We can think of this evening as a celebration of the 60 years since the appearance of this monumental piece by Tony Williams, or of the 10 years since it was revisited as a duo by drummer Gabriel Ferrandini and saxophonist Pedro Alves Sousa in a beautiful tribute at the much-missed Pedro Alfacinha gallery. From the macrocosm of its enlightened creation to the microscopic plane of the reality of another Lisbon that practically no longer exists, ‘Love Song’ asserts itself, without the need for scheduled revisionism, today and forever as a ballad of indelible relevance and appeal. Reflecting the trajectories of Ferrandini and Alves Sousa over the last decade, this new evocation finds the two musicians on another level, forming a trio with Hernâni Faustino on double bass, who recorded ‘Volúpias das Cinzas’ by the former and went on to become part of the working band Volúpias. With this album and its continuation on stage as a precious element of their experience, it makes perfect sense to approach one of the most monumental love songs in the history of jazz in this context, with its eternal melody capable of countless refractions in life. On this night, Pedro Branco joins the trio, a guitarist with well-established credentials both in jazz—alongside João Hasselberg and João Lencastre—and outside it—from You Can’t Win Charlie Brown to his solo career—here in a rare appearance on the piano. BS

Sara Félix is a visual artist and musician.
She began playing guitar as a teenager and recently ventured into studying the saxophone.
She has performed with Berlimginjal, a band she co-founded and in which she played guitar, saxophone, and also used spoken word. There has been a constant duality between composition and improvisation, as well as a search for vast references, from rock, experimental, jazz, and free jazz.
For this concert, she debuts as a solo artist, taking the saxophone down the paths of improvisation.