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AfroJazz is a Brazilian Contemporary Jazz Group. Started in 2012, AfroJazz came out of a desire to reframe the contemporary lineage of African Heritage music.

African music and heritage has had an astounding impact on the development of most of music developed in the 20th century.  Jazz and samba, to rock n’ roll, reggae and hip-hop are all styles of music that benefited from African roots. AfroJazz melds the feel of all of these styles into a completely new sound. Even though it's difficult to define exactly what AfroJazz sounds like, the mixture of traditional ethnic percussion with classic jazz horns places it somewhere between Africa, Brazil, and the US.

AfroJazz's original arrangements and compositions are strongly influenced by the masters Moacir Santos, Mulatu Astatke, Mongo Santa Maria, Guy Warren and Fela Kuti. Therefore every performance is magnetic and full of energy. They are filled with a unique combination of free improvisation, DJ scratches, electric guitar riffs and audience interaction.

AfroJazz has played all over Rio de Janeiro and was almost immediately recognized and appreciated by the local youth, and quickly became a beacon of  Rio de Janeiro's changing jazz scene. The group shows remarkable power to bring the people to its shows and is revealing a new kind of audience: people who party, dance and enjoy themselves while listening to refined new age instrumental music.

The year of 2014 has provided AfroJazz with some great opportunities. While still in Rio, they played for a 20,000 person audience in Brazil's coolest open-air jazz festival, the Rio das Ostras Jazz & Blues Festival. Marcus Miller, Al Jarreau and Scott Henderson also participated in the festival. In October, AfroJazz took a trip to China to play at the Cotai Jazz & Blues Festival in Macau. While there, AfroJazz won the special recognition award. At the present moment a CD with new songs is being recorded.

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Português

Destaque da cena carioca, a banda Afrojazz formou-se no Rio de Janeiro em 2012 e, desde então, vem realizando shows e participando de festivais nacionais e internacionais. A banda ficou conhecida pela realização das noites “Quarta Jazz” na Estudantina (RJ) e hoje se apresenta em diversas casas de show. Com seus seis integrantes foi destaque no Rio das 
  Ostras Jazz & Blues Festival 2014 e vencedor do concurso VOZPARATODOS do circuito Banco do Brasil. Ainda esse ano foram os primeiros representantes brasileiros no China's Cotai Jazz and Blues Festival, de onde retornaram com o prêmio Special Recognition Award.
    Influenciados por artistas como Mulatu Astatke, Guy Warren, Black Rio,Moacir Santos, Fela Kuti, Bob Marley, Avishai Cohen, Miles Davis entre outros, a música do Afrojazz mistura ritmos afro-brasileiros e evidencia a ancestralidade musical da nossa cultura, mas sem perder o contato com a contemporaneidade do hip hop ou do rock. Suas composições transitam entre ritmos dançantes, vigorosos e originais. A banda conta com percussão, guitarra, contrabaixo, bateria, trompete e saxofone e seu trabalho pode ser conferido em seu álbum de estreia, com participação especial do Dj Negralha, já lançado esse ano. Atualmente a banda está em estúdio gravando o próximo disco só com autorais.

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