Bay Area Vocalist Sandy Cressman
Reaffirms Her Deep Connections with
Brazilian Music on New CD
"Entre Amigos"
Recorded in San Francisco, São Paulo, & Recife
With a Cast of Brazilian & American Collaborators,
CD Is Scheduled for Release
On February 3
By Cressman Music
CD Release Shows Include Stops in Berkeley,
Oakland, New York City, &
Carnaval in Recife, Brazil
December 1, 2016
As founder and leader of the group Homenagem Brasileira, San Francisco-based vocalist/ educator Sandy Cressman
has had many opportunities over the last 20-plus years to forge
creative partnerships with like-minded musicians from the Bay to Brazil.
Her entrancing new album, Entre Amigos, which will be released on February 3
by her Cressman Music imprint, marks the culmination of these
relationships and is a celebration of her own deep history with the
music and the players.
Though the new CD is her first new recording since 2005's Brasil--Sempre no Coração, a project devoted to definitive songs by masters of MPB (música popular brasileira),
Cressman never stepped away from music. As an educator and linchpin of a
bustling creative family including her husband, former longtime Santana
trombonist and recording engineer Jeff Cressman; their older daughter, New York trombonist/vocalist Natalie Cressman; and their younger daughter, Los Angeles dancer Julianna Cressman,
she's maintained enduring musical ties with some of the region's finest
musicians. There's nothing quite like being massively overscheduled to
concentrate one's attention, and Cressman came up with an enthralling
set of answers to the self-searching question, "What do I really want to
do with this music?"
"For a long while I concentrated on mining the treasures in
the existing Brazilian music repertoire," says Cressman. "But at a
certain point I started writing and asking people to collaborate, and Entre Amigos collects many of these amazing connections.
