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Orquestra Jazz de Matosinhos: Boreal

by Dan Bilawsky
July 7, 2025

Portugal's Orquestra Jazz de Matosinhos and Spanish saxophonist Perico Sambeat are no strangers. The two first collaborated on a concert back in 2007. Then they joined forces in 2021 to explore Ornette Coleman's work. Now, continuing to develop their relationship, they bring Iberian ideals and modernity to the fore on Boreal. Sambeat is ...

Michael Bisio, Erik Fratzke, Lisa Ullen & Barber Mouse

by Maurice Hogue
March 30, 2022

This episode is packed with music from some terrific new releases you should check out— St. Paul guitarist/bassist Erik Fratzke's Fake Accent, Gordon Grdina's Arabic-flavoured Haram, Mostly Other People Do The Killing, bassist Michael Bisio's excellent Mbefore , and European trios led by Sweden's Lisa Ullén, Germany's Felix Hauptmann, and Italy's Barber Mouse with a novel ...

Luke Stewart Silt Trio, Nublu Orchestra & Brodie West Quintet

by Maurice Hogue
March 2, 2022

Bassist Luke Stewart is a prominent name in improvised sessions these days. His own Silt Trio has a very interesting new release, The Bottom, and it's the highlight album on this edition of One Man's Jazz. Also very interesting is Toronto alto player Brodie West's new Meadow Of Dreams; it's coming out the new Toronto label, ...

Javier Subatin: Mountains

by Troy Dostert
November 12, 2021

Guitarist Javier Subatin may have gotten his start in his native Argentina, but he's been in Europe since 2014, when he began working in Paris. An eventual relocation to Portugal put him in contact with some of that country's most adventurous improvisers. His debut release, Autotelic, was a duo record with Jo?o Paulo Esteves da Silva, ...

TRANCE

By Javier Subatin

Label: ears&eyes Records
Released: 2020
Track listing: Trance#1 (9:52) Trance#8 (5:02) Trance#2 (8:31) Solo#2 (10:44) Trance#5 (4:40) C Jam Blues (8:14) Trance#4 (8:09)

Festa do Jazz 2020

by Henning Bolte
October 11, 2020

Centro Cultural Belem Festa do Jazz 2020 Lisbon September 12-13, 2020 Festa do Jazz, celebration of jazz, is the annual meeting of the Portuguese jazz community. It is normally held end of March/begin of April. For many years it took place in old glory theatre S?o Luis Municipal in the Baixa-Chiado ...

Variaciones

By Javier Subatin

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2019
Track listing: Solo#3; Prelude; Variaciones#1; Variaciones#2; Variaciones#3; Variaciones#4; Postlude.

European Jazz Conference Lisbon 2018: Portuguese showcases

by Henning Bolte
October 12, 2018

Centro Cultural de Bel��m (CCB); Livraria Ler Devagar European Jazz Conference Lisbon 2018 Lisbon, Portugal September 13-15, 2018 European Jazz Conference Lisbon 2018: Portuguese showcases This year's annual European Jazz Conference, a convention organized by the European Jazz Network, took place at Centro Cultural de Bel��m (CCB) in the Portuguese capital ...