We are looking forward to this long-awaited recording which will feature songs from Wayne Shorter as well as original compositions.
Profit from the release will go to the Pump House Educational Fund
The lineup for “Brazilia” for the upcoming show includes multi-Grammy award winner Oscar Stagnaro on bass, Steve Langone on drums, Ernesto Diaz from Columbia on percussion and Maxim Lubarsky from Ukraine on piano.
Rob Duguay :”Do you have a certain process when it comes to picking certain players for a gig or do you just contact whoever is available to see if they’re down to come play with you?”
DM: I’ve been playing with Oscar for many, many years and we’re on several recordings together. The thing about putting a band together is that there are certain people who play together and it’s just a matter of getting your buddies all in the same place and having a blast. I would say in every role, whether it’s the bass player, percussionist, drummer or piano player, there’s a couple people who exist in those roles that are ideal for certain gigs. Over the past year, Oscar and I have been gravitating back towards each other. We’ve played at Chan’s in Woonsocket and Scullers in Boston this past year so it’s been one of those things.
You can’t just call anybody. In the Latin jazz world, you have two things going on. One is that through the concentration on Latin music, certain rhythms have to rule. If you’re playing a specific groove, certain things have to happen but with jazz it’s the inconsistency and the dynamic of everything changing that moment that makes it what it is. When you put those two worlds together, there’s not a lot of people who can do both. It’s really kind of specialized, there’s a lot of great jazz players out there and there’s a lot of great Latin players out there but there’s not a lot of players who can combine the two and make it spontaneous. That list is short and I’m lucky that I have a list at all.
This will be our first recording since the live at Chan’s one. The original Brazilia CD was recorded in 1995 at Chan’s in Woonsocket RI as a benefit for the Music School which now has transitioned to the Rhode Philharmonic Music School. Since then both horn players have forged their separate careers in multiple jazz genres, Moretti more in a more contemporary mode and Abate in a more traditional style with The Brazilia CD being their intersection and only Latin-Jazz outing. Each artist has recorded multiple CDs, over 30 between them, and have performed throughout the world as solo performers and as sidemen with some of the icons of the jazz and pop music world. Included in the long list are Dave Liebman, Mike Stern, Phil Woods and Nile Rodgers to name a few.
