submitted on Sat, 05/10/2008 - 06:21 in Jazz Niche by Mike_Longo Rating:
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31 year-old guitarist Francisco Pais is a lyrically-minded jazzer hailing from Portugal, now living in Boston, possessing a refreshing approach and sound. He follows up his outstanding 2006 debut with a release that further codifies and focuses his concept, preferring color to line, distillate to volume, and restraint to abandon, yet pulsating with a sumptuous passion all its own. Like the tasteful trickle of new small-group recordings emanating from the Lisbon scene, the sound is not overtly Latin yet figuratively drenched in its climes...
Source: allaboutjazz
Author: Phil DiPietro
