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Marcelo Coelho

A native of Brazil, Marcelo Coelho began his music studies when he was fourteen years old. His first instruments were the clarinet and the alto saxophone. When he was eighteen years old, he changed to the tenor saxophone that would become his main instrument.He finished his bachelor in Popular Music at Campinas State University - UNICAMP, in 1999. During the undergraduate studies, he played in several combos which include jazz bands, Brazilian jazz combos, big bands, as well as dancing bands. Because jazz has exerted a great influence and attraction in his musical formation, he developed during his undergraduate years a research project entitled The Harmonic Concepts of Bebop

Colagens

By Marcelo Coelho

Label: CAIS (Criacao e Administracao de Ideias Sonoras)
Released: 2008
Track listing: I Juca Pirama; Tormenta; Jota-Pe; S.U.Y.E.; Colagens; Sono; Paplegua; Madrugada.

Marcelo Coelho: Colagens

by Eric Benson
May 25, 2008

There's something unsettling about Colagens, the first album from Sao Paolo-based saxophonist Marcelo Coelho's MC4+ group. On the surface, it's a simple enough affair: a quartet with guest trombonists running through a series of original tunes that have wide-open harmonies and shifting grooves. There's only one track on the album that could be described as up-tempo, ...