Samuel Quinto Latin Quartet
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Samuel Quinto is a pianist with greats expressives resources, therefore he unites the improvisation capacity - that coming of the free-jazz´s practice - to the memory of Brazilian and Latin American popular music in general, that gives to him to make an use of the piano as an instrument with double function to emphasize and to amplify melodies and voices and over all to support or even to base the rhythm, the cadence of the phrases, sometimes as if he incorporated the percussion.
While a productor of the Brazilian singer-composer of the MPB Vanessa Pinheiro, in Portugal, I could follow the participation of Quinto in Coimbra (at Teatro Académico de Gil Vicente, it belongs to Coimbra´s University) and in Viseu.
At this concert in Coimbra , where only the pianist makes a duo with the singer, I just watched great solos, just fascinating, for the emotion that crossed the room, with 400 spectators. In the memory, continues those beautiful cadences, following a song of Andalusian tone, and an interpretation - piano solo - of a famous and melodic song(Luíza - Tom Jobim). That concert was just unforgettable for all of us.
After this, I watched some concerts of his project "Latin Jazz Thrill" and I can affirm that Samuel Quinto dedicate seriously in any occasion, at the same time also he enjoys of the pleasure that he can provide.
University of Coimbra , March, 2006.
PIRES LARANJEIRA
"A impressive trio of Latin Jazz, with a quality and technique surprising, that it does not submit to traditional forms and it carries us to an involving universe of sounds. The genius and the virtuosity of its pianist .. composer, responsible for the arrangements and selection of musics - show a precious creativity, an incessant search for perfection and the passion for a rich and singular harmonic. An inevitable comunication between the listener and this trio is created, that inviting the sences, with its strong rhythms and involving melodies, makes to surrender in a passionate form the most elements septic to this style of music."
"...son de los grupos mas representativos del jazz latino en Portugal. Bosanovas, sambas o stadares llevados al latin jazz."
Manteca Jazz - Spain
