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São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil | SELF

São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil | SELF
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"Moacir Santos on Virada Cultural"

Moacir Santos on Virada Cultural

At least not in person ...

Young jazz musicians from SP in 2005 rediscovered the music of Moacir Santos, and bring her back to the Brazilians and beyond, into the world. Tonight it plays big band known as Projeto Coisa Fina at 22:30 on Virada. Yesterday I had a conversation with one of the founders, saxophonist Daniel Nogueira.

Moacir Santos (1926-2006)
His music is better known than his name, the song Nana remembered by more than 100 artists including Sergio Mendes, Eumir Deodato and Céu (see below the video) is gecovered.

The Afro-Brazilian Santos is from Pernambuco and his eventful life from his infancy is all about the music. After living - he has worked as a multi-instrumentalist, conductor, arranger and composer - he ended up in America where he remained until his death. In Brazil he worked among others for the German composer Hans Joachim Koellreuter and taught at renowned musicians such as Baden Powell, Paulo Moura, João Donato, Nara Leão, Roberto Menescal, Sergio Mendes. In Los Angeles, the documents discovered by Horace Silver Santos him what constituted a contract with Blue Note. Santos worked mainly as a ghostwriter for film soundtracks such as Mission Impossible - the only film where he was given credit for Final Justice - and taught. Moacir Santos in Brazil fell into oblivion, but the album Ouro Negro (2004) rehabilitated his reputation. One of his American fans, Wynton Marsalis, plays his last album Choros & Alegria (2005).


Coisas
With his debut album Coisas from 1965, reissued in 2004 (now a collector's item) Santos was ahead of its time. The album brings a unique blend of Brazilian rhythms, the freedom of jazz and European art music. The works are called coisas (things) and Coisa No 5 with the text of the song Mario Telles Nana has become.

Projeto Coisa Fina
On one day listening to Daniel Nogueira and his fellow student to Vinicius Pereira Moacir Santos, and they feel called to play his music. They set up a small big band and a temporary thing because it would have the Projeto Coisa Fina said. To coisas (things work without a fixed form) of Santos and coisa fina is also an expression of something beautiful. The huge turn on to their young age - big bands generally attract older audiences - and they decide to continue it. The group develops and plays compositions by JT Meirelles, Chico Buarque, Milton Nascimento and his own work. Late last year they released their debut album Homenagem ao Maestro Moacir Santos launched using crowd funding . The CD you'll soon be able to listen to webchannel of Jazz Young and the Luisterpaal .

Movimentos Elefantes
A project that ensues is Movimento Elefantes. This "movement of elephants" is a collective of big bands from Sao Paulo with the aim of Brazilian instrumental music to further develop and spread. This year, an album will appear here. Tonight and tomorrow stage Parque da Luz in the sign of Projeto Elefantes Jazzco with Banda (20:00), Projeto Coisa Fina (22:30), Soundscape Big Band (1:10), Projeto Mere Trio (3:30) Retete Big Band (5:15), Grupo Comboio (8:40), Banda Urbana (12:30) and Orquestra HB (16:10).

Arthur Verocai
Daniel told me about another project of Projeta Coisa Fina. They want the music to even some forgotten maestro, Arthur Verocai, will perform excerpts from the film Timeless . Verocai itself is seen October 16, 2011 in Paradiso .

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Projeto Coisa Fina ' Uma homenagem a Moacir Santos"

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Projeto Coisa Fina is a band based in São Paulo formed by thirteen young musicians: 4 saxophones; 2 trumpets; 2 trombones; piano; electric guitar; acoustic bass; drums and percussion.
The collective fuses baião, maracatu and samba with jazz elements with a unique and inventive touch. These spice rhythms make the audience experience Brazilian roots and make us discover the music of the great composer Moacir Santos, an essential icon in the history of Brazilian music.
The band began to play in different places in São Paulo with great success of audience and has being requested to perform in international festivals like Percpan and Savassi. Daniel Nogueira, the founder of the band, researched about the fascinating and unknown Moacir Santos life story and got engaged on producing a CD with Vinicius Pereira, the bass player.
Recorded live in a big studio, the CD Tribute to the Maestro Moacir Santos was released in 2010 and also presents new compositions inspired in Moacir Santos universe.
Moacir Santos
Moacir Santos was born in 1926 in Pernambuco and had a brilliant career as a musical director of radio orchestras in Rio de Janeiro. In 1965 he released his first album named "Coisas" (a term to define the number of the compositions like "opus") which was a commercial failure. Then, he decided to move to the United States where he produced four albums: Coisas (Forma 1965), Maestro (Blue Note 1972), Saudade (Blue Note 1974) and Carnival of Spirits (Blue Note 1975). One of them - “Maestro”- has been nominated for the Grammy in 1972.
Being an excellent arranger and composer, Moacir Santos worked a lot in Los Angeles and played with many important musicians like Horace Silver that recorded some of his compositions. He was part of the Lalo Schifrin team in Hollywood as a ghost composer of the soundtrack of Mission: Impossible movie where his musical signature is easily recognized.
Very respected in USA, Moacir was not supposed to be back to Brazil during 45 years until Mario Adnet and Zé Nogueira decided to recover his music, restoring the original arrangements and registering them in a fantastic CD released in 2001. The CD named Ouro Negro (Petrobras) that means Black Gold, had a great impact as it showed an awesome composer very little known by the Brazilian people. The astonishing tunes are so well arranged that captivated important Brazilian musicians like Gilberto Gil, Milton Nascimento, Djavan and João Bosco, recording each one a song by Moacir Santos at this anthological CD.
After 4 years, Ouro Negro still reverberates in the souls of two young musicians Daniel Nogueira and Vinicius Pereira. After listening many times the CD, they decided to begin a band with brass and woodwinds instruments to perform Moacir Santos music with a new flavor, bringing back all the creative and anthological music of this gorgeous composer.
The revival of Moacir Santos music has an extreme cultural importance not only for Brazil but for the world as his music is pretty vibrant and presents beautiful combinations between contemporary music elements, Brazilian references with a grooving jazz feeling. An experience to be felt!
Projeto Coisa Fina laurels rest on the ability of transforming Moacir Santos sophistication in thrilling tunes for the upcoming generation. Their CD is an absolutely astounding debut. And given they are only 7 years old, this is just the beginning - and that's truly something to look forward to.