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Jazz em Agosto 2026, Part 2

by Petra Cvelbar
September 6, 2026

The sixth day of the 42nd edition of Jazz em Agosto continued with a performance by The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters, featuring Mette Rasmussen on alto saxophone, Mariam Rezaei on turntables, Gabriele Mitelli on piccolo trumpet, electronics, and vocals, and Lukas König on drums, electric cymbals, and synthesizer. On the seventh day, we ...

Jazz em Agosto 2026, Part 1

by Petra Cvelbar
September 1, 2026

The 42nd edition of Jazz em Agosto in Lisbon opened on July 31 with a solo concert by pianist Joachim Kühn. The second day featured a duo performance by David Maranha (organ) and Rodrigo Amado (tenor saxophone) at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. Later, the action moved to the Open-Air Amphitheater in the Gulbenkian Garden, where the ...

Jazz em Agosto 2026

by Stefano Merighi
August 11, 2026

Jazz Em Agosto 2026 Fondazione Gulbenkian Lisbona 31 luglio-9 agosto 2026 È arrivata all'edizione 42 “Jazz Em Agosto," di scena negli spazi sontuosi della Fondazione Gulbenkian a Lisbona, sempre con la direzione artistica di Rui Neves. Ed è stata un'edizione all'insegna dell'eclettismo stilistico, dove il jazz continua ...

Kyle Green

Born: January 16, 1986

Kyle Green is an American jazz guitarist, composer, and educator based in Portugal. Through his work as a performer, conductor, festival founder, and arts leader, he has built an international career dedicated to performance, music education, and the advancement of jazz culture.

Green received his formal musical education at Grand Valley State University in Michigan and The City University of New York, where he studied while simultaneously building a career as a guitar instructor. His playing draws from the post-bop tradition, balancing expressive improvisation with a strong commitment to melody, interaction, and swing.

Pedro Molina: No Denial of the Power of a Music Video

by Scott Lichtman
July 6, 2026

Bassist / composer / group leader Pedro Molina has released a searing, spontaneous album called A Name I Knew (Carimbo Porta-jazz, 2026).  A Name I Knew received 4 stars from All About Jazz. In addition to the 8-song suite reflecting a struggle with Alzheimer's Disease by someone close to him, Molina created an experimental music video for the ...

Pedro Molina: A Name I Knew

by Scott Lichtman
June 24, 2026

It is a rare occurrence when multiple jazz skills are executed at such high level that the experience transcends music and becomes a moment of exhilaration and reflection. Such a moment exists with acoustic bassist Pedro Molina's quartet album, A Name I Knew. It balances free improvisation with an impression of careful scoring, mesmerizing personal voices ...

Filipa Santos

Born: August 7, 1978

Filipa Santos is a saxophonist, multi-instrumentalist and vocalist living and working in Porto, Portugal.
 Her current work explores improvisation, electroacoustic interventions, extended vocal techniques, electronics, and wind instruments inspired by Portugal's intangible heritage and incorporating various jazz, avant-garde and world music influences into their music. She is one of the founding members of folk/ prog group Mandrágora.

She was awarded with the Carlos Paredes award for the album "Mandrágora" for the best non-classical instrumental album ex-aequo with "Ascent" by Bernardo Sassetti. 

Duarte Ventura

Born: July 21, 2000

Duarte Ventura, born in 2000, began his musical studies at the age of ten at the Associação Filarmónica Arganilense, attending percussion and music theory classes. At the age of twelve, he started studying at the Conservatório de Música de Coimbra, continuing his classical percussion education. In 2015, he decided to change direction, focusing solely on the vibraphone and the jazz genre, joining the Professional Course of Jazz Instrumentalist at the Conservatório de Música de Coimbra. After three years of the course, he was admitted to the Escola Superior de Música de Lisboa, an institution that allowed him to have classes with renowned national and international musicians, such as Jeffery Davis, André Fernandes, João Moreira, Afonso Pais, among others.

Jazz em Agosto 2025

by Petra Cvelbar
August 23, 2025

A collection of photos from the Jazz em Agosto, in Lisbon from August 1-10, 2025 featuring William Parker, Cooper-Moore , Hamid Drake, Kris Davis, Robert Hurst, Johnathan Blake, Mariam Rezaei, Julien Desprez, Lukas König, Darius Jones, Chris Lightcap Gerald Cleaver, Luís Vicente Trio, João Próspero--Sopros, MOPCUT, Moor Mother, MC Dälek, Crystal Riley, X-Ray Hex Tet, Pat ...

Jazz em Agosto 2025

by Stefano Merighi
August 15, 2025

Jazz em Agosto Gulbenkian Foundation Lisbon, Portugal August 1-10, 2025 Despite the “onda de calor" which hit it, Lisbon remains as peaceful as ever in its saturnine routine--even though invasive tourism in the Baixa neighborhood has already changed its appearance, and not for the better. August, however, is also ...