NICOLA CONTE BRAZILIAN GIRLS JAZZANOVA * * SOLD OUT * *

‘K-Swiss Konnected connects cultures, communities and people. A committed dialogue: a musical presentation of global contemporary music and culture’. His debut album is considered to be the very best in ‘lounge’. Anyone who heard Nicola Conte on the North Sea Jazz Festival last year was amazed. While lounge was slowly dying of a lack of musical innovation, the Italian deejay and producer appeared to have ditched his electronica. An U-turn that resulted in the album Other Directions (Blue Note 2004) on which he blends Italian jazz from the 70’s with hard bop, British acid jazz and bossa nova from the school of Antonio Carlos Jobim. He asked British ‘Queen of Broken Beat’ Bembe Segue as a guest vocalist for this Amsterdam edition of K-Swiss Konnected. The debut album (no title) of the New York quartet Brazilian Girls with multi lingual vocalist Sabina Sciubba sounds like a wild party on which Blondie, Grace Jones, Astrud Gilberto and The Sugarcubes share the stage. Deejay of the evening is Jürgen von Knoblauch, one of the five members of the Berlin collective Jazzanova and, being a true vinyl fetishist, perfectly in place at the ‘K-Swiss Konnected Bimhuis’: the fusion of obscure and classic jazz with modern beats.