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Mário Franco: Rush

by Chris Mosey
December 30, 2017

Portuguese bassist, composer and dancer Mario Franco, describes Rush as “a rock-inspired jazz album." It came, he says, from “an inner need of electric sounds." Franco, born 1965, started out playing classical music before switching to jazz. He is a dancer with the National Ballet Company of Portugal. His latest album is about how humanity wastes time while kidding itself that it uses it. “We are forever doing and forget just being," he says, ...