''Randy in Brasil'' is the twelfth

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. It was produced and

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by Ruriá Duprat in November 2006 but not released until September 2008 by Mama Records. The album won the

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Overview

Randy in Brasil was produced and arranged by Ruria Duprat at the popular Banda Sonora Studios in Brasil and features a band of Brazilian musicians. The album took three years to come to fruition and features compositions by Brazilian musicians

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The only performers to join Brecker on every track are keyboardist Ruria Duprat and guitarist Ricardo Silveira. Gilson Peranzzetta plays on his composition, "Fazendo Hora".

Conception

The idea of recording in Brazil was from a meeting of Brecker with Marco Bosco in

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. Bosco told him of the record company in Brazil that he was starting with Ruria Duprat, and invited him to record for them. Was supposed to be released in Brazil on Duprat's Rainbow Records, but the label was never fully developed.

Critical reception

Josef Woodard quipped in ''

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'' that "the presence of slick electronics is laid on too thickly".

Awards

''Randy in Brasil'' was awarded the 2009 Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Jazz Album. The other nominees were ''Floating Point'' by

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, ''Cannon Re-Loaded: All-Star Celebration Of Cannonball Adderley'' produced by

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and Tom Scott, ''Miles From India'' produced by ''Bob Belden'', and ''Lifecycle'' by

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featuring

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. Brecker had won four previous Grammys, the last also being Brazilian influenced and in the same category, was '' Into the Sun'' in 1998.

Track listing

# "Pedro Brasil" (

) 4:30 # "Ilê Ayê" (

) 4:19 # "Guaruja" (

) 6:04 # "Me Leve" (Djavan) 4:23 # "Malásia" (Djavan) 5:31 # "Sambop" (Brecker) 5:12 # "Oriente" (Gil) 3:31 # "Maçã" (Djavan) 3:50 # "Olhos Puxados" (

) 4:27 # "Rebento" (Gil) 5:15 # "Fazendo Hora" (Gilson Peranzzetta) 4:21 # "Aiaiai" (

) 5:03

Personnel

–

* Paulo Calazans –

acoustic piano The piano is a stringed keyboard instrument in which the strings are struck by wooden hammers that are coated with a softer material (modern hammers are covered with dense wool felt; some early pianos used leather). It is played using a keyboa ...

on "Pedro Brasil", "Malásia", and "Maçã",

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on "Maçã" * Teco Cardoso –

soprano saxophone The soprano saxophone is a higher-register variety of the saxophone, a woodwind instrument invented in the 1840s. The soprano is the third-smallest member of the saxophone family, which consists (from smallest to largest) of the soprillo, sop ...

on "Pedro Brasil", "Me Leve", "Olhos Puxados", and "Aiaiai",

alto saxophone The alto saxophone is a member of the saxophone family of woodwind instruments. Saxophones were invented by Belgian instrument designer Adolphe Sax in the 1840s and patented in 1846. The alto saxophone is pitched in E, smaller than the B tenor ...

on "Ilê Ayê", "Me Leve", and "Aiaiai",

tenor saxophone The tenor saxophone is a medium-sized member of the saxophone family, a group of instruments invented by Adolphe Sax in the 1840s. The tenor and the alto are the two most commonly used saxophones. The tenor is pitched in the key of B (while th ...

on "Ilê Ayê", "Sambop", and "Aiaiai",

baritone saxophone The baritone saxophone is a member of the saxophone family of instruments, larger (and lower-pitched) than the tenor saxophone, but smaller (and higher-pitched) than the bass. It is the lowest-pitched saxophone in common use - the bass, contra ...

on "Ilê Ayê" and "Sambop",

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on "Guaruja", G-flute on "Malásia",

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on "Maçã" * Ruriá Duprat – keyboards on "Pedro Brasil", "Ilê Ayê", "Guaruja", "Malásia", "Sambop", "Oriente", "Maçã", "Rebento", "Fazendo Hora", and "Aiaiai", acoustic piano on "Me Leve" and "Olhos Puxados",

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on "Aiaiai",

clavinet The Clavinet is an electrically amplified clavichord invented by Ernst Zacharias and manufactured by the Hohner company of Trossingen, West Germany, from 1964 to 1982. The instrument produces sounds by a rubber pad striking a point on a tension ...

on "Aiaiai",

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on "Ilê Ayê" * Da Lua –

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on "Pedro Brasil", "Ilê Ayê", "Guaruja", "Fazendo Hora", and "Aiaiai",

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on "Pedro Brasil" * Sizao Machado –

acoustic bass The acoustic bass guitar (sometimes shortened to acoustic bass or initialized ABG) is a bass instrument with a hollow wooden body similar to, though usually larger than a steel-string acoustic guitar. Like the traditional electric bass guitar a ...

on "Pedro Brasil", "Guaruja", "Me Leve", "Oriente", "Olhos Puxados", and "Rebento",

electric bass The bass guitar, electric bass or simply bass (), is the lowest-pitched member of the string family. It is a plucked string instrument similar in appearance and construction to an electric or an acoustic guitar, but with a longer neck The ...

on "Ilê Ayê", "Maçã", and "Aiaiai" * André Mehmari – acoustic piano on "Pedro Brasil", "Sambop", and "Oriente" * João Parahyba – percussion on "Me Leve", "Sambop", "Maçã", "Olhos Puxados", and "Rebento", timba "Sambop", "Maçã", "Olhos Puxados", and "Rebento" * Gilson Peranzzetta – acoustic piano on "Fazendo Hora" * Edú Ribeiro –

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on "Aiaiai" *

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– drums on "Me Leve", "Sambop", and "Maçã" * Ricardo Silveira –

acoustic guitar An acoustic guitar is a musical instrument in the string family. When a string is plucked its vibration is transmitted from the bridge, resonating throughout the top of the guitar. It is also transmitted to the side and back of the instrument, ...

on "Pedro Brasil", "Guaruja", "Malásia", "Sambop", "Oriente", "Maçã", "Olhos Puxados", "Rebento", and "Fazendo Hora",

electric guitar An electric guitar is a guitar that requires external amplification in order to be heard at typical performance volumes, unlike a standard acoustic guitar (however combinations of the two - a semi-acoustic guitar and an electric acoustic gui ...

on "Pedro Brasil", "Ilê Ayê", "Me Leve", "Sambop", "Olhos Puxados", and "Aiaiai" *Caito Marcondes – percussion on "Malásia" and "Oriente" *

Rogério Duprat Rogério Duprat (7 February 1932 – 26 October 2006) was a Brazilian composer and musician. Biography Born in Rio de Janeiro, Duprat spent much of his life in São Paulo, where he died. It was there in the early 1960s that he developed an intere ...

– acoustic bass on "Fazendo Hora" *Rubinho Ribeiro – vocals on "Sambop"

Production

* Ruriá Duprat –

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, producer

Release history

References

External links

Randy Brecker's official site
{{Authority control 2008 albums Randy Brecker albums Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Jazz Album