Milton Nascimento & Belmondo live, tonight, at Jazz Café

Milton Nascimento & Belmondo Brothers

Featuring André Ceccarelli
Monday 05 May 2008

CD Release Party & Concert

The Jazz Café

5 Parkway

London

Ticket Line: 0870 060 3777

Doors 7pm
£30 advance

Brazilian singer/songwriter superstar & Winner of the 1998 Grammy Best World Music Album, plays eagerly awaited show in London's "Jazz Cafe".
Brazil was one of the main musical nations of the 20th century and Milton Nascimento one of its most original composers. Like his country, his work is a mixture of different cultures and full of contrasts. This child of the Minais Gerais has blended the genres, refusing to be put into any specific category, inventing instead a universe of countless, diverse references. Born on a “continent country”, with Latin, African and European cultures, Milton Nascimento invented a world of music where the elements commonly associated with the sounds of Brazil, like Samba, Toadas and Bossa Nova, all come together.

He has never favored one style over another, and in each album he successively found inspiration in popular American music, in the Beatles’ pop, in jazz, in folk music from the Amazon, in liturgical hymns and in the work of a fellow countryman, the great composer Heitor Villa-Lobos. He isn’t one to let himself be categorized into any one style, and, while he has described how the voice of Ray Charles had moved him profoundly as a teenager, he loves Edith Piaf just as much (as illustrated in one of his latest albums), and also Doris Day and Sarah Vaughan, and he sings a sentimental tune or subversive lyrics with the same fervor.

Milton Nascimento - vocal
Lionel Belmondo : tenor sax, soprano sax, flute
Stéphane Belmondo : trumpet, flugelhorn
Eric Legnini - piano
Thomas Bramerie - acoustic bass
André Ceccarelli - drums

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Après les succès de "Hymne au Soleil", puis de Influence aux côtés du légendaire Yusef Lateef (4 Victoires du Jazz pour ces deux albums !), les deux monstres sacrés du jazz actuel que sont les Frères Belmondo invitent la dernière légende vivante de la chanson brésilienne. Le choc de la rencontre entre Milton Nascimento et Belmondo est un monument sans précédent : quelques-uns des plus grands standards de la musique brésilienne sont immortalisés, offrant à la voix de celui qu'on surnomme L'Ange Noir un écrin magique et intemporel.Avec Milton Nascimento (chant, guitare), Stéphane Belmondo (trompette), Lionel Belmondo (saxophones, clarinettes), Eric Legnini (piano), André Ceccarelli (batterie), la section de cordes de l'Orchestre National d'Ile de France, ...