Paquito D’Rivera
Music Minus Me Vol. 2: For All Instruments
Book and CD Package
(Colin HP02),
Description:
The great John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie has on many occasions expressed that "Latin American musicians understand our music better than we understand theirs." There is no doubt that Dizzy has been a key figure int he development of what we now refer to as "Latin jazz." But in reality if several generations of musicians from "south of the border," such as Claudio Roditi, Michel Camilo, Mario Rivera, Monty Alexander, Mario Bauza, Ignacio Berroa (Dizzy's drummer of many years), Jorge Dalto, Alex Acuna, Lalo Schifrin, Eddy Gomez, Carlos Franzetti, Chico O' Farrill and Danilo Perez, have achieved distinguished positions in the competitive field of American music, it is not precisely because they have been bestowed with any special power of understanding superior to that of those born "north of the border," but because all of them have dedicated years and years of profound and systematic study of the music of this country, from Jelly Roll Morton to the present, by way of Ellington, Gershwin, Copeland, Waller, Berlin, Porter, Bernstein, Bird, Monk, Trane and of course Gillespie. On the other hand, the majority of North American musicians that have approached Latin American music have done so in a very suerficial way, and, films have saturated the international market with mediiocre recordings that, rather than further the understanding of Latin American art, only serve to confuse those who might wish to learn something about it. I have been a victim of this superficiality in regard to Brazilian music, and I would like to give my appreciation to Roditi, Portinho, Leny Andrade, Brandao, Flora and Airto for having helped me to better understand a culture that my family and I have come to love so much. Now I would like to share with you what they have so generously taught me. As I stated in the first volume of Music Minus Me (Latin Jazz), this work does not pretend to be a complete study of the vast world of Brazilian music, whose cultural panorama is as gigantic as the map itself of that enormous country, but only a small example of some basic rhythms and their application to the language of contemporary jazz. Sincerely, Paquito D'Rivera
(40 page book plus CD)
Song titles include:
Samba For Carmen
Song For Maura
Who's Smokin'?
The Magic City
Impressions Of Tiananmen Square
Brussels In The Rain
Snow Samba
Song To My Son
To Brenda (With Love)
Brazil Blues
Musicians include:
Portinho Drums
Edison "Cafe" DaSilva Percussion
Danilo Perez Piano
Sergio Brandao Bass
Category: Instructional
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