Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Jazz em Agosto 2010 Festival

Jazz em Agosto 2010 Festival encompasses the reality of European Jazz, observed in its dialogue with the original American jazz.

Friday, 6 Aug, 2010, 21:30 - Anfiteatro ao Ar Livre

John Surman + Jack DeJohnette (UK, USA)
John Surman (soprano saxophone, baritone saxophone, electronics), Jack DeJohnette (drums, piano, electronics)

Saturday, 7 Aug 2010, 18:30 - Auditório Três
Han Bennink «Hazentijd» (Netherlands)
Documentary film by Jellie Dekker and Dick Lucas (2009, 58’)
 
Saturday, 7 Aug 2010, 21:30 - Anfiteatro ao Ar Livre
Steamboat Switzerland (Switzerland, Greece )
Dominik Blum (Hammond B-3, analogic electronics), Marino Pliakas (electric bass, live electronics), Lucas Niggli (drums, percussion)
 
Saturday, 8 Aug 2010, 15:30
Auditório Dois
Open Speech Trio (Portugal, Germany)
Carlos Bechegas (flutes, processor), Ulrich Mitzlaff (cello, live electronics), Miguel Feraso Cabral (percussion, objects)
 
Sunday, 8 Aug 2010, 18:30 - Auditório Dois
Guus Janssen + Han Bennink (Netherlands)
Guus Janssen (piano), Han Bennink (drums)

Sunday, 8 Aug 2010, 21:30 - Anfiteatro ao Ar Livre
Evan Parker Electro-Acoustic Ensemble (UK, USA, Japan, Spain, Netherlands, Italy)
Evan Parker (soprano saxophone), Peter Evans (trumpet, piccolo trumpet), Ko Ishikawa (shô), Ned Rothenberg (clarinet, bass clarinet, shakuhachi flute), Philipp Wachsmann (violin, live electronics), Agustí Fernández (piano, prepared piano), Barry Guy (double-bass), Paul Lytton (percussion, live electronics), John Russell (acoustic guitar), Peter van Bergen (contrabass, piccolo clarinet), Aleks Kolkowski (stroh viola, musical saw), Lawrence Casserley (signal processing instrument), Joel Ryan (sample, signal processing), Walter Prati (computer processing), Richard Barrett (live electronics), Paul Obermayer (live electronics), Ikue Mori (live electronics) , Marco Vecchi (sound projection), Kjell Bjørgeengen (image processing)

Friday, 13 Aug 2010, 21:30 - Anfiteatro ao Ar Livre
Louis Sclavis «Lost on the Way» (France)
Louis Sclavis (clarinet, bass clarinet, soprano saxophone), Matthieu Metzger (soprano saxophone, alto saxophone), Maxime Delpierre (electric guitar), Olivier Lété (electric bass), François Merville (drums)

Saturday, 14 Aug 2010, 17:00 - Auditório Três
Albert Mangelsdorff «Die Posaune des Jazz» (The Trombone of Jazz) (Germany)
Documentary film by Thorsten Jess (2005, 52’)

Saturday, 14 Aug 2010, 18:30 - Auditório Dois
Red Trio (Portugal)
Rodrigo Pinheiro (piano, preparad piano), Hernâni Faustino (double-bass), Gabriel Ferrandini (drums)

Saturday, 14 Aug 2010, 21:30 - Anfiteatro ao Ar Livre
Sol 6 (Netherlands, Germany, UK, Australia)
Veryan Weston (piano, voice), Luc Ex (acustic bass guitar), Ingrid Laubrock (tenor saxophone, voice), Hannah Marshall (cello, voice), Mandy Drummond (viola, voice), Tony Buck (drums)

Sunday, 15 Aug 2010, 17:00 - Auditório Três
Talk by Francesco Martinelli (Italy)
Subject: «European Jazz and American Jazz: an uninterrupted dialogue»

Sunday, 15 Aug 2010, 18:30 - Auditório Dois
Thomas + Strid + Thomas (Sweden, UK, Australia)
Pat Thomas (piano, live electronics), Raymond Strid (drums), Clayton Thomas (double-bass)

Sunday, 15 Aug 2010, 21:30 - Anfiteatro ao Ar Livre
Circulasione Totale Orchestra (Norway, Sweden, South Africa, USA, UK)
Louis Moholo-Moholo (live electronics), Fröde Gjerstad (alto saxophone, clarinet), Morten J. Olsen (live electronics, percussion), Anders Hana (electric guitar), Nick Stephens (double-bass), Paal Nilssen-Love (drums), Ingebrigt Håker Flaten (electric bass), Børre Mølstad (tuba), Sabir Mateen (alto saxophone, clarinet), Bobby Bradford (trompet), Kevin Norton (vibraphone), Lasse Marhaug (live electronics), John Hegre (sound design)

Further information: http://www.musica.gulbenkian.pt/jazz/index.html.en