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  • Bertram

    THE INTEGRATED GLOBAL
    CREATIVE ECONOMY

    promulgated by
    The Brazilian Ministry of Culture

    fomented by
    The Bahian Secretary of Culture

    fomented by
    The Palmares Foundation
    for the promotion of Afro-Brazilian Culture

    fomented by
    The National Foundation of Indigenous Peoples

    I CURATE/pathways out

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  • Name: Bertram
  • City/Place: Arlington, MA
  • Country: United States

CURATION

  • from this node by: Criador acima/Creator above

Current News

  • What's Up? Hanging in .... teaching and playing music as much as possible and thankful to be well.

Life & Work

  • Bio: Quick Fix:

    - Drummer and percussionist in Jazz, "Latin", Brazilian, and multiple other genres, and mixes thereof.

    - I had the pleasure of performing with many Brazilian and Latin-American artists over the years, including Luciana Souza, Paquito d'Rivera, Dave Samuels, Romero Lubambo, Oscar Castro-Neves, Felipe Salles, Fernando Brandão, Mili Bermejo, Jurandir Santana, Receita De Samba, Ebinho Cardoso,

    - Faculty at Berklee College of Music, teaching hands-on instrumental classes as well as Liberal Arts, and Ear Training. Brazilian music and culture figures big in all these activities.

    Big Fix Bio:

    Based in Boston for three decades, Bertram Lehmann's supple and fluid style of drumming has made him a sought-after player within a multitude of musical contexts in the region and beyond, performing Jazz, Latin, and World music.

    In addition to his appearances and/or recordings with acclaimed artists such as Paquito D'Rivera, Randy Brecker, Dave Liebman, Anat Cohen, Antonio Sanchez, Romero Lubambo, Danilo Perez, Claudio Roditi, Tiger Okoshi, Oscar Castro-Neves, Eddie Gomez, Kenny Werner, the NDR Bigband and Dave Samuels' Caribbean Jazz Project, he has toured internationally in Russia, India, Bermuda, South Korea, Ecuador, Ghana, Mexico, Turkey, Spain, Israel, Virgin Gorda, and Germany.

    Some of the distinguished national and international venues Bertram has performed at include Lincoln Center, Birdland, Symphony Space, Metropolitan Museum, Brooklyn Academy of Music, National Sawdust, and The Jazz Gallery in New York City; Symphony Hall, The Opera House, Paramount Theater, Boston Globe Jazz Festival, Beantown Jazz Festival, Celebrity Series of Boston, The American Repertory Theater, Museum of Fine Arts in Boston; and many other venues elsewhere, such as the New Jersey Performing Arts Center, 'Jazz Yatra' Festival (Mumbai), the Tchaikovsky Conservatory (Moscow), 'Panafest' (Accra), Chicago World Music Festival, Kumho Art Hall (Seoul), Istanbul Jazz Center and ‘Istanbul Jazz Festival’, 'Savannah On Stage' Festival; The Kennedy Center and The Blues Alley (Washington, D.C.), as well as the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

    In the New England Region and beyond, Bertram Lehmann is renowned for his long-standing associations with artists such as Grammy-winning Brazilian vocalist/composer Luciana Souza, Latin-ensemble Mango Blue, Indo-Jazz band Natraj, jazz-diva Rebecca Paris, and South American jazz-vocalist Mili Bermejo’s groups, as well as virtuoso Cuban pianists Tony Perez and Osmany Paredes.

    Most recently he appeared on recordings by Mehmet Sanlikol (‘The Rise Up’, feat. Dave Liebman and ‘Othello in the Seraglio – an Ottoman Coffeehouse Opera’, DVD/Amazon Prime), Felipe Salles’ Interconnections Ensemble (‘The Lullaby Project’ and “The New Immigrant Experience’, earning 4 and 4 ½ stars each in Downbeat Magazine reviews), Imagine 5 (self-titled debut release), Florian Poser (‘The Gaze’), and the forthcoming release of Astor Piazzolla’s “Six Tango Etudes for Flute”, by Lisa Bento-Rey.

    He is an Assistant Professor in the Percussion, Ear Training, and Liberal Arts departments at Berklee College of Music, and also teaches at Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts. Additionally, Bertram has presented clinics/presentations Longy School of Music, Harvard University, Princeton University, University of Massachusetts Amherst and Boston, Five Towns College, Wellesley College, the University of New Hampshire, SOAS/University of London, Moscow Conservatory, at Dong-Ah Institute of Media and Arts, and Keimyung University in South Korea, at the Universities of Bremen and Oldenburg (Germany), Fundacio l'Aula de Musica (Barcelona), and the 'Centro Cultural' in Quito, Ecuador.

    Some other of the more than 60 CD recordings featuring Bertram Lehmann on drum set and/or hand percussion are by Mehmet Sanlikol and WhatsNext (‘Resolution’ feat. Dave Liebman, Anat Cohen, Antonio Sanchez, ‘Whatsnext’), the Fernando Brandão Group (‘Sem Tradução’), the Klaus Spencker Trio (‘Crossing Borders’), Felipe Salles (‘The Ugandan Suite’ feat. Dave Liebman , ‘Departure’ feat. Randy Brecker, 'South American Suite'), Ian Ethan (‘Earth Suite’), Phi Scarf-Lewis Porter Group (‘Three Minutes to Four’), Wolfgang Torkler Trio (‘Trio’), DŰNYA ('Lale ve Kiliç/The Tulip and the Sword', ‘A Story Of The City: Constantinople – Istanbul’), Julie Lavender (‘Rising – A Modern Cantata For A World to Come’), Numasbala (‘A Ver’), Pablo Ablanedo Octet(o) (‘Recontradoble’), Mango Blues ('Immigrant Blues'), Dave Fiuczynski ('Kif Express'), Natraj ('Deccan Dance' ,'Song of the Swan'), Mili Bermejo Quintet ('De Tierra'), Katie Viqueira ('Amores Torcidos'), Peter Janson (‘Beautiful Day'), as well as the 'Berklee Herb Pomeroy Tribute Concert', a live-recording featuring Joe Zawinul, Gary Burton, John Abercrombie, among others.

    Bertram is an endorser of AQUARIAN Drumhead products, VIC FIRTH drum sticks, Black Swamp Percussion, Murat Diril Cymbals, and DEMSticks.


Contact Information

  • Email: [email protected]

My Instruction

  • Lessons/Workshops: I teach remotely to anywhere needed, aside from being available in the Boston area....

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    Over the course of the past decades I've been tapped to write articles for magazines (an early one was "Bossa Magazine" out of Boston), as well as liner notes. The next to appear will by for a disc of Astor Piazolla's 6 Tango Etudes for flute duet, on...  moreOver the course of the past decades I've been tapped to write articles for magazines (an early one was "Bossa Magazine" out of Boston), as well as liner notes. The next to appear will by for a disc of Astor Piazolla's 6 Tango Etudes for flute duet, on which I had the pleasure to play as a percussionist, as well.  
    • January 31, 2021
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    As an educator I have been active most prominently at Berklee College of Music in Boston, MA, since 2003 teaching private and group lessons for drum set, hand percussion, Ear Training and Liberal Arts (music history) courses, ensembles, the Berklee...  moreAs an educator I have been active most prominently at Berklee College of Music in Boston, MA, since 2003 teaching private and group lessons for drum set, hand percussion, Ear Training and Liberal Arts (music history) courses, ensembles, the Berklee Online curriculum, and the Berklee Global Jazz Institute's undergrad as well as Masters curriculae. I also enjoy high school level teaching, in my case at Philips Academy in Andover, a private boarding school. Whenever possible, additional students come to me from around the world, often with some more specific, multi-culturally inspired questions, which I always endeavor to answer to their fullest extent.  less
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    My career as a performer and educator has been shaped tremendously by the insights and contextual awareness gained during my Graduate Studies in ethnomusicology, back around the turn of the millennium, at Tufts University. While I did not choose a fully...  moreMy career as a performer and educator has been shaped tremendously by the insights and contextual awareness gained during my Graduate Studies in ethnomusicology, back around the turn of the millennium, at Tufts University. While I did not choose a fully academic path as a result of this work, my interest and work in this area always continues, primarily in support of my Liberal Arts courses on Cuban and Brazilian topics at Berklee, but also for my instrumental instruction in general. More than ever context is everything, and especially for marginalized musical traditions such as those from the African diaspora, and particularly the genres at the core of much of today's mainstream music in the Americas. Over the past, I have given lectures at Princeton, Harvard, SOAS/University of London, and continue to write on occasion, as well.  less
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    I have extensive recording expreience adn credits, also in unique musical contexts, with the option of fusing drum set and hand percussion textures. Fully operational as an overdub studio or to collaborate remotely on any project. Sample libraries geared...  moreI have extensive recording expreience adn credits, also in unique musical contexts, with the option of fusing drum set and hand percussion textures. Fully operational as an overdub studio or to collaborate remotely on any project. Sample libraries geared towards percussion also available for use.  
    • January 31, 2021
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    Brazilian, Cuban, Turkish, African, Free, ... all part of my experience both live and on record. I have collected sounds from around the globe throughout my career, both the standards and the esoteric.
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    Jazz, Brazilian, Cuban, Turkish, African, Free, ... all part of my experience both live and on record.
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    Bertram is matrixed!
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WHO IS INSIDE THIS GLOBAL MATRIX?

Explore above for a complete list of artists and other members of the creative economy.


WHY BRAZIL?

Brazil is not a European nation. It's not a North American nation. It's not an East Asian nation. It straddles — jungle and desert and dense urban centers — both the equator and the Tropic of Capricorn.

 

Brazil absorbed over ten times the number of enslaved Africans taken to the United States of America, and is a repository of African deities (and their music) now largely forgotten in their lands of origin.

 

Brazil was a refuge (of sorts) for Sephardim fleeing an Inquisition which followed them across the Atlantic (that unofficial symbol of Brazil's national music — the pandeiro — the hand drum in the opening scene above — was almost certainly brought to Brazil by these people).

 

Across the parched savannas of the interior of Brazil's culturally fecund nordeste/northeast, where wizard Hermeto Pascoal was born in Lagoa da Canoa (Lagoon of the Canoe) and raised in Olho d'Águia (Eye of the Eagle), much of Brazil's aboriginal population was absorbed into a caboclo/quilombola culture punctuated by the Star of David.

 

Three cultures — from three continents — running for their lives, their confluence forming a scintillatingly unprecedented fourth. Pandeirista on the roof.

 

Nowhere else but here. Brazil itself is a matrix.

 


✅—João do Boi
João had something priceless to offer the world.
But he was impossible for the world to find...
✅—Pardal/Sparrow
PATHWAYS
from Brazil, with love
THE MISSION: Beginning with the atavistic genius of the Recôncavo (per "RESPLENDENT BAHIA..." below) & the great sertão (the backlands of Brazil's nordeste) — make artists across Brazil — and around the world — discoverable as they never were before.

HOW: Integrate them into a vast matrixed ecosystem together with musicians, writers, filmmakers, painters, choreographers, fashion designers, educators, chefs et al from all over the planet (are you in this ecosystem?) such that these artists all tend to be connected to each other via short, discoverable, accessible pathways. Q.E.D.

"Matrixado! Laroyê!"
✅—Founding Member Darius Mans
Economist, PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
✅—Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva
President of Brazil


The matrix was created in Salvador's Centro Histórico, where Bule Bule below, among first-generation matrixed colleagues, sings "Chegou a hora dessa gente bronzeada mostrar seu valor... The time has come for these bronzed people to show their worth..."

Music & lyrics (Brasil Pandeiro) by Assis Valente of Santo Amaro, Bahia, Brazil. Video by Betão Aguiar of Salvador.

...the endeavor motivated in the first instance by the fact that in common with most cultures around our planet, the preponderance of Brazil's vast cultural treasure has been impossible to find from outside of circumscribed regions, including Brazil itself...

Thus something new under the tropical sun: Open curation beginning with Brazilian musicians recommending other Brazilian musicians and moving on around the globe...

Where by the seemingly magical mathematics of the small world phenomenon, and in the same way that most human beings are within some six or so steps of most others, all in the matrix tend to proximity to all others...

The difference being that in the matrix, these steps are along pathways that can be travelled. The creative world becomes a neighborhood. Quincy Jones is right up the street and Branford Marsalis around the corner. And the most far-flung genius you've never heard of is just a few doors down. Maybe even in Brazil.

"I am thrilled to receive your email! Thank you for including me in this wonderful matrix."
✅—Susan Rogers
Personal recording engineer: Prince, Paisley Park Recording Studio
Director: Music Perception & Cognition Laboratory, Berklee College of Music
Author: This Is What It Sounds Like: What the Music You Love Says About You

"Many thanks for this - I am  touched!"
✅—Julian Lloyd Webber
That most fabled cellist in the United Kingdom (and Brazilian music fan)

"I'm truly thankful... Sohlangana ngokuzayo :)"
✅—Nduduzo Makhathini
Blue Note recording artist

"Thanks, this is a brilliant idea!!"
✅—Alicia Svigals
Founder of The Klezmatics

"This is super impressive work ! Congratulations ! Thanks for including me :)))"
✅—Clarice Assad
Compositions recorded by Yo Yo Ma and played by orchestras around the world

"Thank you"
(Banch Abegaze, manager)
✅—Kamasi Washington


RESPLENDENT BAHIA...

...is a hot cauldron of rhythms and musical styles, but one particular style here is so utterly essential, so utterly fundamental not only to Bahian music specifically but to Brazilian music in general — occupying a place here analogous to that of the blues in the United States — that it deserves singling out. It is derived from (or some say brother to) the cabila rhythm of candomblé angola… …and it is called…

Samba Chula / Samba de Roda

Mother of Samba… daughter of destiny carried to Bahia by Bantus ensconced within the holds of negreiros entering the great Bahia de Todos os Santos (the term referring both to a dance and to the style of music which evolved to accompany that dance; the official orthography of “Bahia” — in the sense of “bay” — has since been changed to “Baía”)… evolved on the sugarcane plantations of the Recôncavo (that fertile area around the bay, the concave shape of which gave rise to the region’s name) — in the vicinity of towns like Cachoeira and Santo Amaro, Santiago do Iguape and Acupe. This proto-samba has unfortunately fallen into the wayside of hard to find and hear…

There’s a lot of spectacle in Bahia…

Carnival with its trio elétricos — sound-trucks with musicians on top — looking like interstellar semi-trailers back from the future…shows of MPB (música popular brasileira) in Salvador’s Teatro Castro Alves (biggest stage in South America!) with full production value, the audience seated (as always in modern theaters) like Easter Island statues…

…glamour, glitz, money, power and press agents…

And then there’s where it all came from…the far side of the bay, a land of subsistence farmers and fishermen, many of the older people unable to read or write…their sambas the precursor to all this, without which none of the above would exist, their melodies — when not created by themselves — the inventions of people like them but now forgotten (as most of these people will be within a couple of generations or so of their passing), their rhythms a constant state of inconstancy and flux, played in a manner unlike (most) any group of musicians north of the Tropic of Cancer…making the metronome-like sledgehammering of the Hit Parade of the past several decades almost wincefully painful to listen to after one’s ears have become accustomed to evershifting rhythms played like the aurora borealis looks…

So there’s the spectacle, and there’s the spectacular, and more often than not the latter is found far afield from the former, among the poor folk in the villages and the backlands, the humble and the honest, people who can say more (like an old delta bluesman playing a beat-up guitar on a sagging back porch) with a pandeiro (Brazilian tambourine) and a chula (a shouted/sung “folksong”) than most with whatever technology and support money can buy. The heart of this matter, is out there. If you ask me anyway.

Above, the incomparable João do Boi, chuleiro, recently deceased.

 

 

PORTUGUÊS (to English →)

 

QUEM ESTÁ DENTRO DESTE MATRIX?

Explore acima para uma lista completa de artistas e outros membros da economia criativa global.


POR QUE BRASIL?

O Brasil não é uma nação européia. Não é uma nação norte-americana. Não é uma nação do leste asiático. Compreende — selva e deserto e centros urbanos densos — tanto o equador quanto o Trópico de Capricórnio.

 

O Brasil absorveu mais de dez vezes o número de africanos escravizados levados para os Estados Unidos da América, e é um repositório de divindades africanas (e sua música) agora em grande parte esquecido em suas terras de origem.

 

O Brasil era um refúgio (de certa forma) para os sefarditas que fugiam de uma Inquisição que os seguia através do Atlântico (aquele símbolo não oficial da música nacional brasileira — o pandeiro — foi quase certamente trazido ao Brasil por esse povo).

 

Através das savanas ressequidas do interior do culturalmente fecundo nordeste, onde o mago Hermeto Pascoal nasceu na Lagoa da Canoa e cresceu em Olho d'Águia, uma grande parte da população aborígine do Brasil foi absorvida por uma cultura caboclo/quilombola pontuada pela Estrela de Davi.

 

Três culturas — de três continentes — correndo por suas vidas, sua confluência formando uma quarta cintilante e sem precedentes. Pandeirista no telhado.

 

Em nenhum outro lugar a não ser aqui. Brasil é um matrix mesmo.

 


✅—João do Boi
João tinha algo inestimável pro mundo.
Mas ele era impossível pro mundo encontrar...
✅—Pardal/Sparrow
CAMINHOS
do Brasil, com amor
A MISSÃO: Começando com a atávica genialidade do Recôncavo (conforme "RESPLANDECENTE BAHIA..." abaixo) e do grande sertão — tornar artistas através do Brasil — e ao redor do mundo — descobriveis como nunca foram antes.

COMO: Integrá-los num vasto ecosistema matrixado, juntos com músicos, escritores, cineastas, pintores, coreógrafos, designers de moda, educadores, chefs e outros de todos os lugares (você está neste ecosistema?) de modo que todos esses artistas tendem a estar ligados entre si por caminhos curtos, descobriveis e acessíveis. Q.E.D.

"Matrixado! Laroyê!"
✅—Membro Fundador Darius Mans
Economista, doutorado, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
✅—Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva
Presidente do Brasil


O matrix foi criado no Centro Histórico de Salvador, onde Bule Bule no clipe, entre colegas da primeira geração no matrix, canta "Chegou a hora dessa gente bronzeada mostrar seu valor..."

Música & letras (Brasil Pandeiro) por Assis Valente de Santo Amaro, Bahia. Vídeo por Betão Aguiar de Salvador.

...o empreendimento motivado na primeira instância pelo fato de que em comum com a maioria das culturas ao redor do nosso planeta, a preponderância do vasto tesouro cultural do Brasil tem sido impossível de encontrar fora de regiões circunscritas, incluindo o próprio Brasil.

Assim, algo novo sob o sol tropical: Curadoria aberta começando com músicos brasileiros recomendando outros músicos brasileiros e avançando ao redor do globo...

Onde pela matemática aparentemente mágica do fenômeno do mundo pequeno, e da mesma forma que a maioria dos seres humanos estão dentro de cerca de seis passos da maioria dos outros, todos no matrix tendem a se aproximar de todos...

Com a diferença que no matrix, estes passos estão ao longo de caminhos que podem ser percorridos. O mundo criativo se torna uma vizinhança. Quincy Jones está lá em cima e Branford Marsalis está ao virar da esquina. E o gênio distante que você nunca ouviu falar tá lá embaixo. Talvez até no Brasil.

"Obrigada por me incluir neste matrix maravilhoso!"
✅—Susan Rogers
Engenheiro de gravação pessoal para Prince: Paisley Park Estúdio de Gravação
Diretora: Laboratório de Percepção e Cognição Musical, Berklee College of Music
Autora: This Is What It Sounds Like: What the Music You Love Says About You

"Muito obrigado por isso - estou tocado!"
✅—Julian Lloyd Webber
Merecidamente o violoncelista mais lendário do Reino Unido (e fã da música brasileira)

"Estou realmente agradecido... Sohlangana ngokuzayo :)"
✅—Nduduzo Makhathini
Artista da Blue Note

"Obrigada, esta é uma ideia brilhante!!"
✅—Alicia Svigals
Fundadora do The Klezmatics

"Este é um trabalho super impressionante! Parabéns! Obrigada por me incluir :)))"
✅—Clarice Assad
Composições gravadas por Yo Yo Ma e tocadas por orquestras ao redor do mundo

"Thank you"
(Banch Abegaze, empresário)
✅—Kamasi Washington


RESPLANDECENTE BAHIA...

...é um caldeirão quente de ritmos e estilos musicais, mas um estilo particular aqui é tão essencial, tão fundamental não só para a música baiana especificamente, mas para a música brasileira em geral - ocupando um lugar aqui análogo ao do blues nos Estados Unidos - que merece ser destacado. Ela deriva (ou alguns dizem irmão para) do ritmo cabila do candomblé angola... ...e é chamada de...

Samba Chula / Samba de Roda

Mãe do Samba... filha do destino carregada para a Bahia por Bantus ensconced dentro dos porões de negreiros entrando na grande Bahia de Todos os Santos (o termo refere-se tanto a uma dança quanto ao estilo de música que evoluiu para acompanhar essa dança; a ortografia oficial da "Bahia" - no sentido de "baía" - foi desde então alterada para "Baía")... evoluiu nas plantações de cana de açúcar do Recôncavo (aquela área fértil ao redor da baía, cuja forma côncava deu origem ao nome da região) - nas proximidades de cidades como Cachoeira e Santo Amaro, Santiago do Iguape e Acupe. Este proto-samba infelizmente caiu no caminho de difíceis de encontrar e ouvir...

Há muito espetáculo na Bahia...

Carnaval com seu trio elétrico - caminhões sonoros com músicos no topo - parecendo semi-reboques interestelares de volta do futuro...shows de MPB (música popular brasileira) no Teatro Castro Alves de Salvador (maior palco da América do Sul!) com total valor de produção, o público sentado (como sempre nos teatros modernos) como estátuas da Ilha de Páscoa...

...glamour, glitz, dinheiro, poder e publicitários...

E depois há de onde tudo isso veio... do outro lado da baía, uma terra de agricultores e pescadores de subsistência, muitos dos mais velhos incapazes de ler ou escrever... seus sambas precursores de tudo isso, sem os quais nenhuma das anteriores existiria, suas melodias - quando não criadas por eles mesmos - as invenções de pessoas como eles, mas agora esquecidas (pois a maioria dessas pessoas estará dentro de um par de gerações ou mais), seus ritmos um constante estado de inconstância e fluxo, tocados de uma forma diferente (a maioria) de qualquer grupo de músicos do norte do Trópico de Câncer... fazendo com que o martelo de forja do Hit Parade das últimas décadas seja quase que doloroso de ouvir depois que os ouvidos se acostumam a ritmos sempre mutáveis, tocados como a aurora boreal parece...

Portanto, há o espetáculo, e há o espetacular, e na maioria das vezes o último é encontrado longe do primeiro, entre o povo pobre das aldeias e do sertão, os humildes e os honestos, pessoas que podem dizer mais (como um velho bluesman delta tocando uma guitarra batida em um alpendre flácido) com um pandeiro (pandeiro brasileiro) e uma chula (um "folksong" gritado/cantado) do que a maioria com qualquer tecnologia e dinheiro de apoio que o dinheiro possa comprar. O coração deste assunto, está lá. Se você me perguntar de qualquer forma.

Acima, o incomparável João do Boi, chuleiro, recentemente falecido.

 

 

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