MORE BRAZILIAN DREAMS featuring PAQUITO D'RIVERA & NEW YORK VOICES at Blue Note |
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| Venue: | Blue Note |
| Performer: | MORE BRAZILIAN DREAMS featuring PAQUITO D'RIVERA & NEW YORK VOICES |
| Start Time: | Monday, Jan 14, 8:00 pm |
| Price: | BAR: $20.00 TABLE:$35.00 |
| Description: | FEATURING:
Paquito D'Rivera, alto sax & clarinet
Alon Yavnai, piano
Paul Nowinski, bass
Marcello Pellitteri, drums
Jay Ashby, trombone & percussion
NEW YORK VOICES:
Peter Eldridge, vocals
Lauren Kinhan, vocals
Darmon Meader, vocals
Kim Nazarian, vocals
New York Voices and Paquito D'Rivera join forces again for a one-night only special event, titled MORE BRAZILIAN DREAMS in honor of their award winning 2001 CD Brazilian Dreams! New York Voices is the Grammy® award-winning vocal ensemble renowned for their excellence in jazz and the art of group singing. Like the great groups that have come before, such as Lambert, Hendricks and Ross, Singers Unlimited, Manhattan Transfer and Take 6, they have learned from the best and taken the art form to new levels. Their interests are rooted in jazz, but often Brazilian, R & B, classical, and pop influences are included with equal creativity and authenticity. NYV has traveled the globe with their elegant music, befriending people everywhere they go.
Born on the island of Cuba, Paquito D'Rivera began his career as a child prodigy. A restless musical genius during his teen years, Mr. D'Rivera created various original and ground-breaking musical ensembles. As a founding member of the Orquesta Cubana de Musica Moderna, he directed that group for two years, while at the same time playing both the clarinet and saxophone with the Cuban National Symphony Orchestra. He eventually went on to premier several works by notable Cuban composers with the same orchestra. Additionally, he was a founding member and co-director of the innovative musical ensemble Irakere. With its explosive mixture of jazz, rock, classical and traditional Cuban music never before heard, Irakere toured extensively throughout America and Europe, won several Grammy nominations (1979, 1980) and a Grammy (1979).
The event MORE BRAZILIAN DREAMS is based off a CD titled BRAZILIAN DREAMS, recorded live at Manchester Craftsmen's Guild (MCG) over four nights in April 2001, which captures the passion and soulfulness of this unique performance and recording session. Members of the New York Voices as well as Marty and Jay Ashby attended Ithaca College where they were exposed to the musicianship of Paquito and Claudio Roditi, Brazilian jazz trumpeter, in 1983 at the Ithaca Jazz Festival.
Brazilian Dreams includes Jobim classics such as "Corcovado" and "Desafinado" with lesser-known masterpieces, "Modinha," "Meu Amigo" and "Retrato Em Branco E Pręto" (sung in Portugese) that demonstrate the depth of the composer. Two of Luiz Bonfa's most well known works "Manha De Carnival"-from the acclaimed film "Black Orpheus"-and "Gentle Rain" are combined in a unique instrumental then vocal medley. The compositions of Joao Donato are not well known in the United States but the instrumental "A Ra" provides insight into his style. Paquito's instrumental, "One for Tom," was written for Antonio Carlos Jobim and Claudio's, "Red On Red," has become a "standard" in the Brazilian Jazz repertoire. Finally, Brazilian Dreams closes with "Snow Samba"-a composition penned by Paquito and Claudio on a snowy day in Chicago when they were dreaming of the sun and beach of Brazil.
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