“What Júlio Resende does with Fado recalls what Keith Jarrett does with jazz standards.” This comment in Spanish newspaper El País may be the best interpretation of the work of pianist and composer Júlio Resende, a musician who has released nine Fado albums to date. After a long musical journey passing through jazz, pop, rock, and spoken word, Resende has become one of the most famous contemporary representatives of Portugal’s traditional music Fado. His latest project “Fado Jazz Ensemble” was released under the label ACT. It stages a dialogue between jazz, which he treats less as a musical style and more as a way of thinking, and his home country’s musical legacy. At his September 29 performance at Akbank Sanat, Resende will be joined by guitarist Bruno Chaveiro, who spent his childhood years in Switzerland channeling his longing for his home country into a passion for Fado. The duo has worked together on stage and in the studio many times over recent years.
Júlio Resende: Piano
Alexandre Frazão: Drums
André Rosinha: Double bass
Bruno Chaveiro: Portuguese guitar