groove4tet

The band started in the begining of May 2006. Fred , Joca and Dany were already friends for a long time and they were playing together in other projects, but they were looking for something new; new sounds, new repertoire, new colaborations. The idea was having a double bass player, laying it down in a more funk orientated music. And so it was. We started playing with the great musician and friend Francesco Valente, member of Terrakota and Tora Tora Big, but due to his tight performing schedule we started doing some gigs with another great player, who has become a great friend and is at the current moment our full time bass player, Pedro Pinto.We also colaborated with other players from our jazz scene like Hugo Antunes and Nuno Allan.Even though, the project is still recent we’ve been working on original material, the repertoire now consists mainly in original tunes,but we still do some stuff from some of our inspiring artists such as Soulive, Joshua Redman, Billy Cobham,Stevie Wonder, John Scofield among others. The final result is a deep and fat sound coming from the deep groove of Joca's drumming, the soulfull harmonies and solos from Dany's keyboard, Fred's jazz-bluesy guitar playing and the fat swing coming from Pinto’s double bass.--