Harvey Wainapel follows up on success of Amigos Brasileiros
Jazz saxophonist and clarinetist Harvey Wainapel just finished recording a new Brazilian album for release later this year. Harvey traveled throughout Brazil in 2010, performing and recording tracks for the CD in Minas Gerais, Recife, São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. Enelas Xavier, Harvey Wainapel and Magno Alexandre
(One track, featuring keyboardist and flutist Jovino Santos Neto, was recorded in Seattle.)
Harvey described his forthcoming album in an e-mail to thebestofbrazil.info and attached a sneak preview of one track:
Here is a track from my next CD – the followup CD to Amigos Brasileiros. Like that one, each track will feature a different group and different composer. I'm not sure of the CD title yet – it might just be something silly like More Amigos Brasileiros!
This tune is called Árvore and was composed by guitarist Wilson Lopes, a member of Milton Nascimento's group. Paulo Bellinati, Harvey Wainapel, Zeca Assumpção and Sérgio Santos
He plays acoustic guitar here, along with his brother Beto Lopes on electric
bass and Sergio Silva on percussion; I'm on alto sax. This will be one
of two songs recorded in Minas Gerais. The other one features a
beautiful string quartet arrangement.
The new CD will also include:
Two songs recorded in Recife – one is a caboclinho written for me by
Spok, the other a xote that I will record there next month [December 2010] with a 13–piece group made up of various sizes mandolins and guitars along with percussion.
Ouro Preto, Minas Gerais Three songs recorded in São Paulo – a choro written by mandolin master Izaias Bueno; a composition by flutist Lea Freire, who plays piano on the track, in the maracatu rhythm; and a traditional waltz from the '50s in an updated arrangement, with pianist Silvia Goes and her son Thiago Espirito Santo, one of the best young bassists around.
A duo composed for me by Jovino Santos Neto, which we recorded in
Seattle.
A choro of mine that I will record next month [December 2010] in Rio with pianist Gilson Peranzzetta and a cellist.
Here's a sneak preview of Árvore. It hasn't been mixed yet, but we think it still sounds terrific. (To hear it, your browser needs Apple's QuickTime plug-in – a free download.)
Enelas Xavier, Harvey Wainapel and Magno Alexandre
(One track, featuring keyboardist and flutist Jovino Santos Neto, was recorded in Seattle.)
Harvey described his forthcoming album in an e-mail to thebestofbrazil.info and attached a sneak preview of one track:
