João Lobo

In this space you can hear 3 small improvisations by myself recorded by Manolo Cabras in two different occasions and a short piece composed by Manolo and played by myself, Lynn Cassiers (voice), and Manolo on the doublebass. After 5 years living in a small city in Holland, Den Haag, where i graduated in the local Conservatory and met a lot of musicians from all over the world, I started playing a bit all over Europe with very different projects. Some of these as a co-leader: Norman, Verdes Sons, Alexandra Grimal 4tet (www.alexandragrimal.com), TETTERAPADEQU(and the missing 'r'),Microméchant; and others as a side-man: As Guests 4tet (www.asguests.com), Giovanni Guidi 4tet, *[W(E)GO]*(www.wego.dk), AUÊ!, Munchen (not anymore but hopefully again some day), Scott Fields Freetet, Enrico Rava New Generation. With these projects (and other ocasional ones) I got the chance to play in Portugal,Italy, Denmark. Holland, Belgium, France, Spain, Germany, Bosnia Herzgovina, Chech Republic, Slovakia, Norway and Lithuania in some important events like North Sea Jazz Festival, La Defense Jazz Festival, Avignon Jazz Festival, Umbria Jazz Festival, Casa del Jazz, Villa Celimontana, Auditorium di Roma, Alexanderplatz, Bimhuis, Music Village, Slovakian National Radio, MIDEM, Lux-Frágil, CCB, Hot Clube de Portugal, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian (Paris), De Paard van Troje, Paradiso, Melkweg, Mai Jazz Stavanger, New Baltic Dance Festival. Apart from these more or less steady groups I played/have been playing with various musicians from different backgrounds:Giovanni Di Domenico, Alexandra Grimal, Norberto Lobo, Manolo Cabras, Lynn Cassiers, Michal Vanoucek, Augusto Pirodda, Mathieu Calleja, Oriol Roca, Daniele Martini, Gonçalo Almeida, Francesco Turrisi, Claus Karsgard, Niels Bjerg, Christoph May, Wolfert Brederode, Juraj Stanic, Chris Jennings, Nelson Veras,Edouard Ferlet, Stephan Kerecki, Scott Fields, Sebastian Gramss, Nuno Rebelo, Marco Franco, Pedro Madaleno, Alípio Neto, Ben Stapp, Júlio Resende, Giovanni Guidi, Dan Kinzelman, Francesco Ponticelli, Francesco Bigoni, Francesco Poeti, Joe Rhemer, Stefano Senni, Enrico Terragnoli, Enrico Rava, Gianlucca Petrella, Andrea Pozza, Rosario Bonaccorso, Roswell Rudd, Carlos Bica, João Paulo, Mário Delgado... DISCOGRAPHY: "Movimentos Perpétuos-Música para Carlos Paredes" (compilation),Universal 2003; "Enter", As Guests 4tet, Baileo 2004; "Fala Mongue", Munchen, 2006, "Indian Summer", Giovanni Guidi 4tet, CamJazz 2007, "Da Alma", Júlio Resende, Clean Feed 2007, "Bitter Love Songs", Scott Fields Freetet, Clean Feed 2007, "The House Behind This One", Giovanni Guidi 4tet, CamJazz 2008.