Mário Laginha

Working as a musician for more than twenty years, Mário Laginha has forged an illustrious career as a jazz musician and composer. But, if it’s true that throughout his career he has been associated with jazz music – having been one of the founders of the Sexteto de Jazz de Lisboa (1984), creating the Mário Laginha Decateto (1987) and leading his own trio - the musical universe he has constructed with singer Maria João is a tribute to all the music he loves – beginning with jazz, but including Brazilian, Indian and African music, pop, rock and, of course, his classical studies that would influence his first solo project, inspired by Bach’s music (Songs and Fugues, 2006). ‘Jangada’ demonstrates Mário Laginha’s ability to temper his strong musical personality with a strong will to share his art with other musicians.