SATURDAY 20 NOVEMBER, 16H00

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Samuel Blaser & Marc Ducret

Samuel Blaser trombone

Marc Ducret guitarra

Assinatura 4 concertos
45,00 eur

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Assinatura 3 concertos
35,00 eur

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Assinatura Integral
90,00 eur

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Samuel Blaser & Marc Ducret
10,00€ / 7,50€ c/d

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2021.11.20 Samuel Blaser & Marc Ducret

The growing attention that Guimarães Jazz, in its most recent editions, has dedicated to its secondary auditorium, where more low-profile concerts take place, is based on arguments which are intimately connected to the current mechanisms that determine the functioning of the field of music, and jazz in particular. If, on the one hand, the principles advocating the market’s self-regulation, principles extracted from supposed preferences of the public that seem increasingly detached from reality and almost obsolete, still prevail, on the other hand it is clear that the frontiers between what is called mainstream and independent seem also to be fading and in process emptying themselves out of meaning. In that sense, the realization of concerts in the secondary auditorium, in the context of a festival committed to embrace every artistically relevant trends in modern jazz, opens up the potentially expansive possibility of presenting to the public musicians and projects which, despite or as result of its elements of marginality or heterodoxy, are considered so unique that end up being uniformized by the passage of time and its transformative effect on the public’s preferences and mentalities.

The duo formed by Samuel Blaser and Marc Ducret fits perfectly into the idea of that we intend to develop when programming for the secondary auditorium. Despite their differences, in terms of both age and creative experience, Blaser and Ducret are highly-skilled and highly-educated musicians who share the attraction towards risk and the disruption of the musical formulas imposed by the industry, creative qualities that are intensely explored through an expansive sound and body performance in which the narrative’s irregularity is sublimed and the sacrifice of the convention’s predictability.

Born in 1981 in Switzerland, trombonist and composer Samuel Blaser embodies the spirit of the European music of the third millennium, characterized essentially by the incorporation into the creative act of a vast spectrum of influences and by the fluidity of discourses generated by globalization’s new musical Esperanto. Throughout the last twenty years of his activity in jazz and adjacent territories, Blaser has always guided is artistic work by a constant search for the relational dimensions of music, manifested in collaborations with important names of avant-garde contemporary music such as Pierre Favre, Gerry Hemingway or Paul Motian, while at the same time exploring the limits of his instrument in solo performances and recordings, where he operates sound according to the different architectural and acoustic qualities of its specific context.

After more than thirty years since he was regarded as one of the emerging musicians from the nouvelle vague of French jazz of the 1980’s and 90’s, guitarist Marc Ducret is currently considered, due to his remarkable trajectory of ethical integrity and aesthetical audacity in jazz, one of the most influential names in the field of improvised and experimental music. A self-taught musician, Ducret was, in the beginning of his career, a member of the prestigious French National Jazz Orchestra, which he later left to pursue his work solo, as leader or as sideman, in seminal projects of avant-jazz such as, among other, the group Bloodcount founded by great saxophonist Tim Berne, with whom Ducret has collaborated intensively throughout time.

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