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"Lisbon Story" by Wim Wanders

Monday, 2. October 2006, 18:20:00

Discover Lisboa filmed by Wim Wanders
Discover fado music performed by group Madredeus
Discover poetry of Ferdinando Pessoa

Buy DVD "Lisbon Story"
Buy CD "Ainda" with soundtrack from the film
Buy poetry of Ferdinando Pessoa

Wim Wenders "I am becoming more of a sound man than an image man…"

I used to say that my profession consisted of making images and that was true of my first films. I used to shoot, then I mixed and cut, then I remixed and recut and after two months' work the final mix of the film was done in three days. These days it's different. I cut my images in two weeks and slave over the sound for six months. I am becoming more of a sound man than an image man…
– Wim Wenders, interview (1)

Ferdinando Pessoa: "Always Astonished"
[quotes from the film]

Ferdinando Pessoa pictured on 100 Escudo(1986)

I listen without looking

I listen without looking and so see
[in Polish: Słucham nie patrząc i w ten sposób widzę]

In broad daylight even the sounds shine.

In broad daylight even the sounds shine.
On the repose of the wide field they linger.
It rustles, the brize silent.

I have wanted, like sounds, to live by things
And not be theirs, a winged consequence
Carrying the real far.

More:
"Lisbon Story" by Bryant Frazer
"Lisbon Story: Portugal Year Zero" by Carloss James Chamberlin
Ainda: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack From The Film "Lisbon Story" [SOUNDTRACK]

Ainda: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack From The Film "Lisbon Story"

"Lisbon Story": Teresa Salgueiro(Madredeus) and Rudigerowi Vogler (soundman)

Madredeus

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Zbigniew Namysłowski

Thursday, 30. March 2006, 21:55:41

music, quotes

Zbigniew Namysłowski (1939)

Well, Namysłowski bopped for a time, but by the middle of the sixties turned towards a more post-boppish playing, and later on switched quite smoothly to jazzrock - and he's been impressively effective at that, the album's called "Winobranie (The Wine Feast)"; some people consider it the best polish jazz album or at least one of top 10 albums in the whole polish jazz history. That was in 1973, three years later he did a funk-jazz record called "Kujaviak Goes Funky" which has been praised then and is now. By the eighties he moved the accents in his music a bit more towards the Weather Report' sound (his bands at that time featured a polish Jaco - Krzysztof Ścierański). From the nineties until now he's back into straightforward post-bop appeal. And he's still making it quite well. At now he's about 70 years old.
"All about Jazz" - posted on Forum by "straight-up-and-down"

Qutes about Zbigniew Namysłowski:

Willis Connover (Voice of America Jazz Hour): When I first visited Poland, I was quite unprepared to hear Polish musicians at so high level. Namyslowski was clearly the best. International voting has proved that audiences in Europe recognize the best Polish musician as among the best anywhere in the world. He honors 3 traditions, of jazz, of Polish, of himself. Anyone who misses Namyslowski is missing a unique source of creativity in 20th century. Namyslowski is a giant!

Roger Cotteral (JAZZ FORUM): ...A few years ago I got depressed and brooded on whether jazz had any future at all. My encounter with Namyslowski group and their music, brought home to me that there was no reason for anxiety.

Ola Sigvardson (ARBETET, Norway): The American supergroup "The Crusaders" failed to be the main attraction of the Kristianstad JazzFest. The appearance of Namyslowski group highlighted the concert. There is no doubt that he is one of the leading saxophonists in the world today."

Kazimierz Czyż (JAZZ FORUM): There is something in his music that would indicate a multi source inspiration. Though by no means an ordinary blend: pure jazz, rock, blues, Polish folklore, and the Balkan and Indian elements.

Jonny Olson (WERMLANDS TIDNINGEX): The system of musical education in Eastern Europe produces excellent musicians. Namyslowski and his group have confirmed this opinion. All the members of this formation are very good instrumentalists whose technique is truly professional. (...) Namyslowski himself is a remarkable saxophonist: daring, intensive and very active. He keeps his audience spell bound with the clear and precise sound on his alto and sopranino saxes. Namyslowski has appeared in Sweden many times before so I knew I would listen to some really high-class music."

Links
Zbigniew Namysłowski - Biography
Zbigniew Namysłowski - Official Page

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Django

Wednesday, 29. March 2006, 13:51:51

quotes, music

Django Reinhardt (1910-53)

The 1999 Woody Allen film "Sweet and Lowdown" is a tribute to the life of Django Reinhardt. The movie is a biography of fictional 1920's jazz guitarist Emmett Ray, who is the second best guitarist in the world - first was of course Django.

Django Reinhardt, the best swing guitarist, was born in Belgium on January 24th 1910. A true gypsy he travelled with his tribe. In 1928 his caravan wagon burned down; his chord hand was so damaged that some fingers were fused together. In the early thirties he heard a recording of Duke Ellington and decided to play swing music. At the Hot Club of Paris he met the violinist Stephane Grappelli. They sounded like the Eddie Lang-Joe Venuti duet. In 1934, Louis Vola formed the "Quintette du Hot Club de France" an all-string ensemble with Reinhardt, violinist Stéphane Grappelli, Reinhardt's brother Joseph and Roger Chaput on guitars, and Louis Vola on bass.

During World War II, Grappelli moved to England, Reinhardt stayed on the Continent, and led a new quintet with clarinet replacing violin. Later he had to stay hidden because of the Nazi persecution of gypsies. When the war ended, he made an American tour with Duke Ellington. Django was quite eccentric and a compulsive gambler. Supposedly he never showed up to recording sessions and people would have to get him drunk and trick him into to going to the studio. Some of his most famous compositions were actually complete improvised. He lived most of his life in Paris and he died on the 16th May 1953 of a sudden heart attack. His style continues to influence European jazz quitarists.

Django Reinhardt & his Quintet of the Hot Club of France - J'Attenndrai - Quicktime video - 12MB

Django Reinhardt quotes:

Jazz attracted me because in it I found a formal perfection and instrumental precision that I admire in classical music, but which popular music doesn't have.
It doesn't matter all that much. It's just that when you're playing, Stephane, you've got both Chaput and me backing you, but when I'm soloing I've only got one guitar behind me!

Quotes about Django Reinhardt:

"His way of playing was unlike anyone else’s, and jazz is different because of him." - Stephane Grappelli
I still listen to Django Reinhardt, his catalog. I'm just catching up with that after several years of not really listening to him proper. You know he's the greatest... it's the fear thing. ... but now I'm getting used to it... He (Django Reinhardt) was God. Just amazing" - Jeff Beck / Yardbirds / Jeff Beck Group
".. my instrumentals try to create some of the basic feelings of human interaction, like anger and joy and love ... with Jessica, I couldn't quite find it, then my little daughter, Jessica, crawled into the room, and I just started playing to her, that's why I named it after her ... I came up with that melody using just two fingers as a sort of tribute to Django ... in general writing a good instrumental is very fulfilling because you've transcended language and spoken to someone with a melody" - Dickey Betts / Allman Bros. Band
"Usually, no one quite knew where Django Reinhardt was going to be, but I met his brother and about an hour later in walks Django with an entourage of friends. He always traveled with a large group -- carried his own admirers with him, the most sinister-looking bunch of hoodlums you've ever seen. I walked up and offered to buy him a drink. That seemed to be the right thing to do... he was the first really brilliant solo guitarist I ever became aware of, I had records of his when I was 10 years old. It just blew my mind that anyone could play a guitar like that. Still does." - Charlie Byrd / Jazz Guitar