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Pianist Kit Downes, drummer James Maddren and bassist Petter Eldh play dynamic music reminding of the abstract 1960s Chick Corea

3 Another Timbre newbies article by John Eyles, published on September 17, 2023 at All About Jazz. Find more Multiple Reviews articles

Jazz em Agosto (simply Jazz in August) has now reached its 39th edition, presented in the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation’s gardens, in a recently refurbished amphitheatre. The concerts take place over eleven days, at 9:30 each evening, when the sun has toned down its blaze. Artistic director Rui Neves favors the alternative avenues of jazz, inviting free improvisation, folkloric infiltrations, electronic attachments, and loud guitars.

Swiss bassist leads a loose-limbed trio with saxophone and drums that builds on the example of 1960s free jazz

Teutonic combo variously playing vibraphone, acoustic guitar, celesta, harpsichord and ney creates an opulent neo-baroque fantasia