THE SENSATION OF IMPRESSIONISTIC BRAZILIAN JAZZ

The diversity of musical personalities and the continues journey through musical landscapes is what makes the Dumée & Dijkgraaf Quinteto a sensation for audiences around the world. This quintet is composed of the elements from an uncommon triangle; Europe, Minas Gerais and Rio de Janeiro. With an Europian taste for classical refinement, balance and the beauty of structure, Minas adds the impressionistic ingredients of dreaming, of delicacy and spiritual panoramas while Rio finally being the sensual, provocative and unapprehendabe personality of this quintet.

“We are citizens in a world without musical frontiers who bring a European fragrance to the universal melting pot of Brazilian instrumental music. This concert is a homage to a generation for whom music was primarily a reflection of their soul. Virtuosity and intellectuality being part of their ability to express themselves in a natural way, never loosing sight of the beauty and importance of cultural tradition and diversity. While impressionism started in Brazil when Manet was aboard a ship in the harbor of Rio de Janeiro in the 1850’s, our impressionistic brazilian jazz is 21st century music with the final touch of a distant past; imaginary experiences full of fantasy and dreams.”
Jan, Wim, Kiko, Paulo, Marcio

Sonhando De Amor - Dumee & Dijkgraaf Quinteto

Dumee & Dijkgraaf

Jan Dumee: guitar, voz & composition
Wim Dijkgraaf: harmonica & orchestration

http://www.dumeedijkgraaf.com
http://www.wimdijkgraaf.com


Rua Assunção

Do I believe in God? Yes, when I'm composing.

Nirvania

Experiment inspired by Masabumi Kikuchi. Clarinet, Piano, Bass & Drums. Made this experiment to see if I can create a similar and convincing atmosphere as on Masabumi's fantastic album "Sunrise". Following experiments will contain harmonica playing too.

Masabumi The First

This track is from the album Heloisando and is available for purchase on CD Baby here: http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/ddq

Heloisa

Entre Rio e Belo Horizonte

Sonhando De Amor

Rodinha

Cipriano

Noites De Angra

Sonho

Heloisando

World class jazz harmonica player, educator and innovator Wim Dijkgraaf (born the 4th of october 1970 in The Netherlands) has an acadamic background as a composer of contemporary classical music.

Inspired by Kenny Werner’s publications on Effortless Mastery, Wim is widely recognized as an innovator in the field of effortless harmonica playing and as such is by the age of 40 already an influential point of reference for many harmonica players today.

Toots Thielemans certainly was an important source of inspiration when Wim started playing the harmonica at the age of 19. But overtime he developed his own playing style and a highly personal sound that he is so well know for today.

Besides the sound of his harmonica, his approach towards improvisation is remarkable too. Inspired by composers like Olivier Messiaen and Béla Bartók, Wim creates melodic phrases that sound modern and sometimes intellectual yet lyrical, romantic and always highly accessible. It is in his way of improvising that a strong background in classical composition becomes immediately clear; the art of effortlessly constructing original material out of instantly invented small musical building blocks.

Wim Dijkgraaf - Harmonica

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