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HCP - Hot Club Portugal
Lisboa
Praça da Alegria, 48 (Lisboa),1250-004 Lisboa (Lisboa)
213619740 (Chamada para a rede fixa nacional)
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Hot Clube de Portugal is one of the oldest jazz clubs of Europe, it is, for sure, the one who keeps working continuously for so long. DownBeat, a reputed American jazz magazine, considers Hot Clube one of the 100 best jazz clubs in the world. The English newspaper The Guardian places Hot Clube in Europe´s 10 best jazz clubs. The Hot Clube open from Tuesday to Saturday at 10:00pm.
IIn 1945, some jazz or HOT music enthusiasts were already meeting in brothers Sangareau’s house. Luiz Villas-Boas, Ivo and Augusto Mayer brothers, Gérard de Castelo Lopes and Helena Villas-Boas gathered to exchange records, to listen the news and play. The group expanded and organized, in a more or less informal way, through jazz sessions with Portuguese musicians and foreigners who, while passing through Lisbon, were
invited to join.With the ground set up to found a Jazz club (since a radio program had been gathering potential members since 1948), this group, led by Luiz Villas-Boas, went a step forward: its formalization. On the March 16th 1950, the Statutes of Hot Clube de Portugal were approved with the slogan “Disclosure of Jazz Music”.From this date on, Modern Music Festivals were organized, as well as concerts featuring famous musicians like Sidney Bechet or Countie Basie and many Jam Sessions. The definitive establishment in Praça da Alegria took place in the early 1950s.The 2009 fire, which destroyed the basement of No. 39, forced the Hot Clube relocation to some doors below, to the No. 48.Hot Clube de Portugal is one of the oldest jazz clubs of Europe and it is, for sure, the one who keeps working continuously for so long. DownBeat magazine, a reputed American jazz magazine, considers Hot Clube de Portugal one of the 100 best jazz clubs in the world. The English newspaper The Guardian places Hot Clube in Europe´s 10 best jazz clubs.The importance of Hot Clube in Portuguese society was officially recognized first in 1995, by the granting of the declaration of Public Utility and, more recently, when it received the Almada Negreiros Prize in 2001 and the Cultural Merit Medal in 2004, both awarded by the Ministry of Culture. It also received the Medal of Honor of the City in 2005, awarded by Lisbon City hall.Board Directors:
President – Inês Cunha
Vice-President – Bruno Santos
Secretary General – César Cardoso
Treasurer – Paula Oliveira
Vowel – Gonçalo Marques
Substitute – Luís Guilherme CunhaThe HCP’s acquis is based mainly on Luiz Villas-Boas’ collections and on the institutions’ own files and administrative archives, but also documents resulting from the artistic activity of the club. However, these two aspects are mixed because, in the first years of HCP, the non-existence of a headquarters and the fact that Villas-Boas is the main founding member determined that all files were in his possession.In “Sala Villas-Boas”, as it is called the HCP’s facilities in Alcântara, where this acquis is stored, there are also Projazz’s archives (owned by Luiz Villas-Boas and Duarte Mendonça and the producer of the first jazz festivals in Cascais) and some documents about Louisiana and Discostudio, a bar and a record store, respectively, which Luiz Villas-Boas opened in Cascais and in Lisbon.If the variety pops up, the singularity of this acquis can only be understood by analyzing its content. The photographic core, mostly in black and white and with some preservation problems, is unique not only for its intrinsic quality but also as a document concerning a specific period. There is now an additional effort with some elder associates with the purpose of tracking places, events and participants.The most significant part of the acquis is, obviously, the discs. The various disc collections that were assembled by Luiz Villas-Boas in his broadcaster and reviewer activities allowed him to compile a coherent and important collection. There are discs from all ages and of various sizes and materials. The most surprising is the V-Discs collection (Victory Discs), records specially produced to the American soldiers who were in combat during World War II.There are more interesting elements of HCP’s acquis, such as the personal correspondence between Villas-Boas and the scriptwriters of his radio programs, which often refer events and controversies of the time.
Hot Clube competed in 2009 to the Support of Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation to Projects of Recovery, Treatment and Organization of Documentary Acquis of the Education Service and Research Grants, with a project called “The memory of Jazz in Portugal: treatment and organization of Hot Clube de Portugal’s museum center, aiming its future opening to the public”. This project ended in October 2010.In 2011, the Foundation for Science and Technology awarded the INET (Institute of Ethnomusicology of the Nova University) a scholarship to study the content and the conservation of HCP’s.
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Escola de Jazz Luiz Villas-Boas-HCPTravessa da Galé 36, 1º dto.
1300-263 Lisboa
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