Hot Clube de Portugal
Coordinates: 38 ° 43 ′ 5.3 " N , 9 ° 8 ′ 44.4" W.
The Hot Clube de Portugal is a jazz club on Praça da Alegria in Lisbon, near Parque Mayer .
It is considered the oldest still existing jazz club in Europe. The Cabaret Maxime is a historic nightclub in the neighborhood.
history
Since 1945 a group of jazz friends met around Luís Villas-Boas to listen to records , exchange news and make music themselves. Villas-Boas started a program on the radio that he called Hot Clube . After various difficulties in the dictatorial Portugal ruled under Salazar , Villas-Boas founded a jazz club with friends interested in jazz in 1948 as the Hot Clube de Portugal (HCP), inspired by the Hot Club de France founded in 1932 . After further difficulties on the part of the authorities of the Estado Novo regime, the association was finally legalized in 1950 and its statutes set the goal of spreading jazz. The HCP subsequently organized festivals and concerts at which musicians such as Sidney Bechet , Count Basie and Bill Coleman performed. In the early 1950s, the association then moved into a cellar on Praça da Alegria Square (number 39) in Lisbon. Since then, the Hot Clube has been one of the most important constants in the country's jazz. In the 1980s, a jazz music school and the HCP Big Band were added, along with other, later band projects such as the HCP Septet.
In 1995 the non-profit status of the association was officially confirmed and renewed. After a fire in 2009, the club remained closed for about two years and moved to other premises as required before reopening in 2011 in a neighboring building a few steps away (house number 48). After the death of the founder Villas-Boas in 1999, the club inherited its collections. The record collection in particular, but also the extensive photo archive, are the core of the HCP museum today.
literature
- João Moreira dos Santos: Jazz em Cascais Casa Sassetti, Cascais 2009, ISBN 978-989-951-683-0
- : Salwa Castelo-Branco da Música em Portugal no Século XX C-L ENCICLOPEDIA, . Temas e Debates, Lisbon 2010, ISBN 978-989-644-098-5
- Torsten Eßer: "Five minutes of jazz". Portugal's jazz scene yesterday and today (Jazzpodium 4/2015)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from March 16, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from April 19, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Salwa Castelo-Branco: Enciclopédia da Música em Portugal no Século XX, CL . 1st edition, Temas e Debates, Lisbon 2010, pp. 624f
