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  • Larry Grenadier

    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: Larry Grenadier
  • City/Place: Hudson River Valley, NY
  • Country: United States
  • Hometown: San Francisco, California

CURATION

  • from this node by: Matrix+

Life & Work

  • Bio: Born in 1966, Grenadier grew up in San Francisco, his family a musical one. At age 10, he began learning the trumpet, which was his father’s instrument. His dad taught him how to read music, and he was soon given his first electric bass, which enabled him to play cover tunes in a trio with his two brothers. After being introduced to jazz at home, Grenadier had his passion for the music stoked at age 12, witnessing a live performance by bass kingpin Ray Brown. That pivotal event led him to explore the work of such bass greats as Pettiford, Charles Mingus, Paul Chambers and Wilbur Ware. “The more I got into jazz, the more I gravitated toward the upright bass as my main instrument,” Grenadier recalls. “I was drawn to the acoustic instrument’s subtlety and its physicality. I liked how the double-bass produces its sound naturally. The instrument still holds mystery for me – I remain fascinated by it all these years later.”

    Grenadier was a working professional by age 16, gigging and recording with various members of his hometown’s jazz scene, as well as playing with major jazz performers who passed through San Francisco. During this period, he had the rare opportunity to expand his musical horizons by working with such iconic figures as Johnny Griffin, Bobby Hutcherson, Art Farmer, Johnny Coles, Frank Morgan and Toots Thielemans, along with such prominent Bay Area-based musicians as Donald Bailey, Eddie Marshall and Bruce Forman. “Early on, I met a great piano player in San Francisco named Larry Vuckovich, who saw enough potential in me to hire a kid to play with him,” the bassist recalls. “Through him, I met other musicians who helped me tremendously. The chance to work with older, more experienced players was invaluable. Those guys generally didn’t talk much about music – they just did it. I learned from watching and listening to them. Working in that environment, I knew that I had to get my act together quick.”

    Rather than pursue formal jazz studies in college, Grenadier chose to continue honing his skills through hands-on experience, playing live gigs and studio sessions while studying English literature at Stanford University. At Stanford, he met and toured with Stan Getz, who was artist-in-residence at the university. The young bassist was also able to work with Joe Henderson around the same time. Grenadier says: “Working with those two tenor titans, well, it was like getting hit over the head by a gong. I remember thinking, ‘This is what real music is, this is what it’s about – such beautiful sounds, such intensity.’ I was so young that I experienced it more on an emotional level than an intellectual one. They were very different players, of course, but two different interpretations of the same thing, really.” About being a lit major, he says: “I knew I wanted to be a bass player, but I thought that being educated in literature would teach me how to get under the surface of things. It did, in that I learned how to get into the depth of a text, which helped me when it came to exploring the full depth of a record or a composition.”

    After graduating from Stanford in 1989, Grenadier moved to Boston to work with Gary Burton, touring the world in the vibraphonist’s band (which is how he came to know guitarist Wolfgang Muthspiel, who has not only composed for the bassist but also drafted him into the sessions for his three recent ECM albums). By 1991, the bassist settled in New York City, where he established himself as a presence on the city’s unparalleled jazz scene. Along with playing with an emerging group of peers – including guitarist Kurt Rosenwinkel and saxophonist Joshua Redman, among others – Grenadier renewed his working relationship with Joe Henderson and served a stint in vocalist Betty Carter’s band.

    The most enduringly fruitful relationship Grenadier forged during his early years in New York was with Brad Mehldau. They formed a trio with drummer Jorge Rossy in 1994, with the three quickly making their debut on record the next year. This version of the Brad Mehldau Trio would become one of the most acclaimed piano trios of the late 20th century and into the 21st , touring worldwide and recording a series of milestone studio and live albums for Warner Bros. and Nonesuch over a decade – including the Grammy Award-nominated, five-volume Art of the Trio series and the discs Places, Anything Goes and House on Hill, with the group’s material ranging from Mehldau’s searching originals to vintage standards to fresh material by the likes of Radiohead, Nick Drake and Elliott Smith. Widely praised on both sides of the Atlantic for its heightened interactivity, the trio developed a sleek lyrical glow and rhythmic push-and-pull that was as accessible as it was complex. The New York Times praised the trio’s rapport and its “strong, original sound,” holding up the group as “a standard-bearer for new jazz.”

    The Mehldau trio changed drummers in 2005, with Jeff Ballard joining the pianist and Grenadier for the Nonesuch album Day Is Done. Going from strength to strength, this incarnation of the trio continued apace, releasing the Grammy-nominated Brad Mehldau Trio Live and the poetic studio discs Ode , Where You Start and Blues & Ballads . This version of the trio has a sound that can be “denser and more tumultuous,” according to The New York Times. In its review of the trio’s 2017 concert at London’s Barbican, The Guardian singled out Grenadier in a performance of Cole Porter’s “It’s All Right with Me,” saying that the tune was “delivered in streams and fragments over a fast bass walk that became a superb bass solo of vaulting intervals, blues turns and unexpected swing licks.” The review added: “This version of Mehldau’s trio is 12 years old now, but both its repertoire and its methods stay memorably fresh.” In May 2018, the trio released its latest Nonesuch album, Seymour Reads the Constitution! In its review, DownBeat s aid that the album “might set a new bar for what counts as The Art of the Trio.”

    “It was totally organic when we first got together as a trio with Brad and Jorge – we shared the same ideas about where to go with a piano trio, rooted in the tradition but with our own, contemporary approach,” Grenadier says. “The trio has evolved sonically, rhythmically and structurally over the years, with our sound hitting a different gear when Jeff joined. The music has changed as we have changed – and that’s what I love about jazz. Playing with Brad has been an amazing experience. He’s acute in his hearing and quick with his responses. Because he hears everything, he’s attuned to the bass, always leaving room for it. That affects my choice of notes and how I play them. Everything matters – and that deepens the musical conversation. As we have always aimed to do, the three of us are really making music together , not just accompanying each other.”

    As the 20th century shaded into the 21st , Grenadier made another important connection, touring and recording with superstar guitarist Pat Metheny. The bassist was part of Metheny’s trio with drummer Bill Stewart that released the studio album Trio 99/00 and the following Trio Live. Later, Grenadier took part in the collaboration between Metheny and Mehldau that resulted in the albums Metheny/Mehldau and Metheny/Mehldau Quartet, released in 2006 and 2007. “I’ve played with Pat in a lot of different contexts: duo, trio, quartet,” Grenadier says. “We performed so much together, every night for weeks and weeks on the road – like a rock’n’roll band. Because I grew up listening to Pat, it felt totally natural from the beginning. He’s so clear in his intentions, and he writes such great tunes. I also learned a lot from him: how to develop a solo, how to put a set together, how much professionalism and care you can put into something. Pat is very open with the music and for him, every night is important – you have to meet his level of commitment. He never rests on his laurels, and I find that deep and inspiring. He has this very modern, contemporary approach, always pushing to make music that’s about now .”

    Although he met them years before, Grenadier became especially close with Ballard and saxophonist Mark Turner during his early days in New York; the three players came together as the cooperative trio Fly in 2000, releasing their eponymous debut disc via Savoy in 2004. The trio has followed that with two albums for ECM: Sky & Country (2009) and Year of the Snake (2012), with each further underscoring the group’s unique sound and uncanny chemistry. “Playing with a group of musicians over a period of years, you develop a sense of trust – and with that trust comes a willingness to take risks and try different things,” Grenadier says. “In Fly, we all write material. And while Mark carries the melody a lot of the time, often it’s me or Jeff leading the sound. It’s a democratic band.” The New York Times has called Fly “one of the most compellingly cohesive small groups in jazz,” while sax great Joe Lovano is on record as a fan: “Fly is a beautiful trio – they play with a wonderful clarity,” he said. “They’re improvising, but their dialogue is more classical in nature, the way it feels. That’s [the kind of] expression – waves, life forms, the wind. Fly sounds lovely, and their music has a real presence – it captures you.”

    Grenadier’s latest cooperative venture has been the quartet with guitarist John Scofield, keyboardist John Medeski and drummer Jack DeJohnette called Hudson – which The Guardian described as “an elite jazz outfit collectively telling a compelling new story.” The band’s name references the fact that the four players share the psychogeography of New York’s Hudson River Valley. Each of the members not only live in the area; they all came up loving the music that famously emanated from Woodstock and environs. “We’re all jazz musicians, of course, but we all grew up listening to Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, Joni Mitchell and The Band, just as we did Monk, Miles and ’Trane,” Grenadier explains. “Our name comes from the fact that we all live in the Hudson valley, and that’s where a lot of the great music by Dylan and The Band came from. There’s so much potential with this band – we have such a broad musical palette, funky and free but able to move the music anywhere.” The quartet released its debut studio album, Hudson, via Motema in 2017; alongside such originals as the Bitches Brew -evoking title track, the album includes organic interpretations of Mitchell’s “Woodstock,” The Band’s “Up on Cripple Creek,” Hendrix’s “Wait Until Tomorrow” and Dylan’s “A Hard Rain’s a-Gonna Fall.” DownBeat lauded the LP as “vigorous, original, engaged and downright pleasurable,” while National Public Radio described the band as treading the “razor’s edge” between “the heady and the soulful… giving familiar fare an unexpected new tilt, and making original tunes feel durable and broken-in. The group is a confab of four master improvisers who never hesitate to lay down a groove.” In addition to all of the aforementioned, Grenadier has played onstage and on record with the likes of Charles Lloyd, Enrico Rava, Chris Potter and Danilo Perez, among others. He also featured on Paul Simon’s most recent album, In the Blue Light.

    One of Grenadier’s deepest relationships–musical and otherwise–is with his wife, Rebecca Martin, with whom he has toured and recorded five albums. They released the duo disc Twain in 2013 via Sunnyside, with JazzTimes praising it as “intimate and affecting.” Grenadier says: “I met Rebecca 22 years ago, and we’ve been married for 21. She’s a singer-songwriter who has always worked with jazz musicians in her bands – that’s how we met. She comes from a folk-pop sensibility but with an appreciation for what jazz musicians are capable of bringing to a song – she was at the forefront of that, really. We share an aesthetic sensitivity, and I love making music with her. Rebecca has an organic, intuitive approach to music that’s beautiful to me. I trust her ear – she hears in an accurate, emotional way. I also appreciate her compositional concision, how to get to the heart of the matter in a song. As a jazz musician, that’s something to learn from.”

    Returning to his prime influences as a bassist, Grenadier runs down those players and qualities that have meant the most to him: Oscar Pettiford (“for his clarity, melodicism, swing-to-bop values, the way he liked chamber music, too”); Scott LaFaro (“his incredible technique and his individuality – he was sui generis, like Jaco Pastorius”); Ray Brown (“such a huge beat, such clarity of sound – what he played on bass offered so much information that you had to pay attention to it”); and Charles Mingus (“enormous technical ability on the bass, along with his incredible composing and bandleading”). Along with Charlie Haden, Dave Holland and Miroslav Vitous, Grenadier’s key bass influences also include Eddie Gomez, George Mraz and Marc Johnson. “All those players have developed a distinctive voice on the bass, with the technique to convey their ideas with real lucidity,” he says. “Obviously, Charlie was a very different player than someone like Miroslav, but they both rank as advanced speakers on their instrument. It’s about pushing yourself technically so that you can get across what you’re trying to express.”

    The art of music “remains a learning experience for me, above all,” Grenadier concludes. “I’m always working on the technical aspects of my playing, but at the same time, I know that what happens onstage between musicians isn’t all about that. The level of ‘telepathic’ intuition that exists in music, especially in jazz, is a constant reminder to me of what humans are capable of, both in music and beyond. I always want to keep a bit of that mystery at play in the music, so as not to over-intellectualize the magic. That’s why I think you have to balance a studied approach to how music works with a primal, instinctual understanding of the way music feels. Having access to technique is essential for being able to communicate and express yourself musically. But, ultimately, music is about emotion. The most vital quality in making music at a heightened level is empathy, the ability to listen and to feel.”

    — Bradley Bambarger

Contact Information

  • Management/Booking: Larrecca Music Management
    [email protected]

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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.

 

 

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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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