Video: “Pro Zé Nogueira” (Vitor Gonçalves)
Recorded at St Ann and The Holy Trinity Church, Brooklyn, NY, filmed by Nicholas Rubin

The Jazz Cruise is a full-ship Cruise charter dedicated to “straight-ahead” jazz. After more than two decades of producing a jazz-only festival, The Jazz Cruise is hailed as a Jazz Heaven.

The cruise takes place from January 18 – January 25, 2024 going to Miami • Labadee • Puerto Plata • St. Thomas. Since 2001, The Jazz Cruise, has become a significant event. One hundred jazz musicians. Two hundred hours of music. It is the Field of Dreams of jazz. Currently, ’24 sailing is fully reserved but you can contact them to see if there are cancellations.

This year accordionist Vitor Goncalvez is included among the line up of jazz performers. Vitor is a pianist, accordionist, composer and arranger from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. After an illustrious career as an in demand musician in Brazil, playing with such icons as Hermeto Pascoal, Maria Bethânia, Itiberê Zwarg, and many others, he made the move in 2012 to New York City, where he currently resides.

Vitor will be performing at Lunatico on Jan 7, 2024. Lunatico is located at:
Bedford Stuyvesant, 486 Halsey Street, Brooklyn, NY.
718 513-0339

Vitor will be performing at Lunatico on Jan 7, 2024.The project is “Yahalom/Boccato/Gonçalves trio” He has performed in NPR’s Jazz Night in America, hosted by Christian McBride and The New York Times as a guest of the renowned Spok Frevo Orquestra. A frequent resident on the stages of Jazz at Lincoln Center, The Jazz Standard, and the Jazz Gallery, he both leads his own projects, and collaborates with figures in the New York scene such as Anat Cohen, Vinícius Cantuária, Anthony Wilson, Cyro Baptista, and Yotam Silberstein. He also has played in Jazz Festivals and venues around the world, such as Newport Jazz, Jazz à Vienne, Umbria Jazz Festival, Queen Elizabeth Hall in London, and the Coliseum in Lisbon, Portugal.

Vitor moved to New York to deepen his pursuit of Jazz and its connection with Brazilian music, and to explore the diverse musical melting pot that is New York City. It is here that he began leading his own group and forming new collectives, while pursuing a Masters Degree at City College. In 2017 he released his debut album on Sunnyside Records, Vitor Gonçalves Quartet, featuring Dan Weiss (drums), Thomas Morgan (bass), and Todd Neufeld (guitar). The album was reviewed with 4 and half stars at Downbeat jazz magazine.

Other groups he co-leads are “SanfoNYa Brasileira”, a trio with Eduardo Belo on bass and Vanderlei Pereira on drums, and “Regional de NY”, representative of Choro music (a rich Brazilian genre) in the USA. Both groups released an original album, the former with Steve Wilson as a guest and the latter with Fred Hersch. He received two nominations for the Grammy Awards 2020, for Best Latin Jazz album with Thalma de Freitas and for Best Large Jazz Ensemble with Anat Cohen Tentet.

Photo by Samuel Johnson

For further information:
info@ecpcruises.com.
USA & Canada: 888.852.9987