Highlights from This Year’s Jazz em Agosto

Lisbon, Portugal is the place for Jazz em Agosto, a ten-concert program, one each day, on the festival stage, the Open Air Amphitheatre at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. Shows include:

Saturday, 02 August 2014, 21:30
Evan Parker & Matthew Shipp (U.K., U.S.A.)
Evan Parker (tenor saxophone), Matthew Shipp (piano)

Sunday, 03 August 2014, 21:30
Marc Ribot Ceramic Dog (U.S.A.)
Marc Ribot (electric guitar), Shahzad Ismaily (electric bass, eletronics), Ches Smith (drums)

Monday, 04 August 2014, 21:30
Marc Ducret Real Thing #3 (FR)
Fidel Fourneyron (trombone), Matthias Mahler (trombone), Alexis Persigan (trombone), Antonin Rayon (piano), Sylvain Lemêtre (vibraphone, marimba, precussions), Marc Ducret (electric guitar)

Tuesday, 05 August 2014, 21:30
Luís Lopes Lisbon Berlin Trio (PT, DE)
Luís Lopes (electric guitar), Robert Landfermann (double bass), Christian Lillinger (drums)

Wednesday, 06 August 2014, 21:30
Franz Hautzinger Big Rain (AT, JP, U.S.A.)
Franz Hautzinger (quartertone trumpet), Keiji Haino (electric guitar, voice), Jamaaladeen Tacuma (electric bass), Hamid Drake (drums)

Thursday, 07 August 2014, 21:30
Fred Frith / Joëlle Léandre / Hamid Drake (U.K., FR, U.S.A.)
Fred Frith (electric guitar), Joëlle Léandre (double bass), Hamid Drake (drums)

Friday, 08 August 2014, 21:30
MMM Quartet (FR., U.K., CH., U.S.A.)
Joëlle Léandre (double bass & voice), Fred Frith (electric guitar), Urs Leimgruber (tenor & soprano saxophone), Alvin Curran (piano & eletronics)

Saturday, 09 August 2014, 21:30
Massacre (U.K., U.S.A.)
Fred Frith (electric guitar), Bill Laswell (electric bass), Charles Hayward (drums), Oz Fritz (sound processing)

Sunday, 10 August 2014, 21:30
L.U.M.E. – Lisbon Undreground Music Ensemble (PT)
Marco Barroso (composition, direction & piano), Manuel Luís Cochofel (flute), Paulo Gaspar (clarinet), Jorge Reis (soprano saxophone), João Pedro Silva (alto saxophone), José Menezes (tenor saxophone), Elmano Coelho (baritone saxophone), Jorge Almeida/ Gonçalo Marques/ Pedro Monteiro (trumpet), Luis Cunha/ Eduardo Lála/ Pedro Canhoto (trombone), Miguel Amado (double bass & electric bass), André Sousa Machado (drums)