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Jaques Morelenbaum
Carioca (born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), Jaques Morelenbaum has accomplished 44 years of career as cellist, arranger, record producer, conductor and composer. Jaques has has graduated as a cellis at the New England Conservatory in Boston. Since his early days, Jaques has looked for new directions to his cello playing. Before releasing three albums with the group A Barca do Sol (the 1st of them produced by Egberto Gismonti) Jaques was already writing arrangements and conducting choirs. Up till today, Morelenbaum has collaborated in 788 albums and performed 2570 concerts in 47 countries in 446 cities, sharing stages and music with names as Antonio Carlos Jobim, Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil, Egberto Gismonti, Leonard Bernstein, Gal Costa, Milton Nascimento, Chico Buarque de Holanda, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Sting, Mitslav Rostropovich, the Portuguese Madre Deus, Carminho, Mariza, Dulce Pontes, Danças Ocultas, Rui Veloso, the Cape-Verdeans Cesária Évora and Mayra Andrade, the French Henri Salvador and Richard Galliano, the Angolan Paulo Flores, the Japanese Sadao Watanabe, Choro Club and Gontiti, the Spanish Clara Montes and Presuntos Implicados, the Germans NDR Big Band, NDR Symphony Pops Orchestra and WDR Big Band, the North-Americans David Byrne and Chris Botti, the Cuban Omar Sosa, the Argentinians Fito Paes, Diego Schissi and Marcelo Dellamea, and the Mexican Julieta Venegas. Jaques is a Grammy winner as a record producer: Best World Music Album with Caetano Veloso, for "Livro", and twice the Latin Grammy, as Best Brazilian Music Album for "Noites do Norte", also by Caetano Veloso, and Best Pop Music Video, with Julieta Venegas. As a sound track composer, Morelenbaum wrote for “Central Station”, by Walter Salles, “Lula, Filho do Brasil” and “O Quatrilho”, both by Fabio Barreto, “Paid”, by Lawrence Lamers, “Blue Eyes”, by José Joffily, “Nise, The Heart of Madness”, by Roberto Berliner, among others. Jaques has played for ten years with Antonio Carlos Jobim, for fourteen years with Caetano Veloso, five with Gilberto Gil and with Egberto Gismonti, three years with Gal Costa, and he has been still playing, for almost thirty years, with Ryuichi Sakamoto. Jaques Morelenbaum’s solo project is called the CelloSam3aTrio, releasing the album "Saudade do Futuro Futuro da Saudade" (Biscoito Fino/Mirante).
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João Bosco: O Canto da Terra por um Fio
by Katchie Cartwright
Released just before the 2023 solstice (winter in the US, summer south of the Equator), João Bosco's stunning “O Canto da Terra por um Fio" (The Corner of the Earth by a Thread) adds a global call for godly and human intervention to the season's more traditional holiday fare. The piece is the first single of a project to be released in mid-2024. The lyric speaks of a great river that sees its life hanging by a thread, that feels ...
Continue ReadingGaia Wilmer Large Ensemble: Folia: The Music of Egberto Gismonti
by Mario Calvitti
L'importanza di Egberto Gismonti come compositore di musica contemporanea ha da tempo travalicato i confini del Brasile, suo paese natale (ma lui è discendente da madre siciliana e padre libanese), dove si è imposto subito come uno degli autori più influenti. La sua musica è un riuscito amalgama di tradizione folkloristica, canzone popolare e classica contemporanea, fin qui proseguendo nella scia di Heitor Villa-Lobos, con in più un deciso allargamento verso il jazz. Da tempo il chitarrista/pianista non ...
Continue ReadingJaques Morelenbaum, Miriam Elhajli, Lucia Boffo, Ryan Keberle & More New Releases
by Ludovico Granvassu
A playlist featuring Brazilian—and Brazil inspired—Argentinean and Venezuelan artist, as well some compelling long-form explorations led by bassists Ben Allison and Stephan Crump.Happy listening!PlaylistBen Allison “Mondo Jazz Theme (feat. Ted Nash & Pyeng Threadgill)" 0:00 Jaques Morelenbaum Cellosam3atrio “CasaBrancaBrinCadeira" CasaBrancaBrinCadeira -Single (Selo Sesc) 0:16 Host talks 6:51 Ryan Keberle's Collectiv do Brasil “Cio da Terra" Sonhos da Esquina (Self-released) 8:33 Gabi Hartmann “Coracao Transparente" Always Seem to Get Things Wrong -EP (Komos) 14:04 Host talks 17:35 ...
Continue ReadingDan Costa: Suite Três Rios
by Paul Naser
The rich musical history of Brazilian music parallels the development of jazz in the United States' in many ways. At the same time, the two informed and influenced each other as they matured. Brazilian legends like Antonio Carlos Jobim and Dori Caymmi are remembered for their influence on the development of Bossa Nova, and Jobim, like few composers of popular music in the 20th century, continues to be revered for his many contributions and innovations. All this history ...
Continue ReadingBrazilian Gaia Wilmer And Jaques Morelenbaum U.S. Tour: D.C., NYC, Boston And More!
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Scott Thompson Public Relations
Trem das Cores is a celebration of Caetano Veloso, Brazilian singer-songwriter, and important figure in Brazilian culture. He was also very influencial in Brazilian Jaques Morelenbaum and Gaia Wilmer’s lives. The idea comes from their love and great pleasure in working together with Caetano’s work while celebrating his 80th birthday and, most of all, honoring him as a composer, beyond his greatness as a singer and a poet – hence the idea of an instrumental journey through his music. Gaia ...
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De Concierto Con Jaques Morelenbaum
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Voll-Damm Festival Internacional De Jazz De Barcelona
El violonchelista y arreglista Jaques Morelenbaum está desde el pasado jueves en Barcelona, tras una semana de ensayos en Hamburgo con la NDR Big Band y el cuarteto de Omar Sosa. Músico apasionado por la música (parece un truismo, pero no lo es), Morelenbaum asistió el pasado viernes en el Palau a la exhibición de Jamie Cullum y ayer sábado al concierto doble en el Teatre Joventut de l'Hospitalet de Iván Melón Lewis y Horacio El Negro Hernández Italuba. Dada ...
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Chopin, Bobby McFerrin, NDR Bigband (y Jaques Morelenbaum y Omar Sosa)
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Joan A. Cararach
El 200 aniversario del nacimiento de Fryderyk Chopin va a tener este mes de agosto una especial celebración en el prestigioso Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival, con el estreno el próximo 10 de agosto del espectáculo Bobby meets Chopin. Con arreglos y dirección de Gil Goldstein, Bobby McFerrin se ha unido en esta ocasión a la NDR Bigband. Tras los conciertos en Alemania, McFerrin y la NDR se trasladarán a Polonia, donde tocarán en Varsovia y Cracovia.
La NDR Bigband tocará el ...
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Joao Gilberto
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Charlie Haden
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Antonio Carlos Jobim
piano
Claus Ogerman
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Hermeto Pascoal
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Milton Nascimento
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Jaques Morelenbaum
Location: Rio de Janeiro
Instrument: Cello
Born: May 18, 1954
