Jazz Articles about Francisco Pais

About Francisco Pais

Album Review

Francisco Pais' Lotus Project: Verde

by Dan Bilawsky
August 12, 2016

Despite this album's title, it's not a monochromatic musical affair. In fact, it's one of the most kaleidoscopic offerings to touchdown in 2016. Guitarist Francisco Pais pulls together a collection of New York's finest young-ish guns to breathe life into his variegated works--pieces that alternately touch on everything from indie rock to modern jazz, country to tempered fusion, and American blues ideals to the sounds of drum 'n' bass. You simply never know what you're going to ...

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Francisco Pais Quintet: School Of Enlightenment

Read "School Of Enlightenment" reviewed by Phil DiPietro

by Phil DiPietro
May 10, 2008

31 year-old guitarist Francisco Pais is a lyrically-minded jazzer hailing from Portugal, now living in Boston, possessing a refreshing approach and sound. He follows up his outstanding 2006 debut with a release that further codifies and focuses his concept, preferring color to line, distillate to volume, and restraint to abandon, yet pulsating with a sumptuous passion all its own. Like the tasteful trickle of new small-group recordings emanating from the Lisbon scene, the sound is not overtly Latin yet figuratively ...

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Francisco Pais Quintet: Not Afraid of Color

by AAJ Italy Staff
September 28, 2006

Illude il primo brano di Not Afraid of Color. Un inizio lento, ricco di atmosfera, la cadenza di un blues che monta piano piano, un frullio sui metalli della batteria a creare una sorta di vuoto pneumatico, poi il ritmo deflagra, il Fender Rhodes ci riporta agli Anni Settanta, il sax tenore lancia lingue di fuoco e il cerchio si chiude. Un inizio con i fiocchi, la memoria storica della musica afroamericana rinfrescata con giovanile entusiasmo, ma... Not Afraid of ...