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Francesco Valente
releasing new album "Maloca" by Art Of Life Records
About Me
Francesco Valente is italian, living in Lisbon for sixteen years. He is graduated in languages
and literatures of hispanic and lusophone country's, at Universita Statale di Milano, and in
Jazz/Double Bass at ESML, Escola Superior de Musica de Lisboa. Currently he's getting the
master degree in Ethnomusicology at Universidade Nova de Lisboa, and he is writing a tesis
about Spokfrevo, an orchestra of frevo/jazz of Recife, Pernambuco/Brazil, having the
opportunity to be guinde by Salwa El Shawan Castelo Branco and by Carlos Sandroni, both
investigators internationally acclaimed.
He studied double bass and jazz theory in Portugal with Afonso Pais, Massimo Cavalli,
Nelson Cascais, Bernardo Moreira, João Moreira, Pedro Moreira, Bruno Santos, Andre
Fernandes, Gonçalo Marques, Ricardo Pinheiro and Lars Arens. He attended Jazz workshops
with John Taylor, David Binney, Marc Miralt, Mike Mainieri, Carlos Bica, Carlos Barretto etc.
He collaborated in recording and live sessions with many international musicians (David
Murray, Mike Mainieri, Mario Tronco, Orchestra di Piazza Vittorio, Sara Tavares, Paulo
Flores, Antonio Zambujo, Aline Frazão, Ne Ladeiras, Ney Matogrosso, Chico Cesar, Tito
Paris, Pedro Joia, Cool Hipnoise, Kumpania Al-Gazarra, Groove Quartet, Andre Cabaço,
Fogo di Mar, Loopless, Ponto de Equilíbrio, Raimundo Amador, Mahesh Vinayakram, Kutla
Khan, Oori Shalev etc.). Actually he play in various projects of jazz in Lisbon and Portugal:
Tora Tora Big Band, Ricardo Pinto Quinteto, Chibanga Groove, Luis Vicente Trio, and
MoFrancesco Quintetto as a leader.
Also he play bass & double bass with Orquestra Todos, Terrakota, Aline Frazão, Anonima
Nuvolari etc.
He played and still palas in numerous international festival of World Music, Jazz and Pop.
Discography:
1.”Terrakota”, 2001
2. “Terrakota”, Terrakota, Zona Musica, 2002
3. “Da Minha Voz”, Ne Ladeiras, Zona Musica, 2002
4. “Húmus Sapiens”, Terrakota, Zona Musica, 2004
5. “Tora Tora”, Tora Tora Big Band, MusicMob, 2006
6. “Oba Train”, Terrakota, Felmay, 2007
7. “Tora Tora Cult”, Tora Tora Big Band, MusicMob, 2007
8. “Vi-os Desaparecer Na Noite”, T.Gomes & Tó Trips, Optimus Discos, 2009
9. “Um Tarde K Pa’Lis”, Fogo di Mar, 2010
“World Massala”, Terrakota, Ojo Música, Karonte, 2010
Luiz Gabriel Lopes, “Passando Portas”, 2010
12.“Sintra Project”, Ricardo Pinto Quinteto, FEWG, 2012
13.“Re-cooked Sessions”, Terrakota, Optimus Discos, 2012
14.“Salteado”, Tora Tora Big Band, JACC Records, 2012
15.“Intendente”, Orquestra Todos, Academia Produtores Culturais, Pontozurca, 2012
16. “Outeiro”, Luis Vicente Trio, JACC Records, 2012
17. “Movimento”, Aline Frazão, Ponto Zurca, 2013
18. “Caminhar”, João Pires, 2013
19. “Gazzi”, Guto Lucena, 2013
20. Maloca, MoFrancesco Quintetto, 2013
Links:
www.francescovalente.net
https://mofrancescoquintetto.bandpage.com/
http://www.myspace.com/mofrancesco