Tuesday, October 10, 2006
Este falso baiano não fica parado
Trio Falso Baiano shows off its choro chops.
 The choro trio Falso Baiano is disarmingly candid about its gringo antecedents, hence the tongue-in-cheek name. The three musicians—Brian Moran (7-string guitar), Zack Pitt-Smith (flute, clarinet & soprano sax), and Ami Molinelli (percussion)—label themselves a “group that offers a window into the history and diverse cultures of Brazilian instrumental music through the lens of American born, jazz-fed musicians.”
Pitt-Smith and Molinelli are active in other Bay Area Brazilian music groups such as Misturada Brazilian Jazz Ensemble and Rio Brasil Band. All these connections were brought to bear last Friday, 6 October, when the three packed a good crowd into Berkeley’s Hillside Club for a rousing choro concert.
As Pitt-Smith astutely observed, it was somewhat strange to play choro onstage rather than around a table with lots of beer at hand. Nevertheless, the audience, largely unacquainted with the music, was delighted.
The first set repeated a few of the tunes played by Paulo Sérgio Santos in the same venue seven weeks earlier. Here, too, there was a mixture of old standards and modern compositions in the now de rigueur lineup of Pixinguinha-Hermeto-Guinga.
In the second set, the trio was augmented by mandolinist Jesse Appleman, an acquaintance from the California Brazil Camp whose background, says Pitt-Smith, is bluegrass. The presence of Appleman’s mandolin was a welcome addition, enriching the evening with a hefty dose of Jacob do Bandolim’s legacy.
Midway through the second set, the rhythm section gained percussionists Claudio Bebianno and Brian Rice. While the results sounded underrehearsed, nobody seemed to mind. By the end of the set, we were still clapping enthusiastically—this time for an encore.
Still stretching its wings, Falso Baiano produces choro that is both swinging and satisfying. For this self-confessed pretender, we should all shout “Ôba!”
First set
Sonoroso (K-Ximbinho)
Picotado (Guinga)
Cuidado, Colega (Pixinguinha)
Chorinho pra Você (Severino Araújo)
Chorando Baixinho (Abel Ferreira)
Bebê (Hermeto Pascoal)
Proezas de Solon (Pixinguinha)
A Ginga do Mané (Jacob Pick Bittencourt)
Conversa de Baiana (Dilermando Reis)/Canto de Ossanha (Baden Powell)
Di Menor (Guinga)
Nítido e Obscuro (Guinga)
Second set
Cochichando (Pixinguinha)
Receita de Samba (Jacob Pick Bittencourt)
Beliscando (Paulinho da Viola)
Noites Cariocas (Jacob Pick Bittencourt)
Vibrações (Jacob Pick Bittencourt)
Diabinho Maluco (Jacob Pick Bittencourt)
Santa Morena (Jacob Pick Bittencourt)
Por Trás de Brás de Pina (Guinga)
Frevo em Maceió (Hermeto Pascoal)
Baião de Lacan (Guinga)
Encore
Segura Ele (Pixinguinha)
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