Bio:
Um dos mais importantes músicos brasileiros, Nelson Faria tem em sua bagagem musical 12 CDs gravados, 8 livros editados sendo que 2 deles com edições nos EUA, Japão e Itália, 1 DVD com o grupo NOSSO TRIO e o Video-aula Toques de Mestre além da participação como músico, arranjador ou produtor em mais de 200 CDs de artistas nacionais e internacionais.
Junto com a conceituada fábrica de instrumentos musicais CONDOR desenvolveu o modelo JNF-1, guitarra que vem com sua assinatura e tem sido apontada pela mídia especializada como um dos melhores instrumentos na relação custo benefício do mercado nacional.
Atualmente, Nelson Faria atua como professor na Universidades de Örebro na Suécia, além de trabalhar ao lado das mais importantes Bigbands da Europa e dos EUA como arranjador e solista convidado.
Em duo com o Leila Pinheiro, acaba de lançar pela Biscoito Fino o CD “Céu e Mar”
English:
One of the most important musicians in Brazil, Nelson Faria has released 12 CDs, 6 books (2 in the EUA, Japan and Italy), one DVD w/ NOSSO TRIO and one Video-lesson “Toques de Mestre” He has also recorded as guitar player and/or arranger or producer on over 200 CDs by Brazilian and international artists.
He has performed in more then 30 different countries and has worked with artists like João Bosco, Till Broenner, Ivan Lins, Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Milton Nascimento, Lars Jansson, Paulo Moura, Leila Pinheiro, Leny Andrade, Wagner Tiso among others.
Nelson Faria taught for 12 years at the Universidade Estácio de Sá (Brazil) and in 2010 he moved to Sweden working as a guest professor at Örebro University.
He has taught clinics at the Berklee College of Music (USA), IAJE (USA); University of Southern California, San Francisco State University, GIT (USA), Göteborgs Universitet, (Sweden) Manhattan School of Music (USA), Codarts Conservatory (NL), Amsterdam Conservatory (NL), Malmo Universitet (Sweden), KMH (Sweden) and others.
In 2001 he joined the BMI Jazz workshops studying with Manny Albam, Jim McNeely and Michael Abene.
He has worked as arranger for The Orquestra Jazz Sinfonica (SP), KMH Jazz Orchestra (Sweden), CODARTS Jazz Orchestra (NL), Orquestra Bons Fluidos, UMO Jazz Orchestra (Finland), Hr-Bigband (Germany), Frost Jazz Orchestra (USA), Amsterdam Conservatory Big Band and others.
The Recôncavo is an almost invisible center-of-gravity. Circumscribing the Bay of All Saints, this region was landing for more enslaved human beings than any other such throughout all of human history. Not unrelated, it is also birthplace of some of the most physically & spiritually uplifting music ever made. —Sparrow
"Dear Sparrow: I am thrilled to receive your email! Thank you for including me in this wonderful matrix."
—Susan Rogers: Personal recording engineer for Prince, inc. "Purple Rain", "Sign o' the Times", "Around the World in a Day"... Director of the Berklee Music Perception and Cognition Laboratory
I'm Pardal here in Brazil (that's "Sparrow" in English). The deep roots of this project are in Manhattan, where Allen Klein (managed the Beatles and The Rolling Stones) called me about royalties for the estate of Sam Cooke... where Jerry Ragovoy (co-wrote Time is On My Side, sung by the Stones; Piece of My Heart, Janis Joplin of course; and Pata Pata, sung by the great Miriam Makeba) called me looking for unpaid royalties... where I did contract and licensing for Carlinhos Brown's participation on Bahia Black with Wayne Shorter and Herbie Hancock...
...where I rescued unpaid royalties for Aretha Franklin (from Atlantic Records), Barbra Streisand (from CBS Records), Led Zeppelin, Mongo Santamaria, Gilberto Gil, Astrud Gilberto, Airto Moreira, Jim Hall, Wah Wah Watson (Melvin Ragin), Ray Barretto, Philip Glass, Clement "Sir Coxsone" Dodd for his interest in Bob Marley compositions, Cat Stevens/Yusuf Islam and others...
...where I worked with Earl "Speedo" Carroll of the Cadillacs (who went from doo-wopping as a kid on Harlem streetcorners to top of the charts to working as a janitor at P.S. 87 in Manhattan without ever losing what it was that made him special in the first place), and with Jake and Zeke Carey of The Flamingos (I Only Have Eyes for You)... stuff like that.
Yeah this is Bob's first record contract, made with Clement "Sir Coxsone" Dodd of Studio One and co-signed by his aunt because he was under 21. I took it to Black Rock to argue with CBS' lawyers about the royalties they didn't want to pay. They paid.
MATRIX MUSICAL
The Matrix was built below among some of the world's most powerfully moving music, some of it made by people barely known beyond village borders. Or in the case of Sodré, his anthem A MASSA — a paean to Brazil's poor ("our pain is the pain of a timid boy, a calf stepped on...") — having blasted from every radio between the Amazon and Brazil's industrial south, before he was silenced. (that's me left, with David Dye & Kim Junod for U.S. National Public Radio) ... The Matrix started with Sodré, with João do Boi, with Roberto Mendes, with Bule Bule, with Roque Ferreira... music rooted in the sugarcane plantations of Bahia. Hence our logo (a cane cutter).