Raiz

André Rosinha presents his new album Raiz (2025), exploring a fusion between the worlds of jazz, Portuguese traditional music, and improvisation. Having organically planted some seeds in the past, he now focuses on connecting these universes at a compositional level, without ever losing the freedom of improvisation so characteristic of jazz expression.

For this project, he is joined by the band that has accompanied him on his last two albums: João Paulo Esteves da Silva on piano, Marcos Cavaleiro on drums, and André Rosinha himself on double bass. It is a trio that understands and complements each other well, that recognizes the strengths of each member, and that leaves space for individual expression—something acknowledged and praised in reviews of Árvore (2019) and Triskel (2022). The pieces were thus composed with these performers in mind and with the aim of uniting these musical worlds, highlighting the traits that define these artistic expressions while creating a new identity.

In an increasingly fast-paced world, driven by mass-produced, instant gratification that quickly becomes disposable, it is more urgent than ever to believe in the value of returning to our roots.