Lume

A live recording of the concert presented by the very peculiar big band LUME (acronym of Lisbon Underground Music Ensemble) in the 2014 edition of the festival Jazz em Agosto, “Xabregas 10” documents a particularly successful gig with the participation of the recently deceased saxophonist Jorge Reis, to whom the CD is dedicated. And peculiar because, being a jazz orchestra, its leader and composer Marco Barroso comes from contemporary classical music and has a strong devotion for rock and funk, two factors immediately recognized in the groovy and heavy, but very complex, pieces here assembled – beginning immediately with “Astromassa”, a metal-like composition in which the 12 blowing instruments (four saxophones, a clarinet, a flute, three trumpets, three trombones) can be more powerful than a couple of over-amplified and distorted electric guitars.

PERSONNEL:

MARCO BARROSO, piano
MANUEL LUIS COCHOFEM flauta
PAULO GASPAR, clarinet
JORGE REIS, soprano sax
JOAO PEDRO SILVA, RICARDO TOSCANO, alto sax
JOSÉ MENESES, tenor sax
ELMANO COELHO, baritone sax
SÉRGIO CHARRINHO, PEDRO MONTEIRO, GONÇALO MARQUES, trumpet
LUIS CUNHA, EDUARDO LÁLA, MÁRIO VINCENTE, trombones
MIGUEL AMADO, bass
ANDRÉ SOUSA MACHADO, drums

Recorded at Jazz em Agosto, Lisbon, August 10th, 2014.

TRACKS:

1) Astromassa (alto sax solo by Ricardo Toscano)
2) Sandblast (trombone solo by Eduardo Lála; tenor sax solo by José Menezes)
3) Polén (trumpet solo by Gonçalo Marques)
4) LSW