Review Centre: Brazilian Entertainment

"Great band, very professional and helpful, happy to adapt to our last minute requirements. Many thanks!"

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"Nelsim is an excellent DJ; he accurately gauges the atmosphere and the audience, delivering a very pleasant sensory experience. Whenever we need him again, he will be hired once more."

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"Alejandro is a brilliant musician. His performance on guitar and saxophone was top-notch and full of soul. You can feel he loves what he does and plays with true passion. He is also professional, transparent, quick to respond, and a pleasure to work with. The event was a complete success thanks to him. Highly recommended. Thank you again for your venue and great performance, Alejandro! "

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"Rory and his jazz quartet were fantastic and helped to add a bit more elegance to the evenings proceedings. They were very professional and knew exactly what suited the mood, which made my job easier and the evening was a great success. Thank you again."

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"Kulturhuset Bølgen in Ålsgårde is a rare combination of concert hall and restaurant. Hornbæk Jazzklub hosts their events here every first Friday of the month. There is room for more than 100 diners, who take their seats an hour and a half before the music begins. When the musicians take the stage, the lights in the hall are dimmed and the tables retract, and the place becomes a concert hall, where the audience does not have to move, but can remain in their good seats at the tables. The bar is silent when the music is playing, but during the break it wakes up to action, like another Holger Danske, and rattles, not with the saber, but with glasses, bottles, coffee and cake. The audience mingles both with each other and with the musicians, and a temporary close and beautiful community emerges. It was the same good atmosphere that prevailed among the musicians when Jesper Hedegaard presented his Sound of Brasil at Bølgen on Friday. The Brazilian Samba has many ramifications, and each rhythm has its own life and its own name. Jesper Hedegaard knows a lot about that, having lived in Brazil for many years. He came there in 1976 and made friends who he took with him to Denmark. Some still live here, others have returned home and new ones have joined. On Friday it was bassist Sidiel Vieira and drummer Celso de Almeida. When they play it looks playful, but that's only because they are masters of their instruments. The music flows from them, like a tsunami, whose enormous power is not noticed until it meets resistance. On Friday, there was no opposition for Jesper Hedegaard can his sambas and the evening's soloist was world class. It was Alexander Kraglund who, without a single note, played the most terrific Brazilian violin and viola with countless small shifts in the rhythmic and surprising harmony changes in the melodic, which is an essential detail of the music. Alexander Kraglund mostly played the viola and the deep timbre blended beautifully with Jesper Hedegaard's piano playing, which mostly took place in the high register. The bassist played counterrhythm and very little walking bass as in jazz. He played merrily with the already dancing rhythms in moody counterplay and he could frolic freely thanks to the fact that the drummer provided a non-slip surface for the music. The evening's many different pieces of music were a mixture of Jesper Hedegaard's own compositions and the bossa nova that Antonio Carlos Jobim started in the early 60s with A Girl From Ipanema. One is to play the violin, another is to play the harmonica, and Alexander Kraglund used this instrument in about half of the pieces. In his violin playing, there were almost no references to Svend Asmussen, which is surprising. In the harmonica playing there was great inspiration from Toots Thielemans. Jesper Hedegaard may not be the world's best-known pianist, but by thinking of another pianist, namely Chick Corea (who plays at Kulturværftet at the end of April), and some of his samba-inspired compositions such as La Fiesta and Amando's Rhumba, you get a sense of the music that was played at Bølgen on Friday. The fact that Bølgen's own sound man, Casper Skovgaard, also knows which buttons to touch and not to touch is the extra quality that Bølgen has and that many other venues can only dream of."

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"Many thanks for all your help last week – the band was amazing!"

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"I was meaning to contact you and say how wonderful it was to have you. Hope to see you soon and thank you so much for adding your wonderful vibe to our event and making it all a very special experience."

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"Thank you for playing both nights and extending your set. Everyone has been very complimentary."

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"Rory and his band are a fantastic group of musicians, and their music is uplifting, fun and engaging. Our audience really enjoyed their performance. Thank you for playing!"

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"You really livened up an already great night out! And you even got my husband dancing, so I'll love you forever!"

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"Rory provided the musical background to our wedding at Old Marylebone Town Hall and after party at home. He was superb, both creating a wonderful mood, and interpreting what we wanted. We (my wife and I) couldnt more highly recommend him. Craig and Dina 01.08.22"

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"Thank you again for playing for us at our Easter Ball, you and the band were fabulous! With much appreciation, Matthew."

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"Just wanted to say thank you so much for everything on our engagement night, everyone enjoyed the music very much and it really made our night so special. We will definitely pass your details to friends in the future!"

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"BluChaCha best band ever! BluChaCha was perfect for our annual Holiday Party. The music was a perfect mix of our requests for some traditional holiday music along with basic samba/latin styled music as well. They were always accommodating to all my requests. Thank you for making our party such a success!"

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"A great evening with some REALLY talented musicians!"

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