{"id":14194,"date":"2024-02-09T15:03:37","date_gmt":"2024-02-09T15:03:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/festivalcapuchos.com\/?post_type=artista&p=14194"},"modified":"2025-03-28T09:03:09","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T09:03:09","slug":"alexandre-frazao","status":"publish","type":"artista","link":"https:\/\/lab.festivalcapuchos.com\/en\/artista\/alexandre-frazao\/","title":{"rendered":"Alexandre Fraz\u00e3o"},"content":{"rendered":"

Alexandre Fraz\u00e3o is originally from Niteroi, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and moved to Portugal at the age of 19 in 1987, where he has been based ever since. While still in Brazil, he attended the Conservatory in 1984. Fraz\u00e3o also studied with Alan Dawson, Kenny Washington, and Max Roach.<\/br>\nIn Portugal, he primarily focused on jazz and improvised music, collaborating with, among others, Maria Jo\u00e3o, M\u00e1rio Laginha, Bernardo Sassetti, Carlos Martins, Laurent Filipe, Rodrigo Gon\u00e7alves, Carlos Barretto, Fic\u00e7\u00f5es, Dave O\u2019Higgins, Perico Sambeat, Jon Freeman, and Mark Turner. Due to his versatility, he is often sought-after for recordings with musicians from other musical backgrounds, he worked, for example, with Resist\u00eancia, Pedro Abrunhosa, Rui Veloso, Ala dos Namorados, Nuno Rebelo, R\u00e3o Kyao, J\u00falio Pereira, Joel Xavier, and Tim Tim por Tim Tum with Jim Black.<\/br>\nWhile he has participated in numerous albums by other artists, notable milestones in his career include Bernardo Sassetti's \"Nocturno,\" M\u00e1rio Delgado's \"Filactera,\" Maria Jo\u00e3o and M\u00e1rio Laginha's \"Undercovers,\" Pedro Abrunhosa's \"Tempo,\" and the DVDs of Rui Veloso \"O Concerto Ac\u00fastico\" and Ala dos Namorados \"Ao Vivo no S. Luiz.\"<\/br>\nIn 2002, he co-founded the Trio TGB (Tuba, Guitar, Drums) with M\u00e1rio Delgado and S\u00e9rgio Carolino, which recorded an album of the same name.<\/br>\nWith the various groups he has been a part of, Fraz\u00e3o has performed extensively in Portugal and abroad, including in France, Germany, Spain, Brazil, China, Belgium, and Denmark, participating in numerous festivals such as Jazz em Agosto, Festival Europeu do Porto, Jazz em Serralves, and Festival Internacional de Macau.<\/br>\nCurrently, Alexandre Fraz\u00e3o is involved in the Tim Tim por Tim Tum (drum group) and the Led On group, paying tribute to Led Zeppelin, while maintaining regular activity with other artists in jazz and other musical genres.<\/br>\nAlexandre Fraz\u00e3o is a versatile musician who expresses himself not only in the various languages of jazz but also in other styles of music, from pop to rock, or from traditional Portuguese music to experimental styles, creatively utilizing various drumming techniques to convey a highly elastic conception of rhythm and texture.<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":14195,"template":"","categories":[41],"ano":[16,32],"com-pagina":[65],"class_list":["post-14194","artista","type-artista","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pagina_artistas","ano-16","ano-corrente","com-pagina-sim","entry","has-media"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t