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Carmen Souza live at the Half Note Jazz Club

Half Note Jazz Club presents The Great Carmen Souza, a now recognized presence on the world stage, from Wednesday
15 February and for 5 total appearances.

Carmen Souza from Cape Verde, is undeniably a distinct musical presence placed artistically at the "meeting" point of the traditional music of Cabo Verde and world Jazz. Raised in a Creole environment, discovered "Sodade" from a very young age, of the feeling of anticipation and nostalgia for someone or something missing that generations of sailor children carry within them, like her! She started singing in a Gospel choir at a young age and was influenced by musicians such as Luis Morais but also Nina Simone or Billie Holiday.

Portugal's leading bass player Theo Pas'cal, Carmen's producer and mentor who discovered her exuberant talent, it pushed her to listen a lot to the top jazz of Bill Evans, of Hancock, of Miles or Horace Silver and this will play a role in her musical career. Her first record work the 2005 was a huge success, with very interesting material in Creole dialect where the traditional rhythms of Cabo Verde and the mornas, are combined with modern jazz forms and give a completely different dimension to the music of Akrotiri. In the same year, adored by the international press, it will be played at the famous Womad Festival in England and then at all the Festivals in the world. Two more very successful records followed, "Verdade" and "Protegid" which will also be nominated for best world music album 2010.

Souza is now a great voice and force in world music, who has a huge appeal and demand in all the jazz scenes of the world and comes with her quartet to excite us too…

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Opera Chaotique return to Half Note Jazz Club

After their successful appearances inHalf Note, theOpera Chaoticreturn to present the most chaotic, comic opera themMondays 6, 13, 20 & 27 February on 21:30 at night.
In the middle of the 19th century in a dark theater in the center of Paris, the Tenorman played the Phantom of the Opera and the Voodoo Drummer played percussion in the orchestra. The show went down immediately. So they created Opera Chaotique and now present a unique show that combines different types of music such asOpera, Jazz, Cabaret, Musicaland more, all through a comedic story, in a combination of improvisation and instant audience interaction that already won the favor of the Berlin press and beyond.
Don Juan and Carmen in three acts, the Phantom of the Opera, Figaro and Charles Bukowski with Faust, they get involved in adventures and star in a surreal comic-tragic story.
From the Opera of the 18th and 19th to the genesis of Jazz in New Orleans in its beginnings 1900, to the Berlin Cabarets of the 1920s and 1930s.
Tenorman : Vocals / Piano & Mystery
Voodoo Drummer : Drums & Tricks
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Funk master Milo Z at Half Note Jazz Club

Half Note Jazz Club presents the favorite of the Greek audience Milo Z for five jazz-funk nights from Thursday 26th to Sunday 30 January 2012.
Metro of funk not only in New York but also in Athens – since Milo Z and his explosive group, through regular visits to the Half Note Jazz Club, has built a situation that has its own cult current and fanatical audience. Jazz funk, hip hop, and groovy dance and soul rhythms dominate the group's musical presence and the jazz thing and street beat are in all their glory.
 Milo Z creates music for young people – and always young – combining good old Sly soul and funk & The Family Stone, of War, of Kool & The Gang and Parliament-Funkadelic with pure avant-rock influences and connections, within a completely modern context that fully responds to the dance call of the times, influenced by the sounds of Prince and the Red Hot Chili Peppers. Guitar and psychedelic mixes, with dynamics a la Zappa complement a hot atmosphere consisting of frenzied funk, sensual jazz and dynamic rock. Milo Z has reached the top of the modern jazz-funk-rap show and he proves it in his natural space: the scene...
Milo Z: voice
Joe Copeland: bass
Emilio Tostado: guitar
David Melton: keys
Sylvester Onyejiaka: saxophone
Todd Gaynor: alto saxophone
Christopher Raymond: trumpet
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Carmen Lundy in Athens

Half Note Jazz Club presents Carmen Lundy one of jazz's leading voices starting Thursday 19 until Sunday 22 January 2012.
 
THECarmen Lundyas a contemporary singer she has a unique style that comfortably combines her funk elementAretha Franklinwith her brillianceElla Fitzgeraldand Sarah Vaughan's colorings. More than just a singer though, orCarmen Lundyshe is a composer, he writes songs, she is an actress and, additional, very good painter.
He has been on the jazz scene for over three decades – having started music at an early age, playing the piano and singing gospel and spirituals. But what really attracted her was the brilliance of soul jazz as expressed by her Dionne Warwick, the Roberta Flackor even himStevie Wonder.
In the late 1970s he began singing with Thad Jones and Mel Lewis' orchestra and then played with the cream of modern jazz musicians such as Don Pullen, Kip Hanrahan, Courtney Pine et al. In the mid-eighties she started releasing her own music and that's when her enormous talent was noticed. Since then Carmen Lundy's career has continued to develop at all levels and today she is considered one of the leading jazzwomen…
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