Jazz Articles about Cyro Baptista

Cyro Baptista’s Banquet of the Spirits: Infinito

by AAJ Italy Staff
November 30, 2009

Infinito, ultima fatica di studio del percussionista brasiliano Cyro Baptista, è un ottimo esempio di ciò che può succedere quando una tecnica impeccabile, un certo attaccamento alle proprie radici e un approccio musicale privo di preconcetti si incontrano. Il “banchetto degli spiriti" con cui Baptista si accomoda stavolta è composto da un mucchio selvaggio di musicisti come Erik Friedlander, Romero Lubambo, Brian Marsella, Tim Keiper, Shanir E. Blumenkrantz, Anat Cohen, e il collettivo di percussionisti Maracatu New York. Infinito è ...

Cyro Baptista's Banquet of the Spirits: Infinito

by Joel Roberts
October 10, 2009

Multi-talented percussionist Cyro Baptista may have the most dazzlingly eclectic resumé in contemporary music. He's performed and recorded with mainstream jazzers like Herbie Hancock and Wynton Marsalis; downtown experimentalists like John Zorn and Laurie Anderson; pop icons like Sting and Paul Simon and major Brazilian stars like Milton Nascimento and Ivan Lins. And he may be the only artist in the world who can list both Yo Yo Ma and Snoop Dogg among his credits. Baptista's fourth ...

Cyro Baptista: Lucifer, The Dreamers & Orra

by Stuart Broomer
August 15, 2008

John Zorn Lucifer,:Book of Angels, Volume 10 Tzadik 2008 John Zorn The Dreamers Tzadik 2008 Phantom Orchard Orra Tzadik 2008

Brazilian percussionist Cyro Baptista is one of the great sidemen currently active, a musician whose resourcefulness can enrich and enliven almost any music, with projects from ...

Cyro Baptista: Banquet of the Spirits

by Sean Patrick Fitzell
July 21, 2008

Exotic percussion, string and keyboard instruments were strewn across the stage of Joe's Pub in New York City on May 29th. Cyro Baptista rapped out a pattern and casually live-looped it to play against himself with handclaps, drums and birdcalls. His approach of maximizing each person's sound fuels his new group and CD Banquet of the Spirits. Drummer-percussionist Tim Keiper, bassist-oudist Shanir Ezra Blumenkranz and keyboardist-accordionist Brian Marsella added to the leader's sonic blend, slowly teasing the introduction and launching ...

Cyro Baptista: Love the Donkey

by Sean Patrick Fitzell
June 3, 2006

A panoply of percussion erupts from Love the Donkey as Cyro Baptista and his merry troupe of percussionists and special guests unleash fourteen tracks of manic energy and irrepressible fun. It serves as an effective antidote to overly cerebral and self-consciously serious music. Throughout his prolific career, Baptista has voraciously performed most imaginable (and some unimaginable) genres of music, and here he unabashedly borrows from them all. The resulting concoction transcends static notions of rock, Brazilian, jazz, ...

John Zorn: Filmworks XVI - Workingman’s Death

by AAJ Italy Staff
April 10, 2006

Pochezza del redattore o (eccessiva?) esuberanza del compositore, ci troviamo a trattare del sedicesimo volume della p roduzione zorniana per il cinema quando già altri due capitoli della serie sono stati licenziati negli Stati Uniti. Nonostante il vago senso di stordimento derivante da una rincorsa che sappiamo bene difficilmente ci vedrà spuntarla sui ritmi forsennati di Zorn, l'abbondanza di Filmworks è in sé - al di là cioè del merito delle singole prove - un dato positivo. Orientata a progetti ...

Cyro Baptista: Beat the Donkey Beat

by Javier AQ Ortiz
August 20, 2005

As rich and varied as this music is, it's a glimpse of a multifaceted enterprise that encompasses a broad aesthetic and disciplinary gamut that includes dance, couture silliness, tap, body and common objects percussion, capoeira, and light effects, among other things. Wisely, a three minute QuickTime short is included with the release that can be played in a computer as a sketch of the aforementioned multimedia endeavor. The music on this release can be thoroughly enjoyed though without experiencing the ...