Jazz Expresso a Sants 3 Ràdio 1076 English translation

 

1.

Juanma Barroso - Nas 2023(p)

https://freshsoundrecords1.bandcamp.com/album/nas

Juanma Barroso is a renowned drummer born in Madrid, with a distinguished career both nationally and internationally. He won the Getxo International Jazz Festival in 1992 and traveled to New York in 1994 to study with great jazz talents such as Ben Riley, Al Foster, and Michael Carvin. He has performed at jazz festivals around the world with renowned musicians like Phil Woods, Bobby McFerrin, Sonny Fortune, and many others.

He has participated in more than fifty recordings as a sideman and has three albums as a leader on the Fresh Sound label. As an educator, he has more than twenty-five years of experience teaching and giving masterclasses internationally. Juanma Barroso is known for his great passion for music and a constant study approach, reinventing himself and exploring new musical paths.
Juanma Barroso (drums), Maikel Vistel (tenor saxophone), Virgilio da Silva (guitar), Paco Charlín (double bass).
Special guests: Germán Kucich (Fender Rhodes on tracks 1, 2, and 9), Toño Miguel (bass on tracks 2, 7, and 9), Hértor García Roel (arrangements on track 4).
Recorded at PKO Studios, Boadilla del Monte, Madrid, on September 29 and November 29, 2018.

Very Early

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2.

Gilad Hekselman - Downhill From Here 2025 

https://giladhekselman.bandcamp.com/album/downhill-from-here

This is Downhill From Here, an album by Gilad Hekselman, released in 2025 and recorded with Larry Grenadier on double bass and Marcus Gilmore on drums. Issued by the label La Reserve Records in April 2025, the album features an intimate trio setting where Hekselman explores a personal sound influenced both by jazz and by the psychedelic rock of the 1970s.

Critics have highlighted his sensitivity and the evolution of his style. The album was recorded in a single relaxed session at Samurai Studios, New York, with James Farber as engineer.

Gilad Hekselman - Guitar, Compositions

Larry Grenadier - Bass

Marcus Gilmore - Drums

Downhill From Here, Alfie, Seeing You.

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3.

Hugo Diaz Quartet - Confluences 2024

https://hugodiaz.bandcamp.com/album/hugo-diaz-quartet-confluences 

Confluences is the debut album by the Hugo Diaz Quartet, a project presenting ten original compositions within a rich musical universe filled with lyricism and expressiveness. Hugo Diaz, who plays exclusively the soprano saxophone, brings a sound full of nuance and musical depth.

Hugo Diaz: soprano saxophone

Alexandre Cahen: piano

Vladimir Torres: double bass

Louis Cahen: drums

Le choral de l’omble

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4.

Johannes Wallman - Precarious Towers 2022

https://shiftingparadigmrecords.bandcamp.com/album/precarious-towers 

Johannes Wallmann is a musician and pianist born in Germany in 1974, but raised in Canada, on Vancouver Island. He first studied classical piano and guitar, later pursuing jazz and composition at the Berklee College of Music in Boston. He holds a master’s degree and a doctorate from New York University.

Wallmann is known as a composer and bandleader, particularly recognized for his suites for wind ensemble and jazz orchestra. He has recorded several albums, all of which have received highly positive reviews.

He is a professor and Director of Jazz Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where he also teaches and continues his artistic career.

In 2022, he released the album “Precarious Towers”, featuring a band with Sharel Cassity (alto saxophone and flute), Mitch Shiner (vibraphone), John Christensen (double bass), Devin Drobka (drums), and Wallmann himself on piano.

This project largely originated during the pandemic lockdown period, with the idea of the “precarious tower” as a metaphor for life and the relationships sustained by the group’s members. The album features original compositions by Wallmann and contributions from the band members.

In 2023, the same musicians recorded a second album, “Ten Stories”, but that album will be discussed another time.

Angel Eyes, Precarious Towers 

 

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5.

Gary Brunton, Daniel Beaussier & Célestine De Williencourt - Look North  2025

https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kPpABJLBqTnzVvFcLHpA3wws_fVkujOE4

Gary Brunton is a musician born in Burnley, in northwest England, in 1968. The son of a blues and jazz enthusiast, he started out playing clarinet and piano as a child, but at age 15 discovered the electric bass and later the double bass, with which he began performing in pubs and venues playing traditional jazz.

He studied at Swansea University and later moved to Paris to further his musical education at the CIM jazz school. He has formed various groups and collaborated with notable musicians such as Sheila Jordan, and developed his own projects that incorporate different artistic expressions including dance and slam poetry. (Slam poetry is a competitive performance poetry event where participants, called "slammers," have a limited time—usually three minutes—to recite their own texts to an audience that acts as a jury and determines the winner.)

The album "Look North" was released on March 28, 2025 by the trio of Gary Brunton, Daniel Beaussier, and Célestine De Williencourt, and is a musical journey proposed by these musicians. They aim to evoke the wide open spaces of northern lands such as Iceland and Scotland, and the album is notable for a strong vocal presence combining improvisation and original compositions.

The trio presents music intertwined with lyrical narrative and a chamber jazz approach, generating an organic musical conversation between the instruments. Gary Brunton brings his experience on double bass and tabla, Daniel Beaussier explores a variety of wind instruments including saxophones, clarinets, flutes, and English horn, while Célestine De Williencourt contributes poetic energy with voice and flute.

The album includes pieces inspired by landscapes and places such as Reykjavik, Scottish castles, and other Nordic references.

Coldstream, Ata, Islande en vue, Findlater castle