Low Profile Marco Martins Quintet

• 1 Packing Up 04:50
• 2 Resilience 05:45
• 3 Ask The Moon 05:37
• 4 Money Talk 06:47
• 5 Song For Léa 05:12
• 6 Late For Train 07:17
• 7 Shifter 06:01
• Total Runtime 41:29

Info for Low Profile

Low Profile is the result of an investigation into the musical creation possibilities of electroacoustic bass, which Martins has been developing in recent years. Consisting of a set of themes that reveal several facets of Martins as a bassist and composer, this work is based on the transposition of his fascination with the jazz tradition and the sound of the double bass, to an electroacoustic bass, punctuated by elements of modern jazz.

To flesh out this project, Martins chose a team of Algarve jazz musicians, including Sara Badalo on vocals, Leon Baldesberger on trumpet, with the young and virtuoso João Campos Palma on accordion and Maximiliano Llanos on drums.

Marco Martins, electroacoustic bass
Sara Badalo, voice
Leon Baldesberger, trumpet
João Palma, accordion
Maximiliano Llanos, drums

Marco Martins
The jazz musician and composer, who in recent years has been exploring the possibilities of musical creation through electroacoustic bass, presents the new Low Profile project at the Festival MED, in which he is accompanied by four other talented musicians also based in the Algarve: Sara Badalo on vocals, Leon Baldesberger on trumpet, João Campos Palma on accordion and Maximiliano Llanos on drums. With this new quintet, Marco Martins explores the limits of jazz sounds, trying, at the same time, to create something new in a musical universe that is always in constant movement. The group is preparing to enter the studio soon, with the release of the debut album scheduled for the last quarter of this year, so this concert will be a kind of rehearsal open to the public – and therefore also unmissable.

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