ANGRAJAZZ –
Festival Internacional de Jazz de Angra do Heroísmo – is an event
organized by a non-profit association; Associação Cultural
Angrajazz, with the support of the Angra do Heroísmo City Hall,
the Regional Department of Culture and many private sponsors. The
event takes place annually in Angra do Heroísmo; a mid-Atlantic
city considered world patrimony by UNESCO, Terceira Island,
Azores, Portugal.
The first
edition of this festival took place in 1999, and the event has
taken place each consecutive year in the beginning of October. The
festival took place on a XVII century cloister of an old convent
until 2003, since then it has moved to the new Centro Cultural e
de Congressos de Angra do Heroísmo, an old bullfighting ring
transformed into a cultural center. The semi circular auditorium
turns into a big jazz club fitting 550 persons. The musicians
perform very close to the public which gives it a very exciting
and truthful atmosphere.
OBJECTIVES
Angrajazz is a
main-stream jazz festival; its main purpose is spreading and
developing the appreciation of this kind of music in the Azorean
Islands. Some of the concerts realized at the festival have been
considered among the best of the respective year in Portugal by
the specialized media. It is easily understandable that with such
groups as the Frank Morgan Quintet in 2000, the Gary Bartz Quartet
and Mário Delgado Project Filactera in 2001, Russel Malone, Benny
Green and Ray Drummond trio and the Hot Clube de Portugal Big Band
in 2002 the festival is quickly gaining worldwide recognition.
The Associação
Cultural Angrajazz also organizes side events during the festival
such as workshops, conferences, expositions, jazz-themed movies
and others. The Angrajazz Orchestra was created in 2002 as a
result of some of these workshops, playing for the first time in
the 4º Angrajazz. This Orchestra is formed by 20 local musicians,
and directed by the musicians and professors Pedro Moreira and
Claus Nymark.
PRODUCTION AND ARTISTIC
DIRECTION
João Pedro Mont’Alverne José Ribeiro Pinto João Paulo Valadão Miguel Cunha
ORGANIZATION
Câmara Municipal de
Angra do Heroismo (City Hall) Associação Cultural
Angrajazz
PLACE
Centro
Cultural e de Congressos de Angra do Heroísmo Angra do
Heroismo, Terceira Island, Azores, Portugal
Grand Auditorium – fits 600
persons, arranged as a big jazz club.
Small Auditorium/Cinema – fits
158 persons.
Main Atrium with 300 square
meters, 3230 square feet: expositions, selling of merchandise and CDs, jam sessions, etc.
Piano bar with esplanade.
FINANCIAL SUPPORT
Angra do Heroísmo City Hall
Regional Department of Culture
Private sponsors
Tickets and merchandizing
PREVIOUS FESTIVALS
1st ANGRAJAZZ FESTIVAL – 1999
Quinteto de Carlos
Martins (Portugal)
Toots Thieleman/Kenny Werner
(Belgium/USA)
John Scofield/Steve Swallow/Bill
Stewart Trio (USA)
Claude Bolling
Quartet (France).
2nd ANGRAJAZZ FESTIVAL – 2000
Frank Morgan Quintet, featuring
Valery Panomarev, John Hicks, Curtis Lundy and Yoron Israel
(USA)
Dena DeRose Trio
featuring Ingrid Jensen (USA)
Richard Gallianno Trio (France)
Hilton Ruiz Quartet (USA)
3rd ANGRAJAZZ FESTIVAL – 2001
Mário Delgado Project
Filactera (Portugal)
Paolo Fresu Quintet (Italy)
Sonny Fortune Quartet (USA)
Cedar Walton Trio (USA)
Roseanna Vitro Quintet with Gary
Bartz (USA)
Steve Turre Sextet with strings
- Chris Howes, Akua Dixon, Stephen Scott, Buster Williams and
Victor Lewis (USA)
4th ANGRAJAZZ FESTIVAL – 2002
Russell Malone, Benny Green and
Ray Drummond Trio (USA)
Kenny Barron trio with Kyoshi
Kitagawa and Ben Riley (USA)
Louis Hayes Quartet with Javon
Jackson, Ronnie Mathews and Michael Bowie (USA)
Laverne Butler with Bruce Barth
trio (USA)
Big Band do Hot Clube
de Portugal directed by Pedro Moreira (Portugal)
Only Jazz Quartet (Azores)
5th ANGRAJAZZ FESTIVAL – 2003
Hot Clube de Portugal
Sextet (Portugal)
Angrajazz Orchestra (Azores)
Karrin Allyson Quintet (USA)
Scott Hamilton Quartet (USA)
Philip Catherine Quartet
(Belgium)
Martial Solal (France)
Regina Carter Quintet (USA)
6th ANGRAJAZZ FESTIVAL – 2004
Paula Oliveira Quarteto (Portugal)
Orquestra Angrajazz (Azores)
Bireli Lagrene Quarteto (France)
Herbie Nichols Project (USA)
Mark Murphy Quinteto (USA)
E.S.T. Esbjörn Svensson Trio (Sweden)
Wycliffe Gordon Quinteto (USA)
o Orquestra
de Jazz do Funchal (Madeira)
7th ANGRAJAZZ FESTIVAL – 2005
Orquestra Angrajazz (Azores)
Didier Lockwood
Trio (France)
TGB Frazão / Carolino / Delgado (Portugal)
Sheila
Jordan com Steve Kuhn Trio (USA)
Dave Holland Quinteto (USA)
Bill Charlap Trio (USA)
Preservation Hall Jazz Band (USA)
8th ANGRAJAZZ FESTIVAL – 2006
Orquestra Angrajazz (Azores)
Joe
Lovano Noneto (USA)
Bruce Barth Trio with Vanessa Rubin and Carla Cook (USA)
Enrico Pieranunzi Piano Solo (Italy)
Enrico Rava Quinteto
(Italy)
Filipe Melo Trio (Portugal)
Eddie Palmieri (USA) Afro Caribbean Jazz All Stars
CURRENT FESTIVAL – 2007
Laurent Filipe
Quinteto (Portugal)
Roberta Gambarini
Quarteto (Italy, USA)
Orquestra Angrajazz
with Afonso Pais (Azores, Portugal)
Benny Golson Sexteto (USA)
Jim Hall Trio (USA)
Monk's Casino Quinteto (Germany)
CONTACTS
Associação Cultural
Angrajazz Centro Cultural e de Congressos de Angra do Heroísmo 9700 – 130 Angra do Heroísmo Azores, Portugal
