Live at SMUP

Garuda + Rodrigo Pinheiro — 2025 / A New Wave of Jazz

Live concert at SMUP.

Musicians: Hugo Costa (alto saxophone)
Rodrigo Pinheiro (piano)
Hernâni Faustino (double bass)
João Valinho (drums)
Credits: Recorded live in concert by Kellzo at SMUP, March 21th 2024.
Mixed and mastered by Rodrigo Pinheiro.
Photography by Martina Verhoeven / martinaverhoeven.com
Executive label director : Dirk Serries.
Release: May 2, 2025 — A New Wave of Jazz nwoj0071
Format: Digital download

Reviews

The trio's sound proposal is solidly based on the language of free jazz, full of urgency and explosiveness, free improvisation and contemporary music, without premises and with musicians eager to explore different sound territories. The music they weave is urgent, dynamic and intensely propulsive, but it does not neglect, at times, a more contemplative component and attentiveness to silence. There are no hierarchies or subordinations of any kind, but rather an equality of roles, all of which are decisive for the sound construction. Everything heard in this live recording was completely improvised in a logic of spontaneity and real-time communication.
António Branco, Jazz.pt, June 20, 2025 — 4.0/5