Gili Lopes Quartet

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Double bassist Gili Lopes leads his quartet with Fabio Gouvea on guitar. Blending original compositions with finely crafted arrangements, their jazz is direct, refined, and lyrical—an immersion in a contemporary sound world.
Gili Lopes is a bassist and composer embedded in New York’s contemporary jazz scene. Born in Porto Alegre, Brazil, he has spent his life immersed in a wide range of deep musical traditions—from the folk and popular sounds of his native country to his extensive musical travels around the world, as well as his studies at London’s Guildhall School of Music and Drama and the Berlin University of the Arts—which he synthesizes into a rich, personal language for composition and improvisation.
In 2024, Lopes released Algures, selected by Downbeat magazine as one of the best jazz albums of the year. Described as “polished and engaging” by Jazzwise, this musical travelogue explores universal themes with a “stellar band” (Jazziz) that includes “a formidable team of accompanists” (All About Jazz), notably saxophonist John Ellis and drummer Ari Hoenig—two seasoned masters of modern jazz who help the bandleader push the music to the cutting edge. Downbeat praised Lopes’ “sensibility,” which “brings the music back to the source of each of its constituent traditions, then goes beyond.” Algures received two Global Music Awards, one World Entertainment Award, and was recognized as one of the best jazz albums of 2024 by Downbeat magazine.

Gili Lopes: double bass
Fábio Gouvea: guitar
Leo Montana: piano
Lukmil Perez: drums