CARLOS BARRETTO
Genres: Post Bop, Classic Fusion, Avant-Garde Jazz, World Fusion • Portugal

After an interesting attempt to marry jazz with Portuguese folk music, bassist Carlos Barretto decided to get “European”, forging a continental sound and inviting for this purpose musicians like Louis Sclavis and François Corneloup to play with him. After all, he made his advanced music studies in Austria and lived and worked for some years in France, country where he met Mal Waldron, starting a proficuous colaboration with the great jazz pianist. During this period, in the search of his inner voice he made a long journey from mainstream to more open situations. The CD “Lokomotiv” is one of the results and his encounter with Carlos “Zíngaro” in live situations is another one. He sees his path in music like an “eternal apprentice”. In order to evolve he sustains that he “must break the rules and get free of the shapes”. In the sequence of his efforts, he turned to read more...