about

Welcome!

Nelson Sobral is a highly acclaimed Portuguese drummer, composer, and educator known for his dynamic musical style and creativity. He has been recognized as one of the best drummers in Portugal by The Blitz magazine and has collaborated with renowned brands in the music industry. Nelson has performed with music legend Johnnie Johnson and featured in notable music publications. He splits his time between performing, composing, recording, teaching, and producing several Jazz Festivals. He his also constantly releasing drumming books, conducting workshops, and recording various albums as a leader with the Urban Jazz Band and as sideman. Nelson teaches “OnGround” and “OnLine” drums at Musicland ejmam.

the music

Nelson´s compositions come out through the ujb urban jazz band. The influences are too many. The music is a mix of jazz, funk, hip hop, rock and electronic. you can listen HERE

the band

The ujb urban jazz band was created in 1998.
Through its aesthetic conception, highly motivated and contextualized by the urban new trends, the band develops and presents original rhythmic and metric ideas, combined with textures and inspiring harmonies. On stage the band is composed by Trumpet, Keyboards, DJ, Live Samples and Drums.

the books

Drum Book – Irregular Rhythms, Volume 1 to 8. The Irregular Rhytms is a collection of height short, easy to read…. READ MORE

Drum Book – The Wish One World, is the eighth track of the album, AD HERE – Urban Jazz Band. The book will study closely the development of the outstanding drum parts of this great track…. READ MORE

Drum Book – Drum Tools vol. 1, is a MUST HAVE book, going from Beginer to Advanced level students. Students start their first page by actually playing a drum beat, Rock, Funk and Jazz orientated…. READ MORE

Drum Book – Linear Mode – This book works the linear concepts through a musical and creative perspective.
Based on systems and combined exercises, this drum method brings a different view towards the developement of the hands and foot technique, independace, coordination, metric cycles and improvisation concepts…. READ MORE

the school

The Musicland Escola de Jazz e Música Actual de Mafra, is a important, challenging Music School.
Inseparable motivating, dynamic and young, this institution has been working on the social integration level, cultural development and training of hundreds of students in Music and Performing Arts since 1998.

thank you

Thank you to the following photo artists:

Brayden Law

Dani Muchow

Elena Saharova

Francisco Maya

Johannes Rapprich

Josh Hild

Raphael Brasileiro

Ruiyang Zhang