Biography
After completing his piano studies at the Berklee College of Music in the first half of the 1970s, Alfredo Cardim went on to train further with Don Sebesky and subsequently at the Juilliard School of Music. Sideman appearances took him alongside Cláudio Roditi (with whom he recorded Red on Red), Astrud Gilberto, Joe Lovano, Naná Vasconcelos, Paquito D'Rivera, Joe Hunt, Milton Banana, Fogueira Três (Bossa Nova Vol. 1 and Bossa Nova Vol. 2), Edison Machado (with whose quartet he recorded Obras), Raul de Souza, Paulinho Trumpete (Um Sopro do Brasil), Mônica Hatch (If You Never Come to Me), Toninho Horta, and Joyce (Áqua e Luz and Joyce Live). As a soloist he appeared at the Blue Note, Sweet Basil, Village Gate, the Telecom Jazz Festival (Argentina), Umea Jazz Festival (Sweden), Mozart Concert Hall (Austria), and the New Morning Jazz Club (Paris, France), and he recorded Bossa Blues with Joe Hunt and Barry Smith as well as Bossa Nova & MPB with Duduka da Fonseca and Nilson Matta.
Singles
