Francesco Branciamore "REMEMBERING B.E."

Compositions of my project are dedicated to Bill Evans's music and played by Crossover Ensemble



 "REMEMBERING B.E."
tribute to the great jazz pianist Bill Evans
Music composed, arranged and directed by
FRANCESCO BRANCIAMORE performed by the formation of classical music

CROSSOVER ENSEMBLE
The project dedicated to the music of jazz pianist Bill Evans, created by the musician Francesco Branciamore for classic sextet (flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano, bass), entitled "Remembering BE", inspired by a careful analysis of everything that has been bestowed the great pianist. To date, no group and no training of this kind has ever been created by a staff like the one that will perform the music of American
musician.

The last experiment was done by the Kronos Quartet with Eddie Gomes about 20 years ago.

For this project, the composer Francesco Branciamore worked on the soul classic Bill Evans enhancing its influences from pianists such as Chopin, Ravel, Debussy and Satie, highlighting the various nuances, which is why the sound of the sextet of chamber music he has chosen is entirely appropriate and original.

The absence then improvised parts in the arrangements lend themselves to classical musicians of high profile. The songs orchestrated and arranged for the ensemble are compositions by Bill Evans as well known jazz standards he frequently played in his hands have become real compositions in his repertoire as well as two new songs that Maestro Branciamore dedicated to him. The part of the floor is entirely taken from original transcriptions of Bill Evans, all that is superimposed on this (the parts for the other five instruments) was composed and arranged specifically for this project.

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Bart Maris & Lode Vercampt - Krommekeer (El Negocito Records 2013)

Bart Maris - trumpet
Lode Vercampt - cello

1. Shaman
B. Maris - 04:25

2. Drie Egypten (1)
B. Maris / L. Vercampt - 02:49

3. Pedor
B. Maris - 04:53

4. Bevingen
B. Maris - 02:09

5. Drie Egypten (2)
B. Maris / L. Vercampt - 01:37

6. Drie Egypten (3)
B. Maris / L. Vercampt - 03:25

7. Hemelrijk
B. Maris - 02:51

8. Prindaal
B. Maris - 02:59

9. De zwarte fles (1)
B. Maris - 01:37

10. De zwarte fles (2)
B. Maris - 02:20

11. De zwarte fles (3)
B. Maris - 01:32

12. De zwarte fles (4)
B. Maris - 03:10

13. De zwarte fles (5)
B. Maris - 01:16

14. Pernambuco
B. Maris - 03:40

15. Pezewever
B. Maris - 03:46

16. Popov en Jelena
B. Maris - 02:52

17. De kloef
B. Maris / L. Vercampt - 02:58

18. Roe
B. Maris - 06:37

19. Schalkem
B. Maris / L. Vercampt - 03:04

20. Aernout komt niet terug
B. Maris - 04:24

21. Neep
B. Maris / L. Vercampt - 03:35

22. Nelleken
B. Maris - 03:18

23. Verveling
B. Maris - 04:20

El Negocito Records

Guitarist Ricardo Grilli Debuts Oct. 15: "If on a Winter's Night a Traveler"

Guitarist Ricardo Grilli Debuts
October 15 with
"If on a Winter's Night a Traveler"

Quintet Date by Brazilian-Born Grilli
Features Saxophonist Gustavo D'Amico,
Pianist Christian Li,
Bassist Jared Henderson, & Drummer Lee Fish

CD Release Shows Scheduled for
New York, Toronto, Boston  

September 18, 2013

 

In the seven years since leaving his native São Paulo for Boston and then New York, guitarist Ricardo Grilli has found his voice as a distinctive jazz player and composer. His glowing debut album, If on a Winter's Night a Traveler, which his Dark House label will release on October 15, chronicles that journey in rich detail.

 

Grilli's restless creativity is manifested in his love of odd meters, offbeat structures, and themes that keep circling back on themselves like the narrative lines in the Italo Calvino novel from which Traveler takes its name. The guitarist, now 27, began writing songs out of necessity while studying at the Berklee College of Music in Boston. "I figured the best way to get people to play with me was to write interesting music they would want to play," he says. "And that worked."

Among the Berklee classmates with whom he forged an especially tight bond was the pianistChristian Li, who's featured on Traveler along with saxophonist Gustavo D'Amico, a friend of Grilli's from Brazil, and the bass-drum team of Jared Henderson and Lee Fish, whom Grilli met at a Boston club.

As a composer, Grilli uses a kind of free association method, starting out with a word or phrase and seeing where it will take him musically. The germ for the wistful "Revolver" was a magazine interview with R&B singer John Legend about his album, Evolver. That led Grilli to ruminate on the word "revolver" and the mechanism of "a thing that turns." In his song, he says, "I made the chords go round almost like Bill Evans did on 'Time Remembered.'" (Revolver also is the title of his favorite Beatles album.)

"Riga," a coolly propulsive tune featuring D'Amico on soprano saxophone, was named after the Baltic city, where Grilli once attended a conference as a student representative. "The Great Escape," boasting one of Grilli's most fluid, entrancing solos and sparkling electric piano by Li, is a nod to the Steve McQueen classic. The note-tripping, modal-style "Mark I" (a play on Mach 1) was written for tenor saxophonist Mark Turner, whose 2001 album, Dharma Days, is one of Grilli's all-time favorites. That album features Rosenwinkel, for whom Grilli wrote the alternately earthy and lighter-than-air "The Abstract."  

   

Ricardo Grilli De Castro grew up in a musical family and first picked up a guitar -- his grandfather's -- at the age of four. He actually was set to attend law school when he decided to study music instead. "I had a great need to understand what was behind it," he says. He enrolled in the prestigious Souza Lima Conservatory & College of Music, completing half of his undergraduate studies there; after winning a special scholarship, he finished his degree at Berklee, a sister school of the conservatory.
When he arrived at Berklee, Grilli says, he was less polished than most of the guitar students there, without any kind of sound he could call his own. He spent countless hours listening to and transcribing Wes Montgomery's recordings, focusing as much on the rhythmic component of the music as the melodic. "In Brazilian music, we really try to play with a straight rhythmic feel through songs," he says. "There's no real swinging quality."

Unlike many Berklee students from outside the U.S. who played mainly with classmates from the same part of the world, Grilli played almost exclusively with kids from the States. When the original samba beat of "Riga" proved tricky to his American bandmates, he changed the rhythms to play to their strengths and acquire a more American sound. Mentored by such instructors asMick Goodrick, Bruce Bartlett, and Hal Crook, he developed a more personal style. After graduating from Berklee in 2011, he headed to New York to get his master's degree in jazz studies at NYU.

In the Big Apple, Grilli has enjoyed the best of two worlds. In academia, he has studied with the likes of guitar great John Scofield, who impressed him with his refusal to stand still musically. And in clubland, Grilli has performed with acclaimed stars including Chris Potter, who joined the NYU Ensemble at the Blue Note's Sunday jazz brunch, as well as bands of his own.

Grilli will be performing the music from his new CD at the following venues: 10/27 Rockwood Music Hall, NYC (with Gustavo D'Amico, reeds; Christian Li, piano; Edward Perez, bass; Lee Fish, drums); 12/10 The Rex, Toronto (with Kelly Jefferson, reeds; Chris Pruden, piano; Jon Maharaj, bass; Lorenzo Castelli, drums); and 2/4 Scullers, Boston (with Jason Palmer, trumpet; piano TBD; Edward Perez, bass; Lee Fish, drums).

Ricardo Grilli Quintet: If on a Winter's Night a Traveler [EPK]

  

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Celebrated Brazilian Guitarist/Arranger/Composer OSCAR CASTRO-NEVES Died in Los Angeles, September 27

Photo Credit: Curtis McElhinney

Oscar Castro-Neves, the celebrated Brazilian guitarist, arranger, and composer, died from complications of gastric cancer on Friday, September 27 in Los Angeles, California. He was 73-years-old.

Six decades of accomplishment and musical acclaim have demonstrated an inherent musical genius that has made Castro-Neves one of the world's most complete musicians of his generation. His native country, Brazil, honored him with title of "Officer of the Order of Rio Branco" in recognition of his outstanding contribution to the dissemination of Brazilian culture and music around the world.

Castro-Neves recorded as a Mack Avenue Records artist from 2003 until 2006, releasing All One and Playful Heart on the label. 

The guitarist (born on May 15, 1940 in Rio de Janeiro) emerged in the early 1960s alongside Antonio Carlos Jobim, João Gilberto and a handful of other young composers, as one of the founding figures of the musical movement that became known worldwide as bossa nova. At the age of 16, Castro-Neves' first recorded song, "Chora Tua Tristeza," became a national hit in Brazil, and generated over fifty recordings by various artists. In 1962, a year before "The Girl From Ipanema" became a Top 10 hit, 22-year-old Castro-Neves' spearheaded the bossa nova invasion in the U.S., playing a central role as a performer at the historic debut bossa bova concert at Carnegie Hall.

Castro-Neves' quartet then toured in the company of the Dizzy Gillespie Quintet, the Stan Getz Quartet, and the Lalo Schifrin Trio, and in 1971 joined Sergio Mendes' Brazil '66 group as the featured guitarist, musical director and vocal coach. When he left the group in 1981, he had recorded more than 15 albums with Mendes, several of which he co-produced.

Castro-Neves performed as a guitarist on countless jazz and pop albums, including records from Ella Fitzgerald, Michael Jackson, Barbara Streisand, Stevie Wonder, Barry Manilow, and Quincy Jones. His greatest commercial success came as a producer, with credits including: Grammy® winning cross-over album Soul of the Tango by Yo-Yo Ma; Color and Light: Jazz Sketches on Sondheim, a Top Jazz Album of the Year by Billboard Magazine and among the 10 Best Albums of the Year by Time Magazine; Joe Henderson's Grammy® nominatedDouble Rainbow: The Music of Antonio Carlos Jobim; Harry Belafonte's platinum-selling album The Tradition of Christmas; as well as records by Toots Thielemans, Stan Getz and Paul Winter.

His film score credits include arrangements and orchestrations for Blame it on Rio, featuring Michael Caine and Demi Moore; Dirty Rotten Scoundrels; L.A. Story; Sister Act II; House Sitter;Dunston Checks In; He Said, She Said; Getting Even with Dad; and Gabriella; along with numerous television credits.

Castro-Neves is remembered for his indefatigable enthusiasm, an infectious charm, and a passion for humanity that touched many. He is survived by his wife Lorraine, and two daughters, Felicia and Bianca. 

Read the Full Obituary from The Los Angeles Times

 

For more information on Oscar Castro-Neves, please visit: oscarcastroneves.com

  

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NUTCRACKER SUITES The first new recording of the Ellington/Strayhorn holiday classic in over fifty years.

Tony Adamo and What Is Hip? is old school turned new cool! Funky is as funky does!

What is hip? Indeed...

The standard rule of thumb would be that what is hip is best defined by the style of the time. After being the first critic to shed a much needed and well deserved light on his latest release Miles of Blu, Tony Adamo makes hippness a zen like state of mind. To paraphrase the great musical philosopher Frank Zappa, "You are what you is."

What is Hip? could easily be considered a perfect book end to Miles of Blu. This 2011 release is a most righteous hybrid of rock, soul, funk with improvisational vocal style that is a smoldering groove. Is it new? No...It isn't supposed to be. What Is Hip? revitalizes the old school sound of say Muscle Shoals meets Tower of Power with a modern twist and straight ahead direction that makes the end result a unique mirror image of one the hippest people I personally know on the planet being Adamo. One of my greatest influence as a critic, Robert Hilburn from the Los Angeles Times once said you never become friends with an artist unless you are working on some sort of project together just in case you have to be the bearer of bad news one day. Those that get me know that my philosophy has always been you work your side of the street and I'll work mine. Tony Adamo is cut from a similar cloth, he is just presenting his contribution his way and with his own style and it doesn't get any more real than that.

Notable contributions here include, "Cold Duck Time" along with "What Is Hip?" and "Nine Miles Of Blue." Tony Adamo is never going to win male vocalist of the year and that may be one of the many reasons this release pops so well straight out of the gate. Perhaps guest artists such as Steve Gadd and members of the Tower of Power horn section along with !
 long time friend in drummer/producer Mike Clark help give you that winning edge but talent always wins out. What is Hip? is an entertaining and seriously soulful romp through some righteous tunes with a set of A list musicians banging out a groove you can use. Tony Adamo is indeed hip!

Tracks: Cold Duck Time; Rhythm Of Your Love; Make Me A Memory; What Is Hip?; Ecstasy; Eleanor Rigby; Rio De Janeiro Blue; The Way You Do The Things You Do; Love Don't Get; Calling; Nine Miles Of Blue; Mystery; This Time It's Real.

Personnel: Tony Adamo: Vocal/Hip Spoken Word; Steve Gadd: Drums; Reggie McBride: Bass; Neil Larsen: Organ; Jerry Stucker: Guitar, Midi Programming; Robert Quintana: Percussion; Melecio Magdaluyo: Sax; Sandy Griffith: Background Vocals; James Gadsen: Drums; Rodney Franklin: Piano; Kenneth Nash: Percussion; Skip Mesquite: Sax; Mic Gillette: Trombone; Henry Hung: Trumpet/ Trombone; Mike Clark: Drums; Richie Goods: Bass; Bill Summers: Percussion; Stephen Doc Kupka: Bari Sax; Eddie Henderson: Trumpet; Blackbyrd McKnight: Guitar; John Costalupes: Bass.

Brent Black / www.bop-n-jazz.com