Brooklyn Brazil Bop, by Billy Newman

Brooklyn Brazil Bop

by Billy Newman

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1.	Rob's Tune 04:19	info	buy track
2.	Transvestite Cowboy 06:24	info	buy track
3.	Forgetting the Hero Sandwich He Searches for his Humanity 05:32	info	buy track
4.	Tio Leonel 03:55	info	buy track
5.	Hues of Your Generosity 05:06	info	buy track
6.	Why Are We Living in the United States? 05:29	info	buy track
7.	The Experts in the Relaxation Try to Stay Cool in Kabul 04:09	info	buy track
8.	Of Grins and Green 05:50	info	buy track
9.	Bounce It Up Down Some 06:21	info	buy track

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This was my first Album length Recording and these are the original notes. Recorded at Kaleidoscope Studios - Union City, New Jersey- April 2006
Billy Newman’s Brooklyn Brazil Bop brings together six talented young musicians with an abundance of new ideas based on solid musical grounding and a fascination with the cross-cultures we live in today. The compositions of the gifted guitarist/leader Billy Newman, informed by his longstanding passion for Brazil and Brazilian music and his deep roots in modern jazz, present a unique mix of influences ranging from the swinging, cerebral tunes of Queens-born Lennie Tristano to the kaleidoscopic inventions of Bangu-bred Hermeto Pascoal. Out of the meeting of the two very different urban cultures of Rio de Janeiro and Brooklyn, NY, an exciting and dynamic dialogue is born. A whole panorama of North and South American rhythms and musical forms are used to express the pulse of the city and complex shadings of joy and sadness through a constant blending of major and minor colors. Samba, bebop, chorinho and more, all find their place and balance in a rich and contrasted musical repertoire that combines structure and arrangement with free-flowing jazz improvisation.

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released September 7, 2018

Billy Newman - Composer / Electric and Nylon String Guitars
Michael Attias - Alto Saxophone
Ron Horton - Trumpet
Leco Reis - Acoustic Bass
Mathias Kunzli - Percussion
Aaron Thurston - Drums

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Billy Newman Brooklyn, New York

An active guitarist and teacher for over 30 years, Billy Newman has worked on exploring the parallels within American Jazz and Brazilian Instrumental Music. His music is a confluence of Modern Jazz, Choro, Baiao and Bop. Composers residencies include Yaddo and MacDowell Colony. He has performed his music at Cornelia Street Café, Joes Pub, Jazz Forum, Barbes, Triboz/ Rio and has many recordings ... more

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