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 What The Press Is Saying About Maucha Adnet & Helio Alves "Milagre"
★★★★ DownBeat Magazine
Maucha
Adnet’s third album as a leader groups together a number of Brazilian
jazz tunes, pairs her with longtime collaborator Helio Alves and lets
the duets speak for themselves. Milagre presents a jazz vocalist at the
height of her powers supported by a superlative soloist and encouraging
accompanist. The two seem at home together, with Adnet’s deep alto
dancing lightly over Alves’ precise rubato rhythms. The two give
intimate, superb performances of compositions penned by Antônio Carlos
Jobim, Gilberto Gil and other masters. Adnet picked up her innate
understanding of the music while touring with Jobim for more than a
decade, and her close study and countless performances are stamped on
each tune. “Waters Of March” stands out as one of the only English
tunes on the disc but is also notable for the casual ease of tempo. The
tune’s accompaniment skips along, never rushing, and Adnet is able to
lay on the back of the beat, nearly creating a rhythmic tension that
makes the song one of the best on the record. The two also perform
lesser-known numbers, such as the playful “April Child” and the breezy
title tune. They seem to work best at a fast clip of a tempo, and the
disc is full of uptempo, danceable music, but ballads like “Desafinada”
are also beautiful in their slower pace.
—Jon Ross DownBeat Magazine
Individually,
vocalist Maucha Adnet and pianist Helio Alves boast impressive résumés.
She has collaborated with Charlie Byrd, Dori Caymmi, Eliane Elias,
Gilberto Gil and Toninho Horta, and spent a decade touring and recording
with Antonio Carlos Jobim. He’s partnered with an equally illustrious
assortment of artists, including Yo-Yo Ma, Joe Henderson and Paquito
D’Rivera. But the two Brazilians’ finest performances, spanning two
decades, have been side-by-side.
Now, at
long last, Adnet and Alves have united for an album, a 14-track
compendium that captures a kinship that is the musical equivalent of
water and air: distinct yet vitally interdependent. Alves is the
sun-dappled sea, alternately roiling and calm but consistently deep,
powerful and mysterious. Adnet is the vast sky, sometimes cloudy and
occasionally stormy.
Together
they strip bare both familiar gems (Caymmi’s “O Cantador,” Jobim’s
“Caminhos Cruzados” and the near-century-old “Tico-Tico no Fubá”) and
lesser-known classics (notably the Jobim film theme “Gabriela” and Edu
Lobo and Vinicius de Moraes’ mournful “Canto Triste”), fully restoring
their raw beauty. While Alves never falters, Adnet does stumble once. In
the liner notes she admits to being somewhat challenged by the idea of
singing “Waters of March” in English, and her discomfort shows. How much
better, and truer to the spirit of the album, if she’d kept to Jobim’s
original Portuguese lyric.
- Christopher Loudon JazzTimes
“…Maucha
Adnet permeates the air with her velvety, warm, and passionate voice
full of incomparable diction and unique pitch. Her masterful way of
pausing and continuing with whispers can move anybody´s heart, reaching
an intimate and soft point in her singing…” - Chip Boaz Latinjazznet
Adnet’s
voice is transfixing, and Alves consistently draws you in with his
imaginative pianism. This is an album to be listened to many times with
additional nuances being discovered each time the music is
revisited. - Joe Lang Jersey Jazz
Brazilian music in the right hands is magical. Maucha Adnet and Helio Alves have the right hands. - Jack Goodstein Blogcritics.com
Milagre
is recorded with such intimate clarity that it seems the performance is
happening live, and right in front of the listener. Wonderful!
DR. JUDITH SCHLESINGER Allaboutjazz.com
This album, from artists who know how to celebrate life with their music, should be savored. - Marcia Hillman The New York City Jazz Record
Milagre
is about living life to the fullest, pulling that last once of joy from
our soul as we transcend our own personal pain to embrace the healing
power within this glorious music. - Brent Black @Critical Jazz
Magic is in the air on this disk. I revel in it. If you like classic samba-bossa song, this duet will send you! - Greg Edwards Gapplegate Music Review
Adnet
and Alves have such an easy way with one another throughout this date
so, given their close musical proximity over the years; it's surprising
that it took this long for them to get together sans company. Milagre is a long overdue treat. - DAN BILAWSKY Allaboutjazz.com
In which
this duo delivers on what the power of two means. With just voice and
piano, we are reminded the Adnet family has too much of concentration of
talent and that Alves is a swinging jazzbo that can play anything any
way it’s requested. A duo can only light so much fireworks but be
assured that none of the fireworks in their bag are duds. Keeping the
song stack full of recognizable classics, even of they do them up in
ways you aren’t familiar with, this is a smoking recital that’ll keep
you rapt throughout. Killer stuff. - CHRIS SPECTOR, Editor and Publisher Midwes Record
…fourteen
classics from their native Brazil. Maucha's voice is packed with
emotion and bathed in the full-bodied presentation by Alves. We liked
the vibrant "Gabriela" and the bouncy title track. - D. Oscar Groomes O's Place Jazz Magazine
This CD
showcases the lovely Brazilian vocalist, Maucha Adnet, a renowned and
authentic Jobim afiçionada, and the equally renowned Brazilian pianist,
Helio Alves. The duo brings to the lucky listener a collection of 14
elegantly presented songs, of varying rhythms and temperaments.
- Dr. Roberta E. Zlokower Roberta On The Arts |
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