ANGELINA
ANGELINA - Vocals
JOÃO MAURÍLIO - Piano
ARTUR FREITAS – Saxophone, Flute
PEDRO PINTO – Double Bass
JORGE MONIZ - Drums

Angelina Vieira Santos was born in Funchal, in a family with musical roots and she listened to Jazz since a very young age, influenced by her father and brothers, also musicians. At age 18 she left her home town to discover Porto – the city that watched her fulfil her dream of becoming a doctor. She is one of the brand new talents in Portuguese Jazz scene and her work has been receiving both excellent critic from Portuguese specialist and wide broadcasting by the national media.
“Jazz Feelings” (2005), Angelina first recording, has the collaboration of excellent musicians: Cícero Lee (bass), João Maurílio (piano), Jorge Lee (drums) e Artur “Jumbo” Freitas (saxophone and flute)
When she steps on stage, Angelina releases herself to her passion and immediately reaches the audience with her enthusiasm and her unique interpretation of some classics from the golden age of Jazz.

DIDIER LOCKWOOD NEW GENERATION
DIDIER LOCKWOOD - Violin
THOMAS ENHCO - Piano and Violin
DAVID ENHCO - Trumpet
ZACHARIE ABRAHAM – Double Bass
NICOLAS CHARLIER - Drums

Didier Lockwood, both as a composer and an improvisator, has distinguished himself on the international jazz scene with is own very personal and unique sound.
Born in Calais, France, his father, a violinist, transmitted his own passion for the instrument to his son. Towards the end of his classical studies at the Academy of Music, he discovered the freedom of improvisation. At the age of 17, he moved on to the progressive rock scene with the mythical group Magma. Then at 21 he turned to jazz where he was discovered by Stephane Grapelli, with whom he made several tours.
His many awards include awards from SACEM, The Victoire de la Musique, The Charles Cross Prize, among many others and he was also honoured with the title of Officer of Arts and Letters.
Inspired by a wide range of sounds, Lockwood remains true to jazz, incorporating in it the millions of multi ethnic musical colours he compiles while exploring new environments and sounds.

PHIL WOODS & FRIENDS

PHIL WOODS - Saxophone
BEN ARONOV - Piano
JESPER LUNDGAARD - Bass
JESSE DAVIS - Saxophone
DOUGLAS SIDES - Drums

Philip Wells Woods was born in Springfield, Massachusetts, on November the 2nd, 1931.
He devoted himself to the saxophone when he was only 12, studying with Harvey LaRose, in Springfield.
In the 50’s Phil Woods began leading his own bands and recording for Prestige. In March 1968, he roamed to Europe and, in Paris, formed the European Rhythm Machine with whom he explored the world until he decide it was time to go back home, in 1973. After a brief stay in Los Angeles, Phil Woods settled in New York and with the “Phil Woods Quartet” (later to become Quintet) he established a reputation as one of the greater saxophonist of our days. He won 4 Grammys.
In the present decade Woods has been concentrating, on top of his regular quintet work, on leading a Big Band project, featuring his own compositions and arrangements and on the “Bird with wings… and more!” project.
Phil Woods is one of the all time great jazzmen.

J.J. MILTEAU Sextet

JEAN-JACQUES MILTEAU – Harmonica
MICHAEL ROBINSON – Vocals
RON SMITH – Vocals
MANU GALVIN – Guitar
GILLES MICHEL – Bass
ERIC LAFONT – Drums

European harmonica virtuoso J.J. Milteau is a matchless player, and his breathtaking technique fills with envy his peers who admire his impeccable taste and praise his seemless playing.
Always attentive to the world around him, J.J. is a gifted storyteller whose music echoes impressions and dreams brought home from his travels.
Born in 1950 in a Parisian working-class family, Milteau spent the “rocking sixties” roaming across the planet, armed with the tiny harmonica and sailed through the seventies sprinkling warm blue notes on dozens of recordings by the cream of French singers (Charles Aznavour, Eddy Mitchell, Yves Montand, Barbara…) before launching a series of personal explorations on record and on the stage.
Relentlessly inquisitive, the European harp master has much more to offer than sheer technique. Behind his instrumental know-how, J.J. has both feeling and spirit.

ROSA PASSOS

ROSA PASSOS – Vocals, Guitar (acoustic)
FÁBIO TORRES – Piano
PAULO PAULELLI – Acoustic Bass
CELSO de ALMEIDA – Drums

Rosa Passos grew up surrounded by music in the city of Salvador, in the Brazilian state of Bahia. Inspired by João Gilberto and Antonio Carlos Jobim - the godfathers of bossa nova - she switched from piano to guitar and began writing her own material as a teenager. Passos’s songs (written with her long-time lyricist Fernando de Oliveira) appeared on her first recording in 1979.
Especially since her American debut in 1996 (at the invitation of Oscar Castro Neves) with a sensational performance in a “Jazz at the Bowl” concert at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles, Rosa Passos has developed an ever-growing international following.
More than a singer, Passos is a prolific songwriter and a superb rhythm guitarist and she has done what so many vocalists have attempted, but failed to do: she reinvented Bossa Nova.

CHUCHO VALDÉS Quintet

CHUCHO VALDÉS – Piano
MAYRA CARIDADE VALDÉS – Vocals
LÁZARO RIVERO ALARCÓN – Double Bass
YAROLDI ABREU – Percussion
JUAN CARLOS CASTRO ROJAS – Drums

Born in October 1941, in Quvican, Cuba, this pianist, organist and composer is considered one of the best pianists in the world and the most important musician of our days, concerning Cuban Jazz. He started playing piano at age 3, guided by his father, the also famous composer and pianist Bebo Valdés.
Chucho was also part of the “Ikarere” project, founded in 1973, mentoring this group, the first of it’s nationality to win a Grammy. The group steered a meaningful revolution in Cuban Jazz by rescuing elements from the very roots of their traditional music.
Nowadays, Chucho Valdés remains an innovator and is still playing throughout the world; also still remains his fundamental role in the development of Cuban music and Latin-American Jazz.

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