Egberto Gismonti - Live at Liège Guitar Festival (1983) | Qwest TV

Watch the full concert on Qwest TV https://videos.qwest.tv/content/egber... 🔔 Subscribe, watch live and join the community of music lovers:    / @qwesttv   💻 Enjoy more than 1,300 full length concerts, premium documentaries and exclusive interviews: https://videos.qwest.tv/ 📺 Watch Qwest TV around the clock on your Smart TV: https://qwest.tv/how-to-watch ABOUT THIS VIDEO: Egberto Gismonti is one of Brazil’s greatest artists, but perhaps not as much in everyone’s consciousness as he was in the 1980s and 1990s. Although, in recent years this veteran has been increasing his international presence with more touring activities. Your scribe has been fortunate to catch Gismonti three times, relatively recently, at the Enjoy Jazz festival in Ludwigshafen (2017) and Schwetzingen (2018), Germany, and then only last year at the Oslo World festival (2024). On all occasions he was very impressive. Here, Gismonti is appearing at the Liège Guitar Festival in Belgium, way back in 1983, when it seems like he played even faster and more intricately, exploring a more experimental approach to melodic development. Gismonti pretty much alternates between his 12-string guitar and the piano, offering divergent aspects of his musical palette. His lower four strings are doubled, for sympathetic vibration, with the upper four kept separate, although he sometimes loosens the uppermost bass string for added low reverberation. Gismonti’s guitar neck is as broad as an aircraft carrier! His finger-padding up on the neck produces bass tones or singing single lines, percussive or dragging, bending or pinging. On the piano Gismonti can be halting or jagged, rushing then pausing, his percussive approach quite vigorous. He breaks down into a sparser melodic exploration, with an easy-sway rhythm. When back on the guitar, he often evokes the sound of the traditional Brazilian (or Portuguese) cavaquinho, a smaller guitar equivalent. During this set he also invokes Ravi Shankar, not so much with an Indian raga style, but with his fleet approach to logically air-lifting treble-string runs, bending notes and producing spiky clusters, with silvery flashes. Gismonti, besides being a jazzer, has pedal extremities in both folk and classical musics. This vintage film isn’t so active with movement: it’s just a man on a chair with a guitar, and then the same man on another chair with a piano. Even so, the viewer is gripped by the sheer intensity of expression in the music. Gismonti trickles sweat, exuding this driven force as a natural side-effect of playing. Martin Longley 🎥 Watch our well-curated playlists Full CONCERTS    • Playlist   Analogue Sessions    • Analogue by Qwest TV   The GREATEST HITS    • ALL SONGS | Qwest TV   Legendary ARCHIVE GEMS    • ARCHIVES | Qwest TV   Captivating DOCUMENTARIES    • Documentaries | Qwest TV   Follow Qwest TV Website: https://www.qwest.tv/ Instagram:   / qwest.tv   Facebook:   / qwesttv   Twitter:   / qwest_tv   Qwest TV is Quincy Jones' video streaming network celebrating Black Music & Global Sounds through premium documentaries, live concerts, archive gems and interviews showcasing the greatest musicians of all time! Qwest TV features legendary artists like Diana Ross, Muddy Waters, Gregory Porter, Method Man, Yasiin Bey aka Mos Def, Marc Rebillet, and many more! Qwest TV is a global hub where the best of jazz, blues, funk, electronic music, hip hop, African beats, and more genres converge on one stage! Step into a multicultural world curated by the one and only Quincy Jones who has already worked with icons like Michael Jackson, Ray Charles, Miles Davis, James Brown, and Chick Corea. Together with his Qwest TV family, Quincy Jones offers a special experience for music lovers hungry to connect to something new and unexpected. #QwestTV #QuincyJones #BlackMusic #GlobalSounds #livemusic #avantgardejazz #experimentalmusic #samba