Artists
Bernardo Sassetti
Biography
Influenced by Bill Evans and Keith Jarrett (without the moans), 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]
Unreal
Known for his film soundtracks as much as for his straight-ahead jazz recordings, Portuguese pianist and composer Bernardo Sassetti has with the new "Unreal: Sidewalk Cartoon" his most ambitious work ever, comprising the two aspects of his musical output, from the mainstream to the cinematic and beyond.
In every aspect: the disk is accompanied by a surprising and beautiful book of photo assemblages (he did it all himself, photography and digital manipulation), and the music tell us a story in an almost narrative way, with lots of non-sense and humour, gathering musicians from both the jazz and the classical contemporary music scenes. [more]
Discography
