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João Almeida
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João Almeida (1997) is a portuguese trumpeter, improviser and composer based in the city of Lisbon, Portugal. At the age of 8, he started his musical studies in the local philharmonic band and, later, started studying at the National Conservatory. In 2015, he joined the Luiz-Villas Boas Jazz School and the following year he was accepted into the Jazz course at the Lisbon Superior School of Music, where he studied under Gonçalo Marques and João Moreira. During his degree, he had the opportunity to work and collaborate with some of the most relevant musicians in the portuguese music scene, including Pedro Moreira, André Fernandes, Nelson Cascais, Luís Candeias, Hugo Antunes, João Mortágua, João Lopes Pereira, João Sousa, Pedro Branco, Gonçalo Marques, André Carvalho, André Santos, André Matos, André Rosinha, among others. During this period, he started collaborating with Jazz Orchestra of the Hotclub of Portugal, where he had the opportunity to share the stage with Julian Arguelles, Perico Sambeat, Guillermo Klein and John Hollenbeck. On the last year of his degree, he started taking classes with Peter Evans and started learning about Free Jazz and non-idiomatic improvisation, having collaborated with Peter Evans, Albert Cirera, Gabriel Ferrandini, Hernâni Faustino, Pedro Alves Sousa, Rodrigo Amado, Ernesto Rodrigues , Guilherme Rodrigues, Susana Santos Silva, Yaw Tembe, Ricardo Martins, Norberto Lobo, Abdul Moimême, Alvaro Rosso, Rodrigo Pinheiro, Pedro Melo Alves, João Valinho, Péter Ajtai, Mia Dyberg and Fred Lonberg-Holm. On May of 2020 he has released his first solo album, “SOLO SESSIONS *||||”, a work centered on the exploration of extended techniques and the use of objects to manipulate sound. He has played in festivals and venues such as Teatro S.Luiz, Teatro do Bairro, Capitólio, Salão Brazil, Hotclube de Portugal, Sala Porta-Jazz, Zaratan, Café Dias, Sociedade Guilherme Cossoul, Galeria Zé dos Bois, Centro Cultural de Belém, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Outfest 2019, Festa do Avante, Robalo Jazz Festival, QuebraJazz, ACUD Theater, Madame Claude, LOOPHOLE and has toured extensively through Europe.
Pedro Melo Alves: Conundrum Vol. 1 - Itself Through Disappearance
by Mark Corroto
Great rock drummers are often ignored. One never pays attention to them during a performance because they are excellent, like Rolling Stones stalwart {Charlie Watts. If, however, they are not up to scratch, one definitely will notice. The same and more so can be said for jazz and improvising drummers. Talent, imagination and creativity are at ...
We Sick, Soojung Lee, Jane Ira Bloom & Novembre
by Maurice Hogue
The release of We Sick is not until the end of April, but definitely watch for this fiery work of improvisation and passion. Not long after George Floyd's murder, pianist deVon Russell Gray, saxophonist Nathan Hanson & drummer Davu Seru recorded We Sick in an abandoned church across from the Minnesota state capitol which was surrounded ...
inter.independence
Label: Phonogram Unit
Released: 2022
Track listing: Glitch; Low; Glue; Loss; Glow; Last.
Hyper.object: inter.independence
by Mark Corroto
The premise defined for this recording session was clear; each member of the quintet was “to develop their ideas individually and to not immediately react or engage in direct dialog with the other musicians from the group." Did they succeed? Absolutely not, and that is what ultimately makes inter.independence a success as a free improvised recording. ...
André Carvalho: Lost In Translation
by Jerome Wilson
Bassist Andre Carvalho conceived this album around the concept of “untranslatable words"—words for concepts that have no equivalent outside of their native language. He has used this idea to create a cycle of amorphous composition, realized here by a trio of bass, guitar and saxophone with the occasional addition of trumpet. The words come from languages ...
Lost In Translation
Label: Outside in Music
Released: 2021
Track listing: Luftmensch; Kilig; Uitwaaien; Goya; Alcheringa; Kalpa; Karelu; Murr-Ma; Mangata; Boketto;
Resfeber; Wabi-Sabi.
The Latest From Clean Feed Records
by Mark Corroto
2021 marks the twentieth year of Lisbon's Clean Feed Records. Listeners went from thinking ”who knew there was jazz in Portugal?" to acknowledging the label as the flag bearer of jazz' vanguard. Besides releasing music by Evan Parker, Mats Gustafsson, Steve Lehman, Julius Hemphill, Charles Gayle, Anthony Braxton, Elliott Sharp, Eric Revis, Harris Eisenstadt, and Kris ...
Solo Sessions *||||
By João Almeida
Label: JAR001
Released: 2020
Track listing: Awkward;
Alternate;
Membrane;
Points;
Stuck;
Train;
Steps;
Wobble.
