas inéditos destes oito criadores, agora editados em CD “Jazz Composers Fórum - today’s european-american big band writing” e com apresentação no próximo dia 29 de março neste cine-teatro. Oferta do disco na compra do bilhete.

Presentation of the album “Jazz Composers Forum - today's european-american big band writing” in the prestigious Voll-Damm International Jazz Festival of Barcelona. This edition results from the Jazz Composers Forum cycle, held between April and July 2013, in the Cine-theatre Constantino Nery. It brings together eight commissions of OJM to four American composers: Steven Bernstein (USA), Darcy James Argue (Canada), Ohad Talmor (Switzerland/USA) and Guillermo Klein (Argentina) and to four European composers: Julien Argüelles (UK), Florian Ross (Germany), Pierre Bertrand (France) and Frank Vaganée (Belgium).