Moacir Santos - Coisas - Vinyl

<p>In 1965 Moacir Santos recorded the album Coisas(Things), one of the great accomplishments of modern Brazilian music, though underrecognized at the time. It mixes marches, Afro-Brazilian rhythms, strong melodies, jazz syncopation and bracing harmony of an Ellington-like concision; it gestures at different kinds of Brazilian regional music but is overall a highly original work. Coisa No. 5,from the album, was later retitled Nanã,given lyrics by Mario Telles, and recorded by more than 100 artists, including Sergio Mendes and Eumir Deodato. One of the main Brazilian arrangers, having renovated the countrys harmonic language in the 50s, the underrated Moacir Santos had nevertheless a highly influential role as he had as his pupils, in the 60s: Paulo Moura, Oscar Castro-Neves, Baden Powell, Maurício Einhorn, Geraldo Vespar, Bola Sete, Sérgio Mendes, Dom Um Romão, João Donato, Roberto Menescal, Carlos Lyra, Dori Caymmi, Airto Moreira, and Flora Purim, among others. In 1968, he was admitted into Henry Mancinis cinema music writing team and, four years later, he launched his first album in the American market, The Maestro, which was nominated for a Grammy award; it was followed by Saudade (1974), Carnival of the Spirits (1975), and Opus 3, No. 1 (1979). Owner of a distinctive Brazilian style as a composer and arranger, Santos most-known tunes are Nanã(written with Mário Teles), which had over 150 different recordings (including those by Herbie Mann and Kenny Burrell); and Coisas(number one to 12); not to mention a series of compositions with Vinicius de Moraes (Triste de Quem,Menino Travesso,Se Você Disser Que Sim,Lembre-Se), who praised him in his Samba da Benção. Having written the arrangements for, among others, Vinicius de Moraes e Odete Lara (1963), Santos also composed the soundtracks for the films Love in the Pacific, Seara Vermelha (an adaptation of Jorge Amados novel, directed by R. Aversa), Ganga Zumba (Cacá Diegues), O Santo Médico (Sacha Gordine), and Os Fuzis (Ruy Guerra), among others. Santos had contact with music very early in his life in the local band Flores do Pajeú (Pernambuco), taking classes with bandmaster Paixão and joining the group at 14 on the saxophone, clarinet, trumpet, banjo, guitar, and drums. Leaving home two years later, he played around northeastern Brazil until 1943, when he got a break at the Rádio Clube de Pernambuco. Having joined the Band of the Military Police of Paraíba in 1945, Santos replaced Severino Araújo (who had being invited to work in Rio de Janeiro) in the jazz band (a generic and common denomination at the time, not having to do with the repertory) of Rádio Tabajara da Paraíba, as a tenor/clarinetist. Two years later, he was appointed the conductor of the band and, in 1948, he moved to Rio de Janeiro, where his first job was at the gafieira Clube Brasil Danças, remaining there for 18 years as saxophonist and then as conductor/arranger. One month after his arrival in Rio he joined Rádio Nacional as a solo tenor of the Orquestra do Maestro Chiquinho, where he would work until 1967. Having studied under Hans Joachim Koellreutters guidance, to whom Santos became an assistant, in 1951 he was invited by Rádio Nacionals A&amp;R director, Paulo Tapajós, to be one of the regular conductors/arrangers of the cast. In 1954, Santos went to São Paulo, where he directed the orchestra of TV Record. Two years later, he returned to Rio de Janeiro, resuming his</p>

Moacir Santos - Coisas - Vinyl

• Record Label: Toccata
• Music Genre: Classical