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TORA TORA consists of 12 musicians who play music for dancing; one idea that has progressively disappeared since Big Band music was invented.
Today most of the Big Bands concentrate on traditional music that has been heard many times.
TORA TORA chose another way:
The arrangements and original compositions of TORA TORA are in the style of the dance grooves of today.
TORA TORA is dedicated to music that is connected to jazz, popular music and world music with particular accents on african rhythms. The arrangements are oriented with elements of Afro, Arabic, Funk, Trance, Reggae and Drum´n Bass. The jazz characteristics are maintained in the arrangements so the soloists can show their best.
The variety of the music of TORA TORA is added to by the 6 different nationalities of the musicians.
The concerts that they have had confirm the success of the project:
Take the Big Band (further than jazzclubs and concert halls)where they were in the 30´s, in the dance halls(the discotheques of today), to the bars and the jazz music, popular music and world music festivals.
Music with many horns to make the people dance, interpreted by musicians of a high professional level. A unique formation of musicians in Portugal.
Press Quotes
“It is the free circulation of ideas that fascinates someone who listens to the group(...) of
which can result in a new era of the tradition of big bands cultivated beyond this side of the border.
(...) there is in this hybrid language a serious capacity to spread “joie de vivre” to yours
it returns (...) the structural solidity, the collective discipline, the melodic invention, the harmonic wealth and the freshness of the.....) they will give you a tempting fruit.” Ricardo Saló in “Expresso”
“The debut of the Tora Tora Big Band brings back an idea that is almost 100 years old. But with Cuba and Arabia. That is: Count Basie and Duke Ellington flirted with funk. Hot things. (...) faultless interpretation, tasteful arrangements, the variety of
albums. This is a rare thing for this country, Tora Tora's world (...) a type of United Nations of groove.”
João Bonifácio in “Y”
“(...) the 12 members created a sophisticated, vibrant atmosphere, a
true dance party. The disk, until the end, is an elevated dose of vitamin C, full of
energy and effervescence, with all the ingredients to loosen the feet of the
inhibited (...) To the marvelous horn section which rises to the level of the historic
big bands (...) in a cultural exchange that settles in this music”
Sofia Freire in “Jornal de Letras”
“The premises of this project (...) the results had to be an excellent disk (...)
disguised, in a case of total orange, it can be one of the best medicines
to help you walk with good humor this Summer.”
Pedro Dias of Almeida in “Visão”
“(...) to say if it is or is not jazz that the group plays is to say little of the quality of
its work, which is excellent (...) all the energy is vitamin enriched, able to infect
any dance track (...) it is the swing that moves Tora Tora. And two things
that remain after listening to this disk: a tired foot from beating the time and the appetite to taste their peeled orange live.”
João Pedro Oliveira in “Diário de Notícias”
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