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Egberto Gismonti

Born: December 5, 1947

Egberto Gismonti was born in 1947 in Carmo, Brazil. He began his formal music studies at the age of six. After studying classical piano for 15 years, he went to Paris to study with Nadia Boulanger (orchestration and analysis), and composer Jean Barraqué, a disciple of Schönberg and Webern. Returning to Brazil, Gismonti began to glimpse a reality broader than that of classical music alone. He was attracted by Ravel's ideas of orchestration and chord voicings, as well as by choro, a Brazilian popular instrumental genre where varied kinds of guitars, reeds and percussion are featured

Kraków Jazz Week: Seifert Competition & Jazz Juniors

by Martin Longley
December 9, 2024

Kraków Jazz Week Cricoteka/Hevre Kraków, Poland September 26th-October 3rd 2024 This was the second Kraków Jazz Week, but there is a much deeper history unearthed when studying the roots of this new event. Fundamentally, it involves the amalgamation of two long-running festivals: the Seifert Competition and Jazz ...

Renee Rosnes: Crossing Paths

by Katchie Cartwright
December 7, 2024

In the course of an illustrious career that began in the 1980s and continues to flourish, Renee Rosnes has developed an extraordinary sound, both as a composer and as a pianist, one that is readily recognizable whatever the context. With Crossing Paths, she taps into longstanding affinities and affection for Brazilian music, illuminating elements and flavors ...

Jazz&Wine Of Peace 2024

by Neri Pollastri
November 20, 2024

Varie sedi Jazz&Wine of Peace 2024 Cormons e altre località del Friuli e della Brda slovena 23-27 ottobre 2024 Una presenzassenza ha caratterizzato la ventisettesima edizione del festival Jazz&Wine Of Peace, svoltasi dal 23 al 27 ottobre a Còrmons e, come sempre, nello splendido territorio che circonda la cittadina friulana: ...

Egberto Gismonti at FolkClub

by Antonio Baiano
November 19, 2024

Belgrade Jazz Festival 2024

by Thomas Conrad
November 18, 2024

Belgrade Jazz Festival 2024 Dom Omladine Beograda, MTS Dvorana Belgrade, Serbia October 24-28, 2024 It is possible that, of all the major cities of Europe, the least understood in the Western world is jny: Belgrade, Serbia. In the 1990's, when the wars in the former Yugoslavia were raging, Serbia was a ...

Fred Hersch at the Barcelona Jazz Festival

by Artur Moral
November 17, 2024

Fred HerschConservatori del Liceu56 Festival de Jazz de BarcelonaBarcelona, Spain October 29, 2024 The 56th Barcelona Jazz Festival boasted one of the most complete and balanced line-ups in recent years. Fred Hersch's solo piano concert was, without a doubt, one of its greatest nights, a performance characterized by tributes, admiration ...

Anat Cohen Quartetinho a Macerata Jazz

by Enrico Tomassini
November 13, 2024

Anat Cohen Quartetinho Teatro Lauro Rossi Macerata Jazz Macerata 14 ottobre 2024 Secondo appuntamento della manifestazione Macerata Jazz--giunta alla cinquantacinquesima edizione--con l'esibizione dell'Anat Cohen Quartetinho, un quartetto di virtuosi e polistrumentisti selezionati dalla leader attingendo ad un'altra altra sua formazione di successo, il Tentet. Anat Cohen è nata ...

Genius Loci 2024

by Neri Pollastri
October 24, 2024

Complesso Monumentale di Santa Croce Genius Loci 2024 Firenze 26-29 Settembre 2024 Per il settimo anno l'Opera di Santa Croce ha aperto gli spazi del meraviglioso complesso monumentale che circonda la basilica fiorentina per dar vita al caleidoscopico festival Genius Loci, due serate (e un'alba) di concerti, spettacoli ...

Delia Fischer: Beyond Bossa

by Allen Morrison
August 31, 2024

In 2019, after I'd been writing for DownBeat Magazine for about a decade, I was asked to review a batch of new albums from Brazil, including one by a Rio de Janeiro-based singer named Delia Fischer who wrote her own songs. I gathered that, in addition, she was a jazz pianist, an arranger, and the musical ...