CURATION
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Name:
Walter Pinheiro
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City/Place:
São Paulo
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Country:
Brazil
Life & Work
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Bio:
Flautista, saxofonista, professor, arranjador e compositor especializado em música instrumental brasileira e jazz. Bacharel em flauta transversal pela Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP) em 1997, este eclético instrumentista fez especialização na Berklee College of Music – Boston- USA de 2000/02.
Desde 2008 se apresenta na cena do choro de São Paulo tendo participado, entre outros eventos específicos do gênero, do "Festival Chorando Sem Parar" em 2015 com sua banda Gafieira do Pinheiro, no Teatro Arthur de Azevedo - Sede do Clube do Choro de São Paulo, bem como na Roda da Virada Cultural de 2015.
Dentre seus trabalhos mais recentes está a Gafieira do Pinheiro – banda de música instrumental que relembra a sonoridade das bandas de baile das décadas de 40 e 50; o Grupo Batutas do Coreto - grupo de música tradicional brasileira que dentre outros trabalhos se apresentou no XI Festival de Poesia da Escola da Vila e no SESC; Em 2010 teve seu primeiro disco solo lançado no “Instrumental SESC Brasil”, um álbum duplo independente. Som na Brasa e Regional Brasileiro constituem seu portfólio de composições, além de obras dos mestres Heraldo do Monte, Maurício Carrilho, Zeca Freitas, Zé Barbeiro, Muari Vieira e Luiz Cavalcante e que conta com a participação de grandes nomes da música Instrumental Brasileira; Nenê Trio, Luciana Rabello, Celsinho Silva, Milton Mori, Roberta Valente, Manito, Paulo Aragão, Vinícius Dorin bem como, Maurício Carrilho e Zé Barbeiro.
Atua como instrumentista na “Orquestra de Frevo Capibaribe” e “Fervo da Vila”; para o grupo do sociólogo, historiador e sambista Tadeu Kaçula, com quem participou do evento - Sambando no Municipal em comemoração do Dia Nacional do samba - 02.12.2019. Evento do qual Walter Pinheiro também compôs o palco principal do Teatro Municipal de São Paulo acompanhando os artistas mais representativos da cena do samba da cidade. Show dirigido por Everson Pessoa (ex-Quinteto Branco e Preto) com Fabiana Cozza, Germano Matias, Petróleo, Demônios da Garoa, Wilson Sucena, Wladimir Rosa, Nãnãnã da Portela, Tobias da Vai Vai e velha da Guarda da Vai- Vai, da Nenê e da Camisa Verde-Branco.
É músico da Freedom Big Band, cuja banda se apresentou no Festival Internacional Jazz a La Calle 2019 - Mercedes - Uruguai e com quem Walter Pinheiro foi solista ao lado de Rex Richardson, Georgina Jackson, Scott Belck e Morris Nortcutt. no Trumpet Jazz Festival - 5ª Edição. Tem se apresentado em casas de jazz como Blue Note SP e Bourbom Street com o guitarrista norte americano Mark Lambert e com a banda de soul music Mr. Skobah.
Além de toda dedicação aplicada aos estudos e realizações artísticas voltadas exclusivamente para a sua música, Walter Pinheiro foi flautista da Banda Jazz Sinfônica de Diadema de 2011 a 2013, cujo grupo participou do 45th Montreux Jazz Festival - Suíça em julho/2011 e se apresentou com Hermeto Paschoal em dezembro de 2011. É integrante do grupo ‘’Saxomania’’. Junto com o grupo Saxomania se apresentou no teatro FECAP e no Bourbon Street acompanhando o trombonista “Raul de Souza”. Na renomada casa de jazz foi realizada a gravação e transmissão ao vivo do cd Sala dos Professores – Eldorado FM, com arranjos de Walter Pinheiro. Prestando homenagem ao trombonista o grupo Saxomania, participou do programa Mosaico pela TV Cultura de São Paulo onde o grupo gravou, para sua própria promoção o programa Sr. Brasil. Participou do Festival de Jazz - Sesc Santana, Jazz na Praça – Sesc Pinheiros, do projeto de inclusão social “Ouvir para Crescer”, realizado pela Associação Teatro Cultura Artística de São Paulo e dividiu o palco do Sesc Pompéia com o trompetista “Márcio Montarroyos” no projeto “Um Sopro de Brasil”.
Como instrumentista acompanhou Claudete Soares, além de tocar com Silvinho Mazzuca, Mozar Terra, Ulisses Rocha, Alessandro Penezzi, Naylor “Proveta” Azevedo, Alexandre Ribeiro, Filó Machado, Laércio de Freitas, Maestro Branco, Edu Ribeiro, Luizinho 7 Cordas, Marcinho Eiras, Fabio Torres, Tomati, David Richards, Naor Gomes, Célio Barros, Pepe Cisneros, Nenê, Alberto Luccas, Moisés Alves, Yaniel Matos, Rogério Botter Maio, Carlos Roberto Oliveira, Vanessa Falabella...
Nos Estados Unidos se apresentou no Berklee Performance Center, Harvard University, Reggatta Bar, Ryles Jazz Club, Choppin’ Block, ao lado de renomados músicos como: Bob Wiener, Alon Yavnai, Oscar Stagnaro (baixista do Paquito D`Rivera, com quem gravara em 2001), Fernando Huergo, Teresa Inês, José e Vinicius Pianasola, Daniel Iam Smith, Dave Maxwel, Fernado Brandão, Sergio Brandão, Felipe Salles, Sula da Silva, João Marcos Gomes Mascarenhas, Leo Blanco, entre outros.
De 2013 a 2015 o “Duo Madeira de Lei”, formado por Chico Macedo e Walter Pinheiro, apresentou uma série de concertos didáticos realizados em várias escolas do SESI dentro do estado de São Paulo contemplados pelo Edital de Chamamento Arte-Educação SESI 2012.
Desenvolveu trabalho didático específico de 2003 à 2014 – “Espaço Musical Eszterháza” – Colégio Santo Américo, onde é Regente/Instrutor do projeto social intitulado“Projeto Sinfônico Eszterháza”,com crianças das creches de Paraisópolis, Jardim Colombo e Vila Morce – Morumbi – S.P., mantido pelas Obras Sociais do Mosteiro São Geraldo.
Em julho de 1996 apresentou-se juntamente com o coral infantil “Misto Quente” no “International Chorus in Concert” (Alemanha) e na ISME, “International South Music Education” (Holanda).
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We use the mathematics of the small world phenomenon to transform the creative universe into a creative village wherein all are connected by short pathways to all... (Wolfram explains how above)
This Integrated Global Creative Economy uncoils from a sprawling Indigenous, African, Sephardic and then Ashkenazic, Arabic, European, Asian cultural matrix...
Great culture is great power.
"Thanks, this is a brilliant idea!!"
—Alicia Svigals (NEW YORK CITY): Apotheosis of klezmer violinists
"Dear Sparrow: I am thrilled to receive your email! Thank you for including me in this wonderful matrix."
—Susan Rogers (BOSTON): Director of the Berklee Music Perception and Cognition Laboratory ... Former personal recording engineer for Prince; "Purple Rain", "Sign o' the Times", "Around the World in a Day"
"Dear Sparrow, Many thanks for this – I am touched!"
—Julian Lloyd Webber (LONDON): Premier cellist in UK; brother of Andrew (Evita, Jesus Christ Superstar, Cats, Phantom of the Opera...)
"This is super impressive work ! Congratulations ! Thanks for including me :)))"
—Clarice Assad (RIO DE JANEIRO/CHICAGO): Pianist and composer with works performed by Yo Yo Ma and orchestras around the world
"We appreciate you including Kamasi in the matrix, Sparrow."
—Banch Abegaze (LOS ANGELES): manager, Kamasi Washington
"Thanks! It looks great!....I didn't write 'Cantaloupe Island' though...Herbie Hancock did! Great Page though, well done! best, Randy"
Our Matrix was conceived under a Spiritus Mundi ranging from the quilombos and senzalas of Cachoeira and Santo Amaro to Havana and the provinces of Cuba to the wards of New Orleans to the South Side of Chicago to the sidewalks of Harlem to the townships of South Africa to the villages of Ireland to the Roma camps of France and Belgium to the Vienna of Beethoven to the shtetls of Eastern Europe...*
Sodré
*...in conversation with Raymundo Sodré, who summed up the irony in this sequence by opining for the ages: "Where there's misery, there's music!" Hence A Massa, anthem for the trod-upon folk of Brazil, which blasted from every radio between the Amazon and Brazil's industrial south until...
And hence a platform whereupon all creators tend to accessible proximity to all other creators, irrespective of degree of fame, location, or the censor.
Matrix Ground Zero is the Recôncavo, bewitching and bewitched, contouring the resplendent Bay of All Saints (end of clip below, before credits), absolute center of terrestrial gravity for the disembarkation of enslaved human beings (and for the sublimity these people created), the bay presided over by Brazil's ineffable Black Rome (where Bule Bule is seated below, around the corner from where we built this matrix as an extension of our record shop).
Assis Valente's (of Santo Amaro, Bahia) "Brasil Pandeiro" filmed by Betão Aguiar
Betão Aguiar
("Black Rome" is an appellation per Caetano, via Mãe Aninha of Ilê Axé Opô Afonjá.)
Replete with Brazilian greatness, but we listened to Miles Davis and Jimmy Cliff in there too; visitors are David Dye & Kim Junod for NPR/WXPN
I opened the shop in Salvador, Bahia in 2005 in order to create an outlet to the wider world for magnificent Brazilian musicians.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar found us (he's a huge jazz fan), David Byrne, Oscar Castro-Neves... Spike Lee walked past the place while I was sitting on the stoop across the street drinking beer and listening to samba from the speaker in the window...
But we weren't exactly easy for the world-at-large to get to. So in order to extend the place's ethos I transformed the site associated with it into a network wherein Brazilian musicians I knew would recommend other Brazilian musicians, who would recommend others...
And as I anticipated, the chalky hand of God-as-mathematician intervened: In human society — per the small-world phenomenon — most of the billions of us on earth are within some 6 or fewer degrees of each other. Likewise, within a network of interlinked artists as I've described above, most of these artists will in the same manner be at most a handful of steps away from each other.
So then, all that's necessary to put the Brazilians within possible purview of the wide wide world is to include them among a wide wide range of artists around that world.
If, for example, Quincy Jones is inside the matrix, then anybody on his page — whether they be accessing from a campus in L.A., a pub in Dublin, a shebeen in Cape Town, a tent in Mongolia — will be close, transitable steps away from Raymundo Sodré, even if they know nothing of Brazil and are unaware that Sodré sings/dances upon this planet. Sodré, having been knocked from the perch of fame and ground into anonymity by Brazil's dictatorship, has now the alternative of access to the world-at-large via recourse to the vast potential of network theory.
...to the degree that other artists et al — writers, researchers, filmmakers, painters, choreographers...everywhere — do also. Artificial intelligence not required. Real intelligence, yes.
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 founding creators are behind "one of 10 of the best (radios) around the world", per The Guardian.
Salvador is our base. If you plan to visit Bahia, there are some things you should probably know and you should first visit:
www.salvadorbahiabrazil.comAcross the creative universe... For another list, reload page.
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Wolfram MathWorld
Ex Terra Brasilis
Alicia Svigals
Susan Rogers
Julian Lloyd Webber
Clarice Assad
Kamasi Washington
Randy Brecker
Roberto Mendes
Luciano Calazans
Gustavo Caribé
J Velloso
Lázaro Ramos
Fernando Guerreiro
Maria Marighella
Russell Okung
Bule Bule
Caetano Veloso
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