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The fifth album by Carlos Bica's Azul, the double bassist and composer's trio with the colourful guitarist Frank Mobus and the drummer extraordinaire Jim Black, is a brilliant new step of a singular project started in 1996.

After the success of the first encounter between the Texan trumpeter and the Portuguese pianist, “Scapegrace”, here is the second volume of a partnership able to continue to surprise us.

This is a trio of living musical poets.
Cornetist Bobby Bradford was the partner of John Carter until the death of this astonishing clarinetist and he played with giants like Ornette Coleman, Eric Dolphy, Charlie Haden and David Murray.

The particularly dynamic and inventive Portuguese jazz scene has a new front with the trio LAMA. Curiously enough, the project was born in Roterdam, where the double bassist and composer Gonçalo Almeida and the trumpeter Susana Santos Silva were at the time (2008) studying in the jazz department of the local conservatory.

The music of baloni offers something truly unique in the world of improvised music, and their album, Fremdenzimmer, shows the trio at their finest. Their explorations of sonic landscapes unfold with all the quiet and foreboding of a gathering storm. Tattered moments of melancholic chamber music filter its way through texture and noise. Fremdenzimmer captures the very pathos of our time.

The duo Telectu, formed in 1981 by Jorge Lima Barreto and Vítor Rua, committed to improvisation, to polynstrumentism and to electroacustic, has approached several tendencies of post-modern music and has acted in diversified contexts – concerts, studio recordings and multimedia performances, inter-art collaborations for theatre, performance and video -, performing with some of the most important co

Trio Viriditas has in it’s three musicians full equality; saxophonist Alfred Harth, bass player Wilber Morris, and drummer, percussionist, Kevin Norton. Each with an equal role in the speech, improvisation and composition.

And this is a triangle of great improvisers.

Drummer/percussionist Gerry Hemingway is perhaps best-known for his work with the Anthony Braxton Quartet, a challenging and groundbreaking ensemble viewed by some critics as comparable in importance to the classic modern jazz quartets led by John Coltrane and Ornette Coleman.