This Music is inspired on the music the great brazilians like Milton Nascimento, Toninho Horta, Edson Machado, Tom Jobim and others did on past !
But this album is not just a reverence !It is a fresh and contemporary view about the brazilian harmonies, grooves and tradition !
The musicians are all very inspired and creative ! Rafael Barata e Xande Figueiredo on Drums, David Feldman on piano, Danilo Sinna alto sax, Josue Lopez on tenor sax and the 18yrs boy Pedro Martins on Guitar are the lead sextet together Vasconcellos on bass. The album has three special guests ! Hamilton de Holanda, one of the best mandolin player and inventor of a new musical language join the group on "Tempo de Partir". Gabriel Grossi, Toot's prodige, show why he is a revelation of harmonica on "Sem Adeus" and the Virtuoso Eduardo Neves, who came from the samba and choro tradition, plays the flute on "Bolero".
The Vasconcello's bass is a important piece on this context. He is the one who changes the feel of composition and intention of the group between the old and new ! The grooves can sometime be very traditional and cool and others, very contemporary and fresh ! The compositions bring to the audience the relax and smooth feel of the brazilian bossa-nova and jazz.
All the aspects of the album were carefully well done. The arrangements, sound and production are impecables !
We hope you enjoy this musical trip !
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Laura
Ainsworth’s 2011 debut, Keep It To Yourself, scored worldwide radio
play (landing on Jazz Week’s Top Airplay chart tied with Stanley Clarke)
and critical hosannas. Jazz Inside devoted a lead review in its
Vocalists issue, raving, “You can keep all those pop divas, the only one
for me is Laura Ainsworth… A wonderful modern interpreter of the Great
American Songbook, as well as thoroughly modern styles.”
SomethingElseReviews dubbed it “transcendent” and said that with her
“satiny, impossibly old-fashioned, nearly three-octave voice, Ainsworth
is the very portrait of West Coast cool.” AllAboutJazz.com said she is
“gifted with a sultry, swoon-inducing croon,” and her debut was “among
the year's most consistently engaging jazz releases, performed with
class and heartfelt passion.” The Dallas Morning News called her voice
“sublime,” and Robert Sutton at JazzCorner.com lauded her as “a funny
lady with a jewel of a voice” who “weaves past and present with stunning
power.”
