Here's a desert island disc of mine. I'm very much in danger of boring you with superlatives when talking about this album.
Although most tracks are based on bossa nova rhythms, I wouldn't call this a jazz-samba album. Because the term evokes countless trend-hopping 1960s albums from Northamerican jazz men doing their mandatory jazz-meets-bossa recording. As great as many of these albums where, most sound very much of their time nowadays.
Moura was part of the bossa movement from the very beginning. He and his comrades had internalised the style to a degree that they could play it without any clichés, creating music that - at least to me - sounds timeless. Although Moura's sound and style is very much his own, influences that can be heard range from Benny Carter and Lester Young to John Coltrane.
Paulo Moura was already an important part of Rio's jazz scene before bossa nova. He became part of Sergio Mendes' Bossa Rio group, backing Cannonball Adderley and Herbie Mann as well as playing at the famous Carnegie Hall Concert in 1962.
In the late 1960s/early 1970s he was able to record a handfull of jazz albums for the tiny Equipe label - "Quarteto", "Mensagem", "Fibra". All are worth looking out for. The original vinyl issues are extremely scarce but from what i know, they were all reissued on cd. In his later years, Moura stuck mostly to clarinet and choro music. He died in 2010.
Paulo Moura Quarteto
Equipe EJ 6.003
Reissue: whatmusic.com
01 - Lamento do Morro (Tom Jobim / Vinicius de Moraes)
02 - Eu e a Brisa (Johnny Alf)
03 - Meu Lugar (Luis Fernando Werneck / Danilo Caymmi / Fernando Brant)
04 - Aos Pés da Santa Cruz (Marino Pinto / Zé da Zilda)
05 - Yardbird Suíte (C. Parker)
06 - Sá Marina (Antônio Adolfo / Tibério Gaspar)
07 - Retrato de Benny Carter (Wagner Tiso)
08 - Razão (Alberto Arantes / Sergio Bittencourt)
09 - Feitio de Oração (Vadico / Noel Rosa)
10 - Terra (Milton Nascimento / Márcio Borges)
Paulo Moura (as) Wagner Tiso (p) Luis Carlos (b) Paschoal Meirelles (d)
The whole album can be heard on youtube:
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This'll be interesting for me.
It is mostly the later Moura I know and treasure - like "Dois Irmãos" with Raphael Rabello, and "Dois Panos Para Manga" with João Donato - for which he has become a favourite chosen in-tune clarinettist alongside Paquito, Peplowski, Battiste and Byron.
I know nothing of his '60s work on alto.
So thank you as usual.
(Granny says hi!)
This is wonderful, PR. I'm particularly grateful for the context, as this artist is not known to me. Many thanks, as always.
Lazz,
those duo albums are beautiful!
Btw, should granny ever come over, she'll be invited to a nice portion of chips (not sure if we can get some with vinegar, though)
Philip,
as always, my pleasure.
See comments here for "Mensagem":
http://orfaosdoloronix.wordpress.com/2013/04/19/paulo-moura-hepteto-mensagem-1968/#comments
A rip of Moura's "Mensagem", that is.
Wonderful album. It's everything you touted it to be for sure. The whole thing flows so nicely and the quartet is in the zone throughout. Moura's solos just float out of his horn and the music carries me away and moves me along in a really nice way and it's over way too soon. Thank you LPR!
Very glad to hear that you enjoyed it so much, Kris!
pr, this is beautiful music! thank you so much for sharing this. I've just woken up and this has quietly blown me away. If you have either Mensagem or Fibra to share, it would be appreciated, but I'll be spending some time with this album by itself anyway. Thank you again for introducing me to this!
My pleasure, nick. See comment above for a link to "Mensagem".
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