SRTA. MARIA VIANA, JAZZ SINGER, MUITO PRAZER EM CONHECE-LA!!!!!
Meu amigo Edson Costa, profundo conhecedor, degustador e meu mentor em relação ao aprimoramento do conhecimento dos vinhos brancos, costuma dizer que é melhor tarde do que mais tarde.
Pegando este gancho, assumo ter pisado na bola ao deixar de adicionar no blog, referencia ao aniversário de nascimento ontem, de uma fabulosa cantora portuguesa de jazz: Maria Viana.
Maria Viana nasceu em Lisboa no 17 de março de 1958. Ela é filha de José Viana, famoso ator e pintor portugues e da brasileira Jujú Batista, cantora e atriz. Tinha a quem puxar!
O ano de 1979 foi o"anmus mirabilis" para a jovem cantora após publicação de um artigo no Diario de Noticias de Lisboa pelo jornalista José Carlos Monteiro da Costa no qual o articulista não mediu palavras para exaltar as notaveis qualidades artisticas de Maria, após participar inesperadamente da platéia de uma de suas apresentações.
"Foi numa noite quente de verão no Hotel Sheraton Lisboa, depois da abertura da vernissage das obras de um bom amigo que, ao me dirigir para o bar em busca de alguns momentos de descontração ao som da boa musica, ouvi ao me aproximar, uma voz que encantou-me desfiando a letra da canção "It Had To Be You". A entonação marcante me arrebatou. Impressionei-me também com o perfeito feeling de marcação, equilibrio e emoção. Perguntei sobre quem estava a cantar de tal forma e soube então que tratava-se de uma cantora portuguesa chamada Maria Viana. Era ela a fonte de todos aqueles sentimentos estantaneos que subitamente brotaram em mim. Não me restava nenhuma dúvida, ela adorava cantar.
Radiante de felicidade travei conversa com ela e consegui tempos depois apresenta-la para alguns classicos de Ella, Billie, Sarah, e Anita O'Day. Consegui também apresenta-la para os produtores do "Cascais Jazz Festival", Luis Villa-Boas e Duarte Mendonça que imediatamente providenciaram para que ela participasse de algumas audições e "jam sessions".
Mas, quis o destino que somente em 1983 ela se dedicasse vigorosamente à realização de seus ideais jazzisticos haja vista o seu envolvimento anterior com o teatro e a musica pop.
Inicialmente ela tornou-se cantora-apresentadora oficial de uma "jam session" realizada no "Jazz Bar", Drogaria Ideal, onde diante de um conjunto de jazz liderado pelo pianista Emilio Robalo recebia varios talentos amadores e profissionais, motivados tão somente pelo amor a musica jazz.
Nos meses que se seguiram a versatilidade e musicalidade de Maria vieram a tona com força incontrolável. O resto é história.
Tradução - Humberto Amorim
NOTA DO BLOG - Enquanto lê em Inglês o artigo original e os destaques da carreira da cantora, desfrute Maria Viana e a jazz diva Sheila Jordan compartilhando o palco em Lisboa e cantando o classico "Honeysuckle Rose" um dia após terem se conhecido".
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2MjNxYyDTA
"One summer night was in the Lisbon Sheraton at the opening of a painting exhibition of a friend of mine. Descending afterwards to the bar for a beer I heard someone singing, "It Had To Be You", with a voice that gripped me from just the first few bars. The beautiful tone was one of the best I’d ever heard. There was moreover a great feeling for tempo , balance , emotion. I asked who it was and was told that she was a Portuguese called Maria who loved to sing. Happily I was able to talk to her and later provided with standard material from Ella, Billie, Sarah, and Anita O’Day. The only thing I could do after that was to introduce her to the producers of Cascais Jazz Festival, Luis Villas-Boas and Duarte Mendonça who took an immediate interest in her, arranging for rehearsals and jam sessions.’
However, it would not be until 1983 that she could vigorsly pursue her professional ambitions in Jazz, because previously she had been an actress and a famous popsinger. She became the host-singer at semi-private jam sessions at Jazz bar, Drogaria Ideal, where with a rhythm section led by pianist Emilio Robalo, she presented dozens of soloists, amateur and professional alike; united, one and all, by their love of Jazz. Within months Maria Viana’s career progressed along lines which revealed unquestionable talent and abilities ".
Career Highlights - Destaques Artisticos
September 1983 Recorded her first TV programs, Clube de Jazz.
July 1984 Participated in, Soloists Cascais Jazz (XIV Cascais Festival ), together with Mario Laginha , David Gausden , Carlos Vieira , Fredo Mergner, Maria Joaõ, Artur Xavier and Tomáz Pimentel . Hosts T.V.show, Jazz to All, on national television.
1985 Participated in the first Lisbon Internacional Jazz Festival accompanied by Mário Laginha, Nana Sousa Dias, Pedro and Mário Barreiros .
1986-1987 Jazz on a Summers Day Festival, Estoril, Portugal. Recording of part of the CD, Just Friends / Entre Amigos, with Moreiras`s Jazztett.
1988 National attraction at Casino Estoril accompanied by the resident orchestra, and she records the other half of Just Friends / Entre Amigos, with English pianist John Horler`s trio.
1989 Jazz On A Summers Day Festival, with trombonist Al Grey, and Bernardo Sasseti trio.
1990 Tours with David Gausden’s trio and produces / features in Recceita de Vinicius, a tribute to Brazilian poet, Vinicius de Moraes.
1991 Travels to Angola for two concerts with Moreiras`s Jazztett. Featured in concert with N.Y.J.O. Orchestra at the Casino Estoril Auditorium.
1992 Creates the Maria Viana Quintet (Swing / Be-Bop), which tours the country for the National Secretary of Culture. Just Friends / Entre Amigos CD, is released by Timeless Records with international distribution. .
1993 Tours for National Secretary of Culture, and CD Just Friends / Entre Amigos, is released in Portugal.
1994 Scandinavian tour with Danish saxophonist Jens Sondergaard . Concert Summertime in Centro Cultural de Belém (Lisbon) with her quintet. Meets Blues pianist Alan Thomas and tours the country with his trio. Produces/features, Maria Sings Jobim, tribute to Brazilian composer António C. Jobim
1995 Produces / features in concert, Around the World, Around the Forties, for the celebration of fifty years since the Second World War ending; an initiative of C.M. de Cascais. Tours Portugal with her quintet, and tours with Bill Goodwin quintet.
1996 Maria’s work is rewarded with a Declaration of Manifest Cultural Value, by Minister of Culture, António Manuel Maria Carrilho; in concert she performs, Maria Sings Jobim, and Maria Viana with Alan Thomas trio.
1997 Produces / features in concert of Fado-Blues, a tribute to Fado singer Herm�-nia Silva, and Blues singer, Bessie Smith.
Guest star on CD of Spiritual group, African Voices, performing ‘Freedom,’ and ‘Swing Low Sweet Chariot’.
Tours the country with, Maria Sings Jobim, and Fado-Blues.
Produces a circle of African Music for C.M. Oeiras and nine concerts for C.M. Cascais.
1998 Concert, Blues and Boogie-Woogie, in C.C. Belém (100 days Festival /Expo 98) with Alan Thomas quartet.
National tour and beginning of recording of Blues CD, Spirit of Time.
Special guest star on several African Voices concerts, and makes four presentations of Fado-Blues.
1999-2000 Special guest in three concerts of the Phil Markowitz / Bernardo Moreira quintet.
Spirit of Time, Blues CD released on Megamusic, and tours the country with her various projects: Maria sings Jobim, Fado-Blues, Spirit of Time, and Promised Land.
2001-2002 Begins recording CD, I have a Dream / Promised Land.
Becomes Artistic Director for Hotels with Jazz, an initiative of Junta de Turismo, I.C.E.P., and Jazz on a Summers Day Festival, and Producer of Jazz na Casa da Guia, and Blues for Cascais, which benefites an ecological organization in Cascais; which featured Bluesman Chicago Beau as Special guest in 2002.
Through the years Maria Viana has been featured on over sixty national T.V. shows, and Still programs concerts for the stage “ 7 to 9 “ at the C.C. Belém.
Home: 2750 cascais, Portugal
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