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TGB: Room4
by Alberto Bazzurro
Un trio con tuba, chitarra e batteria è cosa tutt'altro che usuale. Tale anti-regola, se così la possiamo definire, ci giunge da tre giovanotti portoghesi, in realtà insieme ormai da vent'anni (questo, inciso nel gennaio 2022 e forte di nove brani tutti originali, è il loro quarto album, sempre su Clean Feed), capaci di regalarci un album pieno, ricco, scoppiettante, vitalissimo sul piano ritmico (ma non senza ripiegamenti verso aree più terse e pensose, come accade per esempio in “Dança ...
Continue ReadingJulio Resende: Sons of Revolution
by Pedro Keul
When he was a child, Júlio Resende ruined many of his father's vinyl records, as children at play may unintentionally do. But in due course he became one of the most accomplished pianists of his generation. The proof is his album Filhos da Revolução (Sons of Revolution), on which Resende went back to his father's roots to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the 1974 Portugese revolution--what became known as the Carnation Revolution--which overthrew country's right wing, authoritarian, colonialist dictatorship.
Continue ReadingBernardo Sassetti Trio: Culturgest 2007
by Mark Corroto
Many listeners were introduced to the pianist Bernardo Sassetti by the record label Clean Feed, which built its early reputation on his recordings. The releases Nocturno (2004), Indigo (2004), Ascent (2005), Unreal: Sidewalk Cartoon (2006), and Motion (2010) are true evergreens. His untimely accidental death in 2012 (like that of Esbjörn Svensson in 2008) was a shock to Sassetti's many supporters. A decade on, a 2007 concert performance by Sassetti and his longtime trio of bassist Carlos Barretto ...
Continue ReadingMário Franco: Rush
by Chris Mosey
Portuguese bassist, composer and dancer Mario Franco, describes Rush as “a rock-inspired jazz album." It came, he says, from “an inner need of electric sounds." Franco, born 1965, started out playing classical music before switching to jazz. He is a dancer with the National Ballet Company of Portugal. His latest album is about how humanity wastes time while kidding itself that it uses it. “We are forever doing and forget just being," he says, ...
Continue ReadingBernardo Sassetti Trio2: Ascent
by AAJ Italy Staff
Davvero niente male questo Trio2 (ovvero un doppio trio) del pianista portoghese Bernardo Sassetti. Un pianista che ha il suo baricentro estetico saldamente ancorato in Europa. L'Europa di Federico Mompou, dei canti popolari iberici (sia spagnoli che portoghesi), ma anche l'Europa del jazz nordico di marca ECM. Senza le algide distanze di un musicista come Bobo Stensson, ma con la stessa lucidità, la stessa consequenzialità, la stessa semplicità melodica nella risoluzione di armonie ardite e/o di ritmiche instabili. In perfetta ...
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