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From Abroad

After over a month of computer and internet problems, I have returned and will try to make up for the time lost. This first post is of my first real gig here in Brasil, at a restaurant called TriBoz (tribes). The restaurant was started by the trumpet player in the clips, who is an Australian musicologist living in Rio (he switches between English and Portuguese when he’s announcing tunes). I found out about the place through the bass player, who is a fellow music student at the university. After sitting in a couple times, the trumpet player asked me to be part of this gig, and others in the future. The alto player is also a really interesting guy: he’s Brazilian but has lived for a while in Canada, the US, and France. So it’s a multi-cultural group.
The “theme” of the evening was the cool jazz style, typified by the “Kind of Blue” album by Miles Davis. I can’t honestly say that we stayed true to that style very much, but it was fun nonetheless. The lineup of the group is as follows:
Mike Ryan – trumpet
Marcelo Padre – alto sax
Yours Truly – tenor sax
Tomás Improta – piano
Rodrigo Ferreira – bass
Eduardo Magliano – drums
Please enjoy.

A note about videos: right click, select Zoom, and click Full Sceen to see the full picture.

So What

Night and Day

Footprints

Corcovado

Caravan

Paz,
Colin