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Orquestra Jazz de Matosinhos

Active since: December 25, 1999

Orquestra Jazz de Matosinhos is a non-profit institution that promotes creation, research, spread and training in the jazz field. Created in 1997, it has the support of the Municipality of Matosinhos since 1999 and it crosses international ambition with a sense of local responsibility. Continuously invests in the development of diversified artistic projects, coherent educational projects and in the recording of Portuguese jazz. A pioneer in a largely unexplored territory, OJM plays the role of the National Jazz Orchestra.

On October 5th, 2017, while celebrating its 20th anniversary, OJM was invited to participate in the commemorations of the 107th anniversary of the Proclamation of the Portuguese Republic, at the São Bento Palace in Lisbon. The Portuguese Prime-Minister and the Portuguese Culture Minister honoured the orchestra with the Medal for Cultural Merit.

The uniqueness of OJM is revealed in the versatility that allows it to play the role of a national jazz orchestra while performing repertoires of all aesthetic variants and ages of jazz. It has the artistic direction of Pedro Guedes and was co-directed with Carlos Azevedo until 2021. Collaborated with Maria Schneider, Carla Bley, Lee Konitz, John Hollenbeck, Jim McNeely, Kurt Rosenwinkel, João Paulo Esteves da Silva, Carlos Bica, Ingrid Jensen, Bob Berg, Conrad Herwig, Mark Turner, Rich Perry, Steve Swallow, Gary Valente, Dieter Glawischnig, Stephan Ashbury, Chris Cheek, Ohad Talmor, Joshua Redman, Andy Sheppard, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Fred Hersch, Rebecca Martin, Peter Evans, Fay Claassen, Kiko Freitas, Maria Rita, Maria João, Mayra Andrade, Manuela Azevedo, Sérgio Godinho, Manel Cruz, Mário Laginha and Rui Reininho. It has also shared the stage with Remix Ensemble, Casa da Música/Porto Symphony Orchestra and Matosinhos String Quartet. Every year since 2007, OJM performs two new projects with special guests at Casa da Música. 

In 2014, it started the series “New Jazz Talents”, where OJM invites young musicians to play as soloists in front of the Big Band. In 2019, in its 11th edition, a young Spanish musician was invited for the first time, extending the project to the entire Iberian Peninsula from then on.

Zhivago

Featuring the music of Orquestra de Jazz de Matosinhos
Duration: 8:56
June 9, 2012

Orquestra de Jazz de Matosinhos Invites Chris Cheek

By Orquestra Jazz de Matosinhos

Label: Fresh Sound Records
Released: 2007
Track listing: Does it Matter?; FJP#2; Do De Para a Mao; Sargaco; Why Not; Yuppie; Pipiwipi; Jamiro.

Orquestra de Jazz de Matosinhos: Orquestra de Jazz de Matosinhos Invites Chris Cheek

by Ian Patterson
October 25, 2007

Portugal is not exactly famous for its jazz, no doubt due in part to fifty years of a repressive dictatorial regime (roughly coinciding with the birth of modern jazz) that stifled freedom of expression and, perhaps in part, owing to a vibrant tradition of folk music at a grass roots level which in no way felt ...