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Recording

Oporto Guitarist Mané Fernandes Releases "Boucelab"

Source: Associação Porta-Jazz
November 3, 2014

Mané Fernandes is a young guitarist from Oporto, Portugal, and has just recorded his debut album as a leader—BounceLab. This project came up during the final stage of Mané's degree in ESMAE (Oporto), which was granted a 20/20 in his final recital. There are two sides of his project BounceLab: one of improvised music, mainly influenced by jazz tradition, and another of groove / beat / transe / repetition which reflects both popular North Amercian music of the XX century ...

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Performance / Tour

Pianist Pedro Neves releases "Ausente"

Source: Associação Porta-Jazz
December 10, 2013

Pedro Neves, one of the most prestigious pianists in Oporto (Portugal), is releasing Ausente, the debut album as leader of his trio. It's music sums the work Pedro Neves developed side by side with Miguel Ângelo (db) and Leandro Leonet (d) along the past few years and states the maturity these three wonderful musicians have been seeking together. Pedro Neves has a wide musical background, which assigns this album with a great amount of singular choices within his jazz vocabulary. ...

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Festival

Festival Porta-Jazz Is Near!

Source: Associação Porta-Jazz
November 24, 2013

The next edition of our anual jazz festival is coming up: it's the fourth edition of Porta-Jazz Festival! Our main goal as a musician's association is to promote the original creation in contemporary jazz and this year we have many reasons to celebrate. We've had weekly concerts at our venue Sala Porta-Jazz always with a sellout, we launched three new albums under the purview of Carimbo Porta-Jazz and we've had the chance to welcome big names such as Perico Sambeat, ...

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Recording

Porta-jazz Introduces You To Carimbo!

Source: Associação Porta-Jazz
October 27, 2013

Carimbo is the independent imprint from Porta-Jazz Association, based in Oporto (Portugal). With our sixth album out we want to present you to our concept: the outcome of one record released under purview of Carimbo Porta-Jazz is an unique limited edition with special attention given to details such as sound quality, shape and graphic treatment, defying the massive distribution and stating the personal investment musicians hand over to their projects, be it during the creation process, performance or when sharing ...

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