Calcanhar

Jump (CF 647 CD)

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Title Jump

Author Calcanhar

Sello Clean Feed

EAN CF 647 CD

Reference FEE 175209

LABEL CODE CF 647 CD

ESTILO JAZZ

NUMERO DE DISCOS 1

• DIGIPACK EDITION

Leading figures from Porto’s vibrant jazz scene, saxophonist João Mortágua and pianist Carlos Azevedo, aka Calcanhar, announce their recording debut as a duo with the release of Jump, a full-of-beans feast of playful, telekinetic dialogue, chock-a-block with unfettered improvisations and freewheeling imaginative flights.

Often divining inspiration from paintings and poems, Calcanhar opt here for a totally spontaneous approach, Mortágua and Azevdeo drawing on their backgrounds in jazz and classical music, as well as time spent together in the Mazam quartet (whose sophomore album, Pilgrimage, was issued on Clean Feed in 2022), to zero in via the prism of an intensely-focused one-hour recording session, the pair’s virtuosity and unquenchable creativity, refracted through a helter-skelter of hopscotching post-bop refrains, melancholic blues-indebted leitmotifs, and impish, infectious exchange.

‘Jump’ harnesses an in-the-moment vivacity of a bountiful 60-minute summit, preserving its authenticity without edits or any post-production shenanigans, the tracks curated in the exact order they were recorded, testifying to Mortágua’s and Azevedo’s abundant ingenuity, versatility and lightening mastery of contrasting colours, timbres and moods.

Calcanhar translates as ‘heel’, and the sobriquet serves as a fitting allegory for the pair’s flagrant defiance of customary musical boundaries, a modus operandi unperturbed by the tyrannies of aesthetic bias. “The name Calcanhar, or Heel, perfectly encapsulate the essence of this project,” explains Azevedo. “It represents the footprint we leave behind as we navigate a constantly evolving musical path.”