World Jazz Live Sessions

World Jazz Live Sessions Presents:  

Carmen Souza, Theo Pascal and Elias Kacomanolis

The Silver Messengers Tour
-A Tribute to Horace Silver-

"This is absolutely the best of both worlds! It’s a wonderful introduction to the performances of Souza and the marvellous blend between Souza and Silver." Dave Rogers, WTJU 91.1Fm (USA)

A PortCaia Production - 2020

Horace Silver - an emblematic and pioneer hard bop pianist, has been a big influence in Carmen Souza career and musical path. Souza and Silver share the same Cape Verdean heritage and they both, in different ways, mixed that heritage with elements of Jazz. 'The Silver Messengers' Souza´s 9th release, is a tribute to Horace Silver life and music and marks his 5th passing anniversary.

The name "The Silver Messengers" comes from the task that is set upon ourselves of continuing to carry the message of his music, as disciples and missionaries...

As Horace said: " We need more artists like these in music, artists who are willing to sacrifice for what they believe in".

Reviews: 

4****Downbeat Magazine 
"fascinating new disc...Souza infuses Silver’s repertoire with a few Cape Verdean creole musical idioms, such as funaná (an accordion-powered dance music) and the rhythmically rubato and social-conscious coladeira, as well as Northern Brazil’s pulsating duple-metered dance music, baião. She glides thorough these styles and in between sings in Portuguese, English and creole with supple ease and superb invention." John Murph (USA)

"This is absolutely the best of both worlds! It’s a wonderful introduction to the performances of Souza and the marvelous blend between Souza and Silver." 
Dave Rogers, WTJU 91.1Fm (USA)

"Listening to the music and the voice of Carmen Souza means immersing oneself in uncontaminated places of sunny beaches and turquoise waters in which the Jazz and the traditional music of Cape Verde, the Morna, meet to give life to alchemies of sounds, perfumes and polyrhythmic suggestions...Carmen Souza confirms herself as an eclectic artist with a fresh, sophisticated but accessible sound, and is among the most interesting protagonists of that World Music synonymous with zeroing distances and barriers between global traditions and cultures." 
Paulo Marra, AllaboutJazz.com (USA)

"The band are terrific. Souza herself has a fabulously versatile voice – she can do a smokey blues contralto, but mostly favours high sweet dripping phrasing in the manner of Billie Holliday, or a slightly winsome Blossom Dearie...She can scat with the best of them" LondonJazzNews (UK)

Indispensable / A Must 
"Carmen Souza gains in depth, bringing space necessary for its expression, never doing too much and arriving with accuracy and beauty to make us feel the peculiarities of its culture " Thierry Docmac (FR)

More reviews here: https://carmensouza-protegid.blogspot.com/p/press_6.html

Videos: = CARMEN SOUZA - THE SILVER MESSENGERS - NEW ALBUM OUT NOW

20:00 (doors open 19:30) 

Ticket Price £12.50 adv. £14.00 Door