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Upcoming performances
Leny Andrade with the Stephanie Ozer Ensemble
Stars of Brazil - Concert on the Green With Toninho Horta with Santi Debriano, Billy Hart and special guest Airto. Trio De Paz with Romero Lubambo, Nilson Matta and Dudeka Da Fonseca, http://triodapaz.com/ and Leny Andrade with the Stephanie Ozer Quartet plus a Samba band tba. As citizens of a vast, diverse, continent-sized nation, Brazilians are united by several powerfully binding passions: samba, soccer, and Antonio Carlos Jobim. This afternoons concert offers a generous helping of two out of three, and who knows, maybe a futbol game will break out on the lawn. The event is essentially a mini-festival of Brazilian music featuring some of the countrys greatest musicians, with a special focus on the vast treasure trove of tunes written by Jobim, one of the 20th centurys most revered composers. On a scene bursting with sumptuously talented singers, Leny Andrade has long stood out in Brazil with her warm, burnished contralto and her lithe, flowing phrasing. A worthy successor to Elis Regina's throne, Andrade is widely hailed as Brazil's greatest living jazz singer, a gifted improviser who combines bossa novas luscious melodic sensibility with a compelling sense of swing. At the peak of powers, the Rio de Janeiro native won a Latin Grammy Award in 2007 for her ravishing duo CD Ao Vivo with pianist Cesar Camargo Mariano. Guitarist Toninho Horta is a gifted improviser who has been a major force since he emerged in the early 1970s as part of Milton Nascimentos Minas Gerais collective Clube da Esquina. His influence spread far beyond Brazil during the 1980s when he lived in New York, inspiring American artists such as Pat Metheny, who declared that Hortas melodies stay with you for days. Youre sure youve heard them before, but theyre brand new. For his Healdsburg performance, Horta brings an extraordinary rhythm section featuring Panamanian-born bass master Santi Debriano, drum innovator Billy Hart, and special guest Airto Moreira, a percussion giant whose career highlights include classic recordings with Miles Davis, a founding stint with Weather Report, and hit albums with his wife, vocalist Flora Purim. Trio De Paz is an all-star New York ensemble uniting three of Brazil's finest jazz musicians, guitarist Romero Lubambo, bassist Nilson Matta and drummer Duduka Da Fonseca, who have honed a gorgeous repertoire of Brazilian standards and modern jazz tunes. For more information about this artist visit www.healdsburgjazzfestival.org. What They're Saying Stephanie was recently nominated for 2006 "Best Jazz Artist of the North Bay". Winners will be announced at the NORBAY Music Awards, at the Health and Harmony Festival, June 9-11, 2006. Phone: 707- 861-2035 www.harmonyfestival.com. Stephanie was written up in Keyboard Magazine (www.keyboardmag.com) as Unsigned Artist of the Month, November issue, 2005. "Stephanie's own composition, 'Bronx to Brasil' is a standout..." "Close your eyes, listen to Leny's and Stephanie's collaboration on the opening track, 'Meu Pais', and feel the breeze off of Ipanema Beach." "For her album, "O Começo: New Beginnings in Brazilian Jazz", Sonoma based
pianist-composer Stephanie Ozer went to Rio (and Berkeley) to record with the
renowned Leny Andrade, who does four songs. Ozer is an exquisite talent who
evokes the influences of Manfredo Fest and others." (Chuy Varela,
writer and host of KCSM's "Brazilian Nights on the Bay,
San Francisco Chronicle, Sunday, August 21, 2005. This was part of
Chuy's article surveying Brazilian music in the Bay Area, "Brazilian Pulse
Pounds the Bay Area". )
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