About this Event
Adriano Balducci Moncada is an Italian London based guitarist and composer.
Adriano gained a degree in Popular Music from BIMM London in 2018, under the mentorship of highly accomplished musicians such as Femi Temowo, John Wheatcroft, Andrew McKinney, Al Cherry.
After a gap year of intense live music activity, Adriano started a Master in Jazz at the prestigious Guildhall School of Music & Drama, where he graduated in 2021.
Adriano’s compositional approach is rooted in jazz tradition but also embraces elements from the pop/rock world.
Radiohead, Pat Metheny, Keith Jarrett and Led Zeppelin are the main artists that shaped Adriano’s musical identity.
Being an active member of the London jazz scene, he performed with many contemporary jazz bands Hopscotch and other artists at Pizza Express Soho, Vortex Jazz Club, Kansas Smitty’s and Hampstead Jazz Club just to name a few.
His first EP as a bandleader of Moncada Trio, “Shades of What We Were”, is out on all platforms and was featured on Morley Radio and on many influential jazz playlists on Spotify.
"Live At Hampstead Jazz Club” is the first live EP of Moncada Trio. This performance captures the essential elements of this young jazz group: composition, interplay and the relationship with an audience.
Moncada Trio enables the listener to immerse in a multicoloured palette of sounds.
Despite being just a three piece ensemble, this group uses different sounds and textures in order to recreate a dreamlike and cinematographic atmosphere.
"40 Seconds of Nothing” is the leading single of this release, a melodic and atmospherical composition that benefits from a brilliant arrangement done by Ali Watson on bass and Tom Potter on drums.
For this special performance at Morocco Bound, Moncada Trio will be playing as a quartet, joined by Jessica Bullen on Saxophone.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Morocco Bound Bookshop, 1a Morocco Street, London, United Kingdom
GBP 10.00