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Celebration Of Clean Feed Records, Part 2

by Maurice Hogue
August 17, 2026

Yes, a Part 2! I had pulled out so much music from the Clean Feed Records catalog that I was left with a raft of music, as deserving to be heard as much as the Clean Feed releases played in the previous tribute episode, so it was an easy choice to just keep it rolling this week. Many thanks again to the folks in Lisbon who had a dream and made it happen. The closing track is an excerpt from ...

Album Review

Carlos Bica: 11:11

by Mark Corroto
October 22, 2024

For Carlos Bica, ugly was never an option for his quartet release 11:11. Much like American guitarist Bill Frisell does in his music, the Portuguese bassist and composer draws on his experience with his country's folk heritage. For Bica, that tradition is contained in the song genre fado. The music is often about fate or longing, in other words, the blues. Like the blues, this music is not just about sadness, but the beauty of the human condition.

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Carlos Bica, Sulida, Gayle / Parker / Graves & Giovanni Guidi

by Maurice Hogue
August 19, 2024

This episode that tilts heavily to the “freer" side was enjoyable to put together. Highlights are provided by new albums from the new Norwegian trio, Sulida, England's Paul Dunmall & Laura Jurd (saxophone and trumpet), Italy's fine pianist Giovanni Guidi's trio with guest James Brandon Lewis, an excerpt of a live recording by Yoni Kretzmer & Juan Pablo Carletti's Biggish, some St. Louis-based musicians featuring the poetry of K. Curtis Lyle and master drummer Bob Moses, the never-released-before Webo by ...

Album Review

Carlos Bica: 11:11

Read "11:11" reviewed by Alberto Bazzurro

by Alberto Bazzurro
August 14, 2024

Ottimo quartetto, felicemente amalgamato e coeso, lungo trame che, stante il particolare assetto strumentale, si sdipanano lungo traiettorie tutt'altro che usuali, quello diretto dal contrabbassista Carlos Bica, sessantaseienne di Lisbona, in questo suo nuovo lavoro (dovrebbe trattarsi del dodicesimo a suo nome in poco meno di trent'anni), inciso a Oporto nel marzo di questo stesso 2024. Dodici i brani totali, per larga parte a firma dello stesso Bica, ma, per esempio, con un'autentica chicca come “A Noite," in cui la ...

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Carlos Bica, Coltrane/Dolphy & James Brandon Lewis

by Maurice Hogue
August 28, 2023

This show is highlighted by Portuguese bassist Carlos Bica's latest release on Clean Feed--Playing With Beethoven. Bica creates some very unexpected music. No one expected to hear em>Evenings At The Village Gate: John Coltrane With Eric Dolphy; the original recording sat undiscovered for many years. But it's now available and there's a great deal of buzz about the album. There are other fine saxophonist featured: James Brandon Lewis and a preview track from his latest with his Red Lily Quintet, ...

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Favourite Releases of 2019

by Maurice Hogue
January 22, 2020

This episode features some of my favourite recordings released in 2019, chosen from a year of some pretty damn fine music. It always seems that I tend toward bassist-led sessions, and that's the case again, with great recordings from Carlos Bica, Torbjorn Zetterberg and the Miles Perkin Quartet for starters. As well, more women artists appear on my list each year, including Kris Davis' popular Diatom Ribbons . New releases sampled this week come from Gord Grdina's Nomad Trio, Poland's ...

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Quantum Trio, Baba Andrew Lamb & More

by Maurice Hogue
May 8, 2019

My music GPS keeps pointing to bassist Carlos Bica for riveting music. His new release I Am the Escaped One finds him heading in a different direction than the usual guitar trio. This time he's working with German saxophonist Daniel Erdmann and turntablist DJ Illvibe. The result is captivating. Bica is now living in Germany but he's originally from Portugal. Another fine bassist from that country but living in Rotterdam—Gonçalo Almeida—figures prominently in two trio releases on the Clean Feed ...