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| HELIO ALVES QUARTET @ Cornelia Street Cafe: Sunday, Dec. 16th 8:30 & 10:00pm 29 Cornelia St New York, NY 10014 Helio Alves Quartet Sunday, Dec. 16th 8:30 & 10:00pm Featuring Vic Juris: Guitar Edward Perez: Bass Matt Wilson: Drums Helio Alves : Piano "Alves has sublety, musicality and a extraordinary facility for improvisation…" "…exceptional melodic improviser…" -Roberti L. Doerschuk, DownBeat Magazine *Alves is a pianist whose instincts are lush and romantic and expansive-and driven by an inner pulse."* *Thomas Conrad, JazzTimes* shem.gif A native of Sao Paulo, Brazil, pianist Helio Alves combines the rhythmic complexity of modern brazilian music with the edgy energy of contemporary jazz. A resident of NYC since the early '90s, Alves has received high praise as an in-demand sideman with the likes of Joe Henderson, Yo-Yo Ma, Paquito D'Rivera, Airto Moreira, Claudio Roditi, Rosa Passos and Sadao Watanabe, to name but a few. Helio has also released four albums under his own name: "Trios" (1998), "Portrait in Black & White" (2004), "It's Clear" (2009) and, "Musica" featuring Antonio Sanchez, Reuben Rogers, Claudio Roditi and Romero Lubambo. write your comments about the article :: © 2018 Jazz News :: home page |