Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation....

Delivering a complete cycle of 25 years and this year, under the concept of icons and innovators, the Jazz in August continues to offer - the environment that characterizes fairy in the gardens of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation - musicians mentioned in the history of jazz, holders of creative music projects, innovative and visionary, presented for the first time in Portugal.
The Jazz in August 2009 will begin on Saturday, 1 to 21.30 (Outdoor Amphitheater) with George Lewis and his electro acoustic Sequel project. Trombone in more than 80 albums which grows on parity, the electronic side of music, George Lewis returns to the Jazz in August supported experimental project that premiered in Baden-Baden New Jazz Meeting in 2004, is the second time that the displays in public. Member of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM), George Lewis is also the author of the book The Power Stanger than Itself - The AACM and American Experimental Music (Ed. The University of Chicago Press, 2008), work that will present at the conference the next day, Sunday, 2 to 16:30 (Auditorium 3).

The Jazz in August 2009 continues on Sunday, 2 to 18:30 (Auditorium 2) with the duo formed by American Rough Italian Giulia Loli of Egyptian descent, aka Dj Mutamassik and experimental American guitarist Morgan Craft. American smooths rough boundaries of music through a provocative and revealing sampladélia is assertive in politics through contemporary sounds that migrate between popular music genres.
Lawrence D. "Butch" Morris concludes the 1st weekend in August at the Jazz hosted the Outdoor Amphitheater leading the Nublu Orchestra, a mixture of irreverence and leading and bringing together musicians from varied backgrounds with point of meeting regularly in club Nublu in New York, a multicultural area underground. With a different composition in each exhibition, the Nublu Orchestra is to complete the process of conducting Lawrence D. "Butch" Morris, a set of signals processed in a vocabulary that the musician has to lead the musicians of the orchestra joining their differences designing and unpredictable directions.

The Jazz returned in August 2009 on Thursday, August 6, with a concert revelation ...

Credits for images:
- George Lewis Sequel: Claudio Casanova / AAJItaly
- Nublu Orchestra: Nublu Orchestra