- artist:Trio Corrente
- event type:Concert
- date:06 Jan 2011
- time:TBA
- city/area:Punta Del Este
- venue:Festival Jazz Punta Del Este
- country:Uruguay
- style(s):Jazz, Latin
- 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.
Beginnings
Born on the island of Cuba, Paquito D'Rivera began his career as a child prodigy. A restless musical genius during his teen years, Mr. D’Rivera created various original and ground-breaking musical ensembles. As a founding member of the Orquesta Cubana de Musica Moderna, he directed that group for two years, while at the same time playing both the clarinet and saxophone with the Cuban National Symphony Orchestra. He eventually went on to premiere several works by notable Cuban composers with the same orchestra. Additionally, he was a founding member and co-director of the innovative musical ensemble Irakere. With its explosive mixture of jazz, rock, classical and traditional Cuban music never before heard, Irakere toured extensively throughout America and Europe, won several Grammy nominations (1979, 1980) and a Grammy (1979).
Awards and Grammys
Paquito D'Rivera's first recognition as a solo artist by The Recording Academy (GRAMMYs) came in 1996 with the highly acclaimed recording Portraits of Cuba. Since then, Mr. D’Rivera has received many recognitions as an artist and composer, including two nominations for his most recent release, Jazz-ClaZZ (featuring Sabine Meyer and Trio Clarone).
Funk Tango, the first release of D’Rivera’s new label, Paquito Records, recently won his 9th GRAMMY for "Best Latin Jazz Album" in 2007. An 8th GRAMMY came in 2005 for Riberas, for "Best Classical Recording" with the Buenos Aires String Quartet. He also won a GRAMMY for "Best Instrumental Composition" in 2004 for his “Merengue” as performed by the distinguished cellist Yo-Yo Ma. In 2000, D'Rivera's Tropicana Nights received a GRAMMY. That same year, he received a nomination in the classical category for his Music of Two Worlds, featuring compositions by Schubert, Brahms, Guastavino, Villa Lobos, and Mr. D’Rivera himself. In 2001 the Latin Recording Academy awarded a GRAMMY for his Quintet’s recording of Live at the Blue Note along with a nomination in the Classical Crossover category for The Clarinetist Vol. I. In 2002, he won again as a guest artist on the Bebo Valdes Trio's recording El Arte Del Sabor.
The National Hispanic Academy of Media Arts and Sciences paid tribute to Mr. D'Rivera with their Annual Achievement In Music Award for his "outstanding body of work" along with Dizzy Gillespie and Gato Barbieri. Paquito D'Rivera is the first artist to win Latin GRAMMY's in both Classical and Latin Jazz categories (2003), for Stravinsky’s Historia del Soldado (L'Histoire du Soldat) and Brazilian Dreams with the New York Voices. The other historic recipient who has won duo GRAMMY's in both Classical and Jazz categories is Wynton Marsalis. Additionally, he has been awarded two Doctorate Honoris Causa in Music degrees; May, 2003 from the Berklee School of Music and May, 2008 from the University of Pennsylvania, with a third to be awarded by the City University of New York, Graduate Center, Summer 2010.
D’Rivera is a recipient of the National Medal for the Arts, presented at the White House by President George W. Bush in 2005, and was named one of the 2005 NEA (National Endowment for the Arts) Jazz Masters. In both 2004 and 2006, the Jazz Journalists Association honored Mr. D'Rivera as the Clarinetist of the Year, and in March 2007 he was honored with the Living Jazz Legend Award in a ceremony at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC. 2008 awards include the International Association for Jazz Education (IAJE) President’s Award, and the Frankfurter Musikpreis. In 2009, received the Medal of Honor from the National Arts Club, and Downbeat Magazine’s Clarinetist of the Year (Reader’s Poll- third year in a row!). In 2010, is named a Nelson A Rockefeller Honoree and given the African-American Classical Music Award from Spelman College.
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