Porta-Jazz Festival offers 30 concerts of Jazz Porto flavour in December

From 1 to 9 December, the city of Porto hosts the Porta-Jazz Festival, featuring 30 concerts, including premieres and unique artistic partnerships. There will be school meetings, workshops and jam sessions to promote exchanges and networking between Jazz musicians.

This 9th edition enhances the unique partnerships between bassist Thomas Morgan and Marcos Cavaleiro; saxophonist Chris Cheek and the MAP quartet, led by Paulo Gomes; drummer Jeff Williams and Demian Cabaud in "Astah", and the Gonçalo Marques quartet; as well as Eliot Zigmund (drummer who recorded with Bill Evans) and Manel Fortià and Carlos Azevedo.

Throughout nine days, Rivoli Theatre, the Casa da Música, the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto, the Cinema Passos Manuel, the Escola Superior de Música, Artes e Espectáculo, the Hot Five, the Casa de Ló and the Sala Porta-Jazz will be the stage to over one hundred musicians and music students, both Portuguese and foreigners.

For the first time, the Church of Cedofeita hosts the Porta-Jazz Festival featuring the concert with the trio Susana Santos Silva, Torbjörn Zetterberg and Hampus Lindwall, who will perform with the pipe organ built by Th. Kuhn.

Audiences will be able to enjoy the ambiance of the Clubedo sessions, daily events held in the auditoriums and prior to the concerts to revive the Jazz mood.

Porta-Jazz Festival is held in Porto as of 2010 and i tis a key part of the cultural scene in the city, and also an important reference for jazz in Portugal. I tis organised by the Porta-Jazz Association.