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GOA ACID FUSION JAZZ

GENERATION FEAT. MOHINI DEY

TARUN BALANI COLLECTIVE

LOUIZ BANKS TRIO

PAWAN BENJAMIN QUINTET

SHUFFLE DEMONS

VERONICA NUNES & RICARDO VOGT

GREENWOMAN BY MALCOLM BRAFF

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CURATING THE FESTIVAL The Goa International Jazz Live Festival 2014 is the second edition of an annual event taking place at Baywatch Resorts in Colva, South Goa from November 28th till 30th, 2014. This three-day festival features progressive young and modern musicians alongside established talents from India and abroad.

One will get to witness the great French bassist Mishko M’Ba paying tribute to Jaco Pastorius; critically-acclaimed singer Veronica Nunes and 3-time Grammy-winning guitarist Ricardo Vogt’s tribute to Brazilian samba legends; the godfather of Indian jazz Louiz Banks; the young bassist, prodigy Mohini Dey; the super-talented and progressive Swiss pianist Malcolm Braff and his new electro-jazz project Greenwoman; the legendary, whacky and funky band Shuffle Demons from Canada… a remarkably varied and vibrant experience.

Organized by Art Escape whose mission is to create cultural events that bring the creative community together and Gatecrash, who promotes international bands and develops the jazz scene in India, the main motivation behind this event is to get talented, innovative and modern jazz musicians to showcase their music on a single platform to a curious and open-minded audience.

Jazz started as a revolutionary popular movement for freedom of speech and expression. Today, jazz music has a lot more to offer in terms of creativity, virtuosity and emotions, and it knows no borders, is capable to move any audience, of any age, any gender, any nationality.We believe that jazz has a great future: from paying tribute to jazz legends and keeping them alive, to encouraging the youth to create and express themselves, discovering and re-discovering talents from India and from all over the world.

This edition of the Goa International Jazz Live Festival showcases a very wide range of talents and has the ambition to open everyone’s ears – whether you’re a committed jazz lover or not – letting everyone plunge into the wild seas of jazz.

FESTIVAL DIRECTORS GOA INTERNATIONAL JAZZ LIVE FESTIVAL (GIJLF)

Vinesh Iyer (Art Escape – The Live Music Project) Darryl Noronha (Art Escape – The Live Music Project) Emmanuelle de Decker (Jazz In India & Gatecrash) Dr. Sidney Moraes (Baywatch Resorts) Astri Ghosh (Capital Jazz)

Erik Truffaz performing in IJLF 2013Photo credit: Trinadh Rakesh

Art Escape is an alternate art & cultural platform in Goa operating for the past five years, a hub for creative activities like Art, Sculpture, Music, Theatre, Dance, Yoga, Recycling, Design and Innovation to name a few.

THE LIVE MUSIC PROJECT is the only platform in the country without any barriers of music genres and is an open canvas for all musicians/performing artists to collaborate and be a part of this growing community. Our purpose is to travel and showcase music, musicians and cultural groups from Goa, India and around the world.

GATECRASH is a consulting agency specialized in touring international bands in India, curating Indian and international acts for Festivals and events and managing music-related projects. Our main concern is to support the growing independent music scene in India, with a special focus on promoting and developing jazz initiatives.

Baywatch Resort is the hospitality & venue partner, interested in showcasing social and cultural driven activaties to the tourists (local, national and international) coming to Goa

LIVE FESTIVALS is an annual initiative to promote and put Goa on the international map as a cultural tourism global destination using art, dance, film, theatre & music as a medium starting with The New Wave Indie Fest mid Nov, the Goa International Jazz Live Festival end of November, the Folk Live Festival in January, Sufi Sutra Live Festival in February & the International Blues Live Festival in March.

JAZZ IN INDIA www.jazzinindia.com is an online resource platform to build a jazz community, support, promote and develop jazz Initiatives in India.

Core Presenters

30th year OF JAZZ YATRA - UTSAV BY ASTRI GHOSH

The Jazz Utsav, formerly known as the Jazz Yatra, celebrated its thirtieth anniversary last month in Delhi with a great festival – three days, nine bands. From countries and jazz traditions as diverse as those of Spain, the USA, India, the Netherlands, Norway, Germany, Italy and Poland. The Delhi Jazz Utsav is organised by Capital Jazz, a non-profit organization that consists of jazz lovers, this year partnering with Viridian. The same group of people organised the famous Jazz Yatras earlier under the banner of Jazz India Delhi Chapter. The Yatra first began in Bombay in 1978 and some bands which played there made trips to Delhi for one-night performances. Musicians who visited Delhi in this period included saxophonists Sadao Watanabe and Stan Getz and the band Mingus Dynasty, named after the late bass genius Charlie Mingus. Jazz India Delhi Chapter was formed in 1983. It was only in 1984 that a full-fledged Yatra was held in Delhi for the first time by the pool in the Ashoka hotel, with a day of big band music at the Siri Fort auditorium. The early yatras helped us start a tradition in Delhi. Jazz Yatras in the eighties gave us the best of American mainstream jazz with Japanese avant garde music and European groups that blended jazz with elements of classical, folk music, and had touches of African and Latin music. Since then, except for a few years in the 90s, the Yatra has been a regular feature of the capital’s cultural scene in the winters. That first yatra had the audience forgetting the cold night air and cheering and whistling when Bob Wilber’s Bechet Legacy Quintet started to play. Bob’s wife Joanna Horton nearly brought the roof of the sha-miana down with her version of Sweet Georgia Brown. Woody Shaw on the trumpet was accompanied by Steve Turre (trombone), Cedar Walton (piano). Also appearing at this festival was Ronnie Scott’s group from the UK, the enigmatic Henry Threadgill and the WDR Big Band from Germany. Don Cherry, who played his little ‘pocket trumpet’, sang and also played the piano!

The 1986 Jazz Yatra brought to Delhi the legendary drummer Max Roach’s group and trumpeter Freddie Hub-bard. It also saw the return of virtuoso violinist Stephane Grappelli, this time accompanied by a young Martin Taylor, another violin/guitar duo featured L Subramaniam and Larry Coryell. Multi-percussionist Trilok Gurtu was part of Ralph Towner and Colin Walcott’s group, Oregon. Jan Garbarek, the tenor and soprano saxophonist from Norway, played with Eberhart Weber from Germany.

Over the years, some of the biggest names in the jazz world have come and played at the Yatra. These include pianist Kenny Barron, guitarists Larry Coryell and Kevin Eubanks... the list is endless. There have been top Indian musicians too, like violin maestro L Subramaniam, Amit Heri, Adrian d Souza, Karl Peters, Rama Mani, Louiz Banks, Braz Gonsalves and tabla wizard Zakir Hussain.

When the festival started, the Jazz Yatra (as it was known until 2004) was host to mostly American musicians with help from the U.S. State Department’s sponsorship of musicians like Sonny Rollins, Max Roach, Freddie Hubbard, Woody Shaw, Cedar Walton and Stan Getz. But when the department decided to cut down on their initiative to spread democracy, the quantity and quality of American musicians began to slip from legends to a lack of any American musicians at all.

Since Jazz Utsav was established as an annual festival in 2004, the lineup has been dominated by European acts, but in 2010 the Americans returned and we had Beatles Jazz and Wayne Krantz from the US, in 2011 Larry Carlton travelled across India to four Jazz Utsavs. 2014 saw the Steve Davis Quartet and the David Hazeltine trio from the US.

Thirty years after the first Jazz Yatra, jazz has become a really vibrant art form in Delhi and the future looks bright for the next generation of jazz musicians. It is easier for young musicians to go abroad to study and specialize in the form of jazz they are interested in. At the same time, there are several excellent music schools in Delhi, Gurgaon and Noida that train young jazz musicians. There is a huge pool of incredibly gifted artists, wildly creative, intelligent industry innovators. Live jazz is here to stay, there are several unique festivals, music is available online and in great music stores. Even though All India Radio has stopped broadcasting its jazz programs, there are other engaging radio stations that feature jazz related programs. Many organizations regard jazz to be an integral aspect of global culture. Living masters of the art form, like Braz Gonsalves and Louiz Banks, who have paved the way for generations of jazz artists, have played and introduced some of these younger musicians to the audiences of Delhi.

jazzinindia.com is an online resource platform to build a jazz community, support, promote and develop jazz initiatives in India.The project started with the will to highlight the active jazz scene in the country, its great talents and passion-ate promoters, and inform the audience about it.

Various jazz projects are happening in different corners of the country, musicians are getting together, jamming and coming up with interesting sounds, promoters are inviting jazz musicians to perform in clubs, festivals or events, and there are many jazz music lovers in India, including a dynamic and curious youth open to the world, expecting high quality of music.

The goal of the online resource platform jazzinindia.com is to gather jazz lovers of India, with the belief that the more we are, the stronger we are.This platform is open to all: anyone who does any kind of activity related to jazz in India is welcome to send us his information and be featured on the website.There is no subjective selection done, on the kind of music an artist plays, or the kind of event a promoter runs.The only request is to give good quality material, interest-ing pictures, good videos with a good sound, accurate online links and information.

That’s step one: create a directory of the jazz scene in India and professionalize the scene.

Step two: we invite all music lovers to subscribe to JazzInIndia newsletter, follow JazzInIndia Facebook page, and give their inputs.

Once we have a strong jazz lovers database, we can then ask the audience who do they want to see in India and or-ganize more concerts.

Emmanuelle de Deckeremma@gatecrash.in

gatecrash.inwww.jazzinindia.com

In a run-up to the festival, 8 free pr-gigs took place at different venues in Goa, Mumbai & Pune. Four at Live Lounge Baywatch – Resort ,one at Alila Diwa, Majorda, one at Malts N Wines, Baga ,one in Mumbai at D’Bell & one in Pune at Shisha Cafe. The celebration of jazz begun on 2nd November with A tribute to Jazzy Joe by Jazz Goa [feat:Japanese guitarist Hideaki Tokunaga], 09th Saturday Bengaluru world fusion/jazz band Moon Arra, 16th Steve Siqueira Ensem-ble – one of the living legends of Jazz and final pre- gigs with Aditya Balani Quartet launching his Jazz record, An-swers with a 3 city tour promoting the festival.

As the sun set over Sernabatim beach, the notes of a saxophone and a piano broke the silence. Eighteen year old Avina Furtado, accompanied on the piano by Jason Quadros, a talented pianist from Moira, began to play by the pool at Baywatch, starting off the International Jazz Live Festival 2013 in Goa. Avina is just a beginner, but keen to learn to play jazz, as could be heard when they played “I love Paris in the Springtime.” Held at Baywatch Resort, Sernabatim on the 30th of November and 1st of December, the festival was organized by Art Escape’s Live Music Project, together with Capital Jazz. This is the first festival after Art Escape moved from their premises in Benaulim to the Live Lounge at Baywatch. Held outdoors, the IJLF brought in jazz legend Carlton Kitto from Kolkata who played bebop on the guitar, together with vocalist Ishita Chakravorty. Carlton Kitto is one of the legends of jazz in Kolkata, and has refused to make com-promises for the sake of fame and fortune. When times got rough, other musicians headed for Mumbai, films and the advertising world. He says bebop is dying out all over the world, but Carlton continues to play it at the Grand every day, and is proud that he did not take the Bollywood route. Vocalist Ishita was a wonderful surprise, her husky voice lends itself to jazz. She is someone to watch out for.

INTERNATIONAL JAZZ LIVE FESTIVAL (IJLF) FIRST EDITION ON 30th NOVEMBER & 1ST DECEMBER 2013

Summarizing a month celebrating Jazz in Goa

Yuri Honing Quartet performing in IJLF 2013Photo credit: Trinadh Rakesh

Jazz by the bay By Astri GhoshThere was a change of mood when the avant garde Swiss trio Plaistow that plays post jazz, defied genre definitions as they played the piano, bass and drums. Opening the instrument to access the strings, Johann Bourquenez ham-mered out a cascade of sound on the piano. The Yuri Honing Quartet from the Netherlands ended the evening with the creative and spunky notes of Honing’s saxophone. On Sunday, it was time for some Goa Sound with the Elvis Lobo Project, with legendary guitarist Derek Julien and Shayne Ballantyne joining Elvis Lobo on the guitar. Other musicians were Bosco d’ Souza on drums, Vivek Phillips percussion, Samir Alvares on keyboards, Victor (Russia) on the trumpet and Joe Ferrao on bass. Elvis Lobo’s new CD will be out at the end of this month, and we got a taste of the music from the album at the festival. Guitarist AJ (Arjun Sen) and bassplayer Lew Hilt of HFT have been playing together for ten years now, but the band has had a lot of different drummers in the course of these years. At Baywatch, they had a reunion with their former drummer Sam Shullai, from Shillong. Famous for their original music and tracks like Idlis on a Camel, the band had attracted fans all the way from Belgaum, Mumbai, Chennai, Bangalore and Delhi. The Live Music Project honored the legends of jazz with portraits painted by Yolanda Sousa. Bharat Vir Wanchoo, the honorable governor of Goa, felicitated the musicians by handing Derek Julien, Arjun Sen and Lew (Llewellyn) Hilt the paintings. The grand finale of the evening was the Erik Truffaz Quartet. The French Swiss trumpeter has played in India ear-lier and Truffaz addressed the audience in Hindi. The quartet started playing together in 1997, and the interplay between the musicians was really tight. Their perfect understanding of each other and years of playing together reflected in the music, which stretched the boundaries of contemporary jazz.

TRIBUTE TO JACO PASTORIUS by MISHKO M’BA

MISHKO M’BA

FRANCE / INDIA Mishko M’Ba - bassSurindira Bascara - drumsMatthew Littlewood - saxAman Mahajan – keys

www.jazzinindia.com/mishko-mba1DAY 1JACO PASTORIUS (December 1, 1951 – September 21, 1987) was one of the most influential American jazz musician, composer and electric bass players that ever lived. His playing was known for its highly technical, Latin-influenced 16th-note funk, lyrical soloing on fretless bass and innovative use of harmonics. Pastorius was inducted into the Down Beat Jazz Hall of Fame in 1988, one of only six bassists to be so honored (and the only electric bass guitarist). Miles Davis, Victor Wooten, John McLaughlin, Pat Metheny and Marcus Miller are among the many great international musicians who have paid musical tributes to this legend.

MISHKO M’BA - No one can pay a better tribute to the Legend of Jaco Pastorius than bassist Mishko M’Ba. Among the cream of French bassists, this composer, arranger, producer, bass guitarist, pianist was born in 1962 at Gonesse, France.

11DAY 1 TARUN BALANICOllective

TARUN BALANI COllective

INDIA / USA / CANADATarun Balani - drums (India)Julie Hill - voice (USA)Derek Beckvold - saxophone (USA)Wesley Allan - bass (Canada)James Hill - piano (Canada)

www.tarunbalani.com

TARUN BALANI COllective

A collective of musicians aspiring to create a sound palette beyond limitations. The music of The Collective represents Tarun’s vision as a composer, drawing from a world of influences, finding its expression in the modern jazz idiom.The Collective released its debut record Sacred World, said to“point to the future of jazz in India.” (Time Out, India). In 2014, Balani released his second record Live at Teatro Bismantova, Italy with Italian trumpeter Tiziano Bianchi.Tarun’s music is driven by a restless desire to be a holistic artist, inspired by his Indian roots and synthesized into his work. An inward and spiritual experience for Tarun, music has had a very special impact on his life, in finding his voice through the drums, and then in building a career in performance and teaching.

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SHUFFLE DEMONS

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OFFICIAL SPOSOROR FOR THE BAND AT GIJLF 2014

Richard Underhill - sax & vocalsPerry White - saxKelly Jefferson - saxGeorge Koller - bassStich Wynston - drums

www.shuffledemons.com

The wacky award-winning funk - jazz - bop - rap band from Canada is finally presenting their crazy show in Goa.The Shuffle Demons first broke onto the Canadian music scene in 1984 with an electrifying musical fusion that drew in equal measure from Sun Ra, Charles Mingus, Run DMC and the Beastie Boys. Over a twenty nine year span The Shuffle Demons have released eight CDs, two hit videos, won several music awards, done numerous tv and radio appearances and toured nationally and internationally including 25 cross Canada tours, 5 US tours, 16 European tours, as well as tours of Mexico, India, China, Japan, Thailand, South Korea, Australia, New Zealand and Cuba playing on big festival stages, theatres and clubs.The band continues the tradition today with a great line-up of players that includes Juno Award winner Richard Un-derhill -sax & vox, Perry White and Kelly Jefferson - saxes, George Koller - bass and Stich Wynston - drums. Expect the same exciting, no holds barred performances that feature wild romps in the crowd, free jazz moments, danceable funk, poetry, killer solos and more.

One of the most popular Goan musicians who lead dance bands in the early thirties was Chic Chocolate, or Anthony Xavier Vaz, a trumpeter from Aldona who looked like Louis Armstrong, and played like him too. In Mussoorie, where he played in the thirties and forties, a shop that is a great favourite with boarding school kids in Mussoorie is called after him. He recorded in Calcutta in the 30s and moved to Rangoon, coming back to Bom-bay and playing at prestigious hotels including the Taj Mahal. He also recorded and arranged music and wrote the score for Hindi films like Albela and Akhri Khat.

Chic Chocolate had five musical children. Philip Vaz plays the bass and was regarded as one of the most eminent bass players in Bombay before he moved back to Aldona. Irwin Vaz or Irwie is a drummer. Chic’s daugh-ters Ursula Fernandes, Yvonne Gonsalves and Christine or Kittu Sequeira all became singers, and extremely tal-ented ones too. His granddaughters Sharon Rodrigues sings and Laura is a pianist. The three daughters married musical geniuses as well. Johnny Fernandes (piano), Braz Gonsalves (saxophone) and Steve Sequeira (drums/ keyboard)

Braz Gonsalves, one of the first Indians to play modern jazz, was born in Neura in Goa. He learnt music from his father, who was a conductor in a church choir and played the piano. Braz lost his mother early in life, his family got scattered and he found solace in music. But it was as a teenager he discovered jazz when he heard jazz recordings through friends. He was interested in jazz improvisation, but he first learnt to play by copying recorded solos note for note. I met him in his flat in Por-vorim, where he told me how he started to play jazz.

“When I came to Delhi as a young man of around 20,” he says, “I stayed with older Goan musicians in town. You could not buy sheet music, so we would huddle around the transistor radio and listen to Radio Ceylon and the Voice of America. We’d all be noting different instru-ments, and each time the song played on the radio, we would write down a bit more.”Nowadays, young people have so much on their agenda, says Braz, that music is just a little part of their lives. But in his time, all they did was ‘practice, practice, practice.’

Gonsalves was inspired by Artie Shaw, Charlie Parker, John Coltrane and Sam Most. In the 50 and the 60s, he played in Calcutta, Delhi and Bombay. He would be jamming all night at Magnolia Restaurant in Calcutta with Indian as well as foreign musicians.

In the early 70s he had a group called the Braz Gon-salves 7, with singer Pam Crain in Calcutta. He played with Louis Banks.Then he moved to Bombay and formed a group with Leslie Godinho on drums, pianist Xavier Fernandes and bassist Anibal Castro.

In the 70s, he travelled and performed abroad. He played at the Hong Kong jazz club and in Macao, then went to Portugal and performed alongside Dexter Gordon , Thad Jones and Mel Lewis. He played in Warsaw, Belgrade, Debrecen and Germany.

While he was in Bombay, he started to try to fuse Indian classical music with jazz. composing several raga in-spired compositions for the saxophone.

While he was travelling with the Jazz Yatra Sextet and singer Rama Mani in Germany, he had a religious experi-ence, and he decided to devote himself to the church. Braz performs rarely in public now, preferring to play the flute and the saxophone in church settings.

Steve Sequeira is another jazz legend. Steve and his wife Kittu play at the Cantare in Saligao, using technology-based music where the bass, rhythm and chords are pre recorded. But Steve makes original recordings instead of downloading the usual from the internet. They have played at Baywatch several times. They are in Bombay now, where Steve is recovering from surgery, so I catch up with him over the phone.

Steve was born in Goa, but moved to Africa with his fam-ily when he was young. He started listening to jazz when he was around ten, and he credits Tony Williams, Dave Brubeck, and RolandCook’s New Orleans Band and Miles Davis for that first inspiration.

It was in Dar es Salaam that Sequeira formed his first band, playing the drums when he was eleven years old. He came back to Goa when he was 22 to go to college. He moved to Bombay after he graduated and played the drums in Alyque Padamsee’s production of Jesus Christ Superstar. Played in the Jazz India Band in Bombay, with Louis Banks and Braz Gonsalves. “I must be the only mu-sician who has played at the jazz yatra first as a drummer and a few years later as a pianist,” he laughs.

“Then I abandoned Bombay and moved to Delhi. Lived there for almost twenty years. Formed my own group, played in hotels and restaurants like the Bali hi. But the hotels in Delhi collapsed when the World towers did. So I moved to Bombay.”

Steve and Kitty lived in Bombay for five years before deciding to settle in Goa. Steve listens to Jamie Cullum, John Mayer, not just jazz. But he loves Herbie Hancock and Wayne Shorter. Indian jazz musicians he admires are Louis Banks, Braz Gonsalves and Roy Mendonca.“Braz is a fantastic musician. He doesn’t play jazz any-more. Roy Mendonca is great. He used to be in my band. When the band broke, he started playing in Bombay and he improved in leaps and bounds.”

Jazz Legends of India: A Very Musical Family

CONVERSATIONS WITH ASTRI GHOSH

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GOA ACID FUSION JAZZINDIAElvis Lobo - Guitar Hari Kumar Sivan – Violin Rajesh P M - Tabla/Ghatam/KanjiriLew Hilt - Bass Ori Balak - Drums (Israel)

www.hariviolin.com222DAY 22

GOA ACID FUSION JAZZGOA ACID FUSION JAZZ

Crazy violinist meets one of the most versatile guitar with legendary bass & drummer & percussions having a conversation.

Uppalapu Shrinivas (28 February 1969 – 19 September 2014) was a virtuoso Indian mandolin maestro, prodigy, trailblazer and composer belonging to the classical Carnatic musical tradition of Southern India. He is recognized worldwide as a colossus and the rarest of musical geniuses and is regarded as the Mozart of classical Indian music.

(A TRIBUTE TO U.SRINIVAS)A disciple of violin virtuoso Dr. L. Subramanian, Harikumar sivan is one of the most talented young violinists from Kerala, India. Of all honours, he considers the prize he had received from the Former President K.R. Narayanan for the most outstanding young violinist, the topmost one.

Harikumar is at presently working on his new album. It may be amazing to see his fingers speeding through the five octaves on his four-stringed violin. He is one of the very few violinists who can play five octaves in a four-stringed violin. He has developed a unique bowing style. The super strucato he incorporates in his bowing method is really amazing to the spectators.

Elvis Lobo, a guitarist from Goa, one of the most versatile players in the country, will collaborate with Hari Kumar to create this magical concert with legendary bass player Lew Hilt & Ori Balak, one of Israel’s best known and finest drummers.

Crazy violinist meets one of the most versatile guitar with legendary bass & drummer & percussions having

Uppalapu Shrinivas (28 February 1969 – 19 September 2014) was a virtuoso Indian mandolin maestro, prodigy, trailblazer and composer belonging to the classical Carnatic musical tradition of Southern India. He is recognized worldwide as a colossus and the rarest of musical geniuses and is regarded as the Mozart of classical Indian music.

(A TRIBUTE TO U.SRINIVAS)A disciple of violin virtuoso Dr. L. Subramanian, Harikumar sivan is one of the most talented young violinists from Kerala, India. Of all honours, he considers the prize he had received from the Former President K.R. Narayanan for the most outstanding young violinist, the topmost one.

Harikumar is at presently working on his new album. It may be amazing to see his fingers speeding through the five octaves on his four-stringed violin. He is one of the very few violinists who can play five octaves in a four-stringed violin. He has developed a unique bowing style. The super strucato he incorporates in his bowing method is really amazing to the spectators.

Elvis Lobo, a guitarist from Goa, one of the most versatile players in the country, will collaborate with Hari Kumar to create this magical concert with legendary bass player Lew Hilt & Ori Balak, one of Israel’s best known and finest

LOUIZ BANKS TRIOINDIALouiz Banks - keysGino Banks - drumsSheldon D’Silva - bass2DAY 2www.louizbanks.com/

LOUIZ BANKS TRIOLOUIZ BANKS TRIO

India’s jazz icon and Godfather, Louiz Banks has been promoting jazz music for over thirty years. He has been instrumental in bringing a high standard of jazz performances for jazz devotees in India. Apart from playing jazz, he is the most sought after composer for advertising commercials, TV serials, curtain raisers, anthems, documenta-ries, stage musicals, film background scores, popular and Hindi music. He has proved his calibre, time and again, by performances with greats such as Eddie Henderson, Eddie Daniels, Charlie Mariano, Yolande Bavan, John McLaugh-lin, Tony Lakatos, Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia, George Brooks , Wallace Roney , Bob Belden , Roseanna Vitro, Carl Clements, India’s best jazz singer Pam Crain, world renowned South Indian classical singer Ramamani, world percus-sionist Sivamani, Ustad Zakir Husain, Shankar Mahadevan, the eminent Sultan Khan, among others and crowning it all with a tour all over India with the legendary Dizzy Gillespie.

When he is not playing music he paints impressionistic canvases in oil and acrylic.

India’s jazz icon and Godfather, Louiz Banks has been promoting jazz music for over thirty years. He has been instrumental in bringing a high standard of jazz performances for jazz devotees in India. Apart from playing jazz, he is the most sought after composer for advertising commercials, TV serials, curtain raisers, anthems, documenta-ries, stage musicals, film background scores, popular and Hindi music. He has proved his calibre, time and again, by performances with greats such as Eddie Henderson, Eddie Daniels, Charlie Mariano, Yolande Bavan, John McLaugh-lin, Tony Lakatos, Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia, George Brooks , Wallace Roney , Bob Belden , Roseanna Vitro, Carl Clements, India’s best jazz singer Pam Crain, world renowned South Indian classical singer Ramamani, world percus-sionist Sivamani, Ustad Zakir Husain, Shankar Mahadevan, the eminent Sultan Khan, among others and crowning it all LOUIZ BANKS TRIO

INDIALouiz Banks - keysGino Banks - drumsSheldon D’Silva - bass22DAY 22 www.louizbanks.com/

LOUIZ BANKS TRIO

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VERONICA NUNES & RICARDO VOGT

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Veronica Nunes - ukulele & vocalsRicardo Vogt - guitarKarla Pfützenreuter - percussions (Germany)

and guests:Tarun Balani - drums (India)Derek Beckvold - saxophone (USA)James Hill - piano (Canada)

www.veronicanunes.com

The critically-acclaimed singer and 3-time Grammy-winning guitarist from Brazil are taking us to a journey through traditional samba.

Veronica Nunes is a Brazilian singer who recently has caught the attention of American icon Paul Simon and former Brazilian Minister of Culture Gilberto Gil. A native of Rio de Janeiro and the daughter of a classical pianist, she grew up in a musical environment listening to traditional Brazilian styles such as samba, choro and classical music. Since the age of fifteen Veronica sings and performs professionally.

Veronica Nunes is a Rio de Janeiro native singer and ukulele player living and performing in NYC since 2009. In May of 2013, she released her debut album in NYC, ‘Pra Fugir da Saudade’, produced in partnership with the renowned Brazilian guitarist Ricardo Vogt, who since 2007 performs with Esperanza Spalding, Milton Nascimento and Eliane Elias.The CD ‘Pra Fugir da Saudade’ is a collaboration between the duo and a journey through generations of great composers of samba, giving a real tribute to the most traditional and timeless rhythm of Brazil.

Veronica Nunes and Ricardo Vogt are also distinguished educators, having presented workshops on Brazilian music harmony and rhythm at Berklee College of Music, The Collective School of Music in NYC, New York University, Global Music Institute in New Delhi, Taaqademy in Bangalore and they currently hold the Vocal and Guitar faculty positions at Swarnabhoomi Academy of Music.

The critically-acclaimed singer and 3-time Grammy-winning guitarist from Brazil are taking us to a journey through

Veronica Nunes is a Brazilian singer who recently has caught the attention of American icon Paul Simon and former Brazilian Minister of Culture Gilberto Gil. A native of Rio de Janeiro and the daughter of a classical pianist, she grew up in a musical environment listening to traditional Brazilian styles such as samba, choro and classical music. Since the

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The gorgeous, talented Pam Crain started listening to jazz and playing the piano while she was still at boarding school in a Kurseong. She went on to become one of India’s greatest vocalists in the last century, a song writer who wrote great lyrics. She wrote many songs like Cool Me Down and Reason.

In the early 50s, when Mocambo was about to open in Calcutta, someone heard a 17 year old singing in a small restaurant in Chowringhee. They asked if she would come and sing at Mocambo, and she got a job many months before the nightclub opened.

She sang in Mocambo for more than 10 years. They were a six-piece band and Pam would pick the latest in pop music from the ’50s. They would start around 7.30pm and go on till 1 or 2am, especially on weekends.

“Even after she left Mocambo, she never forgot my father or me. My father was the one running the restaurant at that time and I was a teenager learning the business. All of us were in awe of Pam Crain, she was like a goddess,” Mocambo owner Nitin Kothari told The Telegraph when Pam passed away.

“I heard her a couple of times and became an ardent fan; she was so amazing. When I think back, she was the greatest jazz diva of our country. The greatest. She was way ahead of her times in India. She was a free spirit and she loved to improvise. She was an outstanding beauty. She had beauty, brains and talent,” says Louiz Banks in an interview that was published last year.

Once at the Jazz Yatra in Bombay, Betty Carter was performing and Pam sat in the audience, tears streaming down her face. Later she went backstage to meet Betty. Betty Carter hugged her and said she couldn’t believe that there was someone in India who sang her songs. Pam Crain – (1934 – 2014)

Just as there are inequities in society, so within music. Jazz appeals to the masses in India only when its en-tertainment value merges with popular taste. In Hindi film songs, for instance. Many male jazz musicians have wasted away on the fringe of public awareness, or survived by joining the film industry. But should you want to look for them, it is possible to unearth the male musician.

What about the women? How about the gifted women who have dared to step into the dangerous waters of a life in jazz? Where are the interviews in television and radio, in magazines and newspapers, the equivalent write-ups in relation to their work? Is there a comparative historical awareness about them?

Asha Puthli shared the Downbeat Critics’ Poll award for “best female jazz vocalist” for her work on Science Fiction, along with Ella Fitzgerald and Dee Dee Bridge-water. But in spite of such an honour, there were no recording opportunities for Asha in the United States or in India. In August 2006, she headlined Central Park Summerstage in New York City with DJ Spooky, Talvin Singh, Outernational and special guests Dewey Red-man and Dres of the hip hop group Black Sheep. But do we really hear about her in India? Beryl Templeman from Poona, have you heard about her?

There were Anglo Indian and Goan women singing, performing, playing instruments and teaching music when jazz came to India. We know of Teddy Weatherford, the African American musician who lived and recorded in Calcutta and Bombay in the 40s. Many people know he married an Anglo Indian. But do we know that his wife Lorna Shortland was a vocalist? Have we heard about Pamela McCarthy, Bridget Moe, Kitty Walker, Jean Statham, also vocalists at that time?

Let us talk about and celebrate singer Belinda Oliveira, vocalist Christine Correa, pianist Laura Gonsalves, vocalist Radha Thomas, pianist and band leader Merlin D Souza, pianist Debbie Menezes, vocalist Sonia Saigal, singer and vocal coach Samantha Edwards, singer Nay-antara Bhatkal, vocalist and composer Anette Philip, saxophonist Bianca Gomes, singer songwriter Caralisa Monteiro, Chrystal Farrel, singer-songwriter and gui-tarist Ashima Aiyer, Vasundhara Vee, Shefali Alvares, Fauzia Maria Beg, Nandini Srikar, Arati Rao, pianist and singer Andrea Jeremiah.

Let us find the women in the bands, let us make room for women as a part of our Indian jazz history.

We start doing that at the International Jazz Live Festi-val with this article on a jazz icon who passed away at the age of 80 last year, Pam Crain.

Jazz Women of India

PAM CRAIN

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3DAY 3 GENERATION feat. MOHINI DEYINDIA

GENERATION feat. MOHINI DEY

Mohini Dey on bassEsani Dey on guitarGino Banks on drums

Between a new project with A.R Rahman and several Coke Studio & MTV Unplugged sessions,18-years old bass player is coming to Goa with her own project.

Mohini dey has been described as prodigy by many acclaimed musicians. She started learning bass guitar at the tender age of 3. She started doing concerts and recordings at the age of 10. Now She is 18 years old. She has been described as one of the most extraordinary and creative, finest bass player of India. Before music was a hobby for her but now she is professionally gigging all over the world from the age of 12. She is a versatile, powerful player and nails every challenging material.

She has played with artists like Ranjit Barot, Louiz Banks, A.R Rahman, Sivamani, George Brooks, Mike Stern, F. A. Talafaral, Stephen Devassy, Niladri Kumar, Prasanna Ramaswamy, U.Rajesh, Selva Ganesh, Harmeet Manseta, Shridhar Parthasarthy, Sanjay Divecha, Satyajeet Talwarkar, Clinton Cerejo, Salim-Sulaiman, Vijay Prakash, Nandini Srikar, Shilpa Rao, Sonu Kakkar, Shreya Ghoshal, Joe Alvares, Shefali Alvares, Babu Choudhary and with many great musicians.

Between a new project with A.R Rahman and several Coke Studio & MTV Unplugged sessions,18-years old bass player is coming to Goa with her own project.

Mohini dey has been described as prodigy by many acclaimed musicians. She started learning bass guitar at the tender age of 3. She started doing concerts and recordings at the age of 10. Now She is 18 years old. She has been described as one of the most extraordinary and creative, finest bass player of India. Before music was a hobby for her but now she is professionally gigging all over the world from the age of 12. She is a versatile, powerful player and

She has played with artists like Ranjit Barot, Louiz Banks, A.R Rahman, Sivamani, George Brooks, Mike Stern, F. A. Talafaral, Stephen Devassy, Niladri Kumar, Prasanna Ramaswamy, U.Rajesh, Selva Ganesh, Harmeet Manseta, Shridhar Parthasarthy, Sanjay Divecha, Satyajeet Talwarkar, Clinton Cerejo, Salim-Sulaiman, Vijay Prakash, Nandini Srikar, Shilpa Rao, Sonu Kakkar, Shreya Ghoshal, Joe Alvares, Shefali Alvares, Babu Choudhary

3PAWAN BENJAMIN QUINTET

PAWAN BENJAMIN QUINTET

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DAY 3

Pawan Benjamin on saxVasundhara Vidalur on vocalsKarim Ellaboudi on keysGino Banks on drumsSheldon D’Silva on bass

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Great versatile saxophonist is bringing together some of India’s finest musicians for a special jazz & soul set.

Pawan learned the saxophone from a young age under Avant-Garde jazz legend, Roscoe Mitchell. An alumnus of Manhattan School of Music and Chhandayan Centre for Indian music, he has performed at some of the most prestigious venues around the world from the US, Europe, and throughout India. Pawan has performed with artists including Roscoe Mitchell, Mike Stern, Bobby Sanabria, Candido Camero, Ranjit Barot, Taufiq Quereshi among others.Debuting a new group, saxophonist Pawan Benjamin brings together some of India’s finest musicians, to present an eclectic mix of jazz, soul, and contemporary elements to the Goa Jazz Festival.

The quintet’s members bring not only virtuosic technique, but also a sound and direction which push the boundaries of freedom and expression. Their unique blend of originals aim to reach the highest levels of communication and soul within music.

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Malcolm Braff – pianoBjorn Meyer - bassClaire Huguenin (aka Jibcae) - vocalsLukas KONIG - drumsAlexandre GAENG – video

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GREENWOMAN by Malcolm Braff’s new project, the unique blend of pop electro-jazz grooves, mixed up with his volcanic energy.

Malcolm Braff is a singular animal. Seeded in Brazil, grown in Dakar (Senegal) and now rooted in Switzerland, he’s sighted as a playful porcupine leading his electric trio, a hirsute grizzly pianist within the Blue Note stables or an enchanting panda at Erik Truffaz’s side for his Indian project.

He strikes his audience with his rigorous sensuality, his volcanic energy, his masterful sense of improvisation.For this new project called GREENWOMAN, Malcolm undergoes once more a radical transformation and reveals a rare bird, a kind of garish quetzal matching jazz, pop and electro together with his magic ingredient: savory organic grooves.

Carlton Kitto was the first jazz legend to play at our fes-tival last year. A bebop jazz guitarist from Calcutta, he performed with singer Ishita Chakravarty, flying in to Goa and flying out the same evening as he had performances he could not miss.

A newspaper article fifteen years ago called him Calcutta’s Poet of the Jazz Guitar. Two years ago Susheel Kurien made Carlton Kitto the focus of his film on Indian jazz history: Finding Carlton - Uncovering the Story of Jazz in India.

Kitto is an Anglo Indian. Always a gentleman, he dresses conservatively. He was born in Bangalore, where he started working with the railways in the beginning of his career. He moved to Madras in the 60s and started to play jazz guitar. But he figured that he needed to move to Calcutta if he was to play the kind of music he loved, jazz. And so he got a job at Moulin Rouge restaurant on Park Street in 1973, moving to Mocambo after a couple of years.

Carlton Kitto teaches jazz and classical guitar in the Calcutta School of music and performs in restaurants and pubs like Chowringhee Bar, Trincas, Blue Fox, Someplace Else.

Kitto has had the distinction of playing along with other legendary jazz musicians like Sonny Rollins, Clark Terry, David Leibman, Larry Coryell, Chico Freeman and Charlie Byrd.

What did he listen to when he was young, I asked him in the Sernabatim sunset, waiting for him to go on stage.”I used to listen to my mother’s records. She had the most wonderful collection of classic jazz. I never liked the Elvis Presley and Cliff Richard hits people were listening to in Bangalore.”

Early in the morning after the first International Jazz Live festival at Baywatch , I go for a walk on the Sernabatim beach with Derek Julien. Derek now lives in Pune has a sound studio. He starts talking about playing with Waterfront in the 70s. Derek Julien started performing professionally in 1967, and toured Europe with his band in the 70s.

“I started to play in Bombay in 67. At that time the Beatles were a very strong influence in my life. The Stones, the Beatles and a lot of artists who were one hit wonders, all covers, no originals at that point. “

He travelled a lot within the country, and his first trip abroad to play was when he went to Somalia in 1969. Then he toured Europe extensively with Waterfront in 73, and later made small trips to Singapore, Dubai, Bali. “Waterfront was Roger Dragonette on bass, who would compose songs. Adil Batliwala was a good pianist, a lot more advanced than any of us, Soli Dastur, Trilok Gurtu the percussionist joined, I was the last guy to join the band, says Julien. “Waterfront was the highlight of my life. There is nothing that has even come close to it after that.”

“The Waterfront sound was progressive rock. It was really stretching the boundaries, says Derek Julien. Influences on us were bands like Yes, Emerson Lake and Palmer, you know, Jethro Tull kind of bands. They were among our favourites. But we listened to practically everything in jazz, from the old guys Coltrane, Charlie Parker to the younger guys like Miles. Monk. Soli had a vast record collection. But that was not all. We were immersed, listening to jazz, Indian classical music and western classical music. To be honest, our listening tastes were far beyond our capabilities!“

Julien is extremely humble as far as his jazz credentials go. “We also accompanied jazz musicians, he says. “Let’s say we don’t really play jazz, but we can fake it!”

CARLTON KITTO DEREK JULIEN

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Bass player Llewellyn ‘Lew’ Hilt has played with all the leading jazz artists in India from Carlton Kitto of Kolkata to Pam Crain, Louiz Banks and Braz Gonsalves. His music career started in Calcutta in Park Street’s music scene in the 60’s. He played with Lou Majaw in Great Society in Shillong, and his former bands include High and Shiva from Kolkata. He has also acted in several films, his most memorable role being one of an inebriated aging musician in the film Ranjana Ami Aar Ashbo Na.

“My musical influences started when I was a child living with my grandparents in a railway colony. There was music when people relaxed every night, and I remember sitting in my room and listening to a drunk guy stumbling home playing the piano accordion.”

He started playing in a pop band called Cavalier that was popular in the early 70’s. then he moved on to a band called Great Bear, and one called High.

In 2004, AJ and Lew decided to form the group HFT, a band that has had many drummers through the years, including Sam Shulai and Suchet Malhotra.

I catch up with Lew Hilt now over the phone as he leaves a Carlton Kitto concert at the Park Plaza in Kolkata for a smoke.

“Jazz is the most abused word in the dictionary, like my friend Nondon Bagchi says. I mean, does anybody understand avant garde jazz? Everything goes under the jazz umbrella. Carlton Kitto is them man though. He has stuck to his guns, no Bollywood, Kokatta Tollywood for him. Even though he suffered economically. He plays bebop, he is the one man who has kept jazz alive in India, he is the greatest jazz guitar player on this side of the planet. “

Arjun (AJ) Sen first started to play with Lou Majaw in the band Great Society thirty five years ago in Shillong. He currently plays with of HFT and Lou Majaw and Friends and has had a long and illustrious career as a guitarist, composer and songwriter. He composed scores for films such as Khamosh Paani, Honey Hunters of the Blue Mountains (which was awarded the Green Oscar) and a large number of TV Serials and documentary films.

There have been many musical influences in his life, he grew up listening to music as diverse as Tagore’s songs and the Rolling Stones.“Everything, seriously everything”, he says. “John Coltrane, Indian classical, Rabindrasangeet, the Beatles, the Rolling Stones...”

Arjun’s musical styles range from jazz- rock, the blues, progressive rock and electronica, ambient, to folk with elements of classical music, both Indian and Western. He has always been open to different styles of music, so while he was playing with Great Society in Shillong, he also had a band in Nagaland called Kind of Blue.“We did more of the improvisational stuff with Kind of Blue, but our knowledge was little at the time, we’ve come a long way since then“, says Arjun, on the phone from Bir in Himachal Pradesh, where he lives now.

Aaron Parks is a musician that inspires him now. Parks has everything that he loves about jazz. “Just listen to Invisible Cinema. It is mind blowing!”

AJ done a lot of things in your career, a sound studio in Delhi, music for theatre and soundscapes for exhibitions, music for sound banks and films What does he dream of doing now?

“I’d like to get together a crack jazz band and play everywhere, and record an album that i am really pleased about”, says Arjun Sen.

‘LEW’ HILT ARJUN SEN (AJ)

FELICITATING LEGENDS OF JAZZ AT IJLF 2013

CONVERSATIONS WITH ASTRI GHOSH

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