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Instrument: Guitar, acoustic
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Egberto Gismonti
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Egberto Gismonti was born in 1947 in Carmo, Brazil. He began his formal music studies at the age of six. After studying classical piano for 15 years, he went to Paris to study with Nadia Boulanger (orchestration and analysis), and composer Jean Barraqué, a disciple of Schönberg and Webern. Returning to Brazil, Gismonti began to glimpse a reality broader than that of classical music alone. He was attracted by Ravel's ideas of orchestration and chord voicings, as well as by choro, a Brazilian popular instrumental genre where varied kinds of guitars, reeds and percussion are featured
Keith Jarrett's European Quartet: Innocence
by Scott Lichtman
It just so happens that two of the most poignant jazz ballads--in my opinion--were released in the same year. I'm not talking about throw-back masterpieces, such as Thelonious Monk's Round Midnight" or Horace Silver's Lonely Woman." Rather, they are Keith Jarrett's Innocence" and Egberto Gismonti's Palhaço," both originally issued in 1980. What makes these pieces stand ...
Folia: The Music of Egberto Gismonti
By Gaia Wilmer
Label: Sunnyside Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: Folia; Em Familia; 7 Anéis; Bianca; Infância; Lôro; Karatê; Maracatu; Cego Aderaldo; Baião Malandro.
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by Martin Longley
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