Amerykański trębacz i producent muzyczny Mark Morganelli, swój piąty album wydany pod własnym nazwiskiem w całości poświęcił muzyce brazylijskiej. Dwupłytowe wydawnictwo "Brasil!" przynosi 28 utworów silnie zakorzenionych w tradycji kulturowej tego kraju, słynącego z samby i bossa novy.
Morganelli przez 5 lat był dyrektorem muzycznym kultowego klubu Birdland, a także koordynatorem takich festiwali muzycznych jak Sunnyside, Berkshire Jazz Festivals, Tarrytown Arts Festival. Morganelli był także producentem koncertu Dizzy Gillespie 75th Birthday w Carnegie Hall. W roku 2017 wraz z małżonką Ellen Prior, Mark Morganelli w Tarrytown (Nowy Jork) otworzył klub jazzowy o nazwie Jazz Forum. Album "Brasil!" firmowany jako Mark Morganelli & The Jazz Forum All-Stars, nagrany został z gronem artystów, którzy niejednokrotnie gościli już na scenie owego klubu.
Na dwóch płytach znalazły się brazylijskie utwory takich kompozytorów jak Baden Powell, Ivan Lins, Claudio Roditi, Joao Donato, Geraldo Pereira, Marcos Valle, Jorge Ben, Luiz Bonfa i Ary Beroso, ale przede wszystkim słynne standardy Antonio Carlosa Jobima, jak: "Desafinado", "So Danco Samba", "Corcovado", czy "Dindi".
Album ukazał się 25 czerwca nakładem własnej wytwórni płytowej Marka Morganelli, Jazz Forum Records.
Robert Ratajczak
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Mark Morganelli & The Jazz Forum All-Stars: Brasil!
2CD's 2019, Jazz Forum Records JFR004
program:
CD1
1. Amor En Paz
2. Deixa
3. Desafinado
4. Chovendo Na Roseira
5. Velas Icadas
6. Rua Dona Margarida
7. Inutil Paisagem
8. So Danco Samba
9. Anos Dourados
10. A Ra
11. Estrada do Sol
12. Vivo Sonhando
13. Caminos Cruzados
14. Falsa Baiana
CD2
1. A Felicidade
2. O Morro Nao Tem Vez
3. Este Seu Olhar
4. Outra Vez
5. Corcovado
6. Samba de Verao
7. Fotografia
8. Brigas Nunca Mais
9. Dindi
10. Luiza
11. Mas Que Nada
12. Manha da Carnaval / Samba de Orfeu
13. Aquarela do Brasil
personel:
Mark Morganelli -flugelhorn, instr. perkusyjne
Abelita Mateus - fortepian
Eddie Monteiro - midi-accordion, wokal
Monika Oliveira - wokal
Nilson Matta - kontrabas
Adriano Santos - perkusja
Nanny Assis - gitara, instr. perkusyjne, wokal
Carlos Barbosa-Lima - gitara
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tekst prasowy:
“lyrical and joyful. This music will bring a smile to your face!” —David Sanborn
Trumpeter/Flugelhornist Mark Morganelli brings his Jazz Forum All-Stars to Zinc on Tuesday, June 25 to celebrate his new CD, Brasil!
Mark Morganelli began presenting concerts in his first Jazz Forum loft at 50 Cooper Square in June 1979. By the time the second Jazz Forum loft closed its doors in April 1983, recordings, videos, films and radio broadcasts had documented performances by Dizzy Gillespie, Art Blakey, Wynton Marsalis, Woody Shaw, Red Rodney, Carmen McRae, Barry Harris, Philly Joe Jones, and Max Roach. After residencies at the Village Gate and Entermedia Theater, thirty-four years ago, Morganelli established Jazz Forum Arts, not-for-profit arts presenting organization, and in 1985 started the Riverside Park Arts Festival, which concluded on its 13th anniversary in August 1997.
Morganelli has produced over sixty compact discs, most for Candid Records, twenty of which were recorded “Live” at NYC’s Birdland club, where he was the music coordinator for five years. Nearly thirty years ago, Morganelli and his family moved to Westchester, and shortly thereafter, he inaugurated the Jazz at the Music Hall series in Tarrytown. Performers included Ahmad Jamal, Billy Taylor, Harry “Sweets” Edison, James Moody, Betty Carter, Gerry Mulligan, Herbie Mann, Sonny Rollins, Clark Terry, Maynard Ferguson, Dave Brubeck, Chuck Mangione, Bobby McFerrin, Chick Corea, Savion Glover, Cassandra Wilson, Dianne Reeves, Dr. John, Spyro Gyra, David Sanborn, Chris Botti, Pat Metheny, Hugh Masekela and the Count Basie, Lionel Hampton, Illinois Jacquet, Duke Ellington and Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestras–150 shows in 22 years.
Morganelli produced the Sunnyside and Berkshire Jazz Festivals and was executive producer of “Reckson Jazz at Tilles” at C.W.Post College in Greenvale, Long Island for nine years. Other productions have included the Tarrytown Arts Festival, concerts at the Paramount Center in Peekskill, the Palace Theatre in Stamford, CT, NJPAC, The John Harms Center in Englewood, NJ, the Performing Arts Center at Purchase College, SUNY, The Beacon Theatre, Symphony Space, NYU Skirball Center and The Town Hall, NYC. Morganelli also produced the Dizzy Gillespie 75th Birthday concert at Carnegie Hall and co-produced “Jazz Beats Breast Cancer” at Avery Fisher Hall. In 2005, he began presenting a new concert series at Jazz at Lincoln Center, supported by grants from the NEA & NYSCA for NPR broadcasts of the events.
As a trumpeter and flugelhornist, Morganelli performed at the 1976 Montreux Jazz Festival, the 1992 & 1994 Syracuse Jazz Festivals, the Du Maurier Downtown Toronto Jazz Festival, JVC/NY and Saratoga Jazz Festivals, the White Plains Jazz Fest, several tours of Italy (including in 2018), many concerts and festivals in Europe, Japan, Brazil and the Caribbean, and hosted nightly jam sessions aboard the QE2 to the Newport Jazz Festival from 1996-99. He continues to perform with his Jazz Forum All-Stars around the region and has just released his fifth CD as leader, "Brasil!". He and his wife, Ellen Prior opened their new Jazz Forum club in Tarrytown, NY in June 2017.
