Sunday, August 26, 2007
Choro at the Farmers’ Market
Berkeley’s festival de rua.
Andy Connell, Mike Marshall, Brian Rice & Jovino Santos Neto (photo: Mark Altenberg)
Today is the fourth and final day of the third annual Downtown Berkeley Jazz Festival, an event that offered many free performances in a variety of venues.
The Brazilian component was represented this year by pianist Jovino Santos Neto, who before heading to Cazadero to teach in the California Brazil Camp, joined forces with fellow CBC teachers Mike Marshall (mandolin) and Andy Connell (sax and clarinet) to do a Berkeleyan take on choro na feira at Civic Center Park, next to the Saturday Farmers’ Market.
The afternoon was sunny, a light breeze wafted about, and the three crack musicians (with percussionist Brian Rice making some deft toques on the pandeiro) treated an appreciative crowd to an hour and a half of Pixinguinha and Hermeto Pascoal, sprinkled with some tunes by Jovino and one by Mike. Between tunes, there was a good measure of ribaldry and punning going on (Jovino on Mike’s archaic-looking mandocello: “He found it in a guitar pit”).
Unlike the Choro na Feira in Laranjeiras, this was a comfortable and spacious venue, with the audience lounging on chairs arranged on the lawn.
See Mark Altenberg’s slide show.
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