When he
moved from São Paulo to NYC in 2005, Brazilian percussionist Rogério Boccato
could not have imagined he would end up on stage and on Grammy-winning
recordings with some of his musical heroes: John Patitucci, Maria Schneider,
Kenny Garrett, Fred Hersch, Danilo Perez, Billy Childs, Gil Goldstein, among
others.
Now leading
his own group, Rogério arrives at yet another milestone: the release of his
debut recording as a leader, No Old Rain. With his quartet, Rogério breaks out
of the traditional jazz mold, collectively weaving form and structure out of
the disparate threads of each member's creative input, using motifs from each
song as springboards for spontaneous group compositions. The result of this
open- eared deconstruction is a reverent, impressionistic vision of each song.
The album is a warmly-colored Brazilian Rorschach test viewed through a
much-loved second-hand kaleidoscope.
No Old Rain
focuses on gems of Brazilian music excavated from the source - written by four
of the greatest composers of the post-Bossa Nova generation, who took Brazilian
music into new directions: Toninho Horta, Milton Nascimento, Egberto Gismonti
and Edu Lobo. Just as their music could have only come from Brazil in the late
20th century, No Old Rain is the seemingly inevitable result of Rogério
Boccato's thirteen years in New York.
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