Jazz Articles about Marcelo Coelho

Marcelo Coelho: Colagens

by Eric Benson
May 25, 2008

There's something unsettling about Colagens, the first album from Sao Paolo-based saxophonist Marcelo Coelho's MC4+ group. On the surface, it's a simple enough affair: a quartet with guest trombonists running through a series of original tunes that have wide-open harmonies and shifting grooves. There's only one track on the album that could be described as up-tempo, and even that is hardly a sprint from start to finish. If you merely skimmed over the record, you might have the impression of ...