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Alfons Bertran Trio
Alfons Bertran: drums and composition
Martí Serra: tenor and soprano saxophones
Roger Mas: piano
Recorded by Albert Moraleda at Moraleda Studio, La Garriga on June 2022. The purpose of this project and album was to pay homage to my mother Isabel Ramon Puig. With this in my mind, we recorded the music live, with no previous rehearsal on the June 27th, and I tried not to talk much about the music to allow us to go where we wanted in that moment. At the same time I asked my friend Jaume Codina to take some pictures from my mother’s hometown and relate them to each song from the album to express her deep love and dedication to family, friends, and the community showing us to never forget our roots but letting our branches grow.
Alfons Bertran Quintet
Alfons Bertran: drums and composition
David Fettmann: alto saxophone
Nicolas Masson: tenor saxophone
Roger Mas: piano and fender rhodes
Aleix Forts: Bass
I always liked to define myself not only as a drummer. I prefer musician (I play piano, vibraphone and I write music). After composing for many other co-leaded projects (Lite Bites, Bridges trio,...) I found that leading my own quintet allows me to express all my ideas and influences. All the members in the band are great musicians and friends which I have been playing on and off during many years. They understand and trust my music perfectly.
This project, under the name Schnitzel Time is also the presentation of my first album for JazzGranollers Records.
© Nicolas Masson
Lite Bites /
Retina Project
Guillem Callejón: guitar
Aleix Forts: Bass
Alfons Bertran: Drums
With more than 10 years of history, Lite Bites has become a cooperative trio exploring a peculiar repertoire. In their concerts we can find from Beatles songs to contemporary music like Messiaen, Paul Motian, Gershwin, Hank Williams, Americana type of tunes and original Compositions, always transposed to the jazz language. An interesting and accessible mix very welcomed for all audiences.
In their latest album Retina (Jazzgranollers 2018), we can find and exclusive repertoire of original compositions from Aleix Forts, Alfons Bertran and Guillem Callejón. A point of maturity from his work over the last years.
© Núria Bigas
Lite Vibes
Alfons Bertran: vibraphone
Aleix de Gispert: guitar
Fèlix Serra: double Bass
Lite Vibes is nothing more than a direct reference to the vibraphone, abbreviated in English vibes, and this is also nothing more than a project for a band that is not at all atypical of the beginnings of jazz, where many drummers, who were also vibraphonists, when playing this second instrument, did it without the drums.
I have been playing standards for many years with multiple projects as a drummer, and the luck of being able to play the vibraphone has led me to be able to interpret them also from a different perspective and with a very original sonority and intrumentation where the melodic, harmonic and rythmic support falls on the vibraphone and guitar, helped by the double bass.