Many-Stringed Guitars and Sounds of the Bolivian Mountains: Jazz Events for Fall 2014
Many-Stringed Guitars and Sounds of the Bolivian Mountains: Jazz Events for Fall 2014
The MetLife Music of the Americas Fall 2014 season opens with two jazz performers who have a unique take on their craft.
Brazilian jazz musician Egberto Gismonti, who revolutionized the use of eight- and ten-string guitars, opens Music of the Americas' fall season with his first solo performance in a decade at Peter Norton Symphony Space. His creative breadth has expanded over the last few decades to include Charlie Haden's Quartet West and collaborations with Venezuelan multi-instrumentalist Naná Vasconcelos, among many others, and Music of the Americas is incredibly honored to present him on September 12. Get information and tickets to the concert.
Improvisation on Ano Zero, live at Jazzhus Montmartre, Copenhagen Jazz Festival, 1980.
A few decades Gismonti's junior, Bolivian singer Gian-Carla Tisera has already led a diverse career. In the last decade, she toured the world with the London-based early music ensemble Florilegium in a program that explores eighteenth-century music from the Bolivian lowlands; the recording, released by Channel Records won numerous awards to much critical acclaim. She releases her debut solo album this year, Nora la Bella, which represents a step in her journey to "find her own voice" and to channel her Bolivian roots, classical operatic training, and Latin jazz flavor into something personal. Read her album review in All about Jazz and on Examiner.com. She performs at the Americas Society with preeminent pianist Elio Villafranca, bassist Carlos Mena, percussionists Reinaldo de Jesus and Franco Pinna, and dancers from throughout New York City on September 30. Buy tickets and find out more about the show.
Gian-Carla Tisera speaks about the development of her first solo album.