Adriano Moncada Trio Debut EP Launch: "Shades of What We Were"

Making a return to the Hampstead Jazz Club with his Trio, London based Italian guitarist and composer Adriano Balducci Moncada & the newly released EP Launch “Shades of What We Were” ! 

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 undertook a Masters 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 embraces elements from the pop/rock world too.

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 the contemporary jazz band Hopscotch and other artists at Pizza Express Soho, Vortex Jazz Club, Kansas Smitty’s just to name a few.

His first EP as a bandleader “Shades of What We Were” will be released in spring 2022, featuring Ali Watson and Tom Potter, two of the most promising young talents of the London music scene.

LINE-UP:

Adriano Moncada – Guitar and compositions

Ali Watson – Double Bass

Tom Potter – Drums