Hot Club of Portugal
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The Hot Club of Portugal (Hot Clube de Portugal) is the oldest jazz club
in Portugal
and has uninterruptedly developed its activity since 1948. It occupies a cellar in Praça da Alegria (Square of Joy) in Lisbon
.
With an almost daily programming of concerts http://www.hotclubedeportugal.org/, the Hot Club of Portugal is an acclaimed cultural entity in Portugal and abroad. Since the early 1980s, it has also run a jazz school where a lot of Portuguese jazz musicians learned their skills. Many great jazz musicians have played, jammed and given seminars in the small cellar in Praça da Alegria and in the Music School.
On December 22nd 2009, a fire, followed by a flood, destroyed most of building, forcing the historical Hot Clube cellar to close down (although the music school continues its activities, since it is located elsewhere in the city). Currently a replacement location for the venue is being considered.
Part of Fernando Lopes
's 1964 film Belarmino
is set in the Hot Clube. The small patio at the back shown in the picture below is clearly recognisable.
Jazz club
A jazz club is a venue where the primary entertainment is the performance of live jazz music. Jazz clubs have been in large rooms in the eras of Orchestral jazz and big band jazz and when its popularity as a dance music was common...
in Portugal
Portugal
Portugal , officially the Portuguese Republic is a country situated in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. Portugal is the westernmost country of Europe, and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the West and South and by Spain to the North and East. The Atlantic archipelagos of the...
and has uninterruptedly developed its activity since 1948. It occupies a cellar in Praça da Alegria (Square of Joy) in Lisbon
Lisbon
Lisbon is the capital city and largest city of Portugal with a population of 545,245 within its administrative limits on a land area of . The urban area of Lisbon extends beyond the administrative city limits with a population of 3 million on an area of , making it the 9th most populous urban...
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With an almost daily programming of concerts http://www.hotclubedeportugal.org/, the Hot Club of Portugal is an acclaimed cultural entity in Portugal and abroad. Since the early 1980s, it has also run a jazz school where a lot of Portuguese jazz musicians learned their skills. Many great jazz musicians have played, jammed and given seminars in the small cellar in Praça da Alegria and in the Music School.
On December 22nd 2009, a fire, followed by a flood, destroyed most of building, forcing the historical Hot Clube cellar to close down (although the music school continues its activities, since it is located elsewhere in the city). Currently a replacement location for the venue is being considered.
History
It was in March 1948 that Luis Villas-Boas became member number 1 of the Hot Club of Portugal, the first jazz club created in Portugal. He had been the first to spread the taste for jazz music in Portugal at the microphones of the radio, at the end of 1945, in a program called “Hot Club”. It was then that the idea was born to create an Association with the objective of making this musical expression known and practised in Portugal.Part of Fernando Lopes
Fernando Lopes (filmmaker)
Fernando Lopes, GCIH is a Portuguese film director.-Filmography:*98 Octanas *Lá Fora *Delfim, O aka Dauphin, Le *Cinema *Gérard, Fotógrafo *Fio do Horizonte, O...
's 1964 film Belarmino
Belarmino
Belarmino is a 1964 film. It charts the life and times of ex-boxer Belarmino Fragoso. It is one of the first films of the Portuguese Cinema Novo, itself part of a wave of New Cinemas sweeping the world in the 60s, and a break from the previous tradition of Portuguese cinema exemplified by the...
is set in the Hot Clube. The small patio at the back shown in the picture below is clearly recognisable.