Paula Morelenbaum is already a regular presence in Portugal. The ground or in the various groups that it has incorporated as the New Band, Tom Jobim, or the Quartet Jobim Morelenbaum (with Ryuichi Sakamoto and her husband, cellist and composer Jaques Morelenbaum). Now comes to us in trio with two renowned German musicians, pianist Ralf Schmid and trumpeter Joo Kraus.
Born in Rio de Janeiro on 31 July 1962 and a solo career started in 1990 in new York (his first album, self-titled, dated 1993), received in 2009 an invitation that had to do precisely with the 50th anniversary of bossa nova. Publico, she explains how it was: “I was invited by the SWR Big Band Stuttgart; who called me was Ralf Schmid, who collaborated with them to do a project with Brazilian music, bossa nova, with Big Band . I hesitated, because Big Band reminded me Frank Sinatra, I thought I had nothing to do. It was a prejudice. But I was very impressed with the arrangements and realized it would be possible to do a job like this. “They did so, in fact, and gave rise to a disc you put the name of Bossarenova , released in 2010. they played often, especially in Germany
Only then it is that the current trio emerged.: Paula Morelenbaum (voice), Ralf Schmid (piano) and Joo Kraus (trumpet), a Brazilian and two Germans. “It’s a development. We decided to spend a Big Band with 25 people to make a show just us. It was an idea that came about because Joo Kraus already plays for a long time with Ralf Schmid other works have recorded albums together. Most of the arrangements for this training was made to order, with a few songs that we had not recorded in the previous project. “The new album is called Samba Prelude and was released in 2013, already signed the Bossarenova Trio, and was to be called the group.
the disc, as well as Brazilian classics such as the hill has no time , Samba prelude (both Jobim and Vinicius), Samba da minha terra (Caymmi) or Summer Samba (Marcos Valle), together, for example, Foolishness with op 28 prelude paragraph 4 of Chopin and the Orfeo Monteverdi with Happiness of Jobim and Vinicius. And it has other classical passages, such as Serenata of Schubert or Clara , Schumann, both with lyrics in Portuguese Arthur Nestrovski. It has, in addition, two themes of Villa Lobos ( sentimental melody and Trenzinho the Grit ) and an original theme, composed by the trio, with Eucanaã Ferraz poem: spring Summer .
this is what we hear now in Portugal, first in Lisbon, at the Small Auditorium of the Centro Cultural de Belém (Tuesday, 29th, at 21h), then Coimbra (31 in the Music Conservatory at 21.30), Famalicão (April 1, in the House of Arts at 21.30) and Ponta Delgada (day 2, Micaelense Theatre, at 21.30). Since the release of the album, the trio has gone through numerous stages. “We played well in Europe. Just we have not been to Brazil. We are still negotiating a record deal. Our expectation is to get to Brazil with this work. “
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