50th Jazznight Jubilee with a great Masquerade and Jam Session on February, 5th, 21h!
Don't forget to bring your MASK! We will sing George Benson! Be for one night The Incredible Hulk, Luke Skywalker, Pamela Anderson, the Girl from Ipanema or a nun of the Carmelitas!
All musicians will be pretty unrecognizeable, therefore here go the names:
Bob Nadkarni - vocals, trumpet, Ben - trumpet, Wolf - tenor sax, Lennart - hammond organ, piano, Áureo - double bass, Sami - drums, Marcelo - guitar, Julie Hughes and Núria Pucci - vocals and special guests expected.
20R$ after 10PM, and 10R$ in the Happy Hour before 10PM. Vans going up all night, until 4AM (tariff R$2).
To overcome Saudade, here a video of Gloria Horta, with our band Jazztopia at Musica no Museu, at Parque das Ruinas in Santa Teresa on January, 23rd - Wolf - tenor sax, Lennart - Hammond organ, Sami - drums!
The song, by the way, is Peel Me A Grape.
Aqui a mapa de loclização / Map of the MAZE:
Hi Mazegazers
We had an incredible sexy unplugged jam session on December 4th. Sure, the hillside was plunged into darkness thanks to the incompetence of the Light Company. But do you think that a little hiccup like that will stop The MAZE. We had accoustic guitars, accoustic double bass, three saxophones, a real old fashioned honky-tonk piano and Bob and Nuria showing you all how the blues was sung when jazz was born. wine, caipirinha and more beer than you could possibly drink.
Hey, our boys told us that a helluva lot of taxis came up the hill and a lot of you turned back. Wow! You can't imagine what you missed !!! Funny, if Ray Charles, George Shearing, Blind Lemmon Jefferson, Limping Limey Lincoln or Crippled Kiwi Kilmore had been here, they wouldn't have known the difference. Do we chuck Django Rheinhart out of the band just 'cos he lost a couple of fingers.
Congratulations for the almost 200 of you who ingnored the rain and the blackness and were rewarded with a wonderful MAZE-night. and guess what? So you all get a second chance. You and all of the folks who doubted us (how could you?) we're going to do a special PRE-CHRISTMAS JAZZ NIGHT so you can all get suitable calibrated fror the festive fortnight.
By the way, have you figured it out yet? The first Friday of 2010 falls on the 1st of January !!!
Now. we'd have to be mad to hold a jazz night on the 1st of January wouldn't we?
Well of course we're mad !! Who the hell would plant a jazz night in the middle of a favela? Come to that, you'd have to be mad to go there -and keep going there like you all have for the last three years. Yes. We reckon you're probably all mad too - and it's been a priviledge AND ONE HELLUVA LOT OF FUN us all going mad together.
One thing at a time. JAZZ NIGHT on FRIDAY 18TH DECEMBER. Vans all night. You really don't need your car. You don't need to be giving all your Christmas Reals away to BlitzCop Breathalizers. The bar opens at 21h. You have seven hours of revelry. Enjoy.
A Escolinha de Futebol Sonho de Criança, da qual fazem parte crianças e adolescentes da Comunidade Tavares Bastos e adjacências, existe oficialmente há 12 anos, e dói criada pelo treinador Paulo Maciel (Paulo Gol), aproveitando sua experiência adquirida como ex-jogador de futebol do Botafogo de Futebol e Regatas/RJ, na década de 70.
O objetivo da Escolinha é de conscientizar às crianças e adolescentes de suas capacidades, propiciando atividades físicas e de lazer, bem como conhecimentos técnicos de futebol, melhorando seu condicionamento físico, saúde e auto-estima e integrando-os na sociedade, na família e na escola.
O impacto social da Escolinha de Futebol Sonho de Criança é reconhecido em toda comunidade e adjacências. Em depoimentos espontâneos, pais, mães, parentes e amigos dos alunos, afirmam que o comportamento das crianças e adolescentes foi modificado para melhor com suas participações na Escolinha, pois a empolgação pelo futebol e os ensinamentos adquiridos, têm contribuído para afastar os alunos da ociosidade, das ruas e das drogas.
Há nove meses sem receber nenhum apoio governamental, a Escolinha de Futebol Sonho de Criança, está sofrendo dificuldades financeiras e materiais como uniformes, bolas, coletes e outros, que estão prejudicando o desenvolvimento das atividades que são desenvolvidas pela equipe de profissionais da Escolinha.
Bob Nadkarni with a view from the roof, photo provided
by The Maze.
RIO DE JANEIRO – July 2009 sees the third birthday of Jazz At The Maze, and marks eight
and a half years since the opening of the guesthouse of the same name built from
scratch by Englishman Bob Nadkarni in Tavares Bastos Favela in Catete, where he
has also lived for the best part of thirty years.
With the live music nights becoming bi-weekly as a result of their
word-of-mouth success, the Maze pousada now accommodating around 25 people at
capacity and having been used as a location for rap videos and blockbuster
films, some would consider allowing themselves a little time to reflect. Within
five minutes in Nadkarni’s company, it is clear that this is not the case.
Nadkarni arrived in Brazil in 1972, and the running theme through Bob’s life
in the favela has been trying to create opportunities for the people living
there when traditionally they have been given few, marginalized or castigated by
those in power.
Nadkarni’s priority some twenty years ago, before the creation of The Maze
could have been achieved, was a campaign to get the BOPE (the Elite Special
Forces unit of the Military Police) Headquarters moved from Niteroi to a large
disused building in Tavares Bastos. At the turn of the millennium the campaign
finally succeeded and though he had never personally had any problems with the
gangs, the number of young people killed or dislodged as part of the violence
there was a daily fact of life.
The inn opened in time for the 2005 end-of-year celebrations, starting with four units.
Each unit consists of a bedroom with double bed and a private bathroom.
There is a panoramic upper varanda and small kitchen for guest use.
Breakfast is taken in the lower hall and is included in the daily rate
with regular barbecues and parties according to guest contribution.
Already there are seven bed and breakfast units as well as four
self-service flats (bedroom, bathroom, living room and kitchen). By the
end of 2007 the MAZE plans to offer a further ten bed and breakfast
units. All rooms will have original art works which may be aquired.
There is an art gallery on the street level. A small shop selling
comunity-made souvenirs will open shortly.
You may do your booking here - Normal tariffs are R$ 80,00 single occupation and R$ 100,00 double occupation.
For Carnival we are fully booked so far - but you may still try to contact us personally, in case somebody cancels, there may be some "last minute" chances.
At six years old, he tore a picture from a magazine, a little white house fringed with coconut palms and stuck it to his bedhead.
Son of a clergyman and a playwright, Bob studied fine arts in London, was sculptor on Stanley Kubrick's 2001, A Space Odyssey, a war cameraman in the Middle East and a BBC TV correspondent in Brazil. During the making of more than four hundred documentaries, he broke bread with rich and poor, poets and gangsters, cowboys, ministers, thinkers, musicians, generals and mothers of the tortured. He wandered through dazzling palaces and the rubble of destroyed civilisations. Longing to return to painting, he opted to build a studio home in a Rio favela. Underneath he created a community centre with adult literacy schooling and a free pre-natal clinic followed by an art gallery.
A Escolinha de Futebol Sonho de Criança, da qual fazem parte crianças e adolescentes da Comunidade Tavares Bastos e adjacências, existe oficialmente há 12 anos, e dói criada pelo treinador Paulo Maciel (Paulo Gol), aproveitando sua experiência adquirida como ex-jogador de futebol do Botafogo de Futebol e Regatas/RJ, na década de 70.
O impacto social da Escolinha de Futebol Sonho de Criança é reconhecido em toda comunidade e adjacências. Em depoimentos espontâneos, pais, mães, parentes e amigos dos alunos, afirmam que o comportamento das crianças e adolescentes foi modificado para melhor com suas participações na Escolinha, pois a empolgação pelo futebol e os ensinamentos adquiridos, têm contribuído para afastar os alunos da ociosidade, das ruas e das drogas.
Lennart Goebel
