Saturday, August 23, 2003
Chorando em Berkeley
Paulo Bellinati & Harvey Wainapel preview their new CD.
Photo: Thalia Lubin
Last summer, while teaching at the California Brazil Summer Camp in Cazadero, CA, guitarist Paulo Bellinati and clarinetist Harvey Wainapel decided to record a choro CD. They asked musician friends to compose new tunes for them, added a couple of their own creations and a few choros they admired, and recorded the lot last month in Brazil.
The duo previewed some of the tunes last night at the Jazzschool in Berkeley. An invigorating mix of the modern and the lyrical, the lineup included two lovely pieces by Bay Area musicians Ricardo Peixoto and Carlos Oliveira (the latter a maracatu). Sérgio Santos (who wrote “Choro para Thalia e Steve” while he was in the Bay Area in 1999) is represented with two choros, as is the modernist Laércio de Freitas (who also received an inspired tribute penned by Wainapel). Although Guinga offered Bellinati and Wainapel several new compositions, they opted for an instrumental version of the haunting “Pra Quem Quiser Me Visitar,” previously recorded by Leila Pinheiro in Catavento e Girassol. Dori Caymmi contributed a reverie well in his style. The musicians clearly relished playing this repertoire, injecting into it the occasional humorous dialog between clarinet and guitar. The audience, mostly unfamiliar with choro (Wainapel felt compelled to give an introduction), was riveted from beginning to end.
The set list:
01. Aos Amigos do Trio (Sérgio Santos)
02. Simpática (Ricardo Peixoto/Claudia Villela)
03. Escaldado (Paulo Bellinati)
04. Choro do Adeus (Nelson Ayres)
05. Orquídea (Laércio de Freitas)
06. Pra Quem Quiser Me Visitar (Guinga/Aldir Blanc)
07. Sonoroso (K-ximbinho)
08. Choro para Thalia e Steve (Sérgio Santos)
09. Seu Laércio na Cozinha (Harvey Wainapel)
10. Primeiros Passos (Dori Caymmi)
11. O Cabo Pitanga (Laércio de Freitas)
12. Emoção (Carlos Oliveira)
Encore:
13. Feitio de Oração (Noel Rosa/Vadico)
The disc will be titled New Choros of Brazil. Its tracklist order hasn’t been finalized, but it will include all the tunes played last night minus “Sonoroso” and the encore, plus the following:
Frevo Dom-Dim (Paulo Bellinati)
Bellinapel (Sérgio Santos)
Saudade (Carlos Oliveira)
Eterna (Sérgio Assad)—arranged for two guitars & clarinet
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