"Tudo é Jazz" Festival (Brazilian)

Photo: Martin Shore

"Tudo é Jazz Festival" EIGHTH EDITION WITH A TRIBUTE TO ONE OF THE LARGEST jazz singers of the 20th Century: BILLIE HOLIDAY.
Tribute brings the same stage Madeleine Peyroux, Mart'Nália and Lady Day All-Star Band, under the direction of arranger Oded Lev-Ari.

All the musical diversity found on the streets and cultural venues in the early 20th century, New Orleans, the jazz capital, is run today by contemporary jazz musicians in his brilliant performances and improvisations. Proof of this is the All You Jazz, held since 2002 in Ouro Preto. And this year, the audience at the Festival during the 18th, 19th and 20th of September, 2009 you can enjoy the refined sound of jazz greats outdoors, for free. According to Mary Alice Martin, creator and coordinator of the event, have a more democratic was where she always wanted to go. "It will not popularize the jazz of a sudden, but will allow a wider audience has access to good music," says Mary Alice.

It's All The Jazz comes to Year 8, 2009 edition, with a tribute to one of the greatest jazz singers of the world has ever had: Billie Holiday, black women, poor, but that suddenly captured the ears of the great musicians of the States and various countries. The entire event will be held on a stage in the traditional Largo do Rosario, Ouro Preto. Will be 11 presentations in three days, with the participation of about 70 musicians.
Curated by Mary Alice Martin, the program brings revelations, as the singer and guitarist Kate Schutt, jazz veterans such as guitarist Bucky Pizzarelli and, again, bassist Ron Carter, to great talents of the School of Music in Marciac, France. The tribute to Billie Holiday will be held on September 19, Saturday, with music by Oded Lev-Ari and the shares of Madeleine Peyroux and Mart'Nália and Lady Day, All-Star Band, consisting of 6 musicians from the weight setting international jazz. The last day of the Festival, September 20, Sunday, will be celebrating the Year of Brazil in France, with the presentation of a quartet of former students of the School of Paris and the Marciac Jazz Big Band, the largest in France.

Down Beat magazine - the publication that specializes in jazz and blues - selected and called 120 from jazz critics, among the most renowned U.S. and the world to vote for the best artists of the year. Three musicians who fit the category Rising Stars - who represents the artists on the rise - will display to the public is all the Jazz Festival in 2009, the performances that earned him the particulars of the Journal. They are: Anat Cohen (awarded in the "Artist of the Year" and "Clarinet"), Marcus Strickland (categories "Tenor Sax" and "Soprano Sax") and Lionel Loueke (category "Guitar").

Festival

Since its inception, the Jazz is Everything has been prepared as an event of two-way, to bring the Ouro Preto international musicians and would provide an exchange with Brazilian musicians and international partners through festivals. In 2007, Maria Schneider, considered the greatest composer, arranger and conductor of the jazz world, was invited by the Festival to be "music-in-residence" and to try and conduct an orchestra comprised of 25 Brazilian musicians, most of Minas Gerais. The partnerships take effect from the year 2008 and 2009 is the start of the exchange between the Jazz Festival in Ouro Preto and two big festivals in Europe, Festival de Jazz de Marciac Festival in France and North Sea Jazz Festival in Rotterdam in the Netherlands, and Jazz Festival of Saint Lucia in the Caribbean providing quality Brazilian groups the opportunity to present these festivals as guests. In return, these festivals send local music groups to perform in Ouro Preto.
In addition to presentations, has always been a concern of the organization of the Festival held workshops and lectures on specific programs, offered free of charge by foreign musicians invited, as a counterpart to the Festival. Since 2002, more than 3,000 participants took part in these programs, mostly composed of young local musicians. The cultural and educational consequences of these meetings can be found in the professional development of young people. Participants had the opportunity to meet their idols and, above all, to benefit from their advice and their experiences.

Photo: Jean-Michel De Bie

The All Jazz is always prioritized work copyright, new and bold proposals, bringing the first time in Latin America groups like the extraordinary EST (Sweden), Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey, Steve Coleman and Five Elements, Bad Plus, Magic Malik, Kaki King, Galactic, Either Orchestra and many others, and cerebral difficult, but essential to the development of a new language in jazz. The news that happened in jazz in recent years has been the extraordinary spread that made him a kind of lingua franca of music all over the world. It has produced a design that would provide the public the Festival contact with live instrumental music quality, improving their critical thinking and enabling their socio-cultural-artistic. At the same time offering the technical qualities, the best possible way to enhance your presentations, engaging sound, lighting and stage structure of the best companies in South America and the best technical environment to provide comfort to the audience. Since 2009 the festival presentations have become totally free to the public.

Today is All Jazz have in your lineup Brazilian musicians who are more recognized outside of Brazil than in their country of origin. So the festival brought Raul de Souza in concert with Claire Michel Group, Oscar Castro-Neves, who live more than 40 years outside the country, the beloved by critics and audiences from jazz in the U.S., Luciana Souza, the acclaimed pianist and singer Eliane Elias, the under-recognized as a good musician in Brazil but adored abroad, Ivan Lins who had a guest Michel Legrand. The Festival also developed in the various associations Musical de Ouro Preto ( "Rock Music") region and a taste for good music, giving young people from these groups contact with the jazz, the music of the XIX century, for its originality by its constant evolution, always influenced by history, by what happens now, at the moment, absorbing the feelings of the events and becoming an excellent tool for educational and cultural.

The Festival provided the creation of a Point of Culture, the Culture Point High Cross, through integrated efforts, with the mainstreaming of culture and shared management between the Musical Society of Our Lord Jesus Flores, the Municipality of Ouro Preto and ACL - Association of Free Culture. This project aims to be economically viable, socially just, ecologically correct and modulated by the statement about the place and facing a child and adolescent population in the social situation of high risk, is the influence of drugs, alcohol and marginalization to develop a project of social inclusion through music. It has been estimated by the Commercial Association of Ouro Preto that financially the Jazz Festival is more profitable for the city of the Holy Week, making annual financial contributions of at least $ 12 million in the whole region.

Program

On the Stage of the Rosary, which will be held all the presentations, the guitarist, singer and songwriter Kate Schutt opens the festival on Friday, March 18, at 20h, next to the trio: Terri Lyne Carrington (drums), Josh Brozosky (low ) and special guest, saxophonist John Ellis. Kate Schutt is American, but currently lives in Canada. The first performance of Schutt's guitar was 12 years old and at 13 wrote his first song. She studied at The Berklee of Music and at Harvard University and has recorded two albums: No Love Lost (2007) and The Telephone Game (2008). Earlier on Friday, at 22h, in the same place, the audience can enjoy the Israeli bassist, Avishai Cohen, accompanied by Lionel Loueke (guitar, vocals), Omer Avital (bass) and Daniel Freedman (drums). In this show, Avishai Cohen will play the trumpet. The musician has great interest in the rhythms of Latin American countries and have even had a band that blended various Latin influences. Cohen is regarded by American critics a jazz visionary of global proportions.

On Saturday, the 19th, from 12h to 13h, the Stage of the Rosary receives Banda Platform C, the Jazz noon. The quintet, formed in 2005, is composed by André Bessa (sax and flute), Augusto Rennó (guitar), Fernando Nugas (keyboards), José Carlos (bass) and Wallace Fields (drums). The group walks around the MPB and jazz standards. Further, it demonstrates the Quartet Lafé Beme (School of Music in Marciac) at 16h; Leonardo Cioglia Sextet, at 17h; Duduka da Fonseca Quintet at 19h and end the evening at 21h, there will be the greatest tribute to Billie Holiday "Lady Day Without" directed by arranger Oded Lev-Ari. For this show were called singers Madeleine Peyroux and Mart'Nália Lady Day and All-Star Band, made up of names first line of the jazz world, as Ron Carter, drums; Buck Pizzarelli, guitar, Antonio Sanchez, drums, Anat Cohen, sax and clarinet, Ingrid Jensen, trumpet, Marcus Strickland, saxophone, Mulgrew Miller, piano.

On Sunday 20, from 12h to 13h, the Jazz noon, a little more of the Quartet Lafé Beme. Starting at 17h, Jacques Figueras invites Stroeter and his accordion "nervous" with the participation of pianist Fabio Torres, violinist Michael Ruzitschka and drummer Edu Ribeiro. The evening will open with four major music icons: Richard Galliano (accordion), Hamilton de Holanda (mandolin), Jacques Morelembaum (cello) and Bernardo Aguiar (tambourine, percussion), at 19h. And to close, at 21h, a celebration, the height, the Year of Brazil in France, with Paris Jazz Big Band, directed by Pierre Bertrand and Nicolas Folmer.
More information at: http://www.tudoejazz.com.br/