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Latviaʼs Rigas Ritmi Festival Celebrates The First 10 Years! With A Stellar Line Up Of International Artists, June 30-July 2, 2011; Riga, Latvia

June 9, 2011

Ten years after its founding in 2001, the Rigas Ritmi Festival in Riga, the capital of Latvia, has become a bonafide jazz destination and important stop on the European jazz circuit. Created by Artistic Director and jazz drummer Maris Briezkalns, the Festival is a showpiece in the Baltics, featuring an expansive view of jazz, honoring music ...

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54th Annual Monterey Jazz Festival September 16 - 18

April 20, 2011

The 54th Monterey Jazz Festival, three-time winner of the JazzTimes Readers poll for “World's Best Jazz Festival" takes place September 16 to September 18 at the Monterey Fairgrounds, home to the Festival for 54 consecutive years. Described as “a cultural colossus" by the San Jose Mercury News and “a mecca for true jazz fans" by the ...

Album

Protegid

By Carmen Souza

Label: Galileo Music
Released: 2010
Track listing: M'sta Li Ma Bo (I'm Here for You); Afri Ka; Dos Eternidade (Two Eternities); Tente Midj; Protegid (Protected); D'xam ess moment (Worthwhile); Sodade; Song for My Father; Kem e Bo (Who Are You?); Magia ca tem (Passionless); Decision (Decision); Mara Marga (Bitter Mara).

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Article: Album Review

Carmen Souza: Protegid

Read "Protegid" reviewed by Chris M. Slawecki

by Chris M. Slawecki
July 27, 2010

One often hears the expression, “It's all over the map." But it's rarely used been more truthfully or appropriately than when applied to Protegid, the third album by vocalist Carmen Souza, born in Lisbon, of Cape Verdean descent, and now residing in London. Singing in a colorful, eclectic Portuguese-based Creole, Souza illuminates, stretches, and snaps back ...

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News: Recording

Carmen Souza Savors Cape Verdean Swing & Red-Hot Sodade

May 11, 2010

Carmen Souza's voice purrs like kernels of corn swirling on a traditional wooden platter one moment and bursts with a perfect blue note the next. It rings like a red-hot solo and sighs like a ship-deck lament. It finds the sweet spot between Birdland and the white sands of Cape Verde, the archipelago far off the ...