Carlos Bica is a Portuguese jazz bassist.

Career

Bica studied at the Academia dos Amadores de Musica in Lisbon and the Hochschule für Musik in

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. He was "Musician of the Year" in Portugal in 1998 and in 2016. For his album ''Matéria-Prima'' released in 2010, the Carlos Paredes Prize 2011 was awarded to Carlos Bica. His trio AZUL with Frank Möbus and Jim Black become his showcase as a bass player and composer. For more than twenty years Carlos Bica’s AZUL has fascinated its listeners. He has played at important jazz festivals across Europe, Canada and Asia. He has composed for theater, dance, and film. He worked for many years with Portuguese vocalist Maria João. He has also worked with Portuguese

Fado Fado (; "destiny, fate") is a music genre that can be traced to the 1820s in Lisbon, Portugal, but probably has much earlier origins. Fado historian and scholar Rui Vieira Nery states that "the only reliable information on the history of fado was ...

singers

Carlos do Carmo Carlos Manuel de Ascenção do Carmo de Almeida ComIH (21 December 1939 – 1 January 2021), better known as Carlos do Carmo, was a Portuguese fado singer. The son of Lucília do Carmo, a well-known ''fadista'', do Carmo began his career in fad ...

Camané Camané (born Carlos Manuel Moutinho Paiva dos Santos Duarte, 20 December 1966 in Oeiras) is a male vocalist and a forerunner of the new generation of fado male singers. "The greatest fadista since Amália Rodrigues and Maria da Fé," is how B ...

, Cristina Branco, Ana Moura, José Mário Branco, and jazz musicians Ray Anderson,

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Aki Takase (born January 26, 1948) is a Japanese jazz pianist and composer. Biography Takase was born in Osaka and started to play piano at age 3. Raised in Tokyo, she studied classical piano at Toho Gakuen School of Music.Ankeny, Jaso"Artist Biography".A ...

Paolo Fresu Paolo Fresu ( sc, Pàulu; born 10 February 1961) is an Italian jazz trumpet and flugelhorn player, as well as a composer and arranger of music. Career Born in Berchidda, Sardinia, he picked up the trumpet at the age of 11, and played in the ba ...

, Julian Argüelles,

Gebhard Ullmann Gebhard Ullmann (born November 2, 1957) is a German jazz musician and composer. Career At the age of six, Ullmann started to play the recorder and later classical flute. Since 1976 he studied a.o. with Herb Geller and Dave Liebman and at ...

, Lee Konitz, Mário Laginha, Markus Stockhausen,

Alexander von Schlippenbach Alexander von Schlippenbach (born 7 April 1938) is a German jazz pianist and composer. He came to prominence in the 1960s playing free jazz in a trio with saxophonist Evan Parker and drummer Paul Lovens, and as a member of the Globe Unity Orchest ...

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, and John Zorn.

Discography

As leader

* ''Azul'' (EmArcy, 1996) * ''Twist'' (Enja, 1998) * ''Diz'' (Enja, 2001) * ''Look What They've Done to My Song'' (Enja, 2003) * ''Single'' (Bor Land, 2005) * ''A Chama Do Sol'' (Nabel, 2006) * ''Believer'' (Enja, 2006) * ''Carlos Bica + Materia-Prima'' (Clean Feed, 2010) * ''Things About'' (Clean Feed, 2011) * ''Azul in Ljubljana'' (Clean Feed, 2018) * ''I Am the Escaped One'' (Clean Feed, 2019)

As sideman

With Camane * ''Na Linha Da Vida'' (EMI, 1998) * ''Esta Coisa Da Alma'' ((EMI, 2000) * ''Pelo Dia Dentro'' (EMI, 2001) * ''Sempre De Mim'' (EMI, 2008) * ''Ao Vivo No Coliseu'' (EMI, 2009) * ''Do Amor E Dos Dias'' (EMI, 2010) With others * Paul Brody, ''Klezmer Stories'' (Laika, 2000) * Paul Brody, ''The South Klezmer Suite'' (Laika, 2003) * Pedro Caldeira Cabral, ''Pedro Caldeira Cabral'' (EMI, 1985) *

Marta Dias Marta Dias is a São Toméan Portuguese singer of jazz, world music and fado who has recorded several solo albums and has additionally recorded and toured extensively with guitarist António Chainho. She has also appeared on several Hip hop re ...

, ''Aqui'' (Farol Musica, 1999) *

Ulrike Haage Ulrike Haage (born in Kassel, lives and works in Berlin) is a German pianist and composer, producer for radio plays and a sound artist. Biography The jazz years Ulrike Haage spent her childhood in Ruhr. She grew up listening to the big jazz r ...

, ''Die Stille Hinter Den Worten'' (Sans Soleil, 2008) * Maria Joao, ''Conversa'' (Nabel, 1986) * Maria Joao, ''Sol'' (Enja, 1991) * Amelia Muge, ''Taco a Taco'' (Mercury, 1998) * Jorge Palma, ''Norte'' (EMI/Virgin, 2004) *

Sam the Kid Samuel Martins Torres Santiago Mira (born 17 July 1979), better known by his stage name Sam the Kid (STK), is a Portuguese rapper and producer from Chelas, in the civil parish of Marvila, Lisbon. Early life Sam the Kid's music was primari ...

, ''Pratica(mente)'' (Edel, 2006) *

, ''Essencia'' (Between the Lines/EFA, 2001)

References

External links

Official website
Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Portuguese musicians Portuguese male musicians Clean Feed Records artists {{jazz-musician-stub