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Insubordinations celebrates Swiss-Portuguese connections
by John Eyles
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 ...
Coreto: Aljamia
by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
Coreto is an eleven-piece jazz ensemble from the Portuguese city of Porto. Aljamia, its début release, is also among the first albums to emerge from Porta-Jazz, an association of Porto jazz musicians.Leader and alto saxophonist/flautist João Pedro Brandão is a student of the multilayered musical traditions of the Mediterranean. The region is a remarkably ...
Sara Serpa / Ran Blake: Aurora
by Eyal Hareuveni
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 ...
Fado em Si Bemol: Fado... With a Pinch of Jazz
by Ana Francisca Gonçalves Pereira
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 ...
Hugo Carvalhais: Particula
by Eyal Hareuveni
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 ...
Jacinta: Recycle Swing
by Ana Francisca Gonçalves Pereira
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 ...
Fado Em Si Bemol Release Of "QB"
A delicious cocktail of Portuguese music pained with the sounds of the world, adding the magical flavor of the Portuguese guitar. Come Taste and Enjoy! Fado em Si Bemol are back and bring with them a bag of goodies in their latest work, “qb". One record, sweet and sober, clear and sophisticated, the purest and more ...
Platform 1: Takes Off
by Glenn Astarita
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 ...
Fado Em Si Bemol Release Of “qb”
A declious cocktail of Portuguese music pained with the sounds of the world, adding the magical flavor of the Portuguese guitar. Come Taste and Enjoy! Fado em Si Bemol are back and bring with them a bag of goodies in their latest work, “qb". One record, sweet and sober, clear and sophisticated, the purest and more ...
Portugal’s Fado Em Si Bemol Return With Sizzling New Release
Portugal’s Fado em Si Bemol is among the country’s most electrifying jazz acts. Part of what makes the group so appealing to audiences is the infectious and brightly lit way they are able to unite different musical styles. On the surface, Fado em Si Bemol fuse together jazz and world music; beneath that, the band is ...
