Artists
Mário Laginha & Bernardo Sassetti
Biography
Mário Laginha is regarded as one of the most talented and innovative Portuguese musicians. Pianist and composer, he has been awarded several prizes and has been invited to many national and international festivals. He has played and recorded with Wayne Shorter, Ralph Turner, Manu Katché, Trilok Gurtu, Toninho Horta, Gilberto Gil, Julian Argüelles, Django Bates, and the Hannover Philharmonic Orchestra, among many others. [more]
Influenced by Bill Evans and Keith Jarrett, even if his jazz piano teachers were Horace Parlan and Sir Roland Hanna, Bernardo Sassetti centered atentions since he was 18 years old, when playing with the Moreiras Jazztet and the quartet of saxophonist Carlos Martins. He had classical formation and that shows in his compositions, the music he writes for cinema and some orchestral situations, for instance with the Hong-Kong and the London Philarmonic Orchestras (with pop singer Sting!), as a member of the Guy Barker Quintet, the same group that in 1995 was nominated for the Mercury Awards. [more]
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