Bio:
Tatiana Eva-Marie is a Brooklyn-based bandleader, singer and actress. She is best known for her work as leader of the Avalon Jazz Band and was recently included, alongside Cyrille Aimée and Cecile McLorin Salvant, in a list of rising jazz stars picks by Vanity Fair.
Named “one of the best young singers around” by the Wall Street Journal and acclaimed by the New York Times, Downbeat and other renowned publications, she performs regularly in New York and on tour around the world. Past shows include The New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, Jazz Aspen Snowmass, SummerStage in Central Park, Midsummer Night Swing at Lincoln Center, the NYC Winter Jazzfest, The Riverboat Jazz Festival, the New York Hot Jazz Festival, the “Edith Piaf Centennial” at the Iridium (as performer and musical director), Tanzcafé Arlberg Festval, the reopening of the Rainbow Room, concerts at Jazz at Lincoln Center, the French Embassy, the Plaza, the Carlyle, Joe’s Pub, and world premieres of film (George Clooney’s “Monuments Men”, “Age of Adeline”, “Mad Men”…)
Tatiana Eva-Marie frequently sings with pianist Gordon Webster’s swing band. Past shows include The Snowball, the Frankie Manning Tribute festival in Toronto, the London Lindy Exchange at Camden Centre, the Catalina Swing Dance Festival, the Rock that Swing Festival in Munich and the Canadian Swing Championships.
Tatiana Eva-Marie is starring in her first feature film Swing Rendez-Vous, by French director Gerome Barry, coming out February 2020.
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).