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SpokFrevo Orquestra: Ninho de Vespa
by Angelo Leonardi
Elettrizzante. Il Frevo è un genere musicale e una danza nata alla fine dell'800 a Pernambuco nel Nordeste del Brasile e associata a quel carnevale. È caratterizzato da un ritmo frenetico, quasi parossistico, e nella metà del secolo scorso s'è imposto al carnevale di Rio, diventando il ritmo tradizionale dell'intera Nazione. Un po' com'è successo al Choro, il Frevo è stato reinterpretato da artisti di estrazione diversa, come Dori Caymmi, Gilberto Gil, Chico Buarque o Egberto Gismonti. ...
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by Nick Catalano
Frevo--a feverish, exuberant dance music from the state of Pernambuco in northeastern Brazil--made its Big Apple debut last night (October 25th, 2014) at Jazz at Lincoln Center's Appel Theater. Virtually unknown in the U.S., it was originated by a composer known as Zuzinha as a street martial arts/ dance music and organized around carnival in cities like Recife in 1907, taking its name from the Portuguese verb ferver"--to boil. It was presented by the Spok Frevo Orquestra--a group constructed along ...
read moreJazz This Week: Spokfrevo Orquestra, Jesse Gannon and Truth, Dave Dickey Big Band, a New Film About Clark Terry, and More
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
The schedule of jazz and creative music for this Halloween weekend in St. Louis features everything from intimate cabaret shows to roaring big bands, plus the local debut of a new documentary film featuring a St. Louis-born jazz legend. Let's go to the highlights... Tonight, the Gaslight Cabaret Festival resumes with Ken Haller presenting the first of two performances of his show Mama's Boy" at the Gaslight Theater; and saxophonist Adam Schefkind will become the first Washington University student to ...
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