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JAZZ IN THE SPACE AGE - GEORGE RUSSELL / CARA · 2020
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On October 4th, 1957, the Soviet Union launched Sputnik, the first object placed by humanity in orbit around a celestial body, thus inaugurating the era of the space race. Inevitably, composers were also inspired by the new adventurous spirit that this era seemed to contain. In 1960, George Russell and a group of jazz stars recorded Jazz in the Space Age, a historic record already featuring some ideas from the composer's revolutionary Lydian Chromatic Concept of Tonal Organization. But what does this music do anyway? Everything. It gravitates. It draws us in, it pushes us away. It allows us to wander around, perhaps looking at this nearby planet, intersecting with a star, perhaps deviating from a meteorite at high speed. Russell wrote the score for Jazz In the Space Age and intentionally left a space open for free improvisation - he fixed the satellites in orbits and the imagination of his celestial bodies did the rest. He brought the universe with all its possibilities and mysteries into the music. A cosmos that could seem infinite to us, just like music. Sixty years later we allow ourselves to gravitate to this score, today with other celestial bodies that gaze upon this music through its unique cosmic dust.

Liliana Marinho

Production by Pedro Guedes / OJM

Musical Direction by Pedro Guedes

Composition and arrangement by George Russell

Transcription of the arrangement by Telmo Marques

Guest Soloists: João Paulo Esteves da Silva (piano), José Diogo Martins (piano)

Woodwinds: José Luís Rego, João Guimarães, Mário Santos, José Pedro Coelho, Rui Teixeira

Trumpets: Luís Macedo, Ricardo Formoso, Rogério Ribeiro

Trombones: Daniel Dias, Xavier Sousa, Gonçalo Dias

Rhythm Section: Carlos Azevedo (Fender Rhodes), Eurico Costa (guitar), Demian Cabaud (double bass), Marcos Cavaleiro (drums)

Recorded live and mixed by Carlos Lopes at Casa da Música, Porto, November 30th 2019

Video by Alexandra Côrte-Real

Design by Dobra

Texts by Fernando Pires de Lima


In memory of Manuel Jorge Veloso



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