Jazz Articles about Carlos Barretto

Xose Miguélez: Contradictio

by Jane Kozhevnikova
July 1, 2022

After an album of Spanish-flavored original tunes, Ontology (Origin Records, 2019), Galicia-based saxophone Xose Miguélez releases Contradictio. Alongside Miguélez, the album features Jean-Michel Pilc on piano, Carlos Barretto on bass and Marcos Cavaleiro on drums. Both Miguélez and Pilc are listed as the album producers. The forceful energy of this great French pianist comes out in every tune. Unlike Ontology, Contradictio includes several jazz standards. “You and the Night and the Music," written by Arthur Schwartz, starts ...

Bernardo Sassetti Trio: Culturgest 2007

by Mark Corroto
June 29, 2022

Many listeners were introduced to the pianist Bernardo Sassetti by the record label Clean Feed, which built its early reputation on his recordings. The releases Nocturno (2004), Indigo (2004), Ascent (2005), Unreal: Sidewalk Cartoon (2006), and Motion (2010) are true evergreens. His untimely accidental death in 2012 (like that of Esbjörn Svensson in 2008) was a shock to Sassetti's many supporters. A decade on, a 2007 concert performance by Sassetti and his longtime trio of bassist Carlos Barretto ...

Xose Miguelez: Contradictio

by Hrayr Attarian
June 22, 2022

Galician composer and saxophonist Xose Miguelez has established himself as a mainstay of the international jazz scene. His superb second release as leader, Contradictio, showcases his talents to the full. A taut quartet session, it consists of inventive originals and clever arrangements of standards. Well- versed in bop and his own ethnic music, Miguelez excitingly fuses both traditions. The warm, tense opener “Meniña" starts with bassist Carlos Barretto's dramatic refrains. Once the ensemble launches into the main theme ...

Carlos Barretto: Labirintos

by AAJ Italy Staff
October 6, 2010

La casa discografica portoghese Clean Feed ha ormai acquisito un importante ruolo nella promozione della musica jazz d'avanguardia in Europa, affiancando alle incisioni di musicisti americani ed europeni anche numerosi titoli di musicisti lusitani. Nel caso di Labirintos si tratta del contrabbassista Carlos Barretto e del suo trio Lokomotiv. L'ultima loro incisione (con l'ospite speciale Francois Corneloup) si intitolava proprio Lokomotiv e risale al 2003. Per il nuovo lavoro hanno scelto di andare in studio soltanto come trio. Si tratta ...

Carlos Barretto Trio + Louis Sclavis: Radio Song

by AAJ Italy Staff
August 6, 2007

Trio portoghese guidato dal contrabbassista Carlos Barretto, questa formazione ospita in tre tracce le ance di Louis Sclavis e mette in mostra un jazz libero, dalle sonorità molto marcate, che si sviluppano a partire da latenti ispirazioni popolari. Il disco è peraltro molto vario, passando dalle atmosfere sclavisiane del primo brano (Barretto ha soggiornato a lungo a Parigi) a successivi momenti di tradizione jazzistica bianca (“Radio Song”), fino a passaggi di avanguardia elettrica, con eco e rumori, e a sorprendentied ...

Carlos Barretto Trio / Louis Sclavis: Radio Song

by Troy Collins
June 10, 2007

Portuguese bassist Carlos Barretto's 2002 recording Radio Song was originally released on the obscure CBTM label. Reissued by Clean Feed, this edition complements his 2004 album Lokomotiv (Clean Feed) with a session of highly charged, free-wheeling post-bop, spiced with traditional Portuguese folk melodies.

Barretto's resume is filled with stints accompanying Mal Waldron, Barry Altschul, Don Moye, Karl Berger and Steve Lacy, among others. A stalwart bassist and a magnanimous leader, he contributes selflessly to the trio, providing ample ...

Carlos Barretto Trio: Silencios

by Ben Ohmart
July 1, 2001

European jazz hits its mark with the likes of Carlos Barretto (double bass), Mario Delgado (electric guitar) and Jose Salgueiro (percussion), a trio more honored in the headphones than in the speakers. A quiet group primarily (what would you really expect when the main man is on bass?), this trio is concerned with sonic soundscapes of jazz that skirt blues and sometimes Eastern flavors between the seemingly random crashing of tracks like 'Nao sei porque.' Not in the least new ...