Trio Corrente

Trio Corrente convida Leny Andrade

  • artist:Trio Corrente
  • event type:Concert
  • date:13 Aug 2010
  • time:22:00
  • city/area:São Paulo
  • venue:Ao Vivo
  • country:Brazil
  • style(s):Bossa Nova, Jazz
  • event posted by:Iracema Oyá Cultural

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The Trio Corrente is an all star cast from the highest echelons of the São Paulo scene that includes Edu Ribeiro, the sensational drummer for Chico Pinheiro or Yamandu Costa, while pianist Fabio Torres is currently working with Joyce and bassist Paulo Paulelli is a mainstay in the bands of Ivan Lins and Rosa Passos, historical figures both. As a trio their star is in the ascendance in this most jazz inclined of Brazilian cities. Their eponymous debut Corrente (Maritaca) boldly recasts the high watermarks of composers that reflect the breadth of Brazilian music, from Jobim to Pixinguina, from the perspective of a typically discursive contemporary piano trio. Fender Rhodes lends a funky edge to proceedings and the playing for all three is extremely agile, the arrangements often breathtaking, as they move across rich rhythmic terrain of bossa, samba and choro, always with that Brazilian gift for equal parts lightness of touch and heavy grooving that stimulates the musical pleasure centres.

"Um trio maravilhoso" Paquito D’Rivera

Formado pelo pianista Fabio Torres, o baixista Paulo Paulelli e o baterista Edu Ribeiro, o Trio Corrente cria um som original, “correntizando’ os clássicos do choro e da MPB em improvisações jazzísticas, junto a composições autorais.

O grupo está em plena ascendência. Seu primeiro álbum, Corrente, lançado pela gravadora Maritaca, apresenta brilhantemente obras de compositores que refletem o essencial da música brasileira - de Jobim a Pixinguinha – sob a perspectiva de um trio contemporâneo. Os arranjos fazem soprar novos ventos sobre os temas do choro, samba e bossa, e as performances são marcadas pela originalidade e inventividade. A interação dos três músicos no palco faz do inesperado uma regra e cada instrumento adquire uma voz própria resultando no que se poderia chamar de trio de jazz contrapontístico.

Em 2009, eles iniciaram o projeto “Trio Corrente Convida”, realizado em São Paulo, que contou com a participação de grandes nomes da música nacional como Joyce, Hamilton de Holanda, Leila Pinheiro e Monica Salmaso. Em setembro do mesmo ano, o trio realizou uma turnê pela Europa, passando pela Suíça, Irlanda e Espanha. Confirmando o sucesso, o Trio já tem nova turnê programada para Maio de 2010.

Em fevereiro deste ano, o Trio Corrente apresentou um projeto especial convidando o clarinetista cubano Paquito D’Rivera, para dois concertos no Festival Jazz & Blues de Guaramiranga e Fortaleza.

Leny Andrade, was born in Rio de Janeiro, on January 25, 1943, and is a Brazilian singer and musician. Both Andrade's first and last names are sometimes misspelled in English as "Lenny", "Leni", and "Adrade". She has had several hits on the Brazilian charts. In 2007 she shared a Latin Grammy Award with Cesar Camargo Mariano for Best MPB (Musica Popular Brasileira) Album, Ao Vivo.

She began her career singing in clubs, lived five years in Mexico and spent a good part of her life living in the United States and Europe. She studied piano at the Brazilian Conservatory of Music.

Leny Andrade has performed with Paquito D'Rivera, Luiz Eça, Dick Farney, João Donato, Eumir Deodato, and Francis Hime. Leny Andrade's eclectic style is a synthesis of samba and jazz.

Andrade, considered by many the greatest singer of Brazilian jazz, has never had great commercial success, but is a well respected jazz artist. She has been described by Tony Bennett as the "Ella Fitzgerald of Brazil."New York Times critic Stephen Holden wrote of Andrade's performance at Birdland on August 27, 2008, "To describe Ms. Andrade as both the Sarah Vaughan and Ella Fitzgerald of bossa nova only goes so far in evoking a performer whose voice seems to contain the body and soul of Brazil. You may think you know 'The Girl From Ipanema,' the final number in the show’s opening medley of Jobim songs. But you haven’t really absorbed it until you’ve heard Ms. Andrade sing it in Portuguese; disgorge might be a better word than sing, since, like everything else she performs, it seems to well up from the center of the earth."