Results for "Luis Vicente"

Luis Vicente

Pliable

Label: FMR Records
Released: 2021
Track listing: Supple; Malleable; The Whippy; Elastic; Ductile; Pliant.

The Pandemic Sessions: Solos, Pt. 1

by Mark Corroto
May 1, 2021

Part 1 | Part 2 The entire world was in lockdown during the COVID-19 crisis and of course, that includes musicians. Unable to tour and record with their various ensembles, many prepared solo projects (some recorded before the virus struck) for your listening pleasure. Most of the music is very personal, as if the ...

RED Trio & Celebration Band: Suite 10 Years Anniversary

by John Sharpe
April 6, 2021

Since its inception in 2008 the RED Trio has been one of Portugal's foremost improvising ensembles. Pianist Rodrigo Pinheiro, bassist Hernani Faustino and drummer Gabriel Ferrandini stand upon the shoulders of the egalitarian trio legacy of pianists Bill Evans, Paul Bley and Howard Riley; no-one leads, no-one follows, but, paradoxically, all three move as one. To ...

In Layers: Pliable

by John Sharpe
March 26, 2021

Working on-the-fly, improv outfit In Layers collectively orders timbral maneuvers into captivating momentum on Pliable, its second outing following the eponymous debut (FMR, 2016). The cast remains unchanged, the Portuguese pair of guitarist Marcelo Dos Reis and trumpeter Luis Vicente, being supplemented by Dutch drummer Onno Govaert and Amsterdam-based Icelandic pianist Kristjan Martinsson. Dos ...

Luís Vicente / John Dikeman / William Parker / Hamid Drake: Goes Without Saying, But It's Got To Be Said

by Mark Corroto
February 6, 2021

It has been more than half a century since the oracles Albert Ayler and John Coltrane proclaimed their message of freedom to the people of earth. Please excuse the grandiosity of the above statement, but after those two giants passed, a shift in consciousness began to take hold. In the biography of William Parker Universal Tonality: ...

Unnavigable Tributaries

Label: Multikulti Project
Released: 2020
Track listing: Côa; Tua; Sabor; Corgo; Tavora; Paiva.

Goes Without Saying, But It's Got To Be Said

Label: JACC Records
Released: 2020
Track listing: 1st Sentence; 2nd Sentence; 3rd Sentence.

Maré

Label: Cipsela Records
Released: 2020
Track listing: Lage Fria; Rampa; Quebra Mar.

Luís Vicente: Maré

by Mark Corroto
October 12, 2020

We have no idea whether Portuguese trumpeter Luís Vicente is Catholic. Nor if he knew before performing at the Monastery of Santa Clara-a-Nova that he would be in harmony with the building's monastic religious order, the Poor Clares. His music performed at the Anozero-Bienal de Arte Contemporânea de Coimbra, however, is as stark and austere as ...