Portuguese Jazz Night

One of the best jazz albums can be heard live at the Opus Jazz Club on August 5. The Trama No Navio project is the result of the joint work of four truly outstanding jazz musicians. Saxophonist João Pedro Brandão’s composition is a great choice for a special Friday night.

The story of Trama No Navio, a project by highly individual and truly exciting musicians of the Portuguese jazz scene, started with a special challenge. In September 2019, the Matosinhos Jazz Orchestra (OJM) asked some composers to do a piece as a form of soundtrack for the Sergei Eisenstein movie “Battleship Potemkin”. João Pedro Brandão was asked to create something for the second part, “Drama on the deck”. It proved to be an incredibly defiant project, due to the very dense and intense narrative with a tragic and poetic closure. In the end of this process, Brandão felt the need to extend the work furthermore, so the music was transposed for a smaller and free set of musicians. With this carefully chosen group, the original music was stripped of its artefacts and adornments, leaving only its backbones. A new piece emerged from the musicians’ contributions and interactions, earning ecstatic praise of many critics: Trama No Navio was called a “whirlwind of emotions, free, dramatic, exciting” (JL), “a notable demo of technique, creativity, originality, vision and talent; an epic suite, an ode to Art” (João Morado) and a kind of music for film that “gains life for itself” (Rui Eduardo Paes). In “Trama no Navio” (2020, Porta-Jazz), Brandão gathers an unprecedented group of musicians with strong and unique musical personalities: Ricardo Moreira on the piano and Hammond, the double bassist Hugo Carvalhais and Marco Cavaleiro on the drums. Together, they make a journey through a very personal music universe. With “Trama no Navio”, they have received the best national reviews, and the recording was considered one of the best jazz Portuguese albums of 2020. The band has already made a debut at several festivals, and the project is being considered to the Internationalization support of the Portuguese government, via DGARTES – Ministry of Culture.

FEATURING:
João Pedro Brandão – saxophone
Ricardo Moreira – piano
Hugo Carvalhais – double bass
Marcos Cavaleiro – drums

Location: Opus Jazz Club
Date: August 5
Time: 20:00-22:00

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