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Focusing Music , originally uploaded by fixwhatusee . Wadada Leo Smith in a great session with drummer Louis Moholo-Moholo. Abrantes, MusicAM, 30.10.2010

This Saturday, October 30, Abrantes, Teatro S. Pedro: composer and trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith will play together with drummer Louis Moholo . One more great event for the brand new MUSICAM festival.

Saturday, October 23, Abrantes

Charles Gayle, Photo By Matt Brown It’s impossible to predict what will happen this Friday night, in Abrantes. Charles Gayle (Piano and sax?), Larry Roland (bass) and Michael Wimberly (drums) will be there playing loud, maybe noisy, fast and probably Jazzy. Free. Free Jazz, in a tradition with more than 4 decades. The same aesthetic practiced by Albert Ayler, John Coltrane, Ornette Coleman, Cecil Taylor, Sun Ra, among many others. The same flow that will drive a power trio to play music has it happens. Instantaneous, intense and spontaneous. One word, again: free. Abrantes, Teatro S. Pedro , 21h30, Friday, October 22.

Larry Roland will play live in Abrantes (Portugal), together with Charles Gayle and Michael Winberly. Friday, October 22.

A fully improvised set with two clever explorers of their very own instruments, Portuguese violinist Ernesto Rodrigues and French sax player Heddy Boubaker were both very competent on their dialogue. This could actually have been their major sin. Players got truly involved in the ‘conversation’ and there were no place for big risk. Music was there, with adventurous sonic explorations and innovative aural stimulus for curious ears. But in a duo context, free music gets in a upper level when players can ask hard questions or take action into provocative ideas. At the end, we can say that last night was a good beginning for MUSICAM, an audacious new event in a beautiful city like Abrantes, not really used to free improvisation, jazz or new music. We strongly believe that the first two cagean minutes of Ernesto and Heddy worked as an initiation ritual for many more great nights in Abrantes. Second step will be this Friday, with Charles Gayle, Michael Wimberly and Larry Rolan...

Abrantes will have a music festival  with some dates dedicated to improvised / experimental music, starting this Saturday. Great! First night, 16th October, duo with Portuguese violinist Ernesto Rodrigues   and French sax player Heddy Boubaker , at Teatro São Pedro (21:30). An evening with electro-acoustic explorations, in a live improvisation meeting with two great experimentalists. Heddy Boubaker at Mopomoso 18th April 2010 Barmark by Ernesto Rodrigues I Links: Ernesto Rodrigues Heddy Boubake