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Sunday Jam Session: ISAIAS ALVES’s Sunday Jam

Music · Sunday, January 24 · 20:30 · Paris

Le Baiser Salé, 58 Rue des Lombards

Free

The drums resound like voices from elsewhere, powerful, deep, and ancestral. They call, gather, and open a space of freedom where anything can happen. This is where Tambours Ancestraux – Jazz du Maranhão et du Brésil, an explosive jam led by Isaías Alves, begins. A child of São Luís in the northeast of Brazil, Isaías is a percussionist and composer nourished by the traditional popular rhythms of Maranhão. He grew up to the pace of street drums, processions, and festivities, before his sounds traveled to Europe. With him, tradition meets improvisation, j…