Artist:Ricardo Bacelar
Song:Agua de Beber
Album:Concerto Para Moviola: Ao Vivo
Brazilian pianist Ricardo Bacelar mixes traditional Brazilian music with contemporary jazz. He is from Fortaleza in northern Brazil. Both parents were amateur musicians. His father played piano and his mother played guitar. So they had jam sessions in the living room. Apparently his grandparents owned two grand pianos. So he learned to play piano and he was in the band Cafe Alecar in the early 90s. Eventually he started his own label. It looks like he has released about a half dozen albums on his own label with CD Baby distribution. Concerto Para Moviola was released in 2015. It was recorded live in Bacelar's home town of Fortaleza. You can watch the entire concert on YouTube. Though Bacelar writes songs, on this album, he performs mostly covers like the classic Agua de Beber written by Antonio Carlos Jobim and Vinicius de Moraes. He also performs jazz and fusion classics like Birdland, Killer Joe and Senor Blues. Musicians are Marcio Resende on sax and flute, Ronaldo Pessoa on guitar, Maria Helena Lage Pessoa on keyboards, Miqueias Dos Santos on bass, Luizinho Duarte on drums and Hoto Junior on percussion. This album is available on CD and digital download. Bacelar released a second live album in 2018 but it is out of print. Jazz fans should check him out. Here's Ricardo Bacelar performing Agua de Beber in Fortaleza, Brazil Aug. 26, 2018.
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