Tudo É Som: Brazil, Jazz and The Genuis of Hermeto Pascoal

About this event

Music Network Artist Residency
Phil Ware Concert Series

Marie Séférian (DEU), voice
Matthew Halpin, saxes
Miguel Gorodi (UK), trumpet/flugel
Dermot Dunne, accordion
Orlando Molina (VEN), guitar
Phil Ware, piano
Ronan Guilfoyle, bass
Sean Carpio, drums

ABOUT THE RESIDENCY
Music Network in partnership with Triskel Arts Centre and supported by Cork City Council deliver a six-month jazz residency curated by Phil Ware.

The residency is the first of its kind in Ireland. Not only will it unite some of the finest musicians from the international and Irish jazz scenes in collaboration over five concerts, it will also give a selected group of students from CIT and tutors from Music Generation a unique chance to study and play with these musicians in an unparalleled series of workshops and masterclasses.

Launching at the Guinness Jazz Festival in October, the residency kicks off in fine style as one of the top jazz guitarists in the world, Peter Bernstein, joins forces with Phil Ware’s trio. December sees the trio working with vocalist Ian Shaw, trumpeter Anders Bergcrantz and tenor saxophonist Bobby Wellins – all three with a string of awards to their names – to shine a spotlight on that oft-maligned genre, the popular song, with particular emphasis on the catalogue of Burt Bacharach. In January, an eight-strong group of musicians from Ireland, Venezuela, Germany and the UK display their love of the lilting melodies and driving beats of Brazil in a concert showcasing compositions by the incredible Hermeto Pascoal, as well as classics from Rio and beyond. Rising star, UK pianist Kit Downes, features alongside celebrated saxophonist Stan Sulzmann in Cormac O’Brien’s quartet in February, sharing a double bill with Cork trombonist, composer and arranger Paul Dunlea’s seven-piece group. Finally, the residency comes to a spectacular close in March as rhythm & blues and jazz legend Georgie Fame makes a very welcome return to Ireland, in the company of well-loved Irish guitarist Hugh Buckley and the Phil Ware Trio – a swinging affair indeed.

ABOUT PHIL WARE
UK-born pianist Phil Ware made the transition from blues to jazz in his early twenties. Teaching himself the style through trial and error, he was twice a finalist in the Young Jazz Musician of the Year by the time he was 25. After moving to Ireland, he rapidly established himself as a major player on the scene, where his hard-swinging, bop-tinged style made him much in demand from Irish and international musicians. His career has taken him throughout Europe and as far afield as America, Asia and the Middle East, and his long-standing trio with bassist Dave Redmond and drummer Kevin Brady has twice represented Ireland at the prestigious Eurojazz Festival in Mexico City.