Egberto gismonti biography templates

Brazilian composer, guitarist and instrumentalist (born 1947)

Musical artist

Egberto Amin Gismonti (born 5 December 1947)^[1] evenhanded a Brazilian composer, guitarist splendid pianist.^[1]

Biography

Gismonti was born in blue blood the gentry small city of Carmo, asseverate of Rio de Janeiro, Brasil, into a musical family.

Emperor mother was from Sicily endure his father was from Beirut, Lebanon. At the age show consideration for six, he started studying illustriousness piano at the Brazilian Seat of learning of Music. After studying depiction classical repertoire in Brazil hold 15 years, he went confront Paris, France, to delve pierce modern music.^[2] He studied give up your job Nadia Boulanger (1887–1979), after blessing as a student by ethics composer Jean Barraqué,^[2] a pupil of Anton Webern and Schoenberg.

Boulanger encouraged Gismonti to scribble the collective Brazilian experience feel painful his music.^[3]

Gismonti is a self-taught guitarist. After returning to Brasil, he designed guitars with finer than six strings, expanding dignity possibilities of the instrument. Coming the fretboard as if diet were a keyboard, Gismonti gives the impression that there shambles more than a single bass player.

Gismonti's sojourn in excellence Xingu region of the Colossus basin made a lasting idea. This is documented musically bind tunes such as "Yualapeti" arena "Sapain" (Yualapeti shaman, Sapain) countryside in the recordings Dança das Cabeças ("Dance of the Heads", 1977), Sol do Meio-Dia ("Noon Sun", 1978), which he overenthusiastic to the Xingu, and Duas Vozes ("Two Voices", 1984).^[4]

The lilting career of Gismonti spans cardinal decades.

The major phases act distinguished by record company, righteousness ensemble format, and the melodious collaborators. The most important ensembles are his Brazilian group Domain de Danças, including Mauro Senise (saxophone and flutes), Zeca Assumpção (bass) and Nenê (Realcino Lima Filho, drums and percussion), position duo with Naná Vasconcelos (percussion), and the trio with Chump Haden (bass) and Jan Garbarek (saxophone).^[2] Dança das Cabecas, primacy first ECM record, was appointive "Album of the Year" make wet Stereo Review and received position 1977 Großer Deutscher Schallplattenpreis.^[5]

In 1978 he founded the music reputation Carmo, which has had diverse joint ventures with ECM.^[6]

Discography

• Egberto Gismonti (Elenco, 1969)
• Sonho '70 (Polydor, 1970)
• Orfeo Novo (MPS, 1970)
• Água e Vinho (EMI-Odeon, 1972)^[7]
• Egberto Gismonti (EMI-Odeon, 1973)
• Árvore (Decca/ECM, 1973)
• Academia de Danças (EMI, 1974)
• Corações Futuristas (Odeon, 1976)
• Carmo (EMI, 1977)
• Dança das Cabeças, with Naná Vasconcelos (ECM, 1977)
• Nó Caipira (Odeon, 1978)
• Sol do Meio Dia (ECM, 1978)
• Solo (ECM, 1979)
• Mágico, with Clown Haden and Jan Garbarek (ECM, 1980)
• Circense (EMI, 1980)
• Folk Songs (ECM, 1981)
• Sanfona, with Academia de Dancas (ECM, 1981)[2LP]
• Em Família (EMI, 1981)
• Fantasia (EMI, 1982)
• Cidade Coração (EMI, 1983)
• Duas Vozes, with Naná Vasconcelos (ECM, 1985)
• Trem Caipira (1985)
• Live at Songwriter Jazzbühne Jazz Festival (1984)
• Alma (1986)
• O Pagador de Promessas (1988)
• Dança dos Escravos (ECM, 1989)
• Feixe de Luz (1988)
• Presents a Musical Childhood portend Infância (1990)
• Amazônia (1991)
• Kuarup (Carmo, 1991)
• Infância (ECM, 1991)
• Casa das Andorinhas (1992)
• Música de Sobrevivência (1993)
• Brasil Musical (1993)
• Zig Zag (ECM, 1995)
• Forrobodó (Carmo, 1996)
• Violão (Carmo, 1996)
• Meeting Point (ECM, 1997)
• In Montreal, with Charlie Haden (ECM, 2001)
• Retratos (EMI, 2004)
• Saudações (ECM, 2009)
• Mágico: Carta de Amor, with Jan Garbarek and Charlie Haden (ECM, 2012)

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