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Imagine the world's creative economy at your fingertips. Imagine 10 doors side-by-side. Beyond each, 10 more, each opening to a "creative" somewhere around the planet. After passing through 8 such doorways you will have followed 1 pathway out of 100 million possible (2 sets of doorways yield 10 x 10 = 100 pathways). This is a simplified version of the metamathematics that makes it possible to reach everybody in the global creative economy in just a few steps It doesn't mean that everybody will be reached by everybody. It does mean that everybody can  be reached by everybody.


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Why a "Matrix"?

 

I was explaining the ideas behind this nascent network to (João) Teoria (trumpet player above) over cervejas at Xique Xique (a bar named for a town in Bahia) in the Salvador neighborhood of Barris...

 

And João said (in Portuguese), repeating what I'd just told him, with one addition: "A matrix where musicians can recommend other musicians, and you can move from one to another..."

 

A matrix! That was it! The ORIGINAL meaning of matrix is "source", from "mater", Latin for "mother". So the term would help congeal the concept in the minds of people the network was being introduced to, while giving us a motto: "We're a real mother for ya!" (you know, Johnny "Guitar" Watson?)

 

The original idea was that musicians would recommend musicians, the network thus formed being "small world" (commonly called "six degrees of separation"). In the real world, the number of degrees of separation in such a network can vary, but while a given network might have billions of nodes (people, for example), the average number of steps between any two nodes will usually be minuscule.

 

Thus somebody unaware of the magnificent music of Bahia, Brazil will be able to conceivably move from almost any musician in this matrix to Bahia in just a few steps...

 

By the same logic that might move one from Bahia or anywhere else to any musician anywhere.

 

And there's no reason to limit this system to musicians. To the contrary, while there are algorithms written to recommend music (which, although they are limited, can be useful), there are no algorithms capable of recommending journalism, novels & short stories, painting, dance, film, chefery...

 

...a vast chasm that this network — or as Teoria put it, "matrix" — is capable of filling.

 

@ Ground Zero

 

Have you, dear friend, ever noticed how different places scattered across the face of the globe seem almost to exist in different universes? As if they were permeated throughout with something akin to 19th century luminiferous aether, unique, determined by that place's history? It's like a trick of the mind's light (I suppose), but standing on beach or escarpment in Salvador and looking out across the Baía de Todos os Santos to the great Recôncavo, and mindful of what happened there, one must be led to the inevitable conclusion that one is in a place unique to history, and to the present*.

 

 

"Chegou a hora dessa gente bronzeada mostrar seu valor / The time has come for these bronzed people to show their value..."Música: Assis Valente of Santo Amaro, Bahia. Vídeo: Betão Aguiar.

 

*More enslaved human beings entered the Bay of All Saints and the Recôncavo than any other final port-of-call throughout all of mankind's history.

 

These people and their descendants created some of the most uplifting music ever made, the foundation of Brazil's national art. We wanted their music to be accessible to the world (it's not even accessible here in Brazil) so we created a platform by which everybody's creativity is mutually accessible, including theirs.

 

El Aleph

 

The network was built in an obscure record shop (Kareem Abdul-Jabbar found it) in a shimmering Brazilian port city...

 

...inspired in (the kabbalah-inspired fiction of) Borges' (short story) El Aleph, that in the pillar in Cairo's Mosque of Amr, where the universe in its entirety throughout all time is perceivable as an infinite hum from deep within the stone.

 

It "works" by virtue of the "small-world" phenomenon...the same responsible for the fact that most of us 7 billion or so beings are within 6 or fewer degrees of each other.

 

It was described (to some degree) and can be accessed via this article in British journal The Guardian (which named our radio of matrixed artists as one of ten best in the world):

 

www.theguardian.com/travel/2020/apr/17/10-best-music-radio-station-around-world

 

With David Dye for U.S. National Public Radio: www.npr.org/2013/07/16/202634814/roots-of-samba-exploring-historic-pelourinho-in-salvador-brazil

 

All is more connected than we know.

 

Per the "spirit" above, our logo is a cortador de cana, a cane-cutter. It was designed by Walter Mariano, professor of design at the Federal University of Bahia to reflect the origins of the music the shop specialized in. The Brazilian "aleph" doesn't hum... it dances and sings.

 

If You Can't Stand the Heat

 

Image above is from the base of the cross in front of the church of São Francisco do Paraguaçu in the Bahian Recôncavo

 

Sprawled across broad equatorial latitudes, stoked and steamed and sensual in the widest sense of the word, limned in cadenced song, Brazil is a conundrum wrapped in a smile inside an irony...

 

It is not a European nation. It is not a North American nation. It is 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. It 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 — 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 an unprecedented fourth. Pandeirista on the roof. Nowhere else but here.

 

Oligarchy, plutocracy, dictatorships and massive corruption — elements of these are still strongly entrenched — have defined, delineated, and limited Brazil.

 

But strictured & bound as it has been and is, Brazil has buzz...not the shallow buzz of a fashionable moment...but the deep buzz of a population which in spite of — or perhaps because of — the tough slog through life they've been allotted by humanity's dregs-in-fine-linen, have chosen not to simply pull themselves along but to lift their voices in song and their bodies in dance...to eat well and converse well and much and to wring the joy out of the day-to-day happenings and small pleasures of life which are so often set aside or ignored in the European, North American, and East Asian nations.

 

For this Brazil has a genius perhaps unparalleled in all other countries and societies, a genius which thrives alongside peeling paint and holes in the streets and roads, under bad organization by the powers-that-be, both civil and governmental, under a constant rain of societal indignities...

 

Which is all to say that if you don't know Brazil and you're expecting any semblance of order, progress and light, you will certainly find the light! And the buzz of a people who for generations have responded to privation at many different levels by somehow rising above it all.

 

"Onde tem miséria, tem música!"* - Raymundo Sodré

 

And it's not just music. And it's not just Brazil.

 

Welcome to the kitchen!

 

* "Where there is misery, there is music!" Remarked during a conversation arcing from Bahia to Haiti and Cuba to New Orleans and the south side of Chicago and Harlem to the villages of Ireland and the gypsy camps and shtetls of Eastern Europe...

 

From Harlem to Bahia



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  • Name: Joe Chambers
  • City/Place: New York City
  • Country: United States
  • Hometown: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

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  • What's Up? Samba de Maracatu marks the notable Blue Note Records return of a significant figure in the label’s history: multi-instrumentalist, composer, arranger, and educator Joe Chambers. Although his Blue Note debut, Mirrors, came out in 1998, his association with the label is much deeper.

    In the mid-to-late 1960s, Chambers played drums for numerous Blue Note luminaries appearing on some of the decade’s most progressive albums including Wayne Shorter’s Adam’s Apple and Etcetera, Bobby Hutcherson’s Components and Happenings, Freddie Hubbard’s Breaking Point, Joe Henderson’s Mode for Joe, Sam Rivers’ Contours, Andrew Hill’s Andrew!!!, Donald Byrd’s Fancy Free, and many more.

    The label’s owners – Alfred Lion and Francis Wolff – offered Chambers a chance to record his own album for the imprint during this fertile period. Chambers, however, was riding so high on recording and touring with so many jazz greats that he declined the opportunity. He nevertheless etched a legacy as a distinguished and versatile jazz artist, capable of playing with Max Roach’s groundbreaking, percussion-only ensemble, M’Boom, as well as recording his own acclaimed albums as a leader on the Muse, Candid, Savant labels.

    Samba de Maracatu shares similar characteristics with his previous 2016 album, Landscapes (Savant), on which Chambers overdubbed himself playing drums, vibraphone, marimba, piano, congas, bongos, and synthesizers while interacting with bassist Ira Coleman and pianist Rick Germanson. While crafting Landscapes, Chambers took inspiration from Bill Evans’ 1963 LP, Conversations with Myself, on which he created multiple contrapuntal piano lines by overdubbing himself. On Samba de Maracatu, Chambers’ applied a similar approach this time with the accompaniment of pianist Brad Merritt and bassist Steve Haines — two exceptional North Carolina-based jazz musicians.

    On Samba de Maracatu, Chambers asserts himself more as a mallet player, particularly on the vibraphone. Throughout the album, he uses the vibraphone as the lead melodic and improvisational voice that often converses with Merritt’s remarkable piano accompaniments and solos. The title track, a Chambers original, highlights both his mastery on the vibraphone and his affinity for Brazilian rhythms. The song’s title references the syncretic Afro-Brazil rhythms, originated from Brazil’s Pernambuco province. The rhythm also has roots in the Afro-Brazilian Candomblé religion.

    While Samba de Maracatu isn’t a Brazilian jazz album in this strictest sense, Chambers utilizes various rhythms and indigenous Brazilian percussion instruments on several pieces. On the sterling revisit of “Circles,” a suspenseful composition he wrote for M’Boom in the early-70s, Chambers drives the momentum with an abstraction of Brazil’s bione rhythm, while on the adventurous take on Wayne Shorter’s “Rio” he employs an infectious bossa nova rhythm toward the end.

    Elsewhere, Chambers illuminates his artistry with standards. The album begins with a delightful reading of Arthur Schwartz and Howard Dietz’s Broadway standard, “You and the Night and the Music.” Later, Chambers invites New Orleans-based vocalist Stephanie Jordan to sing lead on a lovely rendition of Jay Livingston and Ray Evans’ “Never Let Me Go,” an enduring classic, made famous by Nat King Cole. Then there’s the cinematic take on Karl Ratzer’s 1998 modern jazz composition, “Sabeh el Nur.”

    The album also features a glowing interpretation of Bobby Hutcherson’s “Visions.” Chambers recorded the original version with Hutcherson in 1968 (released on the vibraphonist’s album Spiral), and his sensuous reading pays close attention to Hutcherson’s dreamy melody and haunting rhythm.

    Chambers tips his hat to another Blue Note icon – Horace Silver – with his makeover of “Ecaroh,” one of Silver’s more experimental composition that has been a fixture of Chambers’ repertoire over the past decade. Episodic in nature, the pulse gracefully moves between slow balladry, mid-tempo Latin shuffle and sauntering blues, while the harmony shifts between minor and major chords.

    Rapper MC Parrain makes a surprising appearance on “New York State of Mind Rain,” an intriguing mashup of Nas’ 1994 hip-hop staple, “N.Y. State of Mind” and Chambers’ 1978 piece, “Mind Rain,” from his LP Double Exposure (Muse). DJ Premiere sampled portions of “Mind Rain” to construct Nas’ classic, and MC Parrain’s rhymes provide the historic context between the two tunes while the rhythm fluctuates between straight-ahead jazz swing and hip-hop backbeat.

    Indeed, Samba de Maracatu is an apt portrait of Chambers’ consummate talents as a vibraphonist, percussionist, drummer, composer, and bandleader extraordinaire. The album also reflects his cumulative musical knowledge and versatility, gained from more than 50 years as a professional musician.

    Chambers was born in Stoneacre, Virginia but raised primarily in Chester, Pennsylvania. His earliest musical aspirations focused heavily on composing even while playing drums. After high school, he studied composition at the Philadelphia Conservatory and American University in Washington, D.C. His earliest professional gigs began when he was 18 years old; he started playing and touring with R&B artist Bobby Lewis. While in D.C., he started playing with the JFK Quintet, which also featured saxophonist Andrew White and bassist Walter Booker, six nights a week at Bohemian Caverns.

    Freddie Hubbard heard Chambers one night at Bohemian Caverns and encouraged him to move to New York City. Chambers made his move in 1963, playing a lot with trumpeter Hugh Masekela. A year later, Chambers made his first Blue Note date playing on Hubbard’s Breaking Point, which featured Chambers’ classic composition, “Mirrors.”

    Chambers would continue recording as a sideman and composer for many Blue Note artists, but his greatest collaborator would be Hutcherson, whose first two LPs – Dialogue (1965) and Components (1966) – prominently showcased Chambers’ more abstract compositions. The partnership between Chambers and Hutcherson would last into early-70s.

    In 1970, Chambers took a year-long sabbatical to rehearse with Max Roach’s M’Boom ensemble. Chambers’ debut recording as leader, The Almoravid (Muse) didn’t come out in 1974. Following a couple more albums, Denon Records released 1979’s Punjab, a daring solo piano album.

    Chambers continued working as a sideman for Chet Baker, David Murray, Steve Grossman, and even played on the soundtrack for Spike Lee’s 1986 breakout movie, She’s Gotta Have It. In 1990, he started a lengthy career an educator, first at the New School of Jazz and Contemporary Music in New York City, and later at the University of North Carolina Wilmington. At the latter, he became the first Thomas S. Kenan Distinguished Professor of Jazz in 2008.

    Chambers no longer teaches, opting now to refocus on his career as a jazz instrumentalist, composer, and bandleader, even reconvening the M’Boom percussion ensemble for a few live performances. Samba de Maracatu makes for a splendid re-entry for Chambers as a full-time musician as he reunites with Blue Note Records, which provided him with his first recording opportunity.

Life & Work

  • Bio: Joe Chambers is an extremely versatile and tasteful master of all post-bop idioms. Chambers drives an ensemble with a light hand; his time is excellent and his grasp of dynamics superb. He’s not a flashy drummer by any means, but he’s a generous collaborator who makes any group of which he’s a part as good as it can possibly be. Chambers worked around Washington, D.C., in his late teens. After moving to New York in 1963, he played with Eric Dolphy, Freddie Hubbard, Jimmy Giuffre, and Andrew Hill. In the mid-’60s, Chambers played with a number of the more progressively inclined musicians associated with the Blue Note label, such as vibist Bobby Hutcherson and saxophonists Joe Henderson, Wayne Shorter, and Sam Rivers.

    In 1970, Chambers joined Max Roach’s percussion ensemble, M’Boom, as an original member. During the ’70s, Chambers played with a great many of jazz’s most prominent elder statesmen, including Sonny Rollins, Tommy Flanagan, Charles Mingus, and Art Farmer. With Flanagan and bassist Reggie Workman, Chambers formed the Super Jazz Trio. In the late ’70s, he co-led a band with organist Larry Young. Chambers recorded with bands led by trumpeter Chet Baker and percussionist Ray Mantilla in the early ’80s. He also maintained his association with Roach into the ’90s.

    The AlmoravidAs a solo artist, Chambers has released a tidy number of albums including Almoravid (1973) with trumpeter Woody Shaw, New World (1976), New York Concerto (1981), Phantom of the City (1992), Mirrors (1998), and Urban Grooves (2002). Beginning with 2006’s Outlaw, Chambers released a steady stream of albums for Savant Records with Horace to Max (2010), Joe Chambers Moving Pictures Orchestra (2012), and Landscapes (2016), featuring bassist Ira Coleman and pianist Rick Germanson.

    from www.bluenote.com/artist/joe-chambers

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  • Record Company: Blue Note

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  • ▶ YouTube Music: http://music.youtube.com/channel/UCk55sUre4hrq_sSBZSnsJqQ
  • ▶ Spotify: http://open.spotify.com/album/1WmWF6IHN6OmIeY6n0t5TF?si=5611c8585d43412b
  • ▶ Spotify 2: http://open.spotify.com/album/57SbZQEHYYiI8MOKH6kdt2?si=c7259edc5617400d
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  • ▶ Article: http://www.bluenote.com/joe-chambers-samba-de-maracatu-out-feb-26/

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