Jazz Articles about pLoo

Those from the Norte: pLoo at Café Casa da Música

by Arian Bagheri Pour Fallah
April 17, 2019

Jazz and its many conformations rarely denote the multiplicity of sub-genres as such. Paulo Alexandre Pereira da Costa's pLoo attests this sharply enough to warrant its listeners a view entire and aggregate, and in the same extent, select and irregular, of jazz and its current praxis in Northern Portugal. The quintet, made up of wind and string players led by Costa on drums, is capable of derailing tableaus so obscurely, as in “Bêbado das onze" and “Pong," that tracing them ...