"Saxophonist Ricardo Toscano grew up playing ball and listening to jazz. The young musician began in the Band of the Philharmonic Society Operária Amorense, where at age 8 he played the clarinet, continuing his musical education at the Metropolitana professional school and at the Luis Villas Boas Jazz School where, at the age of 16, he started playing the saxophone.

Considered the best national musician in 2015, with only 22 years, that year he sold out two dates at Culturgest and already in 2016 he filled the Centro Cultural de Belém. The celebration of a journey that was not merely a school learning, but above all a passion for jazz, when still small the father familiarized it with Cannonball Adderley discs in duet with Bill Evans, Miles Davis or John Coltrane.

From an early age Ricardo Toscano became aware that his future was for jazz and for the saxophone dictated by the saxophone. He began to record his name in the music scene, gaining visibility while lounging Mário Laginha in the resuscitated Lisbon Sextet Jazz, and having in the curriculum shows at Estoril Jazz and Angra Jazz, performances with the Sexteto de Lisboa, Decateto de Nelson Cascais, the Mingus Project or in the formations of Júlio Resende.

Still very young, Toscano revisits the tradition hard bop, drinking in Coltrane, Parker or Ornette Coleman, historical period of the jazz that considers more stimulating. In Seixal, he is accompanied by young musicians, João Pedro Coelho, Romeu Tristão and João Pereira. Passionate about the same musical record, balanced between melodious repertoire and free improvisation, the quartet has established its jazz language and plans to record its first record."

"João Pedro Coelho, born in 1993, began playing the piano at the age of 7 and with 18 he finished the piano course at the conservatory with 18 values. After becoming interested in jazz during a workshop at the CCB, he entered the Licenciatura in Jazz and Modern Music of Universidade Lusíada. Throughout this period, he studied and performed with musicians such as Filipe Melo, João Paulo Esteves da Silva, André Fernandes, Desidério Lázaro, Joana Machado, Ricardo Pinheiro, Gonçalo Marques and Nuno Ferreira, among others. After graduating in 2013, he currently attends the Conservatorium van Amsterdam, Netherlands, where he studies with Karel Boehlee, Yuri Honing and Johann Plomp. Throughout these years, he has participated in workshops / masterclasses with important musicians in the current jazz scene, notably Aaron Goldberg Trio, Albert Sanz, David Doruzka, Kurt Rosenwinkel and Dave Holland. He also participated in the Begues Jazz Camp 2012 which was attended by Jorge Rossy, Joe Martin, Bill McHenry, Peter Bernstein and Bruce Barth.

He represented the Universidade Lusíada at the São Luiz Jazz Festival in 2012 and the annual meeting of the International Association of Schools of Jazz 2013 in Denmark, directed by Dave Liebman. In recent times has played in the most important stages of the country, such as the House of Music, the CCB or the Hot Club. He won the 2nd place ex-aequo in the Young Musicians Prize 2013, in duo with Gonçalo Neto."

Romeu Tristão is a Portuguese double bassist, known for the group Ricardo Toscano Quartet.

"João Lopes Pereira is a Portuguese drummer, known for the groups Grzegorz Włodarczyk Quintet, Ricardo Toscano Quartet, and Practically Married."