Carlos Bica & Azul Feat. Frank Möbus + Jim Black at b-flat

Carlos Bica & Azul are the sun and the moon.  They can take a melody and spin the pure light of serenity from its notes and, with the same ease, the trio can take that same melody and make it burn like flames.  Either way, it’s a thing of beauty, and the only difference is the level of intensity and tone.  The session of new material celebrates twenty years as a working trio.  It’s not empty flattery when I say I hope they celebrate many more anniversaries to come. (Birdistheworm)
…Azul is one of the most significant and fertile trios of this moment next to other guitar-bass-drums trios like that of Bill Frisell, bassist Tony Scherr and drummer Kenny Wollesen, of Julian Lagge, bassist Scotte Colley and Kenny Wollesen or of Jakob Bro, bassist Thomas Morgan and drummer Joey Baron respectively Jon Christensen...

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Carlos Bica & Azul are the sun and the moon.  They can take a melody and spin the pure light of serenity from its notes and, with the same ease, the trio can take that same melody and make it burn like flames.  Either way, it’s a thing of beauty, and the only difference is the level of intensity and tone.  The session of new material celebrates twenty years as a working trio.  It’s not empty flattery when I say I hope they celebrate many more anniversaries to come. (Birdistheworm)
…Azul is one of the most significant and fertile trios of this moment next to other guitar-bass-drums trios like that of Bill Frisell, bassist Tony Scherr and drummer Kenny Wollesen, of Julian Lagge, bassist Scotte Colley and Kenny Wollesen or of Jakob Bro, bassist Thomas Morgan and drummer Joey Baron respectively Jon Christensen. More Than This is what it says. It is ultimate emergent melodic music on an unusual high level of variation that makes the song sing in captivating ways. (Allaboutjazz)

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