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Nilson Matta's Black Orpheus

Label: Motéma Music
Released: 2013
Track listing: Overture; Repinique Interlude; Samba De Orfeu; A Felicidade; Cuica Interlude; O Nosso Amor; Manha De Carnaval; Batacuda I; Eu E O Meu Amor/Lamento No Morro; Frevo De Orfeu; Valsa De Euridice; Ascend, My Love; Um Nome De Mulher; Batacuda II; Se Todos Fossem Iguais A Voce; Violao Interlude; Hugs And Kisses.

Article: Year in Review

Dan Bilawsky's Best Releases Of 2013

by Dan Bilawsky
December 12, 2013

The annual rite of writing a “best of" list at All About Jazz is a most pleasurable and difficult task; pleasurable for the reflections on great art that come along with the task and difficult because of the need to make hard choices. I've been inspired by dozens of new jazz recordings this year, but I've ...

Article: New York Beat

Trio da Paz at Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola

by Nick Catalano
September 13, 2013

Trio da PazDizzy's Club Coca-ColaNew York City, NYAugust 27, 2013There can be no doubt that Trio da Paz is the hottest jazz group working in Gotham these days. In the last week of August the band was booked for an extended two-week engagement, once again featuring “friends" Harry ...

Article: Album Review

Nilson Matta: Nilson Matta's Black Orpheus

by AAJ Italy Staff
April 19, 2013

La cosa che più colpisce di Nilson Matta's Black Orpheus è l'approccio assolutamente personale nel rivisitare la celebre colonna sonora firmata nel 1959 dalla triade Jobim-Moraes-Bonfá. Soprattutto negli interludi Matta ha inteso rimarcare l'anima più recondita di Jobim, debitrice dell'armonia eurocolta impressionista (Debussy, Ravel). Il co-leader del Trio Da Paz dà così l'impressione di essersi svincolato ...

Article: Album Review

Nilson Matta: Nilson Matta's Black Orpheus

Read "Nilson Matta's Black Orpheus" reviewed by Edward Blanco

by Edward Blanco
March 28, 2013

Brazilian bassist Nilson Matta has, like all artists, has drawn inspiration for his music from a variety of sources--of which a play and a movie serve as the influence for the moving Black Orpheus. Antonio Carlos Jobim's compositions for the 1957 Vinicius de Moraes Brazilian play Orfeu da Conceicao and the 1959 Black Orpheus movie that ...

Article: Album Review

Nilson Matta: Nilson Matta's Black Orpheus

Read "Nilson Matta's Black Orpheus" reviewed by Dr. Judith Schlesinger

by Dr. Judith Schlesinger
March 18, 2013

This CD is the culmination of Nilson Matta's lifelong dream: to record his interpretation of the Orpheus music from the Brazilian play and movie of the 1950s. To make it happen, Matta enlisted fifteen superb players from Brazil and the United States, building his ensemble up from the rhythmic, native heart of the music. The result ...

Article: Album Review

Maucha Adnet & Helio Alves: Milagre

by Dan Bilawsky
February 22, 2013

Vocalist Maucha Adnet and pianist Helio Alves have been collaborating in various settings for two decades, but Milagre marks their first full-length recording as a twosome. Adnet, who's best known for her decade-long tenure with the great Antonio Carlos Jobim, and Alves, a first call pianist who's worked with everyone from saxophonist Joe Henderson to cellist ...

Article: New York Beat

Nilson Matta and Leny Andrade at Dizzy's

by Nick Catalano
February 22, 2013

Celebrating the release of Black Orpheus (Motéma, 2013), bassist Nilson Matta brought his band into Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola on February 13, 2013. Along with pianist Klaus Mueller, percussionist Fernando Saci, drummer Alex Kautz and saxophonist Steve Wilson the show featured legendary singer Leny Andrade, who also performs on the CD.Although Brazilian music has enthralled ...

Article: Album Review

Nilson Matta: Nilson Matta's Black Orpheus

Read "Nilson Matta's Black Orpheus" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky
February 19, 2013

The story of Orpheus and Eurydice has been told and retold in various mediums and manners throughout the ages. Claudio Monteverdi used opera as his means of transmitting the tale, alt-rocker Nick Cave tackled it head-on in song and author Neil Gaiman revisited the story in comic book format, but the list doesn't stop there; any ...

News: Recording

Motéma Music Will Release Nilson Matta’s Black Orpheus On February 12, 2013

January 23, 2013

Bassist’s Inspired Re-imagining of Classic Brazilian Music Includes Contributions from Leny Andrade, Kenny Barron, Randy Brecker, Anat Cohen and Gretchen Parlato When Nilson Matta was a young child in his native Brazil, his father brought home an LP of the music from the play Orfeu da Conceição, by the playwright Vinicius de Moraes, which retells the ...