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Jose Dias

Based in Manchester, UK, and part of the emerging new generation in Portuguese contemporary improvised music, Dias has performed and recorded with numerous artists. As composer, he has scored music for theatre, contemporary dance and animation film. His music is strongly inspired by the visual arts and literature. His projects deviate from the traditional language of jazz, and explore the dialogue between various contemporary sound universes, where experimentation is assumed as a central element. José Dias's discography as leader include “Jose Dias Quartet - 360” (Sintoma Records, 2013) “Magenta” (Sintoma Records, 2013), “What Could Have Been: The Seven Deadly Sins”(9Sintoma Records, 2016), “After Silence, Vol 1” (Clean Feed, 2019), and “Jose Dias & Awareness - Live at SMUP” (Escanifobetico Records, 2019).

José Dias is also Senior Lecturer in Music at Manchester Metropolitan University. As academic researcher he has developed research on European jazz networks, which resulted in his book “Jazz in Europe: Networking and Negotiating Identity” (Bloomsbury, 2019). In 2019, he released his documentary on Portuguese jazz, “Those Who Make It Happen”.

www.josediasmusic.com

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Jose Dias & Awareness: Live at SMUP

Read "Live at SMUP" reviewed by Don Phipps


On Live at SMUP, guitarist and composer Jose Dias and his Awareness Quartet have produced a stunning musical landscape centered on Dias' interpretation of literary characters, books and writers. Recorded in 2017 at SMUP, a music venue located in Parede, Portugal, Dias, Francisco Andrade on tenor sax, Goncalo Prazeres on alto and baritone sax and Rui Pereira on drums offer explorations that are explosive and nuanced. “John Willoughby's Dilemma," the longest cut of the album, begins with a ...

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Jose Dias: After Silence, Vol. 1

Read "After Silence, Vol. 1" reviewed by Don Phipps


To take a single instrument--in this case, the guitar--and compose an album's worth of material that will both entertain and fascinate, is a tall order. But Jose Dias has done just that. Dias' album After Silence, Vol. 1 sports a cover showing a deep-sea diver emerging from a body of water, surrounded by sea gulls and ducks, a cover that captures perfectly the deep dive into sonics and feeling of emergence that comes from listening. Dias doesn't overwhelm ...

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Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson

After Silence, Vol. 1

Clean Feed Records
2019

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Live at SMUP

Escanifobetico Records
2019

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What Could Have Been

Sintoma Records
2016

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Magenta

Sintoma Records
2013

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360

Sintoma Records
2013

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