Março
Theo Bleckmann (Alemanha)
Theo Bleckmann, cantor e compositor alemão radicado em Nova Iorque, tem-se destacado como uma das principais vozes do jazz contemporâneo. Nomeado para um Grammy, é consecutivamente incluído pela Downbeat no top anual de vocalistas jazz masculinos, e repetidamente votado como nº1 na categoria, para a El Intruso, naquela que é a mais prestigiada votação anual nas áreas do free jazz e avant garde.
Bleckmann integrou durante longos anos o ensemble de Meredith Monk, e ao longo da carreira apresentou-se em projectos com algumas das mais importantes figuras do jazz e música contemporânea como Anthony Braxton, Philip Glass, Laurie Anderson, John Zorn, Ambrose Akinmusire e Ben Monder.
Actuou em lugares como Carnegie Hall, Sydney Opera House, New Library of Alexandria e Disney Hall, marcando ainda presença na NPR e no programa de David Letterman.
Em 2017 lançou, como cantor e compositor, o álbum Elegy, editado pela ECM.
Apresenta-se a solo no Solilóquios, num concerto exclusivo em Portugal.
"One of the most flexible and uncategorizable figures on the New York scene [...]he's got a strong, precise voice and impeccable pitch control [...] It's tremendously rare for a singer to realize the potential of the voice so thoroughly." Chicago Reader
"From another planet" New York Times
"Bleckmann possesses technique so colossal, yet so meticulous, he can seem otherworldly, an android-like embodiment of sci-fi vocalisms, a bodily vessel for that voice." All About Jazz
"Transcendent" The Village Voice
"A vocalist as playfully experimental as Albert Ayler or Ornette Coleman… Bleckmann uses the world’s oldest musical instrument—the human voice—in new ways. In addition to conventional vocal tones, he can produce a midway bazaar of unconventional effects, employing his voice like a synthesizer(...) His voice is a reedy light baritone/near-tenor with uncommon flexibility in the upper range. If he wanted, he could be an effective crooner and perhaps even sell out Birdland, as Kurt Elling does. In fact, Bleckmann recorded a superb album of Tin Pan Alley standards, Las Vegas Rhapsody, which was released only in Europe. But he’s more interested in doing material that most jazz singers pass over, like the songs of Charles Ives, Kurt Weill, or Kate Bush. He is drawn to music that is technically demanding and intellectually stimulating but elementally human." The Nation
"An unbelievable creature, a muse on wordless angels’ tongues that descends in spirals down to earth. Jazzthing
"From another planet" New York Times
"Bleckmann possesses technique so colossal, yet so meticulous, he can seem otherworldly, an android-like embodiment of sci-fi vocalisms, a bodily vessel for that voice." All About Jazz
"Transcendent" The Village Voice
"A vocalist as playfully experimental as Albert Ayler or Ornette Coleman… Bleckmann uses the world’s oldest musical instrument—the human voice—in new ways. In addition to conventional vocal tones, he can produce a midway bazaar of unconventional effects, employing his voice like a synthesizer(...) His voice is a reedy light baritone/near-tenor with uncommon flexibility in the upper range. If he wanted, he could be an effective crooner and perhaps even sell out Birdland, as Kurt Elling does. In fact, Bleckmann recorded a superb album of Tin Pan Alley standards, Las Vegas Rhapsody, which was released only in Europe. But he’s more interested in doing material that most jazz singers pass over, like the songs of Charles Ives, Kurt Weill, or Kate Bush. He is drawn to music that is technically demanding and intellectually stimulating but elementally human." The Nation
"An unbelievable creature, a muse on wordless angels’ tongues that descends in spirals down to earth. Jazzthing
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DOMINGO, 25 MARÇO, 21H30
THEO BLECKMANN, VOZ
15 EUROS
