Chris Cheek

Tracks:
1. Does It Matter
2. FJP #2
3. Do Pe Para A Mao
4. Sargaço
5. Why Not
6. Yuppie
7. Pipiwipi
8. Jamiro

Music by Carlos Azvedo and Pedro Guedes.

Recorded at MB Studios, Portugal on September 11 & 14, 2006.

Since 1999, the Orchestra Jazz de Matosinhos has been steadily gaining its place as one of the most original and distinctive musical groups in the current panorama of European big bands. Thanks in part to the intelligent strategy followed by its two mentors, Carlos Azevedo and Pedro Guedes: the gradual development of instrumental consistency and interpretative conscience.

Saxophonist Chris Cheek demonstrates every step of the way how he managed to internalize the uniqueness of this repertoire, applying remarkable care, restraint a sensibility to the transformation of always enchanting and creative improvisations into a sort of extension and active complement of the distinctive thematic character of each piece.