Sérgio Tavares

Sérgio Tavares is a Portuguese double bassist, improviser and music educator from Porto. He studied jazz double bass at ESMAE and pursued a master's degree in music education, with a focus on improvisation in ensemble teaching.

His projects span jazz, freely improvised music and collaboration with theatre, video, poetry and cinema. He has worked with Cotovelo, ARS Trio, Double.Duo and Phantom Trio, whose formation includes saxophonist Fábio Almeida and drummer João Martins. On Creative Sources, Tavares plays double bass on the Phantom Trio recording #00 (CS360), an album recorded in May 2015 that moves between free jazz, electronics and open improvisation.