Orquestra Jazz de Leiria – “Dez”

The Orquestra Jazz de Leiria is a project by the musician César Cardoso, emerged in February 2011 with the aim of creating quality training that would bring together musicians from the region who were dedicated to the practice of this style of music.
Throughout its existence, the orchestra has produced and performed dozens of concerts, many of them with special guests, from the most varied areas of Portuguese music. These concerts were specifically and individually prepared for each of the guest artists, who saw their music “rewritten”, adapted and arranged in the context of “Big Band”.

With the aim of celebrating the first decade of existence in the best possible way, the Orquestra Jazz de Leiria challenged all guests to participate in this first album, which it named “Dez”, and with which it intends to leave its mark. in the history of music in Portugal.

“Dez” has the guests David Fonseca, Luísa Sobral, Aurea, Maria João, Pedro Abrunhosa, Ana Bacalhau, Vânia Fernandes, Camané, Jorge Palma, Pedro Moreira, Miguel Araújo, Tomás Pimentel, Herman José and António Zambujo, and contains a unpublished theme, written by David Fonseca and arranged by César Cardoso, which is the single from the disc.

The repertoire on the album is based on original music, Portuguese music and Jazz Standards, all of them with arrangements made specifically for the Leiria Jazz Orchestra by César Cardoso and Pedro Nobre.