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Nate Chinen‘s piece about Sara Serpa & André Matos new album “All The Dreams” on JazzTimes Magazine.

“Sara Serpa places “Nada” near the midpoint of All the Dreams (Sunnyside), her luminous new collaboration with guitarist André Matos… Serpa, 37, has been a fresh and riveting presence on the vocal-jazz landscape for most of the last decade, though that wasn’t her original aim…” Click here to read more..

Tamar Sella‘s review of Sara Serpa & Ran Blake performance at Kitano in December 2016.

“Sara and Ran’s show was full of moments, gems of collective improvisation gathered throughout the evening, small and very precious. A note offered by one person and immediately repeated by the other. A silence exactly at the moment at which it wasn’t expected.” Click here to read more..

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Sara Serpa & Ran Blake return to Kitano Jazz, for two nights and four sets of music. Reservations are highly recommended.

Sara Serpa & Ran Blake
Friday December 9th | Saturday December 10th
8pm |10pm
Kitano Jazz
66 Park Avenue, New York
Reservations: 212-885-7119

Here’s what Brooklyn Rails says about it:

December 9, 10, and 16: Sara Serpa. Serpa is one of the most interesting vocalists on the jazz scene; with her delicate, cooly precise voice she expresses everything from standards to boss nova to wordless improvisation with intelligence and musicality. On December 9 and 10, she’ll be in duo with the great pianist and composer Ran Blake, at Kitano, then on the 16th you can catch her at Shapeshifter Lab, with the exciting line up of singers Aubrey Johnson and Sofia Rei, her frequent musical partner, guitarist André Matos, cellist Erik Friedlander, and drummer Tyshawn Sorey. That program is an eight-movement suite by Serpa, setting the writing of philosopher Luce Irigaray.

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Our new album All The Dreams is on the first round of voting for the 59th GRAMMY Awards.

f you are a voting member please consider casting your vote :
Category 32:
Best Jazz Vocal Album
 
#084: All The Dreams
by Sara Serpa & André Matos
 
The album is available for full streaming until November 5th at:
 
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Here is what the press has been saying about All The Dreams:
“..the chemistry and team work are close to perfect. Matos’ delicate lyrical electric guitar, intricate and hypnotic is the perfect foil to Serpa’s mostly wordless vocals, which are cool, calm and precise.” DownBeat Magazine
“...the prolific  Serpa has established herself as a master of wordless soundscapes (…) she is a marvel of continuous reinvention(…)“ JazzTimes
“Serpa and Matos are sophisticated musicians, concocting a genre all their own, one that borrows from many – jazz, pop, Brazil and elsewhere – but is beholden to none.“
Irish Times
“(…) decidedly otherworldly and totally original”
The Classical Arts
“Their music is art at the point where minimalism and cangiante merge, resulting in an otherworldly sound that’s utterly enthralling and completely unique.” All About Jazz
” Their style is so simple and yet so unique.  All The Dreams is music in its purest form (…)” Jazzarium
” With elegance and subtlety, Serpa and Matos have developped a refined and balanced dialogue. A partnesrhip that not only is the sum of their talents, but a perfect musical union.”  O Público
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“All The Dreams” , the new album of Sara Serpa & André Matos received a 4 stars review on DownBeat Magazine and a review on JazzTimes Magazine.

“…the chemistry and team work are close to perfect (…) Mato’s delicate, lyrical electric guitar, intricate and hypnotic, is the perfect foil for Serpa’s mostly wordless vocals, which are cool, calm and precise”. Allen Morrison, DownBeat

” The prolific Serpa (six albums in nine years) has established herself as a master of wordless soundscapes, usually shaped with either of two intuitively sympathetic compatriots: pianist Ran Blake or her husband, Brazilian guitarist André Matos. Yet for all her consistency in style, approach and partners, Serpa is also a marvel of continuous reinvention.(…) the prevailing atmosphere remains gentle and soothing, with just the subtlest, infrequent hints of discord, darkness or urgency.” Christopher Loudon, JazzTimes

 

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Sara Serpa & André Matos will be in Poland to present their new album “All The Dreams”:

Oct. 12th- Music Academy, Gdansk, Masterclass

Oct. 14th- Sopot Jazz Festival, Sopot (feat. Atom String Quartet)

Oct. 15th- 12on14 Jazz Club, Warsaw

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Sara Serpa & André Matos’  new album “All The Dreams” is out now and available to purchase on Sunnyside Records. Buy the new album here.

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Below some recent reviews about the album:

“All the Dreams is a stunning album.  It’s not groundbreaking.  There are no real fireworks.  It’s not especially inventive or forward-thinking.  It doesn’t bottle up music of the past to give it life in the present day.  But by simply settling into a gorgeous melody and channeling every facet of it to its extreme, the duo of vocalist Sara Serpa and guitarist André Matos have unleashed an album of such beauty it can move aside mountains like a sunrise wanting more space for its bright light.  And just like that sunrise, the power is generated through subtlety and grace, seeming almost effortless as its presence envelops the entire horizon and everything within its reach.” From Bird is the Worm Blog Read more here.

 

“There may be no combination better capable of painting and promoting aural iridescence than that of vocalist Sara Serpa and guitarist André Matos. The work they’ve produced together, both on their first duo album—Primavera (Inner Circle Music, 2014)—and on this alluring outing, pits consistency against the transient nature of sonic coloration in understated yet spectacular fashion. Their music is art at the point where minimalism and cangiante merge, resulting in an otherworldly sound that’s utterly enthralling and completely unique.”Dan Bilawsky, All About Jazz.  Read more here