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Jazz at the Maze on June 6th Print E-mail

Jazz at the MazeDear Friends,

what a wonderful world of passion, swing and joie de vivre, full of jazz and pink cocktails for a blue lady - and the devil may care… lush life and funny valentines, pork pie hats and tailgates, sophisticated wit and the gutbucket, ghost notes and the jungle style, playin' dirty water from a swordfishtrombone

- or in short words:

we are back with Jazz at the Maze.

Our Core Team - the MAZE All Stars:

Wolf - tenor sax, Lennart - hammond organ, Vinícius Cordeira Prado - percussion and Chet Baker like vocals, Bob - piano and vocals (a lá Tom Waits)

- and special guests: July (from Ireland not from London) - vocals, Gijs Andriessen - piano and vocals and more guests expected.

Don't worry about getting home late at night - or early in the morning - the Maze will provide a kombi going down the hill - just ask for a ride.

And we are getting noble: Bohemian beer will be available at 6R$ - or Black Princess, the black beauty in Brazilian Beers...

 See you soon here!

Lennart, Vinicius and Wolf recording at Rio Art Hostel
Lennart, Vinicius and Wolf recording at Rio Art Hostel - Executive Producer: Mauricio Theo

Useful links for JAZZ addicts: 

Bruno's blog:  The Maze Musical

Wolfram's blog: JazzTopia

Communities of Jazz at the Maze:

Orkut: Jazz at the Maze no Orkut

Netlog: Jazz at the Maze no Netlog

Last Updated ( Saturday, 10 May 2008 )
 
Breaking the law in style Print E-mail

One of the golden securty rules of Rio is never go by yourself to a favela, specially at night... Well, The Maze in is the place to break it! This amazing art gallery and bar (and also a B&B) is hidden on a calm favela in Catete, at the south zone of Rio. Every first friday of the month, this place turns into a jazz club, where cool locals and well informed foreigners meet to listen great jazz, bossa nova and samba. All that with great caipirinhas and an amazing view of Rio. And if you are a musician, dont be shy to talk to the musicians and perform with them, is highly recomended by then.

I just dont place a highly recomended because the only beer sold is Priums, a bad brazilian beer. Arrive early to get a good place with the view and get the discount, paying R$ 5 to get in.

from  ggodoi at http://www.travbuddy.com/The-Maze-v192564

Last Updated ( Monday, 28 April 2008 )
 
The Maze dia 25 de abril: rockSEX com dj6 e alice Print E-mail

RockSEXÊêêê! Um brinde ao primeiríssimo post no blog do The Maze Musical !


No último dia 29 de março o the Maze promoveu o provável último show da banda Brisa, acompanhados pelos amigos Os Subterrâneos e de Luisa Mandou Um Beijo. Apesar de tudo ter sido combinado um tanto em cima da hora, o evento acabou sendo um arraso: mais de 100 pessoas! Saiu matéria de página dupla no jornal de domingo e tudo. Aliás, a elogiosa matéria escrita por Olívia Mendonça (do jornal O Dia) provocou mudanças no The Maze.

Agora, o the Maze quer se estabelecer gradualmente como um lugar marcado pela música boa e que fomenta a criação de música inovadora. Pra isso, o the Maze inicia um parceria com a Vagamente Produções para a produção de eventos a partir do mês de Maio.

Antes disso, Bruno Nadkarni dá início às produções mensais independentes e convida as bandas Alice e DJ6 para o próximo evento que vai rolar na próxima sexta-feira, 25 de abril.

O evento começa às 22h, mas quem chegar antes disso paga R$ 10 pra entrar. Depois das 22h, a entrada é de R$ 12, a não ser pra quem tem o flyer, que continuará pagando R$ 10 pra entrar. É só imprimir o e-flyer desse post.

 

Last Updated ( Wednesday, 23 April 2008 )
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The Maze - prometi que ia e FUI! Print E-mail

por Adriana que visitou o Maze... 

Olha, é difícil eu prometer algo e não cumprir... pois é, tinha dito que ia pessoalmente ao The Maze, conhecer o local, o Bob e a Malu, e fui!

Agora gostaria de dividir com vocês as minhas impressões, um pouco diferentes daquelas que meu amigo descreveu e publiquei aqui no Blog: Caros amigos, vos escrevo...

Então, fomos em seis pessoas, pegamos dois táxis, e outros amigos deveriam chegar lá e nos encontar mais tarde. Demos o endereço e tudo bem. Fui no táxi de trás, com dois amigos. Meu amigo que já tinha ido e sabia como chegar foi no táxi da frente, explicando.

Realmente, se chega a uma rua de bairro, normal, e a rua vai subindo o morro, vai subindo, subindo e girando, girando, até chegar ao final da rua, onde há bastante espaço para fazer o retorno pois não se pode ir adiante. O táxi da frente começou a dar ré, e o meu taxista se assustou. Começou a dizer "Não é aqui! Não é esse o lugar! Está errado!"

Enquanto isso, meus amigos começaram a descer do táxi, nisso, o amigo que estava ao meu lado disse ao taxista: "Está certo, é aqui sim! Veja, o pessoal está descendo então é aqui mesmo que a gente fica..."

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Rio Rocks Print E-mail

by David Juritz

rio-rocks-sundown.jpg

I arrived in Rio later that morning and followed Bob Nadkarni’s instructions to The Maze, his guest house on the favela in Catece (the one obligatory destination in South America, this place, see http://jazzrio.info - ignore the fact that the website is sometimes out of date; Bob’s a busy man wheeler-dealing with top film companies on how they should compensate the favela for using it as a film location).

After a completely open schedule in Montevideo, Rio was pretty busy.  My first gig was a street in Carioca in downtown Rio where I set up amongst the card sharks. I really wasn’t sure how Bach was going to go down here so was really pleasantly surprised when a small circle formed around me.  I was joined after a while by Helen from the BBC, who lent a touch of glamour to the proceedings (it always helps to have someone holding a mike at you in the street – people stop just to work out what’s going on).

Last Updated ( Thursday, 03 April 2008 )
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Bobbywood - The Maze on BBC World Service Print E-mail

First there was Hollywood, then came Bollywood in Mumbai, Nollywood in Nigeria, and Lollywood in Lahore. But have you heard of Bobbywood? Anton Foek visits a friend to find out more.

Outlook reporter Anton Foek seems to have a thing about place names .

Hot on the heels of his reports from the towns of Outlook in Washington State and Paradise in Northern California, he's now in Bobbywood in Rio de Janeiro.

Bobbywood - not internationally famous - is the nickname for the corner of a favela or shantytown in Rio de Janeiro in Brazil, which an English expatriate has made his home.

Find the Full article on BBC World Service .

Last Updated ( Sunday, 06 April 2008 )
 
Slum enchanted evening Print E-mail

In a Rio shanty town, Andrew Downie experiences spectacular sights and sounds.

By Telegraph.co.uk

I am standing with a few others under a blue tarpaulin in one of those torrential Latin American downpours a few hundred yards from Bob Nadkarni's house and I fear the worst for his monthly jam session.

Cariocas, as residents of Rio are known, are like cats: they hate to go out in the rain. Nadkarni is about to stage Rio's most unusual jazz night, but it looks as though no one will be there to hear it.

Then a taxi emerges from the gloom and four Germans get out carrying guitar cases and saxophones. They join us under the dripping tarpaulin and we throw back beers and wait for the rain to ease. When it does, we dash through the puddles towards the entrance of the Tavares Bastos favela and head up a narrow staircase to the Maze.

The Maze is Nadkarni's sprawling, unfinished labyrinth of a home set on top of a favela, one of the 600-odd slums that dot the self-proclaimed Marvellous City. Nadkarni, 63, a former BBC cameraman and professional sculptor, started building it 26 years ago when most of the dwellings here were made from wood and tin. Now it is one of the largest buildings in the area.

"There is something about a favela that is so different from the controlled way we live in the West," he says.

Last Updated ( Thursday, 03 April 2008 )
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How the Jazz Rio Website was done... Print E-mail

Just wondering how this website has been done? The story began about a year ago, when hammond organ player Lennart from the Jazz Night first went to Bob's house in the Tavares Bastos Favela. It was a meeting as friends, nor did Bob know Lennart was into Jazz, nor Lennart had any ideas about Bob's singing talents...

But one thing was clear: a new website was needed for Bob's Bed & Breakfast, which was still under construction. Bob and Lennart brought ideas together, and a first page was created.

Find Lennart's Homepage here: 

  cariocadesign - Creative Webdesign Solutions .

New examples of Lennart's Works as a web designer:

Last Updated ( Saturday, 05 April 2008 )
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