Results for "Arnaldo DeSouteiro"

Ron Carter: Anything Goes

by Arnaldo DeSouteiro
July 11, 2024

Ronald Levin Carter (born Ferndale, Michigan, on May 4, 1937) needs no introduction. Let's just say that he is the bassist's bassist. On Ron's hands, the bass and the man become the same entity, the same person. Played by Ron Carter, the acoustic bass sounds like... Ron Carter! That's why he is one of the three ...

CTI Acid Jazz Grooves by Various Artists

by Arnaldo DeSouteiro
June 19, 2024

The CD you are holding in your hands is a very special compilation. It's the celebration of CTI as one of the most “sampled" labels on Earth! For the past ten years, many CTI tracks have been cut up, sampled, scratched and looped to create new songs for a new audience. Many of the selections on ...

Thiago de Mello

Born: 1933

Gaudencio Thiago de Mello (Barreirinha, state of Amazonas, 1933 - New York, 2013) was a NY-based Brazilian composer, arranger, conductor, band leader (founder of the Amazon big band which performed all Sunday nights at Sweet Basil-NY during the 1980s) and multi-instrumentalist (piano, acoustic guitar, percussion). He was brother of poet Amadeu Thiago de Mello.

Thiago got Grammy nominations for albums he recorded with Paul Winter and Sharon Isbin. He also recorded several albums with Brazilian jazz singer Ithamara Koorax (with whom he also toured in both Brazil and USA) as well as with Luiz Bonfa, Carlos Barbosa-Lima, Dexter Payne, Susannah McCorcle, Claudio Roditi, Carlos Pingarilho, Jorge Pescara, Anna Ly and many others

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Carlos Pingarilho

Born: January 7, 1940

Brazilian composer, singer and guitarist, born on January 7, 1940 in Rio de Janeiro, RJ. He co-wrote many songs with poet Marcos Vasconcellos, his most frequent partner, as well as with his cousin Marcos Valle; among them, Seu Encanto (The Face I Love) and Dorme Profundo. Pingarilho's songs have been recorded by the likes of João Gilberto, Luiz Bonfá, Elis Regina, Eumir Deodato, Andy Williams, Sarah Vaughan, Sylvia Telles, Laurindo Almeida, Joyce, Chris Montez, Leny Andrade, Kenny Barron, Joanne Brackeen, Ithamara Koorax, and most recently Gretchen Parlato on her 2024 Grammy-nominee album Lean In.
Altough active as a composer since 1963, when Marcos Valle recorded Canção Pequenina, Pingarilho only did his first recording session ever in 1998, invited by producer Arnaldo DeSouteiro to play on Dom Um Romao's Rhythm Traveller album. His debut album as a leader, Histórias E Sonhos (Stories And Dreams) came out only in 2002, for DeSouteiro's JSR label, featuring an stellar cast: Eumir Deodato, Ithamara Koorax, Marcos Valle, Dom Um Romao, Gaudencio Thiago de Mello, Bebeto Castilho (Tamba Trio), Marcelo Salazar, Jorge Pescara, Sergio Barroso and many others.

Gustavo Cysne

Born: June 28, 1980

Brazilian singer, composer, songwriter, pianist and acoustic guitarist. 

One of Brazil’s most promising singers and composers in the bossa nova style, Gustavo Cysne has subtle vocals in a breezy mood, that evokes both Antonio Carlos Jobim and Chet Baker, two of Cysne's deepest influences. His first released song, “Chegou Pra Ficar” is a tribute to the endless power of love as well as to the charm of Brazilian women, especially to the sensual appeal of the girls from Ipanema.

Produced by Arnaldo DeSouteiro for the Los Angeles-based label Jazz Station Records (JSR), this song features lovely and charming performances by some of Brazil's greatest musicians like legendary bassist Sergio Barroso (who recorded with Sarah Vaughan, Eumir Deodato, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Edu Lobo, Marcos Valle, Roberto Menescal), drummer Cesar Machado (famous for his sessions with Paquito D'Rivera, Claudio Roditi and Hendrik Meurkens), and flute master Jose Carlos Ramos (Ithamara Koorax, Jorge Ben, Gal Costa and dozens of others).

On his turn, Arnaldo DeSouteiro, who discovered Cysne, is regarded as Brazil's top jazz and bossa nova producer, having worked with João Gilberto, Luiz Bonfá, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Eumir Deodato, João Donato, Ithamara Koorax, Dom Um Romão, Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter, Sadao Watanabe, Mario Castro-Neves, David Sanborn, Randy Brecker, Claus Ogerman, Marcos Valle, Azymuth and many more.

Raul De Souza: Colors

by Arnaldo DeSouteiro
January 17, 2024

Raul De Souza's life can be seen as a one-of-a-kind story. Indeed, it would make a perfect novel or film script. It may not be as big a tragedy as 'Round Midnight or Bird, but it has drama, love, adventure, and great music. Picture this: a poor child grows up in Brazil working as ...

Electric Chick (Europe)

By Chick Corea

Label: Verve Records
Released: 2023

That's the Way I Like It

By Selma Boragian

Label: Jazz Station Records
Released: 2023

Brazilian Horizons Vol. 2 (Brazil)

By Arnaldo DeSouteiro

Label: BMG
Released: 2023