From the North-Eastern Brazilian state of Pernambuco, 29 year old pianist Amaro Freitas and his latest album Sankofa. It's wonderfully meandering, creative, jazzy but also deeply funky stuff, twisting familiar sounds into new shapes. The album will take you to a different headspace whenever you need to go there.
Drawing on familiar Jazz forms, Bill Evans, Theolonius, Miles Kind of Blue period, but taking it to its own territory. Freitas was something of a child prodigy and it shows . This is an altogether wonderful album. In much the same way as Kamasi Washington in recent years Sankofa breaths fresh life into old classics.
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