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Joao Barradas: A New Place For The Accordion In Jazz?
by Chris Mosey
In the 1940s Art van Damme swung sweetly on the accordion with cover pictures of beautiful girls sipping cocktails. Then, in the 1950s, the ebullient Angelo DiPippo introduced the instrument to hipsters at the Newport jazz festival before going on to play in the wedding sequence of the first Godfather movie.
Directions
Label: Inner Circle Music
Released: 2017
Track listing: Expressive Idea; Letter To Mother’s Immersion; Varazdin’s Landscape; Unknown
Identity; Amalgamat; Amalgamat (Outro); Tiling The Plane; The Red Badge Of
Courage; Manners Of Normality; Homeric Hymn; Ignorance.
João Barradas: Directions
by Bruce Lindsay
Since childhood, Portuguese accordionist João Barradas has been winning awards on his instrument at national and international level. His undoubted talent on his chosen instrument--and its midi version--is on display throughout Directions, his first album as leader. So, too, is his talent as a composer--all but one of the tracks are his original compositions.
