Jazz Articles about João Barradas

About João Barradas

Album Review

Florian Arbenz: Convergence: Moon

by Neil Duggan
November 4, 2025

For over 30 years drummer Florian Arbenz has taken his drumming style into new genres. His Conversation series produced 12 albums with 12 different ensembles and as part of the VEIN trio, he recorded eight albums, collaborating with Dave Liebman, Marc Johnson and Andy Sheppard. Classically trained, he has also worked as a percussionist in numerous concerts and festivals. Florian Arbenz: Convergence is a series of cross-continental collaborations, Moon being the second album in the series. He initially ...

Album Review

Aka Moon: Quality of Joy

Read "Quality of Joy" reviewed by Mario Calvitti

by Mario Calvitti
April 3, 2023

Superato anche il traguardo dei 30 anni di attività, il trio belga degli Aka Moon ritorna con un nuovo progetto discografico, che rappresenta una summa del lavoro svolto finora, ma anche un nuovo punto di partenza verso altri orizzonti musicali. Come già accaduto in passato, al trio di base, costituito dal sassofonista Fabrizio Cassol, dal bassista Michel Hatzigeorgiou e dal batterista Stéphane Galland e rimasto invariato in tutti questi anni, si aggiunge un fitto stuolo di musicisti ospiti ...

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Joao Barradas: A New Place For The Accordion In Jazz?

by Chris Mosey
February 2, 2018

In the 1940s Art van Damme swung sweetly on the accordion with cover pictures of beautiful girls sipping cocktails. Then, in the 1950s, the ebullient Angelo DiPippo introduced the instrument to hipsters at the Newport jazz festival before going on to play in the wedding sequence of the first Godfather movie. In more recent times Frenchman Richard Galliano gave the accordion serious jazz credentials. But, condemned by the quintessentially folksy sound less gifted practitioners ...

Album Review

João Barradas: Directions

Read "Directions" reviewed by Bruce Lindsay

by Bruce Lindsay
September 15, 2017

Since childhood, Portuguese accordionist João Barradas has been winning awards on his instrument at national and international level. His undoubted talent on his chosen instrument--and its midi version--is on display throughout Directions, his first album as leader. So, too, is his talent as a composer--all but one of the tracks are his original compositions. Barradas is accompanied by his excellent Portuguese quartet across these tunes and is joined by guests Greg Osby (who also produced), Gil Goldstein and ...