this time, we will have our Birthday Party - Jazz at the MAZE is now three years old!
No birthday party without a proper birthday present! Bring your present we will appreciate!
Let's have a short look, at what one of our fans (and besides a passionate art collector) brought from New York: Márcio De Campos went straight to Christie'sNew York to take advantage and acquire some Picasso or van Gogh for cheap from one of these bank directors in final decline.
What Márcio gave as a present to the MAZE is absolutely sensational: A Full Installation of one of the most famous French sculptures of the last century! TERRIFIC!
This lesser known sculpture is called "Fountain of Rio de Janeiro" and was shown in an exhibition in the early 20ths of the last century, as a part of the Dadaistic Protest against the installation of the Sugar Loaf Cable Car. The Dadaistic Movement in Rio eventually came to an end during the Military Regime and therefore this sculpture was forgotten a long time and only resurfaced a couple of years ago.
Our question to you is now the following:
Do you know the name of the artist?
The first seven people sending the right answer to us, will have one Bitburger for free! Mail us or call us at (21) 2558-5547.
And, fair enough, when the exhibition is over, we will have a new toilet for the gentlemen on the lower varandah,for ladies the two at the entry and one more on the promenade deck.
Look at one of our recent Jazznights (in March) with Julie Hughes - vocals, Wolf -sax, Alessandro - alto sax, Lennart - hammond, Vinicius - percussão - Summertime:
Lennart - piano e Wolf - sax nas Segundas-Feiras no Symposium
Irmãos também na música, Lennart Goebel, ao piano, e Wolf Goebel, no sax tenor, interpretam com mestria Gershwin, Duke Ellington, Cole Porter e outros.
A Symposium está localizada na Rua Ipiranga, 65 em Laranjeiras, num antigo casarão tombado pelo Patrimônio Histórico, construído de paredes de pedra e óleo de baleia.
No interior, móveis e mesas antigas de peroba do campo e uma impactante prateleira de ferro encostada em parede de pedra, expondo sua coleção de mais de 500 rótulos de vinhos, destaca o bom gosto do projeto original do arquiteto João Calafate.
“Jazz nights attract people from all over town.”—Bill Hinchberger, founder, BrazilMax.com travel portal. Inside Tavares Bastos favela (shanty town); brainchild of Bob Nadkarni, who worked as a sculptor on Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey;
10 rooms, all with double bed and private bath; roof terrace; Guanabara
Bay views. Jazz/bossa nova nights most Fridays. Regularly used for film
shoots. Rua Tavares Bastos 414, Casa 66, Catete; tel. +55 (21) 2558 5547
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.
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..."
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).
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.
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.
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.
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.
Let's have a short look, at what one of our fans (and besides a passionate art collector) brought from New York: Márcio De Campos went straight to Christie's New York to take advantage and acquire some Picasso or van Gogh for cheap from one of these bank directors in final decline.
