After celebrating a decade of existence, in which it also occupied the Theatro Circo, Julho \u00e9 de Jazz will once again present a program that will cover the city’s two venues over the course of two weeks. The eleventh edition once again brings together a luxury cast, bringing some of the best names in modern jazz to Braga.<\/p>\n
fourward<\/strong><\/p>\n Promising the new generation of national jazz, Fourward is the quartet of Jos\u00e9 Jo\u00e3o Viana, Gon\u00e7alo Cravinho Lopes, Sim\u00e3o Duque and Tom\u00e1s Alvarenga. The four, with roots in Braga, came together in this formation to take part in improvisation sessions in the city’s bars and clubs.<\/p>\n Long-time friends, Tom\u00e1s and Gon\u00e7alo have been playing together since they were 13. They are two of the founders of the band OCENPSIEA, with which they toured venues and festivals across the country, and have since collaborated on various projects. They met Sim\u00e3o Duque at the Calouste Gulbenkian Braga Conservatory of Music and later separated to study music and composition at different universities in Portugal and abroad. Sim\u00e3o entered the Lisbon School of Music, where he met Jos\u00e9 Jo\u00e3o, thus completing the Fourward elements. In 2023, they won the CoolJazz by SmoothFM Talent Contest, an action aimed at promoting national jazz, and performed at the CoolJazz festival in Cascais.<\/p>\n Now, the quartet is preparing their debut album, recorded with the support of gnration, and will share those compositions at this presentation. Influenced by musical universes beyond jazz, such as electronic and experimental music, folk, R&B and soul, the four are building a work that reflects their identity as composers and their eclecticism as musicians. According to the quartet, this album \u201cwill center around the idea of freedom, reflecting not only the detachment from jazz currents, but also the importance of this value for democracy in our country and in the world\u201d.<\/p>\n jos\u00e9 jo\u00e3o viana<\/strong> electric guitar support<\/strong> portuguese republic – culture \/ general direction of the arts. rtcp – network of portuguese theaters and cinemas<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" After celebrating a decade of existence, in which it also occupied the Theatro Circo, Julho \u00e9 de Jazz will once again present a program that will cover the city’s two venues over the course of two weeks. The eleventh edition once again brings together a luxury cast, bringing some of the best names in modern Learn More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":4759,"menu_order":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-4601","event","type-event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","type-music"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gnration.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/4601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gnration.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gnration.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/event"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.gnration.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/4601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4758,"href":"https:\/\/www.gnration.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/4601\/revisions\/4758"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gnration.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gnration.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gnration.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/type?post=4601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\ngon\u00e7alo cravinho lopes<\/strong> electric and double bass
\nsim\u00e3o duque<\/strong> trumpet
\ntom\u00e1s alvarenga<\/strong> synthesizers and drums<\/p>\n