"Carinhoso" (4-track 7-inch single with picture sleeve, 1973)Friday, December 21, 2007
Wednesday, December 19, 2007
R.I.P.: Marcio Montarroyos
Sad note: Brazil's top trumpeter on Rio's busy studio scene, 59-year old Marcio Montarroyos, died December 12, 2007, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, after a cruel four-month battle against lung cancer. His grandmother, Guiomar Abreu, was responsible for introducing him to music during Marcio's childhood, when he studied piano and music theory. Marcio's mother Neida had passed away last February, and one of his brothers, Nilton, died a month ago. Marcio is survived by his other brother, attorney João Augusto, and his current wife Cristina Cordeiro, a respected fashion designer.He was a dear friend of mine since I was 11 years old...
I attended countless of his concerts (including the ones in 1974 with Victor Assis Brasil and his first gigs as a leader at the "Teatro Fonte da Saudade" (also known as "Teatro da Pequena Cruzada" in Lagoa), participated as "percussionist" in many jam sessions at his house (at Lauro Muller Street) during the late 70s and early 80s, he used to visit me a lot too (one night he came in with Yes-keyboardist Patrick Moraz! I'll post this pic as soon as I find it!), and I was privileged to record with him in an album I produced for Luiz Bonfa in 1991 (“The Bonfa Magic”, released by Milestone in the USA, Zyx in Europe and JVC in Japan). That same year I suggested him to Creed Taylor for Larry Coryell's "Live from Bahia" project etc etc. Marcio is also featured in a compilation I produced for Pascoal Meirelles in 1992-1995 ("Considerações"). We met for the last time in February, 2007, during one of my visits to Rio. I'll miss him forever.
His performances in the jazz series promoted by the now-defunct "Fonte da Saudade Theater", just 2 blocks away from my house in the 70s, had a deep impact on me as a jazz lover. I remember one special night in 1975, when he performed with two different bands: as a special guest soloist with the Rio Jazz Orchestra (a big-band then co-led by saxophonist Marcos Szpilman and trumpeter Alfredo de Paula) as well as leading his own fusion band. I'll never forget that, that night, he played a superb rendition of Freddie Hubbard's "Little Sunflower" on the flugelhorn. A couple of years before I had purchased a copy of Milt Jackson's masterpiece album for CTI, "Sunflower", which immediately became of my "desert island discs". Well: Marcio's solo sounded to me as good as Freddie's one on Milt's LP. And that meant and still means a lot for my high standards of quality. Marcio also used to play another Hubbard gem, "Sky Dive"; eventually, he would compose a song with that same title, recording it on the "Carioca" LP (1983), with "special effects" by his lovely dog Gordo!
It's truth that Marcio had already impressed me a lot on that concert (at the Teatro da Galeria) that yielded the "Victor Assis Brasil Ao Vivo" album for CID in 74, when Alberto Farah sounded great on Fender Rhodes, Paulo Russo still played electric bass (very well, indeed), and Lula Nascimento was in great shape on the drums. But the moment I "elected" Montarroyos one of my favorite artists, one of the world's top jazz players, was when I listening to that precious version of "Sunflower".
The next "experience" happened in 1976, once again at the Teatro Fonte da Saudade, when I attended for several nights a musical play titled "Laços", which united jazz, poetry and acting. The three main performers were keyboardist Luiz Eça (one of Tamba Trio's founders and another one of my musical heroes), actor Marcos Paulo (already a star from the Globo TV novelas since the "Pigmalião 70" soap opera), and an excellent singer named Claudia Versiani, now living in obscurity. But the whole band was terrific and it included two late legends of the Brazilian jazz scene - electric bassist Luizão Maia and drummer Claudio Caribé - plus guitar master Helio Delmiro. The repertoire included such themes as Edu Lobo's "Casa Forte", two Luiz Eça anthems - "Mestre Bimba" and "Reflexos" - from the "Tamba 73" album (the one I had the chance to reissue on CD in 2001 for BMG as part of the "RCA 100 Anos de Musica" series), and Marcio Montarroyos' own "Makaha", his highlight on the concert. The album was recorded live by the Som Livre label, but remains unissued on CD. (The same applies to another great record taped live by Philips at that same theater in 1976, "Resistindo", my personal favorite among the dozens of albums by the Quarteto Em Cy).
Another unforgettable concert (for several mixed reasons) I was privileged to attend was Marcio's avant-garde performance with the superb São Paulo-based Grupo Um during the First São Paulo/Montreux Jazz Festival, in 1978, at the Ibirapuera Auditorium in SP. One year later, it was one of the subjects I discussed with Marcio the day I interviewed him for my column in the "Tribuna da Imprensa" daily newspaper, a propos of an engagement of his new band at the "Funarte Hall" in Rio de Janeiro. That was the first interview I ever did for the "Tribuna". That day we became friends.
That killing band included keyboardist Marcos Silva, bassist Jamil Joanes, drummer Alfredo Dias Gomes (the first one I saw using two bass drums!), and guitarist Victor Biglione, plus other guests. I have attended the opening night and all the following ones. Marcio had achieved the complete maturity, applying electronic effects (like the wah-wah pedal connected to the trumpet) with total command of the instrument.
(clockwise: Biglione, Montarroyos, Silva, Dias Gomes, Joanes)
That killing band included keyboardist Marcos Silva, bassist Jamil Joanes, drummer Alfredo Dias Gomes (the first one I saw using two bass drums!), and guitarist Victor Biglione, plus other guests. I have attended the opening night and all the following ones. Marcio had achieved the complete maturity, applying electronic effects (like the wah-wah pedal connected to the trumpet) with total command of the instrument.
(clockwise: Biglione, Montarroyos, Silva, Dias Gomes, Joanes)Like all the masters, he kept improving and crafting his art all the time. It's impossible to list all the other Marcio Montarroyos concerts I was privileged to attend in Rio, but I cannot go on without mentioning two outstanding engagements with the Stone Alliance group (specially the last one, in 1978, at the "Clara Nunes Theater", with Mutantes' guitar hero Sergio Dias Baptista as a guest and the late Brecker Brothers' keyboardist Mark Gray added to the Stone Alliance line-up); the opening night of the "Mistura Fina" club in Ipanema (at the Garcia D'Ávila Street) back in 1980, when I shared the table with Yana Purim, Sergio Vid, Marcio's wife Cristina, and promoter Françoise Bloch; the concert with Antonio Carlos Jobim and Edu Lobo (taped on studio for the "Edu & Tom" album) and, more recently, a very intimate setting at the now-defunct "Partitura" club in 2002, when Marcio was backed only by a keyboardist. Of course, his beautiful arrangement of Pixinguinha's "Carinhoso" (one of the most famous and best-selling instrumental recordings ever in Brazil!) was in the book.
Btw, although my mother loved Marcio's version of "Carinhoso", her favorite among his recordings was a track ("Apenas Um Coração Solitário", an adaptation of Tchaikovsky's 1869 classical piece "Njet tolko tot kto znal Op.6 No.6", based on a Goethe's song for a gypsy waif) from Waltel Branco's "Meu Balanço" album. In case someone is interested, the LP recorded for CBS in 1975 was reissued on CD format twenty years later by the London-based label Mr. Bongo.
We also met in countless other occasions. Among them: many gigs leading his own groups at the "Jazzmania" club, a studio date with Azymuth performing the title track ("O Amor É Chama") of their "Flame" album, and the live recording sessions that yielded the "Casa da Bossa" project in 1996 (released here in the USA as "House of Bossa" by Mercury Records, as well as in Japan as "Casa da Bossa - Live from Rio", also available on a video exhibited on the Multishow Brazilian TV channel, but never commercially released in Brazil), which includes the stunning meeting of Marcio and Zimbo Trio on a 6m18s acoustically funkyfied version of Moacir Santos' "Nanã", the only instrumental number in the program).
Btw, although my mother loved Marcio's version of "Carinhoso", her favorite among his recordings was a track ("Apenas Um Coração Solitário", an adaptation of Tchaikovsky's 1869 classical piece "Njet tolko tot kto znal Op.6 No.6", based on a Goethe's song for a gypsy waif) from Waltel Branco's "Meu Balanço" album. In case someone is interested, the LP recorded for CBS in 1975 was reissued on CD format twenty years later by the London-based label Mr. Bongo.
We also met in countless other occasions. Among them: many gigs leading his own groups at the "Jazzmania" club, a studio date with Azymuth performing the title track ("O Amor É Chama") of their "Flame" album, and the live recording sessions that yielded the "Casa da Bossa" project in 1996 (released here in the USA as "House of Bossa" by Mercury Records, as well as in Japan as "Casa da Bossa - Live from Rio", also available on a video exhibited on the Multishow Brazilian TV channel, but never commercially released in Brazil), which includes the stunning meeting of Marcio and Zimbo Trio on a 6m18s acoustically funkyfied version of Moacir Santos' "Nanã", the only instrumental number in the program).
As I have already mentioned before, I was also privileged to participate, as a (very shy) percussionist, in many jam-sessions at Marcio's apartment during the late 70s and early to mid-80s. In one of those nights I met top reedman José Carlos "Bigorna" Ramos, with whom I also developed a solid friendship. I remember a particular night on which Bigorna arrived at Marcio's home with a new girlfriend, saying: "I want you to meet Loalwa, a great singer". They eventually married, had two kids, divorced, and she later on relocated to France and exploded in 1989 as the singer of lambada's million-selling act Kaoma. It was also at Marcio's apt. that I met for the first time people like Jamil Joanes, Victor Biglione and percussionist Carlos David Sion.
Marcio and I also used to listen to many albums together: from Herb Alpert's "Rise" to Chuck Mangione's "Feel So Good", two LPs that impressed him a lot because both were huge instrumental pop hits achieved by trumpet/flugelhorn players. But, of course, we also listened to a lot of Miles Davis' and Brecker Brothers' vinyls. Always updated with what was going on all over the world, he was the first person who said "of course I know him, he is fantastic, the top trumpet player in LA right now", when I mentioned Jerry Hey's name - none other musicians in Rio had never heard about Jerry at that time (let's say 1979). On another night, in 1981, Marcio showed me a VHS video by Grover Washington, Jr. with Steve Gadd, Anthony Jackson, Richard Tee, Paul Griffin and Ralph MacDonald, including most of the "Winelight" material. There was no trumpeter on that concert, but he loved Grover's solos.
Yesterday, when I became aware that Marcio had passed, I watched once again his two videos with Larry Coryell: "Live from Bahia" (91) and "Live Under The Sky" (filmed in Japan in 92), plus the "Horizonte Aberto" DVD with Sergio Mendes (1980). And I've been listening to the "Montarroyos/Stone Alliance" CD (originally recorded in 1977 in Rio & NY) and reissued by Som Livre on CD in 1994, but currently out-of-print) over and over again. Btw, I vividly remember when I told Marcio that it had been released in the USA by Stone Alliance's own label, PM Records, in 1979, and later got a 4-star rave review in DownBeat. I made a xerox copy of the review and gave it to him the following day. It brought him to tears.
Marcio recorded many solo albums in Brazil and in the USA for other labels. Two of them ("Magic Moment" and "Carioca") came out on Columbia in the early 80s, but both failed commercially because they were fusion-oriented projects in a time that Wynton Marsalis’ retro power was rising and rising... Two very ironic things happenned: Marcio’s first album on Columbia, “Magic Moment”, had been originally intended for release on Lorimar Records, a small company created by German producer Eckhart Rahn (Marcio's manager in Europe at that time), who later would would found the Black Sun label. Well, at the time of the album release, Lorimar broke up. Eckhart offered "Magic Moment" to CBS, Inc. and they accepted to release it; the sad part is that "Magic Moment" and Wynton’s debut for Columbia were promoted together in the very same ad printed by CBS in DownBeat and other mags….Needless to say, the big impact of Wynton’s album and Miles Davis' comeback project "The Man With The Horn" transformed Marcio’s album in a “death release” in the hands of Dr. George Butler (Columbia vice president of jazz and progressive A&R) and Vernon Slaughter, vice president of black music and jazz promotion.
Anyway, "Magic Moment" got a good review on Cash Box and, in the Record World issue of April 3, 1982, LA journalist Samuel Graham wrote: "Chuck Mangione is the newest artist to join the Columbia label... Two other signings that have attracted both critical acclaim and immediate sales are the debut recordings of two young trumpet players, Wynton Marsalis and Marcio Montarroyos. The efforts of the publicity and college departments have been crucial in helping the careers of artists like Marsalis, Ulmer, and Arthur Blythe. According to Butler, supporting artists on the road is a key element in the success of Columbia's jazz roster." Needless to say, there was no touring support nor any specific promo campaign for Marcio at CBS.
But, in Brazil, Marcio honored me when he and Christina Montarroyos (his then-wife and executive producer) invited me to write the text for the program of his engagement at the "Villa-Lobos Theater", celebrating the Brazilian release of "Magic Moment" in 1982. Some other CDs followed: "Samba Solstice" (87), "Terra Mater" (89) and "Congado Celebration" (95), plus the self-produced compilation "The Best of Marcio Montarroyos" (97).
My personal favorite among Marcio’s albums, however, remains the "Stone Alliance" project recorded with such guests as Eraldo de Hollanda Vasconcellos (Nana’s not so lucky but very talented brother), Hermeto Pascoal, Carlos David Sion, Dom Bira, and the Stone Alliance trio (Don Alias, Steve Grossman, Gene Perla). Claudio Roditi wrote the LP liner notes, deleted in the 1994 Brazilian CD reissue. Although currently out-of-print in Brazil, it has been reissued both in Japan (by the Kyutai label on June 29, 2005) and in the USA (by PM Records on July 25, 2007) with different track sequences and different covers. Anyway, it’s a superb album, Marcio’s masterpiece.
More rememberances (and rare pictures) added in other posts. Please look for them.
Marcio and I also used to listen to many albums together: from Herb Alpert's "Rise" to Chuck Mangione's "Feel So Good", two LPs that impressed him a lot because both were huge instrumental pop hits achieved by trumpet/flugelhorn players. But, of course, we also listened to a lot of Miles Davis' and Brecker Brothers' vinyls. Always updated with what was going on all over the world, he was the first person who said "of course I know him, he is fantastic, the top trumpet player in LA right now", when I mentioned Jerry Hey's name - none other musicians in Rio had never heard about Jerry at that time (let's say 1979). On another night, in 1981, Marcio showed me a VHS video by Grover Washington, Jr. with Steve Gadd, Anthony Jackson, Richard Tee, Paul Griffin and Ralph MacDonald, including most of the "Winelight" material. There was no trumpeter on that concert, but he loved Grover's solos.
Yesterday, when I became aware that Marcio had passed, I watched once again his two videos with Larry Coryell: "Live from Bahia" (91) and "Live Under The Sky" (filmed in Japan in 92), plus the "Horizonte Aberto" DVD with Sergio Mendes (1980). And I've been listening to the "Montarroyos/Stone Alliance" CD (originally recorded in 1977 in Rio & NY) and reissued by Som Livre on CD in 1994, but currently out-of-print) over and over again. Btw, I vividly remember when I told Marcio that it had been released in the USA by Stone Alliance's own label, PM Records, in 1979, and later got a 4-star rave review in DownBeat. I made a xerox copy of the review and gave it to him the following day. It brought him to tears.Marcio recorded many solo albums in Brazil and in the USA for other labels. Two of them ("Magic Moment" and "Carioca") came out on Columbia in the early 80s, but both failed commercially because they were fusion-oriented projects in a time that Wynton Marsalis’ retro power was rising and rising... Two very ironic things happenned: Marcio’s first album on Columbia, “Magic Moment”, had been originally intended for release on Lorimar Records, a small company created by German producer Eckhart Rahn (Marcio's manager in Europe at that time), who later would would found the Black Sun label. Well, at the time of the album release, Lorimar broke up. Eckhart offered "Magic Moment" to CBS, Inc. and they accepted to release it; the sad part is that "Magic Moment" and Wynton’s debut for Columbia were promoted together in the very same ad printed by CBS in DownBeat and other mags….Needless to say, the big impact of Wynton’s album and Miles Davis' comeback project "The Man With The Horn" transformed Marcio’s album in a “death release” in the hands of Dr. George Butler (Columbia vice president of jazz and progressive A&R) and Vernon Slaughter, vice president of black music and jazz promotion.
Anyway, "Magic Moment" got a good review on Cash Box and, in the Record World issue of April 3, 1982, LA journalist Samuel Graham wrote: "Chuck Mangione is the newest artist to join the Columbia label... Two other signings that have attracted both critical acclaim and immediate sales are the debut recordings of two young trumpet players, Wynton Marsalis and Marcio Montarroyos. The efforts of the publicity and college departments have been crucial in helping the careers of artists like Marsalis, Ulmer, and Arthur Blythe. According to Butler, supporting artists on the road is a key element in the success of Columbia's jazz roster." Needless to say, there was no touring support nor any specific promo campaign for Marcio at CBS.
But, in Brazil, Marcio honored me when he and Christina Montarroyos (his then-wife and executive producer) invited me to write the text for the program of his engagement at the "Villa-Lobos Theater", celebrating the Brazilian release of "Magic Moment" in 1982. Some other CDs followed: "Samba Solstice" (87), "Terra Mater" (89) and "Congado Celebration" (95), plus the self-produced compilation "The Best of Marcio Montarroyos" (97).
My personal favorite among Marcio’s albums, however, remains the "Stone Alliance" project recorded with such guests as Eraldo de Hollanda Vasconcellos (Nana’s not so lucky but very talented brother), Hermeto Pascoal, Carlos David Sion, Dom Bira, and the Stone Alliance trio (Don Alias, Steve Grossman, Gene Perla). Claudio Roditi wrote the LP liner notes, deleted in the 1994 Brazilian CD reissue. Although currently out-of-print in Brazil, it has been reissued both in Japan (by the Kyutai label on June 29, 2005) and in the USA (by PM Records on July 25, 2007) with different track sequences and different covers. Anyway, it’s a superb album, Marcio’s masterpiece.
More rememberances (and rare pictures) added in other posts. Please look for them.
Tuesday, December 18, 2007
Mike Longo's Big Band, Tonight at the Gillespie Auditorium, NY
Celebrate the Holiday Season with some exciting new compositions and arrangements and straight ahead, burnin', foot stompin' jazz when Mike Longo's swingin' 18-piece Big Band, the NY State of the Art Jazz Ensemble with vocalist Miss Hilary Gardner, returns to "Jazz Tuesdays" tonight, December 18 in the Gillespie Auditorium at the New York Baha'i Center at 53 East 11th Street (between University Place & Broadway). There will be 2 concerts at 8:00 and 9:30.
This is the big band that thrilled a sold-out house this past October at Dizzy Gillespie's birthday celebration and was voted "Band of the Year" in the 2004 Arnaldo DeSouteiro Jazz Poll at Tribuna da Imprensa newspaper . You will be delighted by the NYSAJE's repertoire from their latest CD "Oasis", that topped the charts at # 7 in December 2004 and remained in the top 20 for an unprecedented 16 weeks. And you won't want to miss Hilary Gardner’s renditions of some jazz classics as well as some new compositions and arrangements.
Leading a trio, Mike has just released an excellent CD, "Float Like A Butterfly", certainly one of the best jazz releases for 2007.
Mike Longo has performed with a list of jazz legends that include saxophone great Cannonball Adderley, Henry Red Allen, Coleman Hawkins, George Wettling, Gene Krupa, Nancy Wilson, Gloria Lynn, Jimmy Witherspoon, Joe Williams, Jimmy Rushing, James Moody and many others. It was in the mid-60s when Longo’s trio was playing at the Embers West, that Roy Eldridge told Dizzy Gillespie about this new pianist he had heard. Dizzy came to hear him play and soon asked him to become his pianist. This started a life-long musical relationship and friendship. From 1966 through 1975, Longo worked exclusively as Dizzy’s pianist and musical director. Mike left the Gillespie group officially in 1975 to venture out on his own, but continued to work for Gillespie on a part-time basis until his death in 1993. Since that time Mike has recorded numerous albums and CDs on various labels with some 45 recordings with artists such as Gillespie, James Moody, etc. At present he has over 20 solo albums to his credit. He is sought after as a music instructor and is in demand for jazz clinics and concerts at universities and music schools throughout the world, and has appeared regularly at the Lincoln Center’s new jazz room “Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola.” Longo is founder and President of Consolidated Artists Productions (CAP), an independent recording label, dedicated to allowing artists to pursue the types of projects that are in line with their career objectives. Longo’s latest venture, Jazz Tuesdays, is dedicated to allowing artists to retain creative control of their work and providing students and the general public with an opportunity to hear “world class jazz at affordable prices.”
Admission is 15.00, 10.00 for students.
Tickets will be sold at the door, or call 212-222-5159 for reservations and information.
Jazz Tuesdays
in the John Birks Gillespie Auditorium
The New York Baha'i Center
53 East 11th Street (between University Place & Broadway)
Two shows: 8:00 and 9:30 p.m.
This is the big band that thrilled a sold-out house this past October at Dizzy Gillespie's birthday celebration and was voted "Band of the Year" in the 2004 Arnaldo DeSouteiro Jazz Poll at Tribuna da Imprensa newspaper . You will be delighted by the NYSAJE's repertoire from their latest CD "Oasis", that topped the charts at # 7 in December 2004 and remained in the top 20 for an unprecedented 16 weeks. And you won't want to miss Hilary Gardner’s renditions of some jazz classics as well as some new compositions and arrangements.
Leading a trio, Mike has just released an excellent CD, "Float Like A Butterfly", certainly one of the best jazz releases for 2007.
Mike Longo has performed with a list of jazz legends that include saxophone great Cannonball Adderley, Henry Red Allen, Coleman Hawkins, George Wettling, Gene Krupa, Nancy Wilson, Gloria Lynn, Jimmy Witherspoon, Joe Williams, Jimmy Rushing, James Moody and many others. It was in the mid-60s when Longo’s trio was playing at the Embers West, that Roy Eldridge told Dizzy Gillespie about this new pianist he had heard. Dizzy came to hear him play and soon asked him to become his pianist. This started a life-long musical relationship and friendship. From 1966 through 1975, Longo worked exclusively as Dizzy’s pianist and musical director. Mike left the Gillespie group officially in 1975 to venture out on his own, but continued to work for Gillespie on a part-time basis until his death in 1993. Since that time Mike has recorded numerous albums and CDs on various labels with some 45 recordings with artists such as Gillespie, James Moody, etc. At present he has over 20 solo albums to his credit. He is sought after as a music instructor and is in demand for jazz clinics and concerts at universities and music schools throughout the world, and has appeared regularly at the Lincoln Center’s new jazz room “Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola.” Longo is founder and President of Consolidated Artists Productions (CAP), an independent recording label, dedicated to allowing artists to pursue the types of projects that are in line with their career objectives. Longo’s latest venture, Jazz Tuesdays, is dedicated to allowing artists to retain creative control of their work and providing students and the general public with an opportunity to hear “world class jazz at affordable prices.”
Admission is 15.00, 10.00 for students.
Tickets will be sold at the door, or call 212-222-5159 for reservations and information.
Jazz Tuesdays
in the John Birks Gillespie Auditorium
The New York Baha'i Center
53 East 11th Street (between University Place & Broadway)
Two shows: 8:00 and 9:30 p.m.
R.I.P.: Doc Paulin
Doc Paulin
(b: 22.Jun.1907, Wallace/LA; d: 20.Nov.2007, New Orleans/LA)
The trumpeter and bandleader Ernest 'Doc' Paulin died in New Orleans on November 20th at the age of 100. He participated in his hometown's music scene since the 1920s. For many decades the Doc Paulin Brass Band was one of the city's most popular bands. During the 1950s through the 1980s many young musicians were trained in that band, among them the clarinetist Michael White. Obituary: New Orleans Times-Picayune, Louisiana Weekly.
(b: 22.Jun.1907, Wallace/LA; d: 20.Nov.2007, New Orleans/LA)
The trumpeter and bandleader Ernest 'Doc' Paulin died in New Orleans on November 20th at the age of 100. He participated in his hometown's music scene since the 1920s. For many decades the Doc Paulin Brass Band was one of the city's most popular bands. During the 1950s through the 1980s many young musicians were trained in that band, among them the clarinetist Michael White. Obituary: New Orleans Times-Picayune, Louisiana Weekly.
Hal Gaylor's new careers
The double bass player Hal Gaylor stopped playing when a virus left him deaf in his right ear in 1973 (Times Herald-Record). He was only 44 at the time and tried to keep playing, but couldn't hear the music well enough to play at the level he had reached. Eventually he began a new career as a therapist and certified hypnotherapist for addictive personalities. On the side he also sketches portraits of jazz musicians which can be seen on his own website . Gaylor had started his career in his native Montréal where his schoolmates included Oscar Peterson and Maynard Ferguson. He worked with Frank Sinatra, Mel Tormé, Tony Bennett, Benny Goodman and many others.
R.I.P.: Cecil Payne
Cecil Payne (baritone saxophone)
(b: 14.Dec.1922, Brooklyn/NY; d: 27.Nov.2007, Camden, NJ)
The baritone saxophonist Cecil Payne died November 27th at the age of 84. Payne sat in the baritone chair of Dizzy Gillespie's big band from 1946 to 1949, later played with big bands such as the ones of Count Basie, Woody Herman or Lionel Hampton, but also with musicians such as Randy Weston, John Coltrane, Tadd Dameron, Coleman Hawkins and many others. In recent years he had eyesight problems, and lived secluded in his Brooklyn home. Friends arranged for meals and transportation to gigs which he continued to play until he settled in a nursing home about a year ago. Obituaries: Arts Journal, All About Jazz, The Independent, Guardian. I love Cecil's performance on Dizzy Gillespie's LaserDisc "An All-Star Tribute to the Jazz Master", filmed in 1987 and released by Pioneer. This month, he placed # 3 as Best Baritone Sax in the 72nd Annual DownBeat Readers Poll, confirming his popularity among jazz fans, although he never has been a "household name".
(b: 14.Dec.1922, Brooklyn/NY; d: 27.Nov.2007, Camden, NJ)
The baritone saxophonist Cecil Payne died November 27th at the age of 84. Payne sat in the baritone chair of Dizzy Gillespie's big band from 1946 to 1949, later played with big bands such as the ones of Count Basie, Woody Herman or Lionel Hampton, but also with musicians such as Randy Weston, John Coltrane, Tadd Dameron, Coleman Hawkins and many others. In recent years he had eyesight problems, and lived secluded in his Brooklyn home. Friends arranged for meals and transportation to gigs which he continued to play until he settled in a nursing home about a year ago. Obituaries: Arts Journal, All About Jazz, The Independent, Guardian. I love Cecil's performance on Dizzy Gillespie's LaserDisc "An All-Star Tribute to the Jazz Master", filmed in 1987 and released by Pioneer. This month, he placed # 3 as Best Baritone Sax in the 72nd Annual DownBeat Readers Poll, confirming his popularity among jazz fans, although he never has been a "household name".
Ambrose Akinmusire wins the Monk Competition
The trumpeter Ambrose Akinmusire from Oakland, California, won the latest 20th Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz Competition, as Andrew Gilbert reports (San Francisco Chronicle). The 25 year old musician was surprised by the reactions - from friends and strangers, record contract people and managers. He already performed on Alan Pasqua's recent CD "The Antisocial Club" and will soon release his debut CD "Prelude to Cora". Akinmusire is very detailed in his compositions, "down to what the accompanists do". He sees himself as a "type of person who's overly prepared", yet loves "just coming up with stuff on the spot" with the musicians of his quintet "featuring the musicians who hired him for his first gigs: saxophonist Howard Wiley and bassist Marcus Shelby".
R.I.P.: Aletra Hampton
Aletra Hampton
(b: Middleton/OH; d: 12.Nov.2007, Indianapolis/IN)
The singer and pianist Aletra Hampton died in Indianapolis on November 12th after a long battle with cancer at the age of 92. She started her career as a youngster with the Hampton Sisters, a family band with which she performed from the 30s up until 2006. In the last years the band had been led by Aletra and her sister Virtue Hampton Whitted. Obituary: The Indianapolis Star.
(b: Middleton/OH; d: 12.Nov.2007, Indianapolis/IN)
The singer and pianist Aletra Hampton died in Indianapolis on November 12th after a long battle with cancer at the age of 92. She started her career as a youngster with the Hampton Sisters, a family band with which she performed from the 30s up until 2006. In the last years the band had been led by Aletra and her sister Virtue Hampton Whitted. Obituary: The Indianapolis Star.
Marian McPartland: at 89, no plan to retire
Marian McPartland doesn't plan to retire, as she tells Susanne M. Schafer (San Francisco Chronicle). Her arthritis causes her pain, but at the piano she doesn't feel it, she jokes. In March she will turn 90 and just visited South Carolina for the premiere of her symphonic work "A Portrait of Rachel Carson", inspired by Carson's 1962 environmental book, "Silent Spring". In it "lots of far-out chords" are meant to symbolize "the dissonance of environmental harm to nature". McPartland never learned to write musical scores and hired an assistant to transcribe her musical thoughts. McPartland's radio show "Piano Jazz" runs since 1978 with more than 650 guests talking and playing with the pianist.
Sunday, December 16, 2007
This December at the Jazz Bakery
December 2007 at the Jazz Bakery
Dec 16: M-Pact a cappella jazz vocal group
matinee Dec 16: Inner Voices Christmas Concert
Dec 17: Gordon Goodwin Big Phat Band
Dec 18: pianist/vocalist Aimee Nolte w/ Hideaki Tokunaga gt & Jeff Novac ba
Dec 19 - 22: pianist Kenny Barron Trio w/ Kiyoshi Kitagawa ba & Johnathan Blake dr
8 & 9:30 PM Dec 23: Judy Wolman's Sing ! Sing ! Sing ! Candlelight Carols
matinee Dec 23: McArthur/Hsieh Band
Dec 27: Woodford, Ehling, Ratner & Wallace
Dec 28: pianist Eric Reed Trio w/ Willie Jones III dr & bassist TBA
Dec 29: Ernie Andrews 81st Birthday Celebration !!
Dec 30: pianist Robert Turner Trio
matinee Dec 30: bassist Martin Nevin Group
Dec 16: M-Pact a cappella jazz vocal group
matinee Dec 16: Inner Voices Christmas Concert
Dec 17: Gordon Goodwin Big Phat Band
Dec 18: pianist/vocalist Aimee Nolte w/ Hideaki Tokunaga gt & Jeff Novac ba
Dec 19 - 22: pianist Kenny Barron Trio w/ Kiyoshi Kitagawa ba & Johnathan Blake dr
8 & 9:30 PM Dec 23: Judy Wolman's Sing ! Sing ! Sing ! Candlelight Carols
matinee Dec 23: McArthur/Hsieh Band
Dec 27: Woodford, Ehling, Ratner & Wallace
Dec 28: pianist Eric Reed Trio w/ Willie Jones III dr & bassist TBA
Dec 29: Ernie Andrews 81st Birthday Celebration !!
Dec 30: pianist Robert Turner Trio
matinee Dec 30: bassist Martin Nevin Group
Today, Hancock's last U.S. show of 2007
2007 GRAMMY nominee Herbie Hancock performs in his last stateside concert of the year, today, at 2:30 pm in UCLA's Royce Hall for the International Committee of Artists for Peace's (ICAP) First Annual Founder's Concert. [ Tickets ]
Herbie and the famed jazz saxophonist Wayne Shorter have composed an original piece for the event and will be accompanied by Vinnie Colaiuta, Nathan East and the UCLA Wind Orchestra. Hancock remarks on the ICAP's mission to promote world peace through the arts: "The arts have always served relationships between people of different cultures so well. In a way, the arts function as a very serious kind of ambassador. An organization like ICAP, with determined spirit, working toward world peace, can be a very powerful message and shows action in doing what many political figures cannot for peace."
Herbie and the famed jazz saxophonist Wayne Shorter have composed an original piece for the event and will be accompanied by Vinnie Colaiuta, Nathan East and the UCLA Wind Orchestra. Hancock remarks on the ICAP's mission to promote world peace through the arts: "The arts have always served relationships between people of different cultures so well. In a way, the arts function as a very serious kind of ambassador. An organization like ICAP, with determined spirit, working toward world peace, can be a very powerful message and shows action in doing what many political figures cannot for peace."
R.I.P.: Carlos "Patato" Valdes
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Remembering Carlos "Patato" Valdes
(b: November 4, 1926 - d: December 4, 2007}
by Charles Carlini
New York, NY - The world lost one of Cuba's most significant keepers of the Afro-Cuban flame this week. Carlos Valdés, known to the world as Patato (a reference to his diminutive size), died from complications of Emphysema Tuesday night in Cleveland, Ohio. He was 81.
Although he may have resembled a leprechaun, Patato was an enormous figure in the world of Afro-cuban drumming. He, along with Mongo Santamaria, Armando Peraza, Francisco Aguabella and Candido Camero, collectively codified their language of rhythm for mainstream American audiences upon their arrival to this country.
He was one of the very first congueros to tap melodies from his congas. In fact, he often took his time tuning his congas before each performance (and sometimes during) as the drums needed to ring the precise tones to achieve their melodic statements. And since it was very hard to keep his congas in tune, he later invented a ring which attached itself around the skin of the drum which he could tighten with a key thereby keeping it in tune.
I had many wonderful memories working with Patato over the years. I practically grew up watching him perform. And when I settled in New York, I was honored with the privilege of working with him on numerous occasions. Whenever I was producing a Latin Jazz show, I was sure to call on Patato to be among the leading players as he was such a showman. In fact, many of the club owners and festivals demanded that he be apart of the show I was packaging. And rightfully so. He knew how to work a crowd. And people just loved him.
I can remember celebrating one New Year's eve in Florida with Patato who was then 64 years old. We were on Hibiscus Island at someone's palatial mansion. How we got there was another story. But we were the evening entertainment. I played guitar with my half-brother Richard Puente (son of Tito) on bass and a few other local musicians. And, of course, Patato on congas. Patato was a hit. He sang, danced, smacked the drums like no one's business. And when it was all done, he ate half the food at the party.
On another occasion, Patato had sold me a set of his LP model congas which I made him sign. But I also asked him to give me lessons as a condition of purchasing them. He agreed. So on the following week, I had a car pick him up and drive him to my place. But before we could begin the lesson, he needed a six-pack of Heineken to loosen up. So there we were in my apartment in mid-town Manhattan banging away on congas for several hours, drinking beer and annoying the heck out of my neighbors. When I failed to execute one of his many licks well, he would rap me on my hands with a clave stick (boy did that hurt) and show me the correct way after yelling at me. I'll never forget that lesson.
One year I organized a birthday tribute to Patato at New York's Birdland and the list of well-wishers was enormous. Fellow Conga Master Ray Barretto was one who was in attendance. And after he played a burning chart, he stood up towering over his Conga drums and said to the crowd that "Patato is to me the single most creative and musical percussionist I have ever had the honor of knowing."
There will never ever be another like him. That's the God's honest truth.
Long live Patato!
R.I.P.: H. Wiley Hitchcock
H. Wiley Hitchcock (musicologist)
(b: 28.Sep.1923, Detroit/MI; d: 5.Dec.2007, New York)
The musicologist H. Wiley Hitchcock died December 5th from prostrate cancer. Hitchcock founded the Institute for Studies in American Music at Brooklyn College in 1971 and directed it through 1993. He was on the board of (and actually presided) many musical organizations and was co-editor of the "New Grove Dictionary of American Music". In this scholarly encyclopedia he included vernacular idioms so far not found in similar books, such as pop music, jazz, country, rock and Native American Indian music. The New York Times obituary quotes from a 1986 interview about how as editor of the Ameri-Grove he handled disputed terms like the word "jazz" which many jazz musicians had found patronizing. Hitchcock: “Schoenberg didn’t like the word ‘atonality’ either, and Philip Glass doesn’t like ‘minimalism.’ That’s tough!”
(b: 28.Sep.1923, Detroit/MI; d: 5.Dec.2007, New York)
The musicologist H. Wiley Hitchcock died December 5th from prostrate cancer. Hitchcock founded the Institute for Studies in American Music at Brooklyn College in 1971 and directed it through 1993. He was on the board of (and actually presided) many musical organizations and was co-editor of the "New Grove Dictionary of American Music". In this scholarly encyclopedia he included vernacular idioms so far not found in similar books, such as pop music, jazz, country, rock and Native American Indian music. The New York Times obituary quotes from a 1986 interview about how as editor of the Ameri-Grove he handled disputed terms like the word "jazz" which many jazz musicians had found patronizing. Hitchcock: “Schoenberg didn’t like the word ‘atonality’ either, and Philip Glass doesn’t like ‘minimalism.’ That’s tough!”
R.I.P.: Karlheinz Stockhausen
Karlheinz Stockhausen (composer)
(b: 22.Aug.1928, Mödrath/Germany; d: 5.Dec.2007, Kürten/Germany)
The German composer Karlheinz Stockhausen died December 5th. Stockhausen who was a regular lecturer at the legendary Darmstadt holiday courses for contemporary music combined electronic sounds with the human voice and musical instruments since the early 1950s. His avantgarde compositions were of influence also outside the world of contemporary composition and could be felt in the music of Miles Davis, Björk or the Grateful Dead. His face was on the cover of the Beatles' "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Heart Club Band". His reputation was damaged by a statement made after the terrorist attacks of September 11th which he compared to a work of art, a statement for which he fully apologized later. Obituaries: Washington Post, Süddeutsche Zeitung, New York Times, The Independent.
(b: 22.Aug.1928, Mödrath/Germany; d: 5.Dec.2007, Kürten/Germany)
The German composer Karlheinz Stockhausen died December 5th. Stockhausen who was a regular lecturer at the legendary Darmstadt holiday courses for contemporary music combined electronic sounds with the human voice and musical instruments since the early 1950s. His avantgarde compositions were of influence also outside the world of contemporary composition and could be felt in the music of Miles Davis, Björk or the Grateful Dead. His face was on the cover of the Beatles' "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Heart Club Band". His reputation was damaged by a statement made after the terrorist attacks of September 11th which he compared to a work of art, a statement for which he fully apologized later. Obituaries: Washington Post, Süddeutsche Zeitung, New York Times, The Independent.
Ivo Perelman Exhibit @ Ch'i Contemporary Fine Art, NY
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Ch'i Contemporary Fine Art announces...
Glass & Steel: A Pilgrim's Processrecent glass sculptures by Alan Binstock and
Musical Line new paintings by Ivo Perelman
Public Opening: December 14th, 6-9pm Friday December 14 - January 6, 2008
Ch'i Contemporary Fine Art is pleased to announce the opening of two solo exhibitions in December. The first show, Glass & Steel: A Pilgrim's Process presents recent glass sculpture by national artist and architect, Alan Binstock. The second exhibition, Musical Line features new paintings by Brazilian artist and jazz impresario, Ivo Perelman. Both exhibitions open on December 12, 2007 and run through January 6, 2008 at the gallery's Williamsburg location of 293 Grand St, between Roebling and Havemeyer. A public reception on Friday, December 14th will be held for both exhibitions from 6-9 PM in conjunction with the monthly Williamsburg Gallery Association "Second Friday" featuring local galleries open till 9 PM. The public is invited to attend this event and to visit the exhibitions during regular gallery hours: Wed- Sun 11 AM - 7 PM and Mon. 9 AM - 5PM. For more information contact the gallery at 718 218 8939.
Musical Line new paintings by Ivo Perelman
Musical Line, new paintings by Ivo Perelman is the second solo exhibition by Ivo Perelman at Ch'i Contemporary Fine Art. Born in Sao Paulo, Brazil in 1961 he came to the United States in 1981 to pursue a musical career. He has performed to great acclaim in jazz festivals and concerts around the world and has recorded 30 CDs. His vigorous performing style has brought comparisons with John Coltrane, Albert Ayler, David Murray and, perhaps inevitably, Gato Barbieri. Perelman has exhibited his artwork worldwide and is included in the public collections of the Brooklyn Jewish Arts Gallery and the Miniature Museum of Contemporary Art in Amsterdam.The natural affinity of music and fine art has rarely ever been expressed as vividly as in the visual imagery created by noted jazz saxophonist, Ivo Perelman. His music, a unique form of free jazz, translates itself into the striking Abstract Expressionism of his painted imagery. Just as his music evolves out of his liberation from musical convention, his imagery dispenses with traditional artistic conventions and expresses the raw energy, which creates each painting. The intense flows and abrupt breaks of sound, which emerge from his saxophone, are reborn as zigzagging lines of color, splashed on canvas. Some of his paintings are full of agitated energy, while others are more lyrical, creating a visual moment of near silence. Instead of working from a preconceived artistic idea, Perelman lets the flowing, skittering, dancing paint lead him on. Each painting is like a performance, a set of actions in time, which can happen in that particular way only once, embodying the sound of his music through the stroke of the paint brush. The notes become vibrant colors and the rhythm transcends into shape.
About Ch'i Contemporary Fine Art
Ch'i Contemporary Fine Art, established in Williamsburg, Brooklyn in 1999 and directed by Tracy Causey-Jeffery is committed to exhibiting vibrant contemporary art by living artists: both mid-career and emerging. Ch'i exhibits works in two distinct styles: abstract, textural or fragmented figurative. Ch'i hosts 11-15 exhibitions annually with their artists coming from across America, Asia, Europe and South America. In addition to its own exhibitions, Ch'i participates annually in at least 3 international fairs. In 2007, the gallery has participated in Fountain NY, Bridge Chicago. Upcoming art fairs include Bridge London in October and Bridge Miami in December. Additionally, Ch'i and its artists have been published in Art World News, NY Arts Magazine, Art Forum, Block Magazine, New York Times, The Village Voice, New York Sun, LA Times, Korea Times and Art and Antiques among others. Gallery artists are included in the permanent collections of Kantor Fitzgerald, The Musée Elysée, The Museum of the City of New York, MOMA, the Whitney Museum, Exxon Energy, Hong Kong Museum of Art, the Bank of China, the Kohler Company, The New York Public Library, The University of Maryland, Healthlink, the Kimbell Museum, the National Gallery of Australia, The Houston Museum and the Klutznick National Jewish Museum among others. Ch'i director, Tracy Causey-Jeffery received her masters in art history from the University of London after interning at Sotheby's auction house in New York City. Prior to opening Ch'i, she owned and operated The Finer Side Galleries in Maryland and Washington, D.C. for 7 years.
Ch'i Contemporary Fine Art 293 Grand St. Brooklyn NY 11211
Public Opening: December 14th, 6-9pm Friday December 14 - January 6, 2008
Ch'i Contemporary Fine Art is pleased to announce the opening of two solo exhibitions in December. The first show, Glass & Steel: A Pilgrim's Process presents recent glass sculpture by national artist and architect, Alan Binstock. The second exhibition, Musical Line features new paintings by Brazilian artist and jazz impresario, Ivo Perelman. Both exhibitions open on December 12, 2007 and run through January 6, 2008 at the gallery's Williamsburg location of 293 Grand St, between Roebling and Havemeyer. A public reception on Friday, December 14th will be held for both exhibitions from 6-9 PM in conjunction with the monthly Williamsburg Gallery Association "Second Friday" featuring local galleries open till 9 PM. The public is invited to attend this event and to visit the exhibitions during regular gallery hours: Wed- Sun 11 AM - 7 PM and Mon. 9 AM - 5PM. For more information contact the gallery at 718 218 8939.
Musical Line new paintings by Ivo Perelman
Musical Line, new paintings by Ivo Perelman is the second solo exhibition by Ivo Perelman at Ch'i Contemporary Fine Art. Born in Sao Paulo, Brazil in 1961 he came to the United States in 1981 to pursue a musical career. He has performed to great acclaim in jazz festivals and concerts around the world and has recorded 30 CDs. His vigorous performing style has brought comparisons with John Coltrane, Albert Ayler, David Murray and, perhaps inevitably, Gato Barbieri. Perelman has exhibited his artwork worldwide and is included in the public collections of the Brooklyn Jewish Arts Gallery and the Miniature Museum of Contemporary Art in Amsterdam.The natural affinity of music and fine art has rarely ever been expressed as vividly as in the visual imagery created by noted jazz saxophonist, Ivo Perelman. His music, a unique form of free jazz, translates itself into the striking Abstract Expressionism of his painted imagery. Just as his music evolves out of his liberation from musical convention, his imagery dispenses with traditional artistic conventions and expresses the raw energy, which creates each painting. The intense flows and abrupt breaks of sound, which emerge from his saxophone, are reborn as zigzagging lines of color, splashed on canvas. Some of his paintings are full of agitated energy, while others are more lyrical, creating a visual moment of near silence. Instead of working from a preconceived artistic idea, Perelman lets the flowing, skittering, dancing paint lead him on. Each painting is like a performance, a set of actions in time, which can happen in that particular way only once, embodying the sound of his music through the stroke of the paint brush. The notes become vibrant colors and the rhythm transcends into shape.
About Ch'i Contemporary Fine Art
Ch'i Contemporary Fine Art, established in Williamsburg, Brooklyn in 1999 and directed by Tracy Causey-Jeffery is committed to exhibiting vibrant contemporary art by living artists: both mid-career and emerging. Ch'i exhibits works in two distinct styles: abstract, textural or fragmented figurative. Ch'i hosts 11-15 exhibitions annually with their artists coming from across America, Asia, Europe and South America. In addition to its own exhibitions, Ch'i participates annually in at least 3 international fairs. In 2007, the gallery has participated in Fountain NY, Bridge Chicago. Upcoming art fairs include Bridge London in October and Bridge Miami in December. Additionally, Ch'i and its artists have been published in Art World News, NY Arts Magazine, Art Forum, Block Magazine, New York Times, The Village Voice, New York Sun, LA Times, Korea Times and Art and Antiques among others. Gallery artists are included in the permanent collections of Kantor Fitzgerald, The Musée Elysée, The Museum of the City of New York, MOMA, the Whitney Museum, Exxon Energy, Hong Kong Museum of Art, the Bank of China, the Kohler Company, The New York Public Library, The University of Maryland, Healthlink, the Kimbell Museum, the National Gallery of Australia, The Houston Museum and the Klutznick National Jewish Museum among others. Ch'i director, Tracy Causey-Jeffery received her masters in art history from the University of London after interning at Sotheby's auction house in New York City. Prior to opening Ch'i, she owned and operated The Finer Side Galleries in Maryland and Washington, D.C. for 7 years.
Ch'i Contemporary Fine Art 293 Grand St. Brooklyn NY 11211
Mark Murphy, transcendendo o sublime
Mark Murphy, transcendendo o sublime
Aos 75 anos, cantando cada vez melhor, o cult-singer lança um CD extraordinário
Arnaldo DeSouteiro
Los Angeles - Os Estados Unidos presentearam o mundo com os maiores cantores (e cantoras também, claro) da história da música “popular” e do jazz. Listar todos não vem ao caso. Limitar-me-ei a citar os três titãs: o saudoso Frank Sinatra, o intrépido Tony Bennett, ainda brilhando aos 81 anos, e o incomparável Mark Murphy, cantando cada vez melhor aos 75. Editado pelo selo Verve, “Love is what stays”, segundo fruto da colaboração de MM com o trompetista alemão Till Bronner – iniciada em 2005 com o álbum “Once to every heart” – é prova cabal de tal proeza.
Notáveis estilistas
Cresci ouvindo Sinatra, graças às coleções de meu pai (os discos da fase áurea na Columbia mais os 10 polegadas históricos “Swing easy!” e “Songs for young lovers” que eram os meus prediletos) e de minha mãe, fanzoca das big-bands, e de quem até hoje guardo preciosos 78 rotações do Sinatra ainda crooner nas orquestras de Harry James e Tommy Dorsey. A admiração por Bennett começou por volta dos meus 10 anos de idade, através de amigos como Luiz Bonfá e Richard Templar, que me aplicaram “The movie song album”. Mas só descobri Mark Murphy bem mais tarde, através de “Brazil song” (gravado em 83, lançado em 84) adquirido em uma loja em Hollywood. O impacto foi violento e saí à caça dos outros LPs. Todos importados. Descobri que ele já tinha gravado duas dezenas de discos, mas nenhum deles havia sido editado no Brasil.
Curiosamente, poucos meses depois ficamos amigos quando MM foi ao Rio de Janeiro pela primeira vez, como atração musical de um festival gastronômico de San Francisco promovido pelo Hotel Intercontinental. Apesar do contexto bizarro – o falatório era intenso e ninguém ali parecia interessado no show –, Mark, acompanhado pelo trio de Osmar Milito, arrasou. Ao vivo impressionava ainda mais do que nas gravações. Na noite seguinte, ofereci à Murphy um jantar em minha casa na Rua Paissandu e desde então não perdemos contato. O privilégio de assistir seus shows repetiu-se várias vezes – uma delas em São Paulo (acompanhei a temporada inteira de duas semanas no “150 Nightclub” do Maksoud Plaza em 88) e inúmeras outras na Europa e nos EUA, inclusive durante a convenção da IAJE em 1992, em Miami, quando Mark também me deu a honra de assistir uma das minhas palestras. Visitei-o com Ronald Iskin quando ainda morava em San Francisco na Avenida Van Ness (atualmente reside na cidade de Shohola, na Pennsylvania) e depois tive a honra de hospedá-lo na Barra da Tijuca e em Petrópolis.
Obra de arte
Inteiramente gravado em Berlin, masterizado em Hollywood pelo medalhão Bernie Grundman, perfeito sob todos os aspectos, “Love is what stays” começa ótimo e vai crescendo a cada faixa, tornando-se mais apaixonante a cada tema, a cada compasso. É o segundo disco de Mark Murphy lançado nos EUA pelo cobiçado selo Verve, no qual conseguiu ingressar, ironicamente, através de um contrato assinado com a Universal alemã em 2005. O CD aparece com várias pré-indicações na “Entry List” do Grammy e, se passar para a fase final, tem boas chances de levar o prêmio em 2008, na categoria de “best vocal jazz album”, à qual MM já foi indicado algumas vezes, jamais faturando a estatueta.
“Stolen moments”, de Oliver Nelson (carro-chefe do antológico “The blues and the abstract truth” safra 1961), sempre foi um dos temas preferidos de Murphy, que o letrou, gravou e selecionou como faixa-título de seu disco para a Muse Records em 1978. Aqui reaparece como peça-central, em três momentos – faixa de abertura e duas reprises, além de gerador do primeiro remix. A escolha inteligente permite a Mark uma rápida demonstração de seu pessoal estilo de scat-singing (sim, é possível estabelecer um padrão pessoal dentro do manjado maneirismo) que Kurt Elling insiste em imitar.
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A abertura do CD funciona tal como uma abertura de ópera. O primeiro ato somente se inicia quando as cordas surgem pela primeira vez, na introdução de “Angel eyes”, baladaça de Matt Dennis & Earl Brent originalmente gravada por MM no LP “Rah!” em 61. E aí vem uma das inúmeras surpresas do disco. A introdução lenta é alarme falso, com o arranjo, assinado pelo contrabaixista Christian von Kaphengst, desviando para um suingado andamento médio, desenvolvido sobre uma célula criada em torno da linha executada em uníssono por contrabaixo e clarone, como se fosse um riff. “Provocação” suficiente para incitar Mark a uma aula de fraseado. Os solos ficam a cargo do guitarrista Johan Leijonhufvud (a la Coryell) e do pianista Frank Chastenier. As surpresas ficam por conta da interpretação de Mark, que vai desmembrando cada palavra da letra, enunciando cada sílaba de uma forma inesperada, culminando com um “disappear” fulminante que se esvai como fumaça no encerramento da performance.
Na terceira faixa, “My foolish heart” (Victor Young & Ned Washington, com Lee Konitz no sax-alto), entra em cena uma personagem de crucial importância para o êxito deste projeto: a arranjadora e maestrina Nan Schwartz, co-produtora do CD, e que já havia chamado minha atenção pela adaptação de “Siciliano” (Bach) no disco “Breakthrough“ (86), de Eddie Daniels, não por coincidência também o melhor álbum em toda a carreira do clarinetista. Regendo a Deutsches Symphonie Orchester Berlin, Nan revela a forte (positiva) influência de Claus Ogerman, confirmando sua condição como o que aqui nos EUA se chama “best kept secret”, ou seja, um dos segredos mais bem guardados da cena musical. Combinação fatal de charme, sutileza e elegância a toda prova. Tal qual Mark Murphy.
Aulas de canto
Mark dá um banho de loja na canção country “So doggone lonesome”, de Johnny Cash (1955), pontuada por duas guitarras em intervenções minimalistas e pelo trompete de Bronner, também o arranjador que extirpou a poeira da cafonice e o ranço de sentimentalismo. Igualmente surpreendente, “What if”, hit do grupo de rock inglês Coldplay no disco “X&Y” (2005), ressurge reinventado, discretamente ornamentado por cordas, flautas, clarinete e a guitarra de Chuck Loeb, mais os flocos de neve adicionados pelo Fender Rhodes de Don Grusin.
A faceta de amante & praticante da poesia beat está representada por “The interview” e “Blue cell phone” (esta última em duo com Chastenier ao piano), ambas assinadas por Murphy, também o autor (em parceria com Bronner) da faixa-título “Love is what stays”, outro momento fascinante, pontuado por trompas celestiais.
Quando o ouvinte já se encontra inebriado, praticamente hipnotizado pela densidade & intensidade da beleza sonora ofertada, MM desfere mais três facadas mortais via “Too late now” (fulminante introdução a capela para a suntuosa peça de Burton Lane & Alan Jay Lerner), “Did I ever really live” (Albert Hague & Allan Sherman) e “Once upon a summertime”, a versão em inglês de Johnny Mercer para a primeira canção de Michel Legrand, “La valse des lilas”, composta em 1954 e aqui redimensionada pela orquestração de Nan Schwartz, que cita “Retrato em branco e preto” no movimento final das flautas. Três gravações insuperáveis. Três belíssimas baladas tornadas ainda mais comoventes por Murphy, que acaricia cada nota e lapida cada som, mergulhando fundo na essência de cada canção, eternizando-as à sua maneira.
Recriações e reinvenções
Além da edição em CD com treze faixas na Europa e nos EUA (e quatorze na japonesa por conta da bonus-track “Shirley Horn”, preciosa homenagem de 3m17s), o disco encontra-se disponível em vinil, com dez faixas – ficaram de fora “The interview”, e as duas vinhetas de “Stolen moments”. Também já foram lançados dois singles prensados em vinil de 12 polegadas e 45rpm (o formato preferido pelos DJs), destinados ao mercado de “dancefloor jazz” no qual Mark é cultuado desde a febre do acid-jazz em fins dos anos 80.
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O primeiro EP destaca, no lado A, o tratamento dançante conferido a “Stolen moments” pelo produtor italiano Nicola Conte, que prefere chamar sua reconstrução acústica de “rework” ao invés de remix, pois extrai da gravação original apenas a voz de MM, adicionando novo arranjo instrumental executado pelos músicos Pietro Lussu (piano), Fabrizio Bosso (trompete), Daniele Scannapieco (sax tenor), Lorenzo Tucci (bateria) e Pietro Ciancaglini (baixo). No lado B, as três versões de “Stolen” que constam do CD. O segundo EP traz alucinado remix eletrônico (8m03s) de Henrik Schwarz, techno-sinfônico, para “Love is what stays”, cujo take original ocupa a face B.
Instigante musicalmente, contemporâneo na essência, atemporal na instrumentação & poder de fascinação, “Love is what stays” enfeitiça e cativa. Transcende o sublime. Atiça e aquieta os sentidos. Seduz e acaricia. Sem firulas gratuitas, sem didatismo, fornece sucessivas lições de fraseado, respiração e interpretação. Enfim, uma aula de canto. Merece figurar não apenas como um dos melhores lançamentos de 2007, mas também entrar para o rol das dez principais jóias discográficas de Mark Murphy ao lado de “September ballads”, “Beauty and the beast”, “Bop for Keroauc”, “Rah!”, “That’s how I love the blues”, “Song for the geese”, “Another vision”, “The dream” e “Kerouac, then and now”.
Legendas:
“Love is what stays”, o melhor disco vocal de 2007, reúne algumas das mais lindas baladas de todos os tempos
Aos 75 anos, em grande forma vocal, Mark Murphy supera-se mais uma vez
Lançado em vinil, o remix de Nicola Conte reconstrói a faixa “Stolen moments” para as pistas de dança
Aos 75 anos, cantando cada vez melhor, o cult-singer lança um CD extraordinário
Arnaldo DeSouteiro
Los Angeles - Os Estados Unidos presentearam o mundo com os maiores cantores (e cantoras também, claro) da história da música “popular” e do jazz. Listar todos não vem ao caso. Limitar-me-ei a citar os três titãs: o saudoso Frank Sinatra, o intrépido Tony Bennett, ainda brilhando aos 81 anos, e o incomparável Mark Murphy, cantando cada vez melhor aos 75. Editado pelo selo Verve, “Love is what stays”, segundo fruto da colaboração de MM com o trompetista alemão Till Bronner – iniciada em 2005 com o álbum “Once to every heart” – é prova cabal de tal proeza.
Notáveis estilistasCresci ouvindo Sinatra, graças às coleções de meu pai (os discos da fase áurea na Columbia mais os 10 polegadas históricos “Swing easy!” e “Songs for young lovers” que eram os meus prediletos) e de minha mãe, fanzoca das big-bands, e de quem até hoje guardo preciosos 78 rotações do Sinatra ainda crooner nas orquestras de Harry James e Tommy Dorsey. A admiração por Bennett começou por volta dos meus 10 anos de idade, através de amigos como Luiz Bonfá e Richard Templar, que me aplicaram “The movie song album”. Mas só descobri Mark Murphy bem mais tarde, através de “Brazil song” (gravado em 83, lançado em 84) adquirido em uma loja em Hollywood. O impacto foi violento e saí à caça dos outros LPs. Todos importados. Descobri que ele já tinha gravado duas dezenas de discos, mas nenhum deles havia sido editado no Brasil.
Curiosamente, poucos meses depois ficamos amigos quando MM foi ao Rio de Janeiro pela primeira vez, como atração musical de um festival gastronômico de San Francisco promovido pelo Hotel Intercontinental. Apesar do contexto bizarro – o falatório era intenso e ninguém ali parecia interessado no show –, Mark, acompanhado pelo trio de Osmar Milito, arrasou. Ao vivo impressionava ainda mais do que nas gravações. Na noite seguinte, ofereci à Murphy um jantar em minha casa na Rua Paissandu e desde então não perdemos contato. O privilégio de assistir seus shows repetiu-se várias vezes – uma delas em São Paulo (acompanhei a temporada inteira de duas semanas no “150 Nightclub” do Maksoud Plaza em 88) e inúmeras outras na Europa e nos EUA, inclusive durante a convenção da IAJE em 1992, em Miami, quando Mark também me deu a honra de assistir uma das minhas palestras. Visitei-o com Ronald Iskin quando ainda morava em San Francisco na Avenida Van Ness (atualmente reside na cidade de Shohola, na Pennsylvania) e depois tive a honra de hospedá-lo na Barra da Tijuca e em Petrópolis.
Obra de arte
Inteiramente gravado em Berlin, masterizado em Hollywood pelo medalhão Bernie Grundman, perfeito sob todos os aspectos, “Love is what stays” começa ótimo e vai crescendo a cada faixa, tornando-se mais apaixonante a cada tema, a cada compasso. É o segundo disco de Mark Murphy lançado nos EUA pelo cobiçado selo Verve, no qual conseguiu ingressar, ironicamente, através de um contrato assinado com a Universal alemã em 2005. O CD aparece com várias pré-indicações na “Entry List” do Grammy e, se passar para a fase final, tem boas chances de levar o prêmio em 2008, na categoria de “best vocal jazz album”, à qual MM já foi indicado algumas vezes, jamais faturando a estatueta.
“Stolen moments”, de Oliver Nelson (carro-chefe do antológico “The blues and the abstract truth” safra 1961), sempre foi um dos temas preferidos de Murphy, que o letrou, gravou e selecionou como faixa-título de seu disco para a Muse Records em 1978. Aqui reaparece como peça-central, em três momentos – faixa de abertura e duas reprises, além de gerador do primeiro remix. A escolha inteligente permite a Mark uma rápida demonstração de seu pessoal estilo de scat-singing (sim, é possível estabelecer um padrão pessoal dentro do manjado maneirismo) que Kurt Elling insiste em imitar.
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A abertura do CD funciona tal como uma abertura de ópera. O primeiro ato somente se inicia quando as cordas surgem pela primeira vez, na introdução de “Angel eyes”, baladaça de Matt Dennis & Earl Brent originalmente gravada por MM no LP “Rah!” em 61. E aí vem uma das inúmeras surpresas do disco. A introdução lenta é alarme falso, com o arranjo, assinado pelo contrabaixista Christian von Kaphengst, desviando para um suingado andamento médio, desenvolvido sobre uma célula criada em torno da linha executada em uníssono por contrabaixo e clarone, como se fosse um riff. “Provocação” suficiente para incitar Mark a uma aula de fraseado. Os solos ficam a cargo do guitarrista Johan Leijonhufvud (a la Coryell) e do pianista Frank Chastenier. As surpresas ficam por conta da interpretação de Mark, que vai desmembrando cada palavra da letra, enunciando cada sílaba de uma forma inesperada, culminando com um “disappear” fulminante que se esvai como fumaça no encerramento da performance.
Na terceira faixa, “My foolish heart” (Victor Young & Ned Washington, com Lee Konitz no sax-alto), entra em cena uma personagem de crucial importância para o êxito deste projeto: a arranjadora e maestrina Nan Schwartz, co-produtora do CD, e que já havia chamado minha atenção pela adaptação de “Siciliano” (Bach) no disco “Breakthrough“ (86), de Eddie Daniels, não por coincidência também o melhor álbum em toda a carreira do clarinetista. Regendo a Deutsches Symphonie Orchester Berlin, Nan revela a forte (positiva) influência de Claus Ogerman, confirmando sua condição como o que aqui nos EUA se chama “best kept secret”, ou seja, um dos segredos mais bem guardados da cena musical. Combinação fatal de charme, sutileza e elegância a toda prova. Tal qual Mark Murphy.
Aulas de canto
Mark dá um banho de loja na canção country “So doggone lonesome”, de Johnny Cash (1955), pontuada por duas guitarras em intervenções minimalistas e pelo trompete de Bronner, também o arranjador que extirpou a poeira da cafonice e o ranço de sentimentalismo. Igualmente surpreendente, “What if”, hit do grupo de rock inglês Coldplay no disco “X&Y” (2005), ressurge reinventado, discretamente ornamentado por cordas, flautas, clarinete e a guitarra de Chuck Loeb, mais os flocos de neve adicionados pelo Fender Rhodes de Don Grusin.
A faceta de amante & praticante da poesia beat está representada por “The interview” e “Blue cell phone” (esta última em duo com Chastenier ao piano), ambas assinadas por Murphy, também o autor (em parceria com Bronner) da faixa-título “Love is what stays”, outro momento fascinante, pontuado por trompas celestiais.
Quando o ouvinte já se encontra inebriado, praticamente hipnotizado pela densidade & intensidade da beleza sonora ofertada, MM desfere mais três facadas mortais via “Too late now” (fulminante introdução a capela para a suntuosa peça de Burton Lane & Alan Jay Lerner), “Did I ever really live” (Albert Hague & Allan Sherman) e “Once upon a summertime”, a versão em inglês de Johnny Mercer para a primeira canção de Michel Legrand, “La valse des lilas”, composta em 1954 e aqui redimensionada pela orquestração de Nan Schwartz, que cita “Retrato em branco e preto” no movimento final das flautas. Três gravações insuperáveis. Três belíssimas baladas tornadas ainda mais comoventes por Murphy, que acaricia cada nota e lapida cada som, mergulhando fundo na essência de cada canção, eternizando-as à sua maneira.
Recriações e reinvenções
Além da edição em CD com treze faixas na Europa e nos EUA (e quatorze na japonesa por conta da bonus-track “Shirley Horn”, preciosa homenagem de 3m17s), o disco encontra-se disponível em vinil, com dez faixas – ficaram de fora “The interview”, e as duas vinhetas de “Stolen moments”. Também já foram lançados dois singles prensados em vinil de 12 polegadas e 45rpm (o formato preferido pelos DJs), destinados ao mercado de “dancefloor jazz” no qual Mark é cultuado desde a febre do acid-jazz em fins dos anos 80.
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O primeiro EP destaca, no lado A, o tratamento dançante conferido a “Stolen moments” pelo produtor italiano Nicola Conte, que prefere chamar sua reconstrução acústica de “rework” ao invés de remix, pois extrai da gravação original apenas a voz de MM, adicionando novo arranjo instrumental executado pelos músicos Pietro Lussu (piano), Fabrizio Bosso (trompete), Daniele Scannapieco (sax tenor), Lorenzo Tucci (bateria) e Pietro Ciancaglini (baixo). No lado B, as três versões de “Stolen” que constam do CD. O segundo EP traz alucinado remix eletrônico (8m03s) de Henrik Schwarz, techno-sinfônico, para “Love is what stays”, cujo take original ocupa a face B.
Instigante musicalmente, contemporâneo na essência, atemporal na instrumentação & poder de fascinação, “Love is what stays” enfeitiça e cativa. Transcende o sublime. Atiça e aquieta os sentidos. Seduz e acaricia. Sem firulas gratuitas, sem didatismo, fornece sucessivas lições de fraseado, respiração e interpretação. Enfim, uma aula de canto. Merece figurar não apenas como um dos melhores lançamentos de 2007, mas também entrar para o rol das dez principais jóias discográficas de Mark Murphy ao lado de “September ballads”, “Beauty and the beast”, “Bop for Keroauc”, “Rah!”, “That’s how I love the blues”, “Song for the geese”, “Another vision”, “The dream” e “Kerouac, then and now”.
Legendas:
“Love is what stays”, o melhor disco vocal de 2007, reúne algumas das mais lindas baladas de todos os tempos
Aos 75 anos, em grande forma vocal, Mark Murphy supera-se mais uma vez
Lançado em vinil, o remix de Nicola Conte reconstrói a faixa “Stolen moments” para as pistas de dança
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Mais maravilhas do Japão
Mais maravilhas do Japão
Raridades dos selos Dot, Verve, Decca e Impulse! são relançadas em CD
Arnaldo DeSouteiro
Narita, Japão - Depois da sessão bossa nova do artigo anterior, é hora de aproveitar o tempo no aeroporto de Narita para colocar o lap em funcionamento em prol dos relançamentos jazzísticos, outra grande tentação do mercado japonês. A terra do sol nascente é também a das melhores reedições, famosa por recolocar em circulação discos que, em outros países, nunca foram – e provavelmente jamais serão – reeditados em CD. E não há como reclamar de “favorecimento” para uma vertente específica. Do bop ao fusion, do mainstream ao acid, não faltam opções. Os títulos que vou retirando das sacolas da HMV e da Tower dão água na boca: Lalo Schifrin dando aulas de orquestração em atmosfera psicodélica, John Klemmer e seu sax echoplexado, nossos gênios do violão Luiz Bonfá e Laurindo Almeida transcendendo a bossa, John Handy, Jack van Poll, as obras-primas de Steve Kuhn e Kip Hanrahan (em SACD), Kai Winding com e sem J.J. Johnson em uma série do selo “Impulse!” que traz também Gil Evans e Ray Charles, os DVDs de Bill Evans e...chega! Paro por aqui porque já está de bom tamanho e, ademais, não daria tempo para mim nem espaço para o jornal.
Fundado por Creed Taylor como subsidiário da ABC-Paramount, o lendário selo Impulse! tem grande parte de seu catálogo disponível no Japão. E o melhor de tudo: no formato de “minature LP gatefold sleeve”, ou seja, capas-duplas iguaizinhas àquelas dos vinis originais, reproduzindo fielmente todas as fotos e textos. Ao contrário do que propagam alguns, o lema “the new wave of jazz is on Impulse!” foi estabelecido, na teoria e na prática, por Creed (responsável pelas contratações de John Coltrane e Gil Evans, por exemplo) e não por Bom Thiele, que ganhou de bandeja a administração do selo quando Taylor saiu um ano depois para assumir a direção da Verve, então adquirida (de Norman Granz) pela MGM. Tio Creed produziu somente os nove primeiros títulos da grife Impulse! – o suficiente para estabelecer sua estética e um padrão de qualidade que, conforme atesta Michael Cuscuna, “inaugurou uma nova nas produções jazzísticas”.
Jóias do selo Impulse!
“Gênio do marketing, Creed convenceu os chefões da ABC a investir na apresentação gráfica moderna, audaciosa e de capa-dupla até então não usada no jazz”, declarou Cuscuna à revista Swing Journal. Nas contracapas, nada de colocar os nomes das músicas. O comprador só descobria o repertório após desvirginar a embalagem. Alguns dos nove ítens dirigidos por CT situam-se entre as grandes maravilhas da história do jazz: “The blues and the abstract truth” (Oliver Nelson), “Africa/Brass” (John Coltrane) e “Out of the cool” (Gil Evans). Todos relançados em “miniature LP” pela Universal japonesa, assim como outros títulos não tão importantes mas altamente interessantes como “Genius + soul = jazz” (Ray Charles barbarizando no órgão sobre arranjos de Quincy Jones e Ralph Burns para uma big-band incendiária) e “Into the hot”, atribuído a Gil Evans mas concebido por Cecil Taylor e John Carisi.
Outros não se tornaram tão célebres, mas são apreciadíssimos no Japão. Caso do álbum de estréia do selo, “The great Kai & J.J.”, número de catálogo AS-1, marcando a retomada da colaboração (iniciada em 1954) entre os dois melhores trombonistas daquela época, hoje confirmados entre os cinco melhores de todos os tempos. Entretanto, graças à rabugice preconceituosa dos puristas que taxaram o disco de “comercial” (hahaha, que piada!), caiu no esquecimento durante algum tempo. Hora de reabilitá-lo, pois. Bill Evans toca piano em todas as onze faixas. Na sessão inaugural, registrada no estúdio de Rudy Van Gelder em 3 de outubro de 1960, Paul Chambers e Roy Haynes participam de “This could be the start of something“, “Georgia on my mind”, “Blue Monk”, “Side by side” e “I concentrate on you”. Das outras seis músicas, gravadas em 4 e 9 de novembro, Tommy Williams e Art Taylor assumem respectivamente o baixo e a bateria, contribuindo para interpretações irretocáveis de “Alone together” e “Theme from Picnic”. Agora me digam: com um repertório e um timaço desses, o disco poderia ser de baixa qualidade? Pois é, só na mente doentia dos falsários intelectuais.
As mesmas acusações e contraprovas se aplicam a “The incredible Kai Winding trombones”, terceiro lançamento do selo e novamente com foto de Arnold Newman na capa idealizada por Robert Flynn. Tanto que o CD, remasterizado em 24 bits para a coleção “Impulse! Best 50”, faturou o cobiçado “seal of approval” concedido pela revista Swing Journal, a bíblia do jazz no Japão. O dinamarquês Kai Chresten Winding comanda – em quatro sessões realizadas entre novembro e dezembro de 1960 – um naipe de quatro trombones (dois tenores e dois baixos) que faz misérias em jóias tipo “Speak low” (afro-acubanada pelas congas do lendário Olatunji, com Ray Starling reforçando os sopros no mellophone), “Lil’ darlin’” (Neal Hefti), “Doodlin’” (Horace Silver), “Love walked in” (dos irmãos Gershwin), “Black coffee” e “Bye bye blackbird”, estas duas com a rara dobradinha Bill Evans-Ron Carter na base. Entre os temas de Kai destacam-se “Michie” (em duas versões) e “Impulse”, baseada na harmonia de “I’ll remember April”.
Seleção atraente
Outra coleção da Universal nipônica, “Dig up the pieces”, cujos spots publicitários tomam conta do salão de jazz da Tower de Tóquio, reúne títulos de vários selos. “Constant throb” (John Klemmer) e “Hard work” (John Handy) pertencem à outra fase do Impulse!, então envolvido pela novidade do fusion. O disco de Klemmer, produzido por Ed Michel em 1971, é marcado pelo uso de piano e baixo elétricos em temas como “Constant throb” (com ótima vocalização da sumida Marti Nixon), “Rainbows” (Don Menza rouba a cena na flauta), “Neptune” (desta feita Menza passa para o clarone) e “Crystaled tears”, com o líder acoplando o então moderníssimo echoplex aos seus saxes tenor & soprano. Ah, e ainda tem Wilton Felder (do Crusaders) no baixo e o venerável Shelly Manne na bateria. Outro John saxofonista, o Handy, divide-se entre tenor, alto e vocais mas ousa bem menos em “Hard work”, sob a produção de Esmond Edwards em 1976, com as presenças de Chuck Rainey, Eddie “Bongo” Brown e Zakir Hussain.
Pinçado do catálogo Decca, “Hi Jackin’” recupera o álbum mais cultuado do Jack van Poll Tree-Oh, liderado pelo pianista holandês hoje residente na Bélgica. Seu toque de Fender Rhodes, safra 1972, revela-se mágico e pessoal (algo incompreensível para quem não consegue ver “alma” neste instrumento), especialmente nas belas releituras de “Ain’t no sunshine” (Bill Withers) e “Sweet Georgie Fame”, a homenagem de Blossom Dearie ao cantor inglês.
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Raridades dos selos Dot, Verve, Decca e Impulse! são relançadas em CD
Arnaldo DeSouteiro
Narita, Japão - Depois da sessão bossa nova do artigo anterior, é hora de aproveitar o tempo no aeroporto de Narita para colocar o lap em funcionamento em prol dos relançamentos jazzísticos, outra grande tentação do mercado japonês. A terra do sol nascente é também a das melhores reedições, famosa por recolocar em circulação discos que, em outros países, nunca foram – e provavelmente jamais serão – reeditados em CD. E não há como reclamar de “favorecimento” para uma vertente específica. Do bop ao fusion, do mainstream ao acid, não faltam opções. Os títulos que vou retirando das sacolas da HMV e da Tower dão água na boca: Lalo Schifrin dando aulas de orquestração em atmosfera psicodélica, John Klemmer e seu sax echoplexado, nossos gênios do violão Luiz Bonfá e Laurindo Almeida transcendendo a bossa, John Handy, Jack van Poll, as obras-primas de Steve Kuhn e Kip Hanrahan (em SACD), Kai Winding com e sem J.J. Johnson em uma série do selo “Impulse!” que traz também Gil Evans e Ray Charles, os DVDs de Bill Evans e...chega! Paro por aqui porque já está de bom tamanho e, ademais, não daria tempo para mim nem espaço para o jornal.
Fundado por Creed Taylor como subsidiário da ABC-Paramount, o lendário selo Impulse! tem grande parte de seu catálogo disponível no Japão. E o melhor de tudo: no formato de “minature LP gatefold sleeve”, ou seja, capas-duplas iguaizinhas àquelas dos vinis originais, reproduzindo fielmente todas as fotos e textos. Ao contrário do que propagam alguns, o lema “the new wave of jazz is on Impulse!” foi estabelecido, na teoria e na prática, por Creed (responsável pelas contratações de John Coltrane e Gil Evans, por exemplo) e não por Bom Thiele, que ganhou de bandeja a administração do selo quando Taylor saiu um ano depois para assumir a direção da Verve, então adquirida (de Norman Granz) pela MGM. Tio Creed produziu somente os nove primeiros títulos da grife Impulse! – o suficiente para estabelecer sua estética e um padrão de qualidade que, conforme atesta Michael Cuscuna, “inaugurou uma nova nas produções jazzísticas”.
Jóias do selo Impulse!“Gênio do marketing, Creed convenceu os chefões da ABC a investir na apresentação gráfica moderna, audaciosa e de capa-dupla até então não usada no jazz”, declarou Cuscuna à revista Swing Journal. Nas contracapas, nada de colocar os nomes das músicas. O comprador só descobria o repertório após desvirginar a embalagem. Alguns dos nove ítens dirigidos por CT situam-se entre as grandes maravilhas da história do jazz: “The blues and the abstract truth” (Oliver Nelson), “Africa/Brass” (John Coltrane) e “Out of the cool” (Gil Evans). Todos relançados em “miniature LP” pela Universal japonesa, assim como outros títulos não tão importantes mas altamente interessantes como “Genius + soul = jazz” (Ray Charles barbarizando no órgão sobre arranjos de Quincy Jones e Ralph Burns para uma big-band incendiária) e “Into the hot”, atribuído a Gil Evans mas concebido por Cecil Taylor e John Carisi.
Outros não se tornaram tão célebres, mas são apreciadíssimos no Japão. Caso do álbum de estréia do selo, “The great Kai & J.J.”, número de catálogo AS-1, marcando a retomada da colaboração (iniciada em 1954) entre os dois melhores trombonistas daquela época, hoje confirmados entre os cinco melhores de todos os tempos. Entretanto, graças à rabugice preconceituosa dos puristas que taxaram o disco de “comercial” (hahaha, que piada!), caiu no esquecimento durante algum tempo. Hora de reabilitá-lo, pois. Bill Evans toca piano em todas as onze faixas. Na sessão inaugural, registrada no estúdio de Rudy Van Gelder em 3 de outubro de 1960, Paul Chambers e Roy Haynes participam de “This could be the start of something“, “Georgia on my mind”, “Blue Monk”, “Side by side” e “I concentrate on you”. Das outras seis músicas, gravadas em 4 e 9 de novembro, Tommy Williams e Art Taylor assumem respectivamente o baixo e a bateria, contribuindo para interpretações irretocáveis de “Alone together” e “Theme from Picnic”. Agora me digam: com um repertório e um timaço desses, o disco poderia ser de baixa qualidade? Pois é, só na mente doentia dos falsários intelectuais.
As mesmas acusações e contraprovas se aplicam a “The incredible Kai Winding trombones”, terceiro lançamento do selo e novamente com foto de Arnold Newman na capa idealizada por Robert Flynn. Tanto que o CD, remasterizado em 24 bits para a coleção “Impulse! Best 50”, faturou o cobiçado “seal of approval” concedido pela revista Swing Journal, a bíblia do jazz no Japão. O dinamarquês Kai Chresten Winding comanda – em quatro sessões realizadas entre novembro e dezembro de 1960 – um naipe de quatro trombones (dois tenores e dois baixos) que faz misérias em jóias tipo “Speak low” (afro-acubanada pelas congas do lendário Olatunji, com Ray Starling reforçando os sopros no mellophone), “Lil’ darlin’” (Neal Hefti), “Doodlin’” (Horace Silver), “Love walked in” (dos irmãos Gershwin), “Black coffee” e “Bye bye blackbird”, estas duas com a rara dobradinha Bill Evans-Ron Carter na base. Entre os temas de Kai destacam-se “Michie” (em duas versões) e “Impulse”, baseada na harmonia de “I’ll remember April”.
Seleção atraente
Outra coleção da Universal nipônica, “Dig up the pieces”, cujos spots publicitários tomam conta do salão de jazz da Tower de Tóquio, reúne títulos de vários selos. “Constant throb” (John Klemmer) e “Hard work” (John Handy) pertencem à outra fase do Impulse!, então envolvido pela novidade do fusion. O disco de Klemmer, produzido por Ed Michel em 1971, é marcado pelo uso de piano e baixo elétricos em temas como “Constant throb” (com ótima vocalização da sumida Marti Nixon), “Rainbows” (Don Menza rouba a cena na flauta), “Neptune” (desta feita Menza passa para o clarone) e “Crystaled tears”, com o líder acoplando o então moderníssimo echoplex aos seus saxes tenor & soprano. Ah, e ainda tem Wilton Felder (do Crusaders) no baixo e o venerável Shelly Manne na bateria. Outro John saxofonista, o Handy, divide-se entre tenor, alto e vocais mas ousa bem menos em “Hard work”, sob a produção de Esmond Edwards em 1976, com as presenças de Chuck Rainey, Eddie “Bongo” Brown e Zakir Hussain.
Pinçado do catálogo Decca, “Hi Jackin’” recupera o álbum mais cultuado do Jack van Poll Tree-Oh, liderado pelo pianista holandês hoje residente na Bélgica. Seu toque de Fender Rhodes, safra 1972, revela-se mágico e pessoal (algo incompreensível para quem não consegue ver “alma” neste instrumento), especialmente nas belas releituras de “Ain’t no sunshine” (Bill Withers) e “Sweet Georgie Fame”, a homenagem de Blossom Dearie ao cantor inglês.
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Criatividade e ousadia
Para quem curte experimental orquestral, há duas opções. Imperdível, “There’s a whole Lalo Schifrin goin’ on” nasceu em 1968 na Dot Records, produzido por Tom Mack. Deliciosamente psicodélico, da capa ao conteúdo, muitos pensavam que jamais seria relançado em CD. Lalo barbariza do início ao fim, nos solos de sintetizador (“Secret code”), piano acústico (“Vaccinated mushroms”), órgão Hammond (“Life insurance”) e nos arranjos alucinantes para “Life insurance”, “The gentle earthquake”, a bacanal-vocal de “Machinations” e o clima de fanfarra-épica de “Hawks vs. Doves”, encaixando gritos das torcidas.
Apesar da atmosfera lisérgica predominante, há espaço para a calmaria não-soporífera de “Dissolving” (somando acordeon, cravo e cordas), “Two petals, a flower and a young girl” (levada no assobio) e a bossa renascentista “How to open at will the most beautiful window”, com Shelly Manne na batera, Max Bennett no baixo e Dennis Budimir no violão. Três músicas que tocaram muito, durante os anos 70 e 80, na antiga JB-FM, cuja programação easy-listening era feita por Célio Alzer, titular do “Jazz & blues” na JB-AM e hoje renomado enólogo.
Aulas de instrumentação também rolam, ainda que de forma menos intensa, em “Don Sebesky & the jazz-rock syndrome”, a estréia do maestro na Verve, captada em junho de 1967 e janeiro de 1968. Sebesky cuida de todos os arranjos e teclados (órgão, piano, cravo e um protótipo de Hohner Clavinet), mas assina somente dois temas: “Meet a cheeta” e “Big Mama Cass”, reverenciando a rotunda cantora do grupo The Mamas & The Papas, de cujo repertório pescou “Somebody groovy”. Perde tempo com a melosa “Never my love”, porém acerta na mosca na furiosa recriação de “The word” (Lennon & McCartney), com um solo abrasador do guitarrista Larry Coryell. Também marcam presença Joe Beck, Hubert Laws, Jerry Dodgion, Don Payne, Richard Spencer e a vocalista Janet Sebesky. Importante frisar que, apesar do título, o disco está mais para jazz-pop do que jazz-rock, e nem se compara aos monumentais “Giant box” e “The rape of El Morro”. Quanto aos outros títulos anunciados na abertura, fica para a próxima. A Iris Lettieri de Narita chama o meu vôo. Domo arigato gozaimasu. E sayonara!
Legendas:
“The great Kai & J.J.”, disco inaugural do selo “Impulse!” em 1960, é finalmente relançado em CD
“O maestro argentino Lalo Schifrin esbanja criatividade em atmosfera psicodélica”
Para quem curte experimental orquestral, há duas opções. Imperdível, “There’s a whole Lalo Schifrin goin’ on” nasceu em 1968 na Dot Records, produzido por Tom Mack. Deliciosamente psicodélico, da capa ao conteúdo, muitos pensavam que jamais seria relançado em CD. Lalo barbariza do início ao fim, nos solos de sintetizador (“Secret code”), piano acústico (“Vaccinated mushroms”), órgão Hammond (“Life insurance”) e nos arranjos alucinantes para “Life insurance”, “The gentle earthquake”, a bacanal-vocal de “Machinations” e o clima de fanfarra-épica de “Hawks vs. Doves”, encaixando gritos das torcidas.
Apesar da atmosfera lisérgica predominante, há espaço para a calmaria não-soporífera de “Dissolving” (somando acordeon, cravo e cordas), “Two petals, a flower and a young girl” (levada no assobio) e a bossa renascentista “How to open at will the most beautiful window”, com Shelly Manne na batera, Max Bennett no baixo e Dennis Budimir no violão. Três músicas que tocaram muito, durante os anos 70 e 80, na antiga JB-FM, cuja programação easy-listening era feita por Célio Alzer, titular do “Jazz & blues” na JB-AM e hoje renomado enólogo.
Aulas de instrumentação também rolam, ainda que de forma menos intensa, em “Don Sebesky & the jazz-rock syndrome”, a estréia do maestro na Verve, captada em junho de 1967 e janeiro de 1968. Sebesky cuida de todos os arranjos e teclados (órgão, piano, cravo e um protótipo de Hohner Clavinet), mas assina somente dois temas: “Meet a cheeta” e “Big Mama Cass”, reverenciando a rotunda cantora do grupo The Mamas & The Papas, de cujo repertório pescou “Somebody groovy”. Perde tempo com a melosa “Never my love”, porém acerta na mosca na furiosa recriação de “The word” (Lennon & McCartney), com um solo abrasador do guitarrista Larry Coryell. Também marcam presença Joe Beck, Hubert Laws, Jerry Dodgion, Don Payne, Richard Spencer e a vocalista Janet Sebesky. Importante frisar que, apesar do título, o disco está mais para jazz-pop do que jazz-rock, e nem se compara aos monumentais “Giant box” e “The rape of El Morro”. Quanto aos outros títulos anunciados na abertura, fica para a próxima. A Iris Lettieri de Narita chama o meu vôo. Domo arigato gozaimasu. E sayonara!
Legendas:
“The great Kai & J.J.”, disco inaugural do selo “Impulse!” em 1960, é finalmente relançado em CD
“O maestro argentino Lalo Schifrin esbanja criatividade em atmosfera psicodélica”
Monday, November 12, 2007
ADLIB - November 2007
COVER STORY:Keiko Lee (Japan's top jazz singer alongside Kimiko Itoh)
Plus:
Plus:
ADLiB Readers Poll 2007 (surprise!)
Trey Songs
Barry Manilow
Simply Red
Keri Noble
Fripp & Eno
Matt Dusk
Yosuke Onuma
Jin Oki
Grace Mahya
Jammin'zeb
Spotlight : Keith Sweat / Jaco Pastorius / Better Days LP/Paul Potts
New Trend Compo
ADLiB Chart
New Disc
Imported Disc
Coming Soon
J-House Music
Star Story - Jimi Hendrix
History Of R&B / Soul Music
Larry Carlton
Wouter Hamel
Anna Sise
Hiroko Kokubu
Joe Zawinul
Toshiki Kadomatsu ~ No End Talk
Soul Kiss
AOR
Tina/Katsumi Horii
Shiro Sagisu / Cindy Suzuki
Yuji Muraoka / Paper & Web
Sound Planet
Yumi Kudou / Yoshinori Ohtomo
ADLiB Archives
Hot Live Report : Pat Methney & Brad Mehldau / etc.
Tokyo Jazz 2007
Interview : Mie / Karen Aoki/Raphael / Mylinh / Aeroplanitaliani
News Of The World
News In Japan
Concert Information
Letters
Last Chorus
Trey Songs
Barry Manilow
Simply Red
Keri Noble
Fripp & Eno
Matt Dusk
Yosuke Onuma
Jin Oki
Grace Mahya
Jammin'zeb
Spotlight : Keith Sweat / Jaco Pastorius / Better Days LP/Paul Potts
New Trend Compo
ADLiB Chart
New Disc
Imported Disc
Coming Soon
J-House Music
Star Story - Jimi Hendrix
History Of R&B / Soul Music
Larry Carlton
Wouter Hamel
Anna Sise
Hiroko Kokubu
Joe Zawinul
Toshiki Kadomatsu ~ No End Talk
Soul Kiss
AOR
Tina/Katsumi Horii
Shiro Sagisu / Cindy Suzuki
Yuji Muraoka / Paper & Web
Sound Planet
Yumi Kudou / Yoshinori Ohtomo
ADLiB Archives
Hot Live Report : Pat Methney & Brad Mehldau / etc.
Tokyo Jazz 2007
Interview : Mie / Karen Aoki/Raphael / Mylinh / Aeroplanitaliani
News Of The World
News In Japan
Concert Information
Letters
Last Chorus
Swing Journal - November 2007
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Eliane Elias brilha na capa da "bíblia do jazz" do Japão!
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Brazilian pianist Eliane Elias, who recently re-signed with the Blue Note label after some controversial albums for RCA Bluebird, shines as the cover story in the November 07 issue of the Swing Journal magazine, "Japan's jazz bible".
COVER STORY: Eliane Elias (por conta do sucesso de seu novo CD "Something for You - Eliane Elias plays and sings for Bill Evans", que está no topo da parada de jazz japonesa; a bela foto de Junichi Hirayama fará os tradicionalistas brasileiros espumarem de ódio em suas fraldas geriátricas porque:
a - morrem de raiva de mulher bonita,
b - morrem de ódio de mulher que além de bonita é talentosa, e
c- morrem de inveja de mulher que além de bonita e talentosa é brasileira e faz sucesso no exterior).
Plus:
The Standards Giants Loved To Play : Miles Davis Part2
Pat Metheny/Brad Mehldau Quartet Live In Japan
Keiko Lee
Super Trombone feat. Eiji Nakagawa
Jazz Masterpieces Story - Verve Part 1
J-Jazz Cool Breeze
Jazz It Up - Jazz History By Korean Comic
Special Interview : Orrin Keepnews
Love Songs From Canada
Question In Jazz - For Beginners
HOT NEWS World / Japan
New York Jazz Monthly
Topics
Jazz On AIR
The Monthly Disc Review
Top Chart
SJ Gold Discs
Import Discs
New Discs Release Information
SJ Gold Disc Preview: "My Favorite Things / Eric Alexander Quartet"
SJ Gold Disc Preview: "In The Mood / Manhattan Jazz Orchestra"
Jazz Piano
Tokyo Jazz 2007
New Serial: Restudying Fusion
In Memorial: Max Roach
KANKAWA
Let's Dig The Re-Issued Discs
What's Up Now! : Eldar / Eiji Taniguchi / Chinami Kaminishi
SJ Focus
Readers Plaza : Jazz Spot Pilgrimage Returns / Readers / Jazz Allnighters By Tatsuo Sunaga / Yasukuni Terashima's Daily Life
Swing Street : Yozo Iwanami / Music / DVD
Q&A
Live Report : Chick Corea Rendezvous In Tokyo / Jazz By The Sea / Jan Lundgren / Roy Hargrove Quintet / Hiroshi Hata / Charito / Fred Hersch
Comin' Soon!
Live & Jazz Spot Guide
JAZZ SOUND & VISUAL
Diggin' The Monaural Analog Disc
SJ Selections
DALI HELICON MK2
Zonotone Grandio
Focal-Jmlab Electra 1000Be/Chorus800V Series
Nuforce Amplifiers
Enjoying Jazz With Overseas Component
New Component Test Report
New Serial: All About Speaker System
New Interface "HDMI"
A & AV Topics
Reader's Square / Audio Q&A / Market / etc.
Sound Quality Of New Discs
Jazz Hot no. 644 - Novembre 2007
Editorial : Do you know what it means ?Hot news : CDs, DVDs et livres à paraître, échos, vie du jazz.
Comptes-rendus : Jazz à Paris, Jazz in London
Retour de festivals III : Getxo, Sanguinet, St-Cannat, Vannes, San Sebastián, Monterey, Foix, La Seyne/Mer, Marseille, Marciac In & Off, Ospedaletti, Gouvy, Brignoles, Pertuis, Langourla, Vaison-la-Romaine, Colmar, Ciney, Dinant
Rencontres : Mark Braud, Ernest Elly, Davell Crawford, Ben Wolfe, Keith B. Brown, Lisa Kirchner, Costel Nitescu
Partenariat : Cross Classics (350 ko télécharger)
Magazine : Terence BLANCHARD, Delfeayo MARSALIS, Donald HARRISON, Wessell ANDERSON
Jazz Stories : Le siècle de Benny Carter, We remember Max/John Betsch/Neal Smith
CDs : 45 CDs et 4 DVDs chroniqués. Notre sélection du mois.
Agenda : Les programmes des clubs et les concerts en France et ailleurs.
Supplément à télécharger : Actualités-Chroniques CDs
Services abonnement, boutique, petites annonces.
Où trouver Jazz Hot à Paris et Région parisienne, en Europe (Belgique, Espagne) et au Canada ?
JazzTimes, November 2007
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FEATURES
COVER STORY
Roy Haynes: I’m Not a Metronome
Talk about living history—Roy Haynes played drums behind Bird, Monk, Prez, Sassy, Trane and Satchmo, too! Bassman Christian McBride asks the questions.
Sonny Rollins: Colossus Comes Home
To mark the 50th anniversary of his historic Carnegie Hall debut, Sonny Rollins returned to the venue in September for a once-in-a-lifetime trio performance. Photographer John Abbott had exclusive access to shoot the story behind the show.
Do The Write Thing: Drummer-Composers Trade Their Sticks for Pens
Someone forgot to tell Paul Motian, Jack DeJohnette, Jeff “Tain” Watts and many other drummers that writing is the job for their harmonic/melodic bandmates. Josef Woodard reports.
Latin Jazz: The Latin Tinge
Latin jazz is a continually growing phenomenon, as musicians from the Americas and beyond recast the boundaries. Bill Meredith chats with several Latin bandleaders who are defining the music’s future.
Louie Bellson: The Go-To Guy
Louie Bellson pounded the skins for Ellington, Goodman and dozens of other jazz greats. Now 83—and still drumming—the legend gives Don Heckman a tour of his life.
Roy Haynes: I’m Not a Metronome
Talk about living history—Roy Haynes played drums behind Bird, Monk, Prez, Sassy, Trane and Satchmo, too! Bassman Christian McBride asks the questions.
Sonny Rollins: Colossus Comes Home
To mark the 50th anniversary of his historic Carnegie Hall debut, Sonny Rollins returned to the venue in September for a once-in-a-lifetime trio performance. Photographer John Abbott had exclusive access to shoot the story behind the show.
Do The Write Thing: Drummer-Composers Trade Their Sticks for Pens
Someone forgot to tell Paul Motian, Jack DeJohnette, Jeff “Tain” Watts and many other drummers that writing is the job for their harmonic/melodic bandmates. Josef Woodard reports.
Latin Jazz: The Latin Tinge
Latin jazz is a continually growing phenomenon, as musicians from the Americas and beyond recast the boundaries. Bill Meredith chats with several Latin bandleaders who are defining the music’s future.
Louie Bellson: The Go-To Guy
Louie Bellson pounded the skins for Ellington, Goodman and dozens of other jazz greats. Now 83—and still drumming—the legend gives Don Heckman a tour of his life.
DEPARTMENTS
At HomeJeff "Tain" Watts
Audio FilesMike Quinn on turntables and vinyl reissues.
Before & AfterMatt Wilson
Cadenzaby Gary Giddins
Final Chorusby Nat Hentoff
GearheadParker PJ14N guitar, Eastman El Rey ER2 guitar, plus Gig Bag
NewsJohn Scofield, Dee Dee Bridgewater, David King & Happy Apple, Jazz Icons DVDs, Stacey Kent, Harlem Experiment, Max Roach tribute, news and farewells and more.
Soloby Josef Woodard
The Gigby Nate Chinen
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Representando o Brasil, o CD "Muiza Adnet Sings Moacir Santos" recebeu fartos elogios do crítico Christopher Loundon, que não poupou as deficiências do equivocado álbum "The New Bossa Nova", de Luciana Souza, musicalmente dirigido por seu marido, o baixista e excelente produtor Larry Klein (ex de Joni Mitchell)
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Representing the Brazilian jazz scene, the "Muiza Adnet Sings Moacir Santos" album was praised by the renowned reviewer Christopher Loundon ("Every jazz fan knows the name Antonio Carlos Jobim. Every jazz fan should be equally familiar with the name Moacir Santos...Heavily involved in the disc’s production and recording (even lending his earthy baritone to four songs), Santos died, at age 80, shortly after the sessions were completed. Fortunately, it’s hard to imagine a finer, more loving, farewell...At the album’s midpoint comes “Lembre-Se.” It tells of the love’s indelible stamp, but is also semi-autobiographical. In it, Santos asks that we never forget his songs. Thanks to Adnet and her inspired associates, we never will"), who seems very disappointed with Luciana Souza's "The New Bossa Nova" project, calling it "a dull study in soporific mewing," although never ceasing to highlight Souza's vocal qualities.
Mr. Loundon wrote: "Among late-20th-century music wizards, few, if any, can match the track record of guitarist/bassist-turned-mega-producer Larry Klein. You know him for two decades of sterling work with ex-wife Joni Mitchell, for Madeleine Peyroux’s breakthrough Careless Heart and the even better follow-up, Half the Perfect World, and for shaping and steering seminal albums by everyone from Robbie Robertson and Don Henley to Peter Gabriel (the landmark So), Bob Dylan and Holly Cole. Now, again blending his personal and professional lives, Klein is married to multiple-Grammy-nominee Luciana Souza and has produced her Verve debut. It should be a match made in chanteuse heaven.
Remarkably, though, Klein has managed to take one of the most distinctive and interesting vocalists of the post-millennial era and reduce her to a dull study in soporific mewing. What could possibly be considered “new,” apart from the fairly contemporary vintage of most of the songs, about a dozen tracks wrapped in tepid bossa arrangements with nary a spark of freshness or originality (apart from dollops of brilliance whenever trumpeter Chris Potter manages to break through the ennui)?
There are some terrific tunes here, including Mitchell’s “Down to You” (sharp as Wisconsin cheddar when handled properly, which Souza, despite the obvious Mitchell-ness of her delivery, doesn’t), James Taylor’s “Never Die Young” (rescued only by Taylor’s presence as Souza’s far sager and definitely more alert singing partner) and Brian Wilson’s “God Only Knows” (one of the finest, and most admirably adult, love songs of the rock era). A fine half-dozen others, from the likes of Leonard Cohen, Walter Brecker, Donald Fagen, Elliott Smith and Sting, are reduced to pleasant innocuousness. Most astonishing, the sole Brazilian track, Antonio Carlos Jobim’s effervescent “Waters of March,” stripped of the ebullient mysteriousness that dozens of other singers have managed to capture, is as flat as day-old tap water".
Remarkably, though, Klein has managed to take one of the most distinctive and interesting vocalists of the post-millennial era and reduce her to a dull study in soporific mewing. What could possibly be considered “new,” apart from the fairly contemporary vintage of most of the songs, about a dozen tracks wrapped in tepid bossa arrangements with nary a spark of freshness or originality (apart from dollops of brilliance whenever trumpeter Chris Potter manages to break through the ennui)?
There are some terrific tunes here, including Mitchell’s “Down to You” (sharp as Wisconsin cheddar when handled properly, which Souza, despite the obvious Mitchell-ness of her delivery, doesn’t), James Taylor’s “Never Die Young” (rescued only by Taylor’s presence as Souza’s far sager and definitely more alert singing partner) and Brian Wilson’s “God Only Knows” (one of the finest, and most admirably adult, love songs of the rock era). A fine half-dozen others, from the likes of Leonard Cohen, Walter Brecker, Donald Fagen, Elliott Smith and Sting, are reduced to pleasant innocuousness. Most astonishing, the sole Brazilian track, Antonio Carlos Jobim’s effervescent “Waters of March,” stripped of the ebullient mysteriousness that dozens of other singers have managed to capture, is as flat as day-old tap water".
DownBeat November 2007 issue
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COVER STORY
With respect to Max Roach, DownBeat has changed the November issue feature story on Max Roach to the cover story. Dave Brubeck will instead be the cover feature for the December issue
FEATURES
Wynton Marsalis — Live on stage at the North Sea Jazz Festival, young, rising star New Orleans-born trumpeter Christian Scott interviewed fellow New Orleans native Marsalis. The result is two trumpeters—with plenty of differences, and plenty of similarities—talking trumpet and swapping generational ideas.
DownBeat Lifetime Achievement Award–Dan Morgenstern — We present our annual award for a lifetime commitment to jazz to a former DownBeat editor, director of the Institute for Jazz Studies at Rutgers and a tireless advocate for the music.
SPECIAL SECTION: Drum Beat
Max Roach — From his still-living contemporaries to today’s young time keepers, drummers could talk for hours about Roach’s influence. From his seminal bebop explorations to his forays into the avant-garde, the drummer’s innovative playing has served as a beacon of jazz excellence for more than 60 years. We may not hear Roach on the bandstand anymore, but we can still appreciate his monumental talent.
Louis Hayes — To celebrate his 70th birthday, the former Cannonball Adderley and Horace Silver drummer led three different groups at New York’s Jazz Standard. The result was a snapshot of the amazing breadth of Hayes’ drum talent, as well as his prowess as a leader.
A New Beat — From Dafnis Prieto, Jeff Ballard and David King to Hamid Drake, Terreon Gully and many others, drummers are reinventing the rhythmic matrix upon which jazz “swings.”
John Santos and Scott Neumann Maser Classes
BLINDFOLD TEST — Billy Hart
PLAYERS
Adonis Rose (drums)
Kendrick Scott (drums)
Charles Davis (saxophone)
4Hero (group)
THE BEAT
• Riffs—Jazz News From Around The Globe
• Vinyl Freak, The Question
• Caught: Red Sea Jazz Fest; Stefano Bollani in Umbira; Nis Festival in Serbia
• Backstage With: Steve Wilson
• Keith Jarrett Trio 25th Anniversary
• Rudy Linka’s traveling Czech Jazz Festival • Benny Carter Hollywood Bowl tribute
• Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame • JazzWeek Changes Radio Reporting
WOODSHED
• Jazz on Campus: Manhattan School of Music forms relationship with Shanghai Conservatory
• Transcription: John Scofield’s guitar solo on “Dark Blue”
TOOLSHED
• Making of a “Signature Cymbal”
• Pearl Vision drum kit
• LP Cajon
• Audio-Technica ATH-M50 studio monitor headphones.
GEAR BOX
• Mapex Saturn Series Shell Pack
• Yamaha 40th Anniversary Snare
• Roland HD-1
• Tama Starclassic Performer B/B drum kit
• Bopworks Gene Krupa model drum stick
• HQ Sound Off
REVIEWS
Hot Box
Wallace Roney, Jazz (HighNote)
Luciana Souza, The New Bossa Nova (Verve)
Happy Apple, Happy Apple Back On Top (Sunnyside)
André Previn, Alone (EmArcy)
Reviews
Paul Motian Trio + Two (Winter & Winter)
Mushroom with Eddie Gale (Hyena)
Avishai Cohen (Anzic)
Matt Shulman (Jaggo)
North Mississippi Allstars (Songs Of South)
Extra Golden (Thrill Jockey)
Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings (World’s Fair)
Oliver Mtukudzi (Heads Up)
Charlie Haden & Antonio Forcione (Naim)
Bernie Worrell (Godforsaken Music)
Hector Martignon (Zoho)
Hugh Marsh (Cool Papa)
Nels Cline/Andrea Parkins/Tom Rainey (Victo)
Fred Katz (Reboot Stereophonic)
Rudder (19/8)
Dee Dee Bridgewater (EmArcy)
Lisa Hilton (Ruby Slippers Productions)
Joan Stiles (Oo-Bla-Dee)
Phil Woods Quintet (Kind Of Blue)
Bud Shank & Bill Mays (Jazzed Media)
Paul Bley (ECM)
David Witham (Cryptogramophone)
Anoushka Shankar and Karsh Kale (Manhattan)
Steve Kuhn (Sunnyside)
MG3 (ATS Records)
Akiko Tsuruga (18th And Vine)
New York Voices (Manchester Craftsmen’s Guild)
Jason Steele Ensemble (Ears & Eyes)
Jazz
Steve Smith and Vital Information (Hudson Music)
Manu Katché (ECM)
Mickey Hart & Zakir Hussain (Shout! Factory)
Alvin Queen (enja/Justin Time)
Charlie Hunter and Bobby Previte as Groundtruther (Thirsty Ear)
Blues
Harper (Blind Pig)
Sugar Blue (Beeble)
Sharrie Williams (Crosscut)
Bobby Hebb (Intuition)
JT Lauritsen & the Buckshot Hunters (Hunters)
Doug Cox/Salil Bhatt with Kamkumar Mishra (Northernblues)
DVD Jazz Icons second set of DVDs
Historical
Live At The Monterey Jazz Festival releases (Monterey Jazz Festival Records)
Johnny Mercer Mosaic Select (Mosaic Select)
Book Alyn Shipton, New History Of Jazz (Continuum)
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FEATURES
Wynton Marsalis — Live on stage at the North Sea Jazz Festival, young, rising star New Orleans-born trumpeter Christian Scott interviewed fellow New Orleans native Marsalis. The result is two trumpeters—with plenty of differences, and plenty of similarities—talking trumpet and swapping generational ideas.
DownBeat Lifetime Achievement Award–Dan Morgenstern — We present our annual award for a lifetime commitment to jazz to a former DownBeat editor, director of the Institute for Jazz Studies at Rutgers and a tireless advocate for the music.
SPECIAL SECTION: Drum Beat
Max Roach — From his still-living contemporaries to today’s young time keepers, drummers could talk for hours about Roach’s influence. From his seminal bebop explorations to his forays into the avant-garde, the drummer’s innovative playing has served as a beacon of jazz excellence for more than 60 years. We may not hear Roach on the bandstand anymore, but we can still appreciate his monumental talent.
Louis Hayes — To celebrate his 70th birthday, the former Cannonball Adderley and Horace Silver drummer led three different groups at New York’s Jazz Standard. The result was a snapshot of the amazing breadth of Hayes’ drum talent, as well as his prowess as a leader.
A New Beat — From Dafnis Prieto, Jeff Ballard and David King to Hamid Drake, Terreon Gully and many others, drummers are reinventing the rhythmic matrix upon which jazz “swings.”
John Santos and Scott Neumann Maser Classes
BLINDFOLD TEST — Billy Hart
PLAYERS
Adonis Rose (drums)
Kendrick Scott (drums)
Charles Davis (saxophone)
4Hero (group)
THE BEAT
• Riffs—Jazz News From Around The Globe
• Vinyl Freak, The Question
• Caught: Red Sea Jazz Fest; Stefano Bollani in Umbira; Nis Festival in Serbia
• Backstage With: Steve Wilson
• Keith Jarrett Trio 25th Anniversary
• Rudy Linka’s traveling Czech Jazz Festival • Benny Carter Hollywood Bowl tribute
• Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame • JazzWeek Changes Radio Reporting
WOODSHED
• Jazz on Campus: Manhattan School of Music forms relationship with Shanghai Conservatory
• Transcription: John Scofield’s guitar solo on “Dark Blue”
TOOLSHED
• Making of a “Signature Cymbal”
• Pearl Vision drum kit
• LP Cajon
• Audio-Technica ATH-M50 studio monitor headphones.
GEAR BOX
• Mapex Saturn Series Shell Pack
• Yamaha 40th Anniversary Snare
• Roland HD-1
• Tama Starclassic Performer B/B drum kit
• Bopworks Gene Krupa model drum stick
• HQ Sound Off
REVIEWS
Hot Box
Wallace Roney, Jazz (HighNote)
Luciana Souza, The New Bossa Nova (Verve)
Happy Apple, Happy Apple Back On Top (Sunnyside)
André Previn, Alone (EmArcy)
Reviews
Paul Motian Trio + Two (Winter & Winter)
Mushroom with Eddie Gale (Hyena)
Avishai Cohen (Anzic)
Matt Shulman (Jaggo)
North Mississippi Allstars (Songs Of South)
Extra Golden (Thrill Jockey)
Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings (World’s Fair)
Oliver Mtukudzi (Heads Up)
Charlie Haden & Antonio Forcione (Naim)
Bernie Worrell (Godforsaken Music)
Hector Martignon (Zoho)
Hugh Marsh (Cool Papa)
Nels Cline/Andrea Parkins/Tom Rainey (Victo)
Fred Katz (Reboot Stereophonic)
Rudder (19/8)
Dee Dee Bridgewater (EmArcy)
Lisa Hilton (Ruby Slippers Productions)
Joan Stiles (Oo-Bla-Dee)
Phil Woods Quintet (Kind Of Blue)
Bud Shank & Bill Mays (Jazzed Media)
Paul Bley (ECM)
David Witham (Cryptogramophone)
Anoushka Shankar and Karsh Kale (Manhattan)
Steve Kuhn (Sunnyside)
MG3 (ATS Records)
Akiko Tsuruga (18th And Vine)
New York Voices (Manchester Craftsmen’s Guild)
Jason Steele Ensemble (Ears & Eyes)
Jazz
Steve Smith and Vital Information (Hudson Music)
Manu Katché (ECM)
Mickey Hart & Zakir Hussain (Shout! Factory)
Alvin Queen (enja/Justin Time)
Charlie Hunter and Bobby Previte as Groundtruther (Thirsty Ear)
Blues
Harper (Blind Pig)
Sugar Blue (Beeble)
Sharrie Williams (Crosscut)
Bobby Hebb (Intuition)
JT Lauritsen & the Buckshot Hunters (Hunters)
Doug Cox/Salil Bhatt with Kamkumar Mishra (Northernblues)
DVD Jazz Icons second set of DVDs
Historical
Live At The Monterey Jazz Festival releases (Monterey Jazz Festival Records)
Johnny Mercer Mosaic Select (Mosaic Select)
Book Alyn Shipton, New History Of Jazz (Continuum)
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Representando o Brasil, o novo disco de Luciana Souza, "The New Bossa Nova" (não poderia haver título menos inspirado) ganhou três estrelas na crítica principal assinada por Paul de Barros.
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