Dear friends of Paradise Jazz Festival
We are
proud to announce that the 10th Paradise Jazz Festival is going to be
held at its usual scenic venue just before Pomos
at the Paradise Place over an
exciting and unforgettable three weekends from
Saturday
18th
July to
Saturday 1st of
August 2009.
The subject
of this year’s festival is once again the musical culture of the island. Our aim
is to create a musical platform for talented local musicians
to present their work. That’s why we chose a fresh programme with new
artists and groups, instead of a tribute of past years for our 10th
anniversary celebration. Some faces we know from previous performances here at Paradise Place, but this year they are
moving in different groups and flying in different directions.
On our journey to collect what is best, we ended
up with far too many groups that we could squeeze into a weekend… So, this is
where the idea of 3 weekends on the road came….. A “Latin, Samba Jazz Night” with a familiar band (Trio Smiles) with their huge fan base to
start on Sat. 18th as
pre-start gig, to open the “Jazz-times
09”. Their music travels beyond geographical barriers, and takes the
people with them into their musical common language.
The following weekend 24th,
25th & 26th
is the main part of the Festival, starting on Friday 24th,
with the excellent new work of Savvas Houvartas and his seven member band, a project that is being
recorded at the moment. During the concert we are going to hear only original
compositions (instrumentals and some Greek lyrics. Mediteranian
melodies and strong elements of improvizations from the mucisians,who,
with their personal style complete the sound of their perfomance.
On Saturday
we will have 2 bands. The one is a uniquely talented group called GoJam Group
from Greece that will
appear for the first time in Cyprus.
We, the organizers, checking their website on My Space fell in love with their music which fits perfectly with
our location. A young pleasant group that always on their live performances
they create a special atmosphere with their virtuoso technical play
& the transmiting enthusiasm perfomance
. The night starts perfect for things to follow.
The second band is the The Takoushis
/ Karapatakis Quartet, a fantastic line up with the some of the island’s best
artists. The sophisticated and colorful compositions of Marios
Takoushis
together with his charismatic style of playing and his incredible ability to
improvise, meet the music of Gabriel
Karapatakis who with his sparse and unique expressivness, takes us to
soundscapes with minimal but groovy bass lines.According to their latest performances and reviews, the four musicians leave
their stigma on the island's jazz scene and are able to disclaim the fact that
jazz is music for musicians only.
On Sunday 26th,
we have Classical
Jazz Afternoon. One of the most well known local musicians, Irinaeos
Koullouras, is presenting a quartet of magnificent musicians who are
visiting the island special for our festival and for sure this will be the
highlight of this year music celebration. “The Meeting Point Jazz Quartet" will promise
you an unforgetable late Sunday Afternoon. The two old friends, Ofer Ganor on guitar and
Irenaeos Koullouras on acoustic bass, met back in 1994 in Boston and New York
and since then they perform together in several occasions and places around the
world along with several musicians of the jazz scene. This time they come together again to join
forces with two other great musicians of their generation, Asaf Yuria (Youtube)
on tenor
saxophone and Doron Tivosh on drums. “The Meeting Point Jazz Quartet"
will present
compositions from the jazz repertoire along with some compositions of their
own. Special guest on vocals Ioanna Troullidou.
Ending this musical celebration on Saturday 1st of August is the “European
Trio and Jan Kus” also a newcomer
to our festival. The
Trio which was created in 2008
are heavily influenced by Modern Jazz
(Brad Mehldau, Wayne Shorter) and European Music (Keith Jarrett European
Quartet), and so their approach comes from a fusion of these styles. For
this concert the Trio becomes a Quartet with the addition of Slovenian saxophone player Jan Kus.
One of
the big surprises of this year Festival is the dancing act, which takes
place before the last gig. The Point to Performances are researching
contemporary forms of theater, which leads the odion to a real experience. The
theme of the play is an observing look to the relation between couples
today.
Sounds good
to me!!!
For some other bands we booked different days in the season, so
this summer the friends of good music miss nothing!
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Programme
Sat.
18th July, 20.00 p.m.
Trio Smiles
FRI.
24TH JULY, 20.00 P.M.
Savvas
Houvartas
Ensemble
Sat.
25th July, 19.00 p.m
GoJam Group
Sat.
25th July, 21.00 p.m.
The Takoushis
/ Karapatakis Quartet
SUN.26TH
JULY,18.00 P.M.
Meeting Point Jazz Quartet
SAT.
1ST AUGUST, 20.OO P.M
POINT TO PERFORMANCES
SAT.
1ST AUGUST, 21.OO P.M
European Trio and Jan Kus
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