LINCOLN CENTER
Jazz at Lincoln Center
Beyond Jobim: New Voices of Brazil
A great day of walking. It's almost Spring!
We walked from our apartment at 32nd Street and 6th Avenue northward to 59th and Park.
From there we walked westward down 59th until we got to Columbus Circle.
"The most amazing thing is how much both artists shape shift their sound. One moment they are samba, then jazz, then you’re in a concert hall, next the jungle, and then you’re back in a club. It’s so natural like you are floating down a river on a ride."
We walked from our apartment at 32nd Street and 6th Avenue northward to 59th and Park.
From there we walked westward down 59th until we got to Columbus Circle.
While walking down 59th we saw Charlie Rose walking on the sidewalk. In Time Warner Building we saw Jerry Stiller. On the sidewalk near our building we saw Bernard McGuirk, the executive producer of Imus in the Morning.
Clarice Assad was spectacular. Talented, creative, musical, and entertaining. Luisa Maita did one song really well and then repeated it for the next 45 minutes. Mono-Tonous!
"The most amazing thing is how much both artists shape shift their sound. One moment they are samba, then jazz, then you’re in a concert hall, next the jungle, and then you’re back in a club. It’s so natural like you are floating down a river on a ride."
"Lead vocalists Luísa Maita and Clarice Assad present their personal refractions of the various streams of Brazilian musical expression. Named for the protagonist of Tom Jobim's iconic "Ana Luísa" and thoroughly rooted in the Great Brazilian Songbook, Maita offers a 21st century take on the tropes of samba and bossa nova, and was recognized as "Best New Artist" at the 22nd annual Brazilian Music Awards. A visionary composer and virtuoso pianist who draws on Heitor Villa-Lobos and Hermeto Pascoal in equal measure, and an overall practitioner of vocalese, Assad is as comfortable performing with a symphony orchestra as with her ancient-to-future unit Off The Cliff, which, as she puts it, "uses different combinations of instruments from song to song so that it never sounds the same."
Listen to the video below of Clarice Assad and tell me it's not interesting and amazing.
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