Brazilian jazz and funk pioneers visited Cork last night for a gig in Cyprus Avenue! These guys have been combining soul and jazz with samba for years and their classic track "Jazz Carnival" is one of the most influential tracks ever produced. It used be a huge tune for me back in the day on the "Yo Latino" night I used do in the Half Moon, so I was well looking forward to them playing an intimate gig in Cork! It was raining and miserable for over 24 hours though, which didn't really help things, and I was really worried when only a few people were in the venue by the time I arrived. It filled up a bit alright but ultimately the crowd was dissapointing for a band of this stature, and a lot of the big jazz heads in the city didn't seem to know it was on.
The crowd there mainly heard about it word of mouth and in fairness, everyone was really into it and eagerly received the 2 hour session of mind-blowing musicanship. The band themselves were really humble too, and clearly delighted to be spreading the good vibes that they have been consistently bringing for many years. They are still recording with the excellent Far Out label and they played a mixture of old and new tunes. They paid tributes to musical legends such as Antonia Carlos Jobim and Chick Corea and played a nice re-working of my own favourite song of all time, "What's Goin On" by Marvin Gaye. They even took a break half way through, one of my buddies commented that it was the first time he saw a split show since "Little Red Riding Hood" in the Opera House years ago! By the later half of the gig we had forgotten about the rain and were instead whisked away into a sunnier world of beautiful jazz, funk, samba and soul by these amazingly talented legends of Brazilian music!
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Damn! Didn't even know this was on!
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