BEIJING — On the night of October, the tables of the first floor of the new house shows pequinesa were full. Dozens of features mainly chinese, contrary to what would be the hunch general, bebericavam while hearing a little song evident in these stops. The pace of the brazilian group I, founded by a paulista living in Shanghai for 15 years, took the places of their chairs. The jazz "made in Brazil" received applause from the enthusiastic and gave rise to a handful of videos quickly sent by WeChat (a mania national), mix of turbo-charged of western WhatsApp and Facebook in China. The five musicians, each coming from a part of the world, played at the new Blue Note in Beijing, which opened its doors in the chinese ca pital recently, with the right to sing the special guest, the trumpeter american Randy Brecker, winner of a Grammy award.
the Capital of the rock and of bands in the underground for many decades, Beijing has, a facet of music that is still little known (or acknowledged): a taste for jazz. It is young, but booming, industry, jazz in this city of 22 million inhabitants which, until the 1980s, had little or no contact with the musical genre — prohibited since the Cultural Revolution, and accused of being music to western bourgeois and decadent. The birth of the branch of Blue Note in New York in the old "district of delegations", known by the foreign presence, is just more proof that the jazz scene grow like never before, finally getting on the radar of big international brands.
— more and more chinese are interested in jazz, but lacked a place to present high quality artists the whole year — says the vice-general manager of the home, Jason Lee.
CHICK COREA FRED HERSCH
Since opening in August, the Blue Note in Beijing has attracted the giants of jazz as the pianist american pianist Chick Corea and Fred Hersch. The night of the inauguration was the responsibility of the saxophonist and flutist american Kenny Garrett (also a Grammy winner). He returned to the stage chinese 11 years after the state for the first time in the capital, where he studied the traditional music of the country and recorded an album.
it was Not by chance that the Blue Note arrived in China, one of the largest consumer markets of the planet. A new branch should be opened in Shanghai by 2018, and a third one in Taipei.
— China is an emerging market for the live music of the West. We will be in the front helping to build this market — said the president of Blue Note Entertainment, Steven Bensusan.
Beijing has always been the scenario of tradition in China. Perhaps this is the explanation for that, until now, jazz has never been a strong point of the city.
— The population had no access to material in audio, video and books of jazz until a little while ago. The Blue Note came to try to change this scenario said to the GLOBE, the drummer and leader of the Basket, Leonardo Susi.
According to him, the current jazz scene in Beijing has grown quickly. In the capital since 2006, the East Shore Live Jazz is another important home. It was created by the legendary mother chinese Liu Yuan. And experts say that Shanghai maintains a tradition in the scene jazz since the presence of american, british and French during the war.
— In China, the largest concentration of jazz musicians is in Shanghai, a mixture of all the races, a kind of New York city and São Paulo in the East. In the rest of the country, the public is beginning to understand how to clap in time 2 and 4 instead of 1 and 3… highlights from Susi, who formed the Basket, in 2008 in Shanghai, after Beijing, made a tour of eight other chinese cities, before leaving for Europe.
"NOODLE AND NON-NOODLE"
THE JZ Club in Shanghai, it is the jazz bar the most famous in the country. 2002) here, the establishment, which is 100% chinese, has opened five branches in other cities, he founded a school exclusively caters to jazz musicians — it houses 300 students per year — and yet the festival was created JZ International, the most important of its kind in the country, that gathers more than 40 thousand people. GLOBE, the owner of JZ Group, Lao Ren, acknowledged that the taste for jazz has increased in recent years. Today, the JUDGES receive about a thousand spectators in each of the two presentations per day on 365 days of the year.
— The jazz produced in China is getting better and better. Are the chinese making noodles and not "noodle" (pasta typical chinese). I think that will be a great platform for new musicians from here to the front — said Ren.
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