‘Querer’ celebrates the very act of gathering and is OJM’s first album with the Argentine composer Guillermo Klein – one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary composition, both within and beyond jazz – following years of collaboration and shared creativity. The arrangements and compositions on the album reveal the originality of Klein’s musical language, with its deeply captivating atmospheres and influences ranging from traditional rhythms to 20th-century Argentine classical music. The album also features Klein’s arrangements of great pieces such as Ornette Coleman’s “Lonely Woman”, Carlo Mombelli’s “Athens”, Julio Santos Espinoza’s “Vidala Para Mi Sombra” and Joshua Redman’s “Balance”.

Guillermo Klein composition, arrangments, musical direction, fender rhodes, voice, production; Pedro Guedes production; João Guimarães, João Pedro Brandão, Mário Santos, José Pedro Coelho, Rui Teixeira woodwinds; Luís Miguel Macedo, Ricardo Formoso, Rogério Ribeiro, Javier Pereiro trumpets and flughelhorns; Daniel Dias, Andreia Santos, Gil Silva, Álvaro Pinto, Gonçalo Dias trombones; Miguel Meirinhos piano; André Fernandes guitar; Demian Cabaud double bass; Marcos Cavaleiro drums. Recorded by Mário Barreiros, CARA, Matosinhos, assisted by Pedro Adelino; mixed and mastered by Nuno Couto. Cláudia Pinto production manager; Studio Dobra design; Orquestra Jazz de Matosinhos executive production