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João Almeida

Born: January 13, 1997

João Almeida (1997) is a portuguese trumpeter, improviser and composer based in the city of Lisbon, Portugal. At the age of 8, he started his musical studies in the local philharmonic band and, later, started studying at the National Conservatory. In 2015, he joined the Luiz-Villas Boas Jazz School and the following year he was accepted into the Jazz course at the Lisbon Superior School of Music, where he studied under Gonçalo Marques and João Moreira. During his degree, he had the opportunity to work and collaborate with some of the most relevant musicians in the portuguese music scene, including Pedro Moreira, André Fernandes, Nelson Cascais, Luís Candeias, Hugo Antunes, João Mortágua, João Lopes Pereira, João Sousa, Pedro Branco, Gonçalo Marques, André Carvalho, André Santos, André Matos, André Rosinha, among others. During this period, he started collaborating with Jazz Orchestra of the Hotclub of Portugal, where he had the opportunity to share the stage with Julian Arguelles, Perico Sambeat, Guillermo Klein and John Hollenbeck. On the last year of his degree, he started taking classes with Peter Evans and started learning about Free Jazz and non-idiomatic improvisation, having collaborated with Peter Evans, Albert Cirera, Gabriel Ferrandini, Hernâni Faustino, Pedro Alves Sousa, Rodrigo Amado, Ernesto Rodrigues , Guilherme Rodrigues, Susana Santos Silva, Yaw Tembe, Ricardo Martins, Norberto Lobo, Abdul Moimême, Alvaro Rosso, Rodrigo Pinheiro, Pedro Melo Alves, João Valinho, Péter Ajtai, Mia Dyberg and Fred Lonberg-Holm. On May of 2020 he has released his first solo album, “SOLO SESSIONS *||||”, a work centered on the exploration of extended techniques and the use of objects to manipulate sound. He has played in festivals and venues such as Teatro S.Luiz, Teatro do Bairro, Capitólio, Salão Brazil, Hotclube de Portugal, Sala Porta-Jazz, Zaratan, Café Dias, Sociedade Guilherme Cossoul, Galeria Zé dos Bois, Centro Cultural de Belém, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Outfest 2019, Festa do Avante, Robalo Jazz Festival, QuebraJazz, ACUD Theater, Madame Claude, LOOPHOLE and has toured extensively through Europe.

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Label: Holuzam
Released: 2023
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We Sick, Soojung Lee, Jane Ira Bloom & Novembre

by Maurice Hogue
April 3, 2023

The release of We Sick is not until the end of April, but definitely watch for this fiery work of improvisation and passion. Not long after George Floyd's murder, pianist deVon Russell Gray, saxophonist Nathan Hanson & drummer Davu Seru recorded We Sick in an abandoned church across from the Minnesota state capitol which was surrounded ...

inter.independence

Label: Phonogram Unit
Released: 2022
Track listing: Glitch; Low; Glue; Loss; Glow; Last.

Hyper.object: inter.independence

by Mark Corroto
June 5, 2022

The premise defined for this recording session was clear; each member of the quintet was “to develop their ideas individually and to not immediately react or engage in direct dialog with the other musicians from the group." Did they succeed? Absolutely not, and that is what ultimately makes inter.independence a success as a free improvised recording. ...

André Carvalho: Lost In Translation

by Jerome Wilson
February 12, 2022

Bassist Andre Carvalho conceived this album around the concept of “untranslatable words"—words for concepts that have no equivalent outside of their native language. He has used this idea to create a cycle of amorphous composition, realized here by a trio of bass, guitar and saxophone with the occasional addition of trumpet. The words come from languages ...

Lost In Translation

By André Carvalho

Label: Outside in Music
Released: 2021
Track listing: Luftmensch; Kilig; Uitwaaien; Goya; Alcheringa; Kalpa; Karelu; Murr-Ma; Mangata; Boketto; Resfeber; Wabi-Sabi.

The Latest From Clean Feed Records

by Mark Corroto
July 28, 2021

2021 marks the twentieth year of Lisbon's Clean Feed Records. Listeners went from thinking ”who knew there was jazz in Portugal?" to acknowledging the label as the flag bearer of jazz' vanguard. Besides releasing music by Evan Parker, Mats Gustafsson, Steve Lehman, Julius Hemphill, Charles Gayle, Anthony Braxton, Elliott Sharp, Eric Revis, Harris Eisenstadt, and Kris ...

Solo Sessions *||||

By João Almeida

Label: JAR001
Released: 2020
Track listing: Awkward; Alternate; Membrane; Points; Stuck; Train; Steps; Wobble.

João Almeida: Solo Sessions *||||

by Mark Corroto
November 7, 2020

Listening to Solo Sessions *|||| by Portuguese trumpeter João Almeida, reminds one of a passage in Jack Kerouac's seminal novel On The Road, “The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who ...