Results for "Daniel Bernardes"

Daniel Bernardes

Mazam: Pilgrimage

by Mark Corroto
September 9, 2022

The format of Pilgrimage by the Portuguese quartet Mazam gives listeners the option of skipping any track they do not enjoy. The ensemble gives us fifteen shortish pieces (only three longer than five minutes) to sample, digest, and savor. This is the quartet's second release following Land (Carimbo Porta-Jazz, 2020). The musicians come together with experience ...

Daniel Bernardes & Drumming GP: Liturgy of the Birds – in memoriam Olivier Messiaen

by Alberto Bazzurro
July 29, 2020

In questo singolare album, inciso nel febbraio 2018, il trentaquattrenne pianista portoghese Daniel Bernardes riunisce il proprio trio col quartetto di percussionisti (in verità anche parecchio melodici, visto l'ampio uso di vibrafoni e marimba) Drumming GP, a generare un incontro appunto decisamente particolare, visto che a tratti il trio agisce in quanto tale, battendo itinerari anche ...

New music from Wojtek Mazolewski

by Bob Osborne
February 13, 2020

On this show the featured release is the latest album by Wojtek Mazolewski Following the rhapsodic response to his debut Whirlwind release--a deluxe edition of Polka which, internationally, broke through into dance clubs and rock and indie festivals--the double bassist now focuses attention on the music of his compatriot Krzysztof Komeda (1931--1969), a legend ...

Jim Black, Mario Santos, William Parker, Dave Sewelson and More

by Maurice Hogue
February 5, 2020

Is it too early to choose a “best-of" for 2020. I know it's only January, but drummer Jim Black has released an absolute killer of an album with pianist Elias Stemeseder and bassist Thomas Morgan that is an outstanding piece of work. Reckon came out on the Intakt label from Switzerland in January, so be on ...

Tower Jazz Composers Orch. & Daniel Bernardes

by Maurice Hogue
January 8, 2020

Improvisation is the core of clarinetist Ben Goldberg's Good Day For Cloud Fishing, and not just the music. His fascination with poet Dean Young's work led to the creation of this album where the trio of Goldberg, Nels Cline and Ron Miles improvised upon a musical sketch that Goldberg wrote based upon one of Young's poems. ...