Orquestra Jazz de Matosinhos is resident at the Blue Note in … – Daily News – Lisbon

The orchestra accompanies the American guitarist Kurt Rosenwinkel a residence six days, between the 17th and 22nd of this month, the famous New York club

“It’s a challenge. It is remembering the golden jazz years, when the band had the opportunity to be in a club to play for months on end. in this case only a week, but this daily and continuous intensity will be reflected certainly in music, “he told Lusa the director of Jazz orchestra of Matosinhos (OJM), Pedro Guedes.

the orchestra will accompany the American guitarist Kurt Rosenwinkel a six days residence, between the 17th and 22nd of this month, the famous new York club Blue Note.

Nine years after making his debut live in the United States at Carnegie Hall at the invitation of JVC jazz Festival, the official says that the city remains “certainly one of the most desirable places for jazz musicians to play.”

the director says that this return shows a “strong commitment” to internationalization.

This year, the band has had a concert at the Konzerthaus in Vienna (Austria), and the last quarter goes to Belgrade, Serbia, and Barcelona in Spain, which will be the ‘big band’ in residence of the International Jazz Festival.

“This residence at the Blue Note is a high point in a year is being filled in concerts abroad. The growth of the orchestra’s activity starts to have an increasingly constant presence abroad, despite the enormous difficulties, “explains Pedro Guedes.

During the concerts, songs will be presented in” Our Secret World, ” 2010 album OJM recorded with Kurt Rosenwinkel and has unpublished arrangements of orchestra directors, Pedro Guedes and Carlos Azevedo, and saxophonist Ohad Talmor.

“what we proposed he was playing his music with jazz orchestra arrangements for trying in this way, expand the jazz orchestra format your music. Since then we have kept a close musical relationship that has originated concerts in Portugal and abroad, “recalls Guedes.

The result you hear on the album, consider the Blue Note are recordings” serious and wonderful. “

the OJM has a long list of collaborations, such as” Portology “, made with Lee Konitz and Ohad Talmor, has worked with the famous saxophonist Chris Cheek and served with Brazilian Maria Rita.

The last time he was in the uS was in 2011, to a residence in the new York Birdland Jazz Club.