Results for "Lisbon"

Article: Multiple Reviews

Insubordinations celebrates Swiss-Portuguese connections

by John Eyles
March 10, 2013

Since its inaugural release in 2006, the Swiss Insubordinations label and net label has issued over sixty albums, dedicated to improvised and/or electroacoustic music, as free-of-charge downloads and as limited editions on CD or CDr. Refreshingly, all Insubordinations releases remain fully downloadable under creative commons license. If that were not enough, Insubordinations is also ...

Article: Album Review

Sara Serpa / Ran Blake: Aurora

Read "Aurora" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni

by Eyal Hareuveni
December 19, 2012

Portuguese vocalist Sara Serp's follow-up to Camera Obscura (Inner Circle, 2010), with renowned pianist Ran Blake, retains the fresh and irreverent approach of their debut. A former student of Blake's the two never sound obvious or predictable, even when they are interpreting popular jazz standards. Their versions offer deeper and often innocent insights to some of ...

Article: Opinion

Fado em Si Bemol: Fado... With a Pinch of Jazz

by Ana Francisca Gonçalves Pereira
December 9, 2012

Jazz reinvents itself every day, in any way, like a chameleon transforms Itself to match its surroundings. It is thanks to this ability that jazz's place in the world has been firmly cemented; from a musical point of view, there seem to be no physical or spiritual boundaries to what musicians can arrange with ...

Article: Album Review

Hugo Carvalhais: Particula

Read "Particula" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni

by Eyal Hareuveni
December 9, 2012

Portuguese bassist Hugo Carvalhais creates a highly personal musical universe on this, his sophomore release. His compositions draw inspiration from the American free jazz of the sixties, the sonic experimentalism of saxophonist John Zorn and guitarist Fred Frith, and European chamber jazz, but do not surrender to any of these formative influences. Furthermore, Carvalhais chooses a ...

Article: Album Review

Jacinta: Recycle Swing

Read "Recycle Swing" reviewed by Ana Francisca Gonçalves Pereira

by Ana Francisca Gonçalves Pereira
December 1, 2012

Singer Jacinta's Recycle Swing is a tribute to Broadway's Golden Era, when cabaret music abounded and the likes of the Gershwins and Leonard Bernstein were getting increasingly popular. Indeed, Broadway had “the world on a string," and so does the jazz vocalist in this remarkable homage which includes, coincidently, the Ted Koehler/Harold Arlen masterpiece “I've Got ...

Article: Album Review

Platform 1: Takes Off

Read "Takes Off" reviewed by Glenn Astarita

by Glenn Astarita
October 10, 2012

The debut recording by Platform 1 comprises a multinational cast of progressive jazz musicians who easily knock it out of the park with blazing free-bop motifs, introspective sojourns, shuffling jazz-boogie vamps and celebratory interactions. Add the often feverish solo spots and tumultuous climaxes into the mix to round out a divergent program, culminating in a highly ...