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MoFrancesco Quintetto

Kucheza

By MoFrancesco Quintetto

Label: Sintoma Records
Released: 2017
Track listing: Kucheza (Intro); MoGnawa; Aljezur; Spartacus; Afro Bit; Ali Baba; Sesimbra; Peperoncino; Taqsim; Lamma Bada; Seikilos Revisited; Kucheza (Outro).

MoFrancesco Quintetto: Kucheza

by Chris Mosey
January 12, 2017

This album features a new, jazz version of the oldest song in the world. “The Seikilos Epitaph," probably from 200BC, was found engraved on a tombstone, or stele near the ancient Greek city of Ephesus in what is now Turkey. It was signed by someone called Seikilos and dedicated to Euterpe, most likely ...

MoFrancesco Quintetto: Kucheza

by Sacha O'Grady
January 1, 2017

Jazz has certainly come a long way since its early beginnings, whose free spirit and richness of form means that one could easily spend a whole lifetime marvelling at its infinite variety. And none more so than on Kucheza, the MoFrancesco Quintetto's sublime and engaging new album. Based in Lisbon, Portugal, European jazz doesn't get any ...

Kucheza

By MoFrancesco Quintetto

Label: Sintoma Records
Released: 2016
Track listing: Kucheza I; MoGnawa; Aljezur; Spartacus; Afro; Ali Baba; Sesimbra; Peperoncino; Taqsim; Seikilos Revisited; Kucheza II

Piedra Solar (MoFrancesco Quintetto)

By MoFrancesco Quintetto

Label: Sintoma Records
Released: 2015
Track listing: Ala’Ad-Din; Abraxas; Tres Morilla; Persian Story; Olisipo; Vuelta De Paseo; Start Flying Song; Mobocracy; Impressiones Intimas; Apareció; Miracolo A Milano; Mukambo; Ambos Mundos.

MoFrancesco Quintetto: Piedra Solar (MoFrancesco Quintetto)

by Budd Kopman
January 13, 2015

The MoFrancesco Quintetto, led by super-bassist Francesco Valente is one powerhouse group that will blow your socks off playing originals anchored in hard-bop with an Iberian twist, but who also can show a softer, more melodic side. Piedra Solar features the core group (Valente, drummer/percussionist Miguel Moreira, pianist Iuri Gaspar, Johannes Krieger on trumpet ...

Piedra Solar

By MoFrancesco Quintetto

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2014
Track listing: Ala’Ad-Din; Abraxas; Tres Morilla; Persian Story; Olisipo; Vuelta De Paseo; Start Flying Song; Mobocracy; Impressiones Intimas; Apareció; Miracolo A Milano; Mukambo; Ambos Mundos

Maloca

By MoFrancesco Quintetto

Label: Art of Life Records
Released: 2014
Track listing: Tchap Tchap Tchap; Maloca; Hamsa; An Evening At The Village; Ket Roman Tanc; Buciumeana-Romanian Folk Dances; Naira; Soul.

MoFrancesco Quintetto: Piedra Solar

by Mehdi El Mouden
December 7, 2014

Piedra Solar--the second album of the MoFrancesco Quintetto--is deeply rooted in Mediterranean and latin influences. Highly structured yet with a pint of improvisation, the songs reveal deep consideration of past influences, familiar themes, and novel straight ahead jazz. In the Quintet's words, the album pays homage to the Iberian Peninsula where Italian bass lead ...