Orquestra Jazz de Matosinhos will play at the Blue Note in New York – publico

 
         

                 

                         
                     

                         
                     

                 

 
 

“This year is full.” The exclamation is Pedro Guedes, pianist and composer, to comment on the new journey of (his) Jazz Orchestra of Matosinhos (OJM), which this week will return to New York to act, for the first time at the Blue Note, one of the venues consecrated the world jazz

Once you have started the year with a performance at the Vienna Konzerthaus, the OJM will now resume partnership with the American guitarist Kurt Rosenwinkel, for a week of concerts -. 17 on 22 May, with two daily performances – in the famous scene of Greenwich Village. And over there forward, will step new international stage, between Belgrade and Barcelona.

This “great year” is therefore a step in the “music internationalization strategy, and musicians, the OJM, “adds Pedro Guedes -. that with Carlos Azevedo divides the musical direction of this training both created in 1999 with the support of the Municipality of Matosinhos

the new week of concerts at the Blue Note follows- the four previous visits training the east coast of the United States, where they acted in other areas of New York – Birdland, Jazz Standard, Jazz Gallery and Iridium – and also in Beantown Jazz Festival Boston. “These are good times; is the opportunity to recall previous situations, and return several times to a place like New York increases our music, “says Pedro Guedes. “I hope it’s the last time before the next,” he added.

The debut of OJM in Big Apple happened in 2007, when he participated in the JVC Jazz Festival at Carnegie Hall. Two years later, he played in the same city with the renowned saxophonist Lee Konitz, with whom he would record his second album, Portology – after a first record with another American musician, Orchestra jazz Matosinhos invites:. Chris Cheek (2006)

the third recording OJM was with new American musician: guitarist Kurt Rosenwinkel, who registered Our Secret World (2010). It is this work that is the basis of the repertoire that OJM Rosenwinkel and will now play at the Blue Note. “It’s a musical partnership that we have with a great guitar player and a great composer,” said Pedro Guedes. “With it, we are always creating new themes and new arrangements,” the conductor of the orchestra, which shares with Carlos Azevedo – and also with the French saxophonist Ohad Talmor – the rearrangement of various issues under Our Secret World , which will be presented at the Blue Note, such as Zhivago , Secret of the old , Turns or Path of the heart .
in billboard advertising the new week of concerts OJM with Kurt Rosenwinkel, the new York bar highlights the saxophonist “has given us a song that tells us stories in an extraordinary way and with an imaginative range out of the ordinary. ” And cites statements of Rosenwinkel himself to remember his collaboration with jazz Portuguese band, and intense week of recordings, in September 2009, which would place the Our Secret World. “The that made the project work was the attitude and enthusiasm of all the musicians. Truly I felt that everyone was supporting me, supporting my music, and really give their best. It was a great challenge for them, and they were more than up to. The spirit that was present throughout this work was fantastic, “said saxophonist.

After this new week in New York, and with regard to international experience, Pedro Guedes cites future actions in Spain, near Alicante, with singer Maria João, in August; followed by Belgrade, capital of Serbia, with pianist João Paulo Esteves da Silva; and, towards the end of the year, returning to the International Jazz Festival of Barcelona, ​​where the OJM is resident training for two years. At that time – advances Pedro Guedes -., The orchestra will present a new project with the American pianist Fred Hersch

Also in 2017 promises to be a “full year” for OJM, as it is scheduled for the first half of the year the completion of the works of restoration and modernization of the old factory of the Royal Winery in Matosinhos, which will be the orchestra’s headquarters, in addition to the House of architecture. “It is a fantastic space that will be very important for the evolution of our project for the future,” anticipates Pedro Guedes, noting that, from that time, OJM have the best conditions to reconcile the continued focus on internationalization with a “interaction of working with the community,” which is also in the original program matosinhense orchestra.