Review on New York City Jazz Records by George Kanzler

Written By André Carvalho

“Portuguese bassist André Carvalho has created a sonic study in contrasts on this 11-part suite inspired by Renaissance painter Hieronymus Bosch’s famous surrealism-foreshadowing triptych The Garden of Earthly Delights.” […]

“A tall order for any piece of music, let alone one from a sextet. Yet Carvalho creates, at its best, an often captivating, phantasmagoric suite, which careens through a sonic landscape gleefully mixing acoustic instruments with heavy electric guitar and hyper- drum and percussion” […]

André Carvalho

Portuguese jazz bassist and composer André Carvalho is an active NYC freelancer whose works AllAboutJAzz described as “both in bounds and out of this world.” Nate Chinen of The New York Times dubbed Carvalho a bassist “you should get to know.” He’s played with Jazz stars Chris Cheek, Will Vinson, and Tommy Crane. And André’s performance credits range from the Colors Jazz Festival (Paris), the Cairo Jazz Festival, and Jazz Festival Ljubliana, to venues such as Blue Note (New York), Konzerthaus Berlin, and Casa da Música (Porto).

https://www.andrecarvalhobass.com
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