Greetings from Goa, Sorry for the delay in sending you the documentation of the festival.
A big thank you to all you guys for being part of our initiative, this wouldn’t have been possible without your support & encouragement. Special thanks to all our sponsors, partners, artists & the fantastic audience who have been supporting us since the last 4 years. *Summarizing a month celebrating Jazz in Goa.* 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 Ensemble – one of the living legends of Jazz and final pre- gigs with Aditya Balani Quartet launching his Jazz record, Answers with a 3 city tour promoting the festival. *Jazz by the bay. * Astri Ghosh 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 compromises 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. There 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 hammered 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 Shane Ballantine joining Elvis Lobo on the guitar. Other musicians were Bosco d’ Souza on drums, Vivek Phillips percussion, Samir Alvares on keyboards, Victor Tesonov 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 earlier 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. *WAY FORWARD* *The International Jazz Live Festival is the first of several live festivals planned in Goa by Art Escape –The Live Music Project to put Goa on the international map as a global cultural destination. 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