Amaro Freitas piano, Jean Elton double bass, Hugo Medeiros drums & percussion. 

Born in Recife (Pernambuco, Brazil), where he grew up and began to become known, Amaro Freitas is now one of the great representatives of the new generations of jazz pianists. Influenced by his closest cultural substrate – maracatú, frevo, baião, and so on – and by names such as Parker, Monk, Coltrane and Chick Corea, Amaro Freitas forged his own style. His deep, virtuoso playing is beautiful, exploratory, and all-enveloping, with details that have charmed media such as Downbeat: “The rhythmic complexity of the Amaro Freitas Trio is dizzying.” In 2016, he released a classy debut album Sangue negro, with elements that already defined his particular traits as a creative musician: blends between minimalism and Brazilian tradition, for example. With Rasif (2018), he stopped off at important clubs and festivals in Europe and the USA: Ronnie Scott’s, the Lincoln Center, Bimhuis and Barcelona’s Connexions festival. A follower of the very select Montreux Jazz Academy, in 2021 Freitas released his latest album, Sankofa, a work inspired by the spiritual upswell and tragic history of his own Afro-Brazilian people. Sankofa is also a sublime exercise in jazz exploration: an extraordinary piano trio in the Plaça Reial cellar.

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