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João Almeida
During this period, he started collaborating with Jazz Orchestra of the Hotclub of Portugal, where he had the opportunity to share the stage with Julian Arguelles, Perico Sambeat, Guillermo Klein and John Hollenbeck.
On the last year of his degree, he started taking classes with Peter Evans and started learning about Free Jazz and non-idiomatic improvisation, having collaborated with Peter Evans, Albert Cirera, Gabriel Ferrandini, Hernâni Faustino, Pedro Alves Sousa, Rodrigo Amado, Ernesto Rodrigues , Guilherme Rodrigues, Susana Santos Silva, Yaw Tembe, Ricardo Martins, Norberto Lobo, Abdul Moimême, Alvaro Rosso, Rodrigo Pinheiro, Pedro Melo Alves, João Valinho, Péter Ajtai, Mia Dyberg and Fred Lonberg-Holm.
On May of 2020 he has released his first solo album, “SOLO SESSIONS *||||”, a work centered on the exploration of extended techniques and the use of objects to manipulate sound.
He has played in festivals and venues such as Teatro S.Luiz, Teatro do Bairro, Capitólio, Salão Brazil, Hotclube de Portugal, Sala Porta-Jazz, Zaratan, Café Dias, Sociedade Guilherme Cossoul, Galeria Zé dos Bois, Centro Cultural de Belém, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Outfest 2019, Festa do Avante, Robalo Jazz Festival, QuebraJazz, ACUD Theater, Madame Claude, LOOPHOLE and has toured extensively through Europe.
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Hyper.object: inter.independence
by Mark Corroto
The premise defined for this recording session was clear; each member of the quintet was “to develop their ideas individually and to not immediately react or engage in direct dialog with the other musicians from the group." Did they succeed? Absolutely not, and that is what ultimately makes inter.independence a success as a free improvised recording. Hyper.object comprised bassist Hernâni Faustino and pianist Rodrigo Pinheiro from the acclaimed Red Trio plus the electronics of Carlos Santos, trumpeter João Almeida, and ...
Continue ReadingAndré Carvalho: Lost In Translation
by Jerome Wilson
Bassist Andre Carvalho conceived this album around the concept of “untranslatable words"—words for concepts that have no equivalent outside of their native language. He has used this idea to create a cycle of amorphous composition, realized here by a trio of bass, guitar and saxophone with the occasional addition of trumpet. The words come from languages such as Dutch, Urdu, Japanese and Sanskrit and can describe states of mind, grand philosophical concepts or something as mundane as a mark left ...
Continue ReadingJoão Almeida: Solo Sessions *||||
by Mark Corroto
Listening to Solo Sessions *|||| by Portuguese trumpeter João Almeida, reminds one of a passage in Jack Kerouac's seminal novel On The Road, “The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in ...
Continue ReadingMaciej Lewenstein on "SOLO SESSIONS *||||" "For me "Solo Sessions" are a revelation. Of course, Joao Almeida's art is deeply rooted in the "tradition" and achievements of the avantgarde trumpet of the last 50 years: from Wadata Leo Smith and Joe McPhee to Nate Wooley, or, obviously, the unquestionable and my beloved Giants from Portugal: Susana Santos Silva and Luís Vicente. Still, there is sufficient originality in João's approach that I foresee a very bright future for him and his artistic ideas."
