Albert Sanz piano, Javier Colina double bass & accordion.
After the success of their first duet album, ‘Sampa’ (Youkali, 2018), Javier Colina and Albert Sanz presented ‘Sinhá (Youkali)’ in 2021, a work in which they also interpret pieces by Brazilian composers with love and special style that characterizes them. Sanz and Colina are capable of filling any stage with just two instruments. ‘Shiná’, a title that refers to a song by Joâo Bosco and Chico Buarque, featured the stellar collaboration of Jorge Drexler. Not in vain, with the repertoire so chosen and so different that they perform, Albert Sanz and Javier Colina have traveled halfway around the world and have attracted a heterogeneous audience, made up not only of jazz fans. They have also played as a quartet—in this case in a group led by Colina—and have collaborated with Sílvia Pérez Cruz. The origin of this fruitful meeting dates back to 2012, when Albert Sanz proposed and recorded the album ‘O qué sera’ (Contrabaix / Karonte) together with Javier Colina and the legendary drummer Al Foster, a member of Miles Davis’ band for years. In that project, developments on Brazilian themes were already sensed with more colorful results than in jazz.
