Louie Vega Presents Leroy Burgess & The Universal Robot
Band Featuring Patrick Adams – Barely Breaking Even
BBE will mark 500 releases with a Louie Vega, Leroy Burgess
& Patrick Adams remake of the Universal Robot Band track that gave the
label its name. BBE founder Peter Adarkwah convinced Burgess—who made the 1982
original along with his Logg bandmates Sonny T. Davenport and James J.
Calloway—to collaborate with Louie Vega and the legendary disco producer
Patrick Adams on a new version of the iconic track. The trio's two remakes look
back to integral strands of New York City dance music culture with respective
house and boogie mixes. Both feature live strings from the Apple Hill String
Quartet, arranged by Adams and Burgess.
Ricardo Peixoto – Scary Beautiful
Although guitarist and composer Ricardo Peixoto was born and
raised in Brazil, his musical horizons cross borders, cultures, and genres. Scary
Beautiful, his newest CD, comprises 10 of Peixoto’s original compositions, each
colored by his broad musical palette. Scary Beautiful is Peixoto’s third CD as
a leader. The recording includes some of the best Brazilian and straightahead
jazz players from the San Francisco Bay Area and Brazil, and was co-produced by
Ricky Fataar, producer and drummer with Bonnie Raitt. Peixoto has performed
throughout the U.S., Europe, Canada, Japan and Brazil, recording and performing
with Flora Purim and Airto, Bud Shank, Claudio Roditi, Dori Caymmi, Guinga, Arturo
Sandoval, Spok, and Jovino Santos Neto, among many others. Peixoto is also a
member of the popular Bay Area group, The Berkeley Choro Ensemble, who released
their album The View From Here in 2018. Peixoto is a classically trained
musician as well as a graduate of Berklee College of Music. His music is firmly
rooted in jazz and his native Brazil, with hints of his classical training. His
fluid melodic sense and original harmonic approach place him among the top
representatives of Brazilian guitar in the U.S. today.
Itamar Erez – Mi Alegria
Itamar Erez is no stranger to exploring new musical
territory. Trained in classical guitar, he’s roamed from Turkish music to
Spanish Flamenco, from jazz to Afro-Brazilian sounds. But when Erez moved his
young family from Tel Aviv to Vancouver, it felt like starting from scratch all
over again. A requinto, a Mexican cousin of the guitar, had been sitting in his
music room for years, as if the two needed to get to know each other. As Erez
began to create a musical community again in his new home, he found inspiration
to stretch his sound yet again. Picking up that requinto, Erez delighted in the
playful feel of its higher register. The joyful optimism of that moment rings
out in “Requinto,” the scintillating opening track of his new solo album, Mi
Alegria, a celebration of all of Erez’s musical homes past and present.
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