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Michael Lauren All Stars: Once Upon A Time In Portugal
by Mark Sullivan
Drummer/educator Michael Lauren moved from New York City in 2003 to become the Professor of Drum Set studies at the Escola Superior de Música, Artes e Espectáculo (ESMAE) in Porto, Portugal. He formed his All Star band with some of Portugal's best jazz musicians to continue performing the hard bop he loves. Almost everyone contributes a ...
Hugo Carvalhais: Grand Valis
by Neri Pollastri
Hugo Carvalhais, trentottenne contrabbassista di Oporto presenta il suo terzo disco (nel primo, Nebulosa, sempre per la Clean Feed, era presente Tim Berne) con una formazione assai particolare: al suo fianco, infatti, il tastierista Gabriel Pinto, impiegato soprattutto all'organo, e il violinista Dominique Pifarély, oltre a Jeremiah Cymerman all'elettronica. Come testimoniato già dai titoli ...
Kaja Draksler, Susana Santos Silva: This Love
by Vic Albani
Giovani avanguardiste crescono. Conosciutesi durante l'esperienza del 2008 con la European Movement Jazz Orchestra (una sorta di big band internazionalista che raccoglie da tempo alcuni fra i più interessanti talenti emergenti continentali) e poi durante le residente artistiche del “summit" Cows on Trees (ad esempio quella nota del Centro Norton De Matos di Coimbra), ...
André Fernandes: Dream Keeper
by Roger Farbey
Born in Lisbon in 1976, guitarist André Fernandes is becoming a significant international player in jazz. He studied at the Lisbon Hot Club School and later at Berklee College of Music for two years in the late nineteen nineties. He has contributed to the projects of many internationally renowned jazz musicians including Julian Arguelles, Avishai Cohen, ...
Rita Draper Frazão: A Fine Artist's Representations Of Creative Processes In Music (Part 2)
by Henning Bolte
Part 1 | Part 2 This portrait of Portuguese fine artist Rita Draper Frazão is related to the recent Carte Blanche of percussionist Hamid Drake's at Amsterdam Bimhuis (read my February 2016 review). As a collaborative follow-up this article is published together with a series of portraits Rita Draper Frazão created of musician and ...
Rita Draper Frazão: A Fine Artist's Representations Of Creative Processes In Music (Part 1)
by Henning Bolte
Part 1 | Part 2 This portrait of Portuguese fine artist Rita Draper Frazão is related to the recent Carte Blanche of percussionist Hamid Drake's that took place at the Amsterdam Bimhuis (read my February 2016 review). As a collaborative follow-up this article is published together with a series of portraits Rita Draper Frazão ...
Kaja Draksler / Susana Santos Silva: This Love
by John Sharpe
Slovenian pianist Kaja Draksler and Portuguese trumpeter Susana Santos Silva came together at Lisbon's Culturgest in March 2015 to create This Love. While it's their first duet album, they've been making music together in various groups since 2008, first in the European Movement Jazz Orchestra, an international big band of young up-coming musicians, and later in ...
Marcelo Dos Reis / Angelica V. Salvi: Concentric Rinds
by John Sharpe
Guitarist Marcelo dos Reis has become a fixture on the Lisbon experimental music scene, where he also helms the newly created Cipsela imprint. His guitar contributed an attractive wild card element to Chamber 4's eponymous release (FMR, 2015) and he has worked with Elliott Sharp, Burton Greene and Evan Parker among others. Among his many outlets ...
Luís Lopes/Jean-Luc Guionnet: Live At Culturgest
by Glenn Astarita
Experimental jazz improvisers, guitarist Luis Lopes (Portugal) and Jean-Luc Guionnet (France) align their creative wares for a largely ferocious program consisting of two lengthy tracks, captured live at a Lisbon venue. The respective artists employ surgical deconstruction mechanisms to get the job done with some wily Sci-fi like motifs that may summon an impending Armageddon or ...
Chamber 4: Chamber 4
by John Sharpe
Recorded live four days before the studio session which produced For Sale (Clean Feed, 2015), with three of the same participants, it's not surprising that Chamber 4 shares many of the same positives too. A similar blend of nationalities holds sway. French brothers Valentin and Théo Ceccaldi reaffirm their mastery of cello and violin respectively. Portuguese ...
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