Mário Delgado

Tuba, Guitarra & Bateria it’s the name of the record done by three of the most known and charismatic Portuguese musicians, forming an unusual trio that hardly lets us guess the resulting sonorities. We might suppose that the Tuba would do the double bass role, but not.

I believe the perception we have of our own creative work is one where we are left with the feeling that we could have done better, because it would always have been different.

“Carlos Bica + Prima Matéria” confirms Bica as one of Portugal’s most important jazz musicians and reaffirms hiskey role in the development of new perspectives for Portuguese jazz. The CD is packed with songs recorded atthree memorable concerts in three memorable locations, Culturgest, Casa da Música, and the Orient Museum. In

"Carlos Barretto's Lokomotiv is back with a new CD, Labirintos ("Labyrinths"), with new repertoire,with music of breath and substance. The compositions are again by the bassist that, with Carlos Bica and Zé Eduardo, brought to light, in Portugal, the larger (and lowest in timbre) instrument of the violin family.