CURATION
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Name:
Leandro Cabral
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City/Place:
São Paulo
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Country:
Brazil
Life
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Bio:
Pianista, compositor, arranjador e educador, Leandro é um músico jovem de São Paulo que se destaca em sua geração. Influenciado pelos vibrantes universos musicais de Gismonti, Pascoal e Mariano, ele também encontra inspiração em mestres como Jarrett, Hancock e Evans. Em seu segundo álbum, "Alfa", distribuído pela Universal Music e gravado ao vivo no Teatro Alfa em São Paulo, Leandro e seu trio combinam a improvisação do jazz com composições autorais que exploram ritmos pouco usuais, como o vassi e o ijexá, ambos enraizados no universo percussivo afro-brasileiro. O álbum recebeu aclamação da crítica nacional e internacional, com resenhas elogiosas nos EUA, Canadá, Japão, Reino Unido, Rússia, Espanha e outros países. "Alfa" recebeu cinco estrelas do renomado site All About Jazz dos EUA e foi selecionado como um dos "10 Melhores Discos" pelo crítico musical Carlos Calado (Folha de São Paulo). No site italiano especializado Argonauta Magazine, o álbum alcançou o segundo lugar na lista de "Melhores Álbuns de Jazz" e recebeu uma "Menção Honrosa" no site Embrulhador.
Leandro também é professor no conceituado Conservatório Souza Lima, onde ministra workshops e cursos sobre Harmonia, Improvisação e Consciência Corporal, aproveitando sua experiência em Hatha Yoga.
Além de seus próprios projetos, Leandro colaborou com renomados cantores e cantoras como Ed Motta, Maria Rita, Seu Jorge, Filó Machado, Akua Naru, Honey Larochelle (Macy Gray), Zélia Duncan, Rashid, Wilson Simoninha, Paula Lima, Roberta Sá, Cynthia Utterbach, entre outros.
Ele compartilhou o palco com uma série de grandes músicos, incluindo Ed Neumeister e Adonis Rose (EUA), Lupa Santiago, Sérgio Galvão, Edu Ribeiro, Vincent Gardner (EUA), Hector Costita (Argentina), David Richards (EUA), Nailor Proveta, Jessé Sadoc, Daniel D'alcântara, Casey Scheurell (EUA), Cuca Teixeira, François Lima, Letieres Leite, Bocato, Vitor Alcântara, Jaques Morelenbaum, Vinícius Dorin, Walmir Gil, Paulinho Guitarra, Wilson Teixeira, Arismar do Espírito Santo, Thiago do Espírito Santo e Márcio Montarroyos.
Sob seu projeto "Leandro Cabral Grupo", ele gravou músicas de Letieres Leite e Moacir Santos para o documentário francês "Echoes Project" (Phonographe Corp.), recebendo elogios do próprio Letieres.
Em 2015, Leandro lançou seu primeiro álbum como líder, intitulado "Sobre Tradição". O registro audiovisual desse álbum deu origem à websérie "Arsis Piano Sessions" do Estúdio Arsis, que já contou com episódios de renomados músicos das teclas, como Nelson Ayres, Mestrinho, Arismar do Espírito Santo, Fábio Torres, Philippe Baden Powell e Sašo Vollmeier.
Atualmente, Leandro colabora em uma variedade de projetos, participando de inúmeros festivais de jazz no Brasil e no exterior, com grupos como Ed Motta, Lupa Santiago Quartet, Deep Funk Session, Lourenço Rebetez, Joabe Reis Sexteto, além de se apresentar como trio, em grupo e em performances solo de piano.
Leandro é bacharel em Piano pela Faculdade de Artes Alcântara Machado - FAAM/FMU (2004) e estudou piano, saxofone e teoria musical na Fundação das Artes de São Caetano do Sul durante sua adolescência. Em 2014, ele se capacitou em Yoga sob a orientação do professor Marcos Rojo no CEPEUSP - Universidade de São Paulo.
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Pianist, composer, arranger, and educator, Leandro is a young musician from São Paulo who stands out in his generation. Influenced by the vibrant musical worlds of Gismonti, Pascoal, and Mariano, he also finds inspiration in masters like Jarrett, Hancock, and Evans. In his second album, "Alfa," distributed by Universal Music and recorded live at the Teatro Alfa in São Paulo, Leandro and his trio blend jazz improvisation with original compositions that explore unusual rhythms, such as vassi and ijexá, both rooted in the Afro-Brazilian percussive universe. The album has received acclaim from national and international critics, with positive reviews in the USA, Canada, Japan, the United Kingdom, Russia, Spain, and other countries. "Alfa" received five stars from the renowned US website All About Jazz and was selected as one of the "10 Best Albums" by music critic Carlos Calado (Folha de São Paulo). On the specialized Italian website Argonauta Magazine, the album reached the second place in the list of "Best Jazz Albums" and received an "Honorable Mention" on the Embrulhador website.
Leandro is also a teacher at the prestigious Conservatório Souza Lima, where he conducts workshops and courses on Harmony, Improvisation, and Body Awareness, drawing on his experience in Hatha Yoga.
In addition to his own projects, Leandro has collaborated with renowned singers such as Ed Motta, Maria Rita, Seu Jorge, Filó Machado, Akua Naru, Honey Larochelle (Macy Gray), Zélia Duncan, Rashid, Wilson Simoninha, Paula Lima, Roberta Sá, Cynthia Utterbach, among others.
He has shared the stage with a series of great musicians, including Ed Neumeister and Adonis Rose (USA), Lupa Santiago, Sérgio Galvão, Edu Ribeiro, Vincent Gardner (USA), Hector Costita (Argentina), David Richards (USA), Nailor Proveta, Jessé Sadoc, Daniel D'alcântara, Casey Scheurell (USA), Cuca Teixeira, François Lima, Letieres Leite, Bocato, Vitor Alcântara, Jaques Morelenbaum, Vinícius Dorin, Walmir Gil, Paulinho Guitarra, Wilson Teixeira, Arismar do Espírito Santo, Thiago do Espírito Santo, and Márcio Montarroyos.
Under his project "Leandro Cabral Grupo," he recorded songs by Letieres Leite and Moacir Santos for the French documentary "Echoes Project" (Phonographe Corp.), receiving praise from Letieres himself.
In 2015, Leandro released his first album as a leader, titled "Sobre Tradição." The audiovisual recording of this album gave rise to the web series "Arsis Piano Sessions" by Estúdio Arsis, which has featured episodes with renowned keyboardists such as Nelson Ayres, Mestrinho, Arismar do Espírito Santo, Fábio Torres, Philippe Baden Powell, and Sašo Vollmeier.
Currently, Leandro collaborates on a variety of projects, participating in numerous jazz festivals in Brazil and abroad, with groups such as Ed Motta, Lupa Santiago Quartet, Deep Funk Session, Lourenço Rebetez, Joabe Reis Sexteto, as well as performing as a trio, in groups, and in solo piano performances.
Leandro holds a Bachelor's degree in Piano from Faculdade de Artes Alcântara Machado - FAAM/FMU (2004) and studied piano, saxophone, and music theory at Fundação das Artes de São Caetano do Sul during his adolescence. In 2014, he trained in Yoga under the guidance of Professor Marcos Rojo at CEPEUSP - University of São Paulo.
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Apaixonado por ensinar, Leandro é professor de piano e harmonia desde os 16 anos de idade. Usou sua vocação para ajudar sua família desde cedo e ao longo dos anos foi desenvolvendo sua própria metodologia. Em sua carreira de instrumentista já tocou com Ed Motta, Maria Rita, Paula Lima, Filó Machado, Letieres Leite, Nelson Farias, Proveta e Márcio Montarroyos.
Como band-leader, tem quatro álbuns lançados. Seu álbum “Alfa” ganhou cinco estrelas em um dos maiores sites de jazz do mundo: o All of Jazz (EUA), além de outras matérias premiadas no Canadá, Itália, Inglaterra, Rússia, etc.
Iniciou seus estudos de piano clássico no fundo de uma igreja no Sacomã aos sete, ganhou bolsa de estudos na Fundação das Artes de São Caetano do Sul na adolescência, e mais tarde, também como bolsista, terminou seu bacharelado em Piano em uma das faculdades de música popular mais antigas e respeitadas do país, a FAAM (FMU).
Professor da Escola de Música do Parque Ibirapuera (EMPI) à convite do Maestro Nailor Proveta (Banda Mantiqueira).
Professor convidado da Faculdade Souza Lima & Berklee.
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The Integrated Global Creative Economy
⤷ A technological matrix uncoiling from the vast African, Indigenous, Sephardic and then Ashkenazic, European and Asian cultural matrix of Bahia and Brazil...
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⤷ Creators in reach of all humanity via integration into a worldwide "small-world" matrix structure (see Wolfram above)...
⤷ All closer than we imagine.
⤷ All discoverable by all.
In a small world great things are possible.
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—Clarice Assad (RIO DE JANEIRO/CHICAGO): Pianist and composer with works performed by Yo Yo Ma and orchestras around the world
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—Son of Jimmy Garrison (bass for John Coltrane, Bill Evans...); plays with Herbie Hancock and other greats...
Dear friends & colleagues,
Having arrived in Salvador 13 years earlier, I opened a record shop in 2005 in order to create an outlet to the wider world for Bahian musicians, many of them magisterial but unknown.
David Dye & Kim Junod for NPR found us (above), and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (he's a huge jazz fan), David Byrne, Oscar Castro-Neves... Spike Lee walked past the place while I was sitting on the stoop across the street drinking beer and listening to samba from the speaker in the window...
But we weren't exactly easy for the world-at-large to get to. So in order to extend the place's ethos I transformed the site associated with it into a network wherein Brazilian musicians I knew would recommend other Brazilian musicians, who would recommend others...
And as I anticipated, the chalky hand of God-as-mathematician intervened: In human society — per the small-world phenomenon — most of the billions of us on earth are within some 6 or fewer degrees of each other. Likewise, within a network of interlinked artists as I've described above, most of these artists will in the same manner be at most a handful of steps away from each other.
So then, all that's necessary to put the Bahians and other Brazilians within possible purview of the wide wide world is to include them among a wide wide range of artists around that world.
If, for example, Quincy Jones is inside the matrix (people who have passed are not removed), then anybody on his page — whether they be accessing from a campus in L.A., a pub in Dublin, a shebeen in Cape Town, a tent in Mongolia — will be close, transitable steps away from Raymundo Sodré, even if they know nothing of Brazil and are unaware that Sodré sings/dances upon this planet. Sodré, having been knocked from the perch of fame and ground into anonymity by Brazil's dictatorship, has now the alternative of access to the world-at-large via recourse to the vast potential of network theory.
...to the degree that other artists et al — writers, researchers, filmmakers, painters, choreographers...everywhere — do also. Artificial intelligence not required. Real intelligence, yes.
Years ago in NYC I "rescued" unpaid royalties (performance & mechanical) for artists/composers including Barbra Streisand, Aretha Franklin, Mongo Santamaria, Jim Hall, Clement "Coxsone" Dodd (for his rights in Bob Marley compositions; Clement was Bob's first producer), Led Zeppelin, Ray Barretto, Philip Glass and many others. Aretha called me out of the blue vis-à-vis money owed by Atlantic Records. Allen Klein (managed The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Ray Charles) called about money due the estate of Sam Cooke. Jerry Ragovoy (Time Is On My Side, Piece of My Heart) called just to see if he had any unpaid money floating around out there (the royalty world was a shark-filled jungle, to mangle metaphors, and I doubt it's changed).
But the pertinent client (and friend) in the present context is Earl "Speedo" Carroll, of The Cadillacs. Earl went from doo-wopping on Harlem streetcorners to chart-topping success to working as a custodian at PS 87 elementary school on the west side of Manhattan. Through all of this he never lost what made him great.
Greatness and fame are too often conflated. The former should be accessible independently of the latter.
Matrix founding creators are behind "one of 10 of the best (radios) around the world", per The Guardian.
Recent access to this matrix and Bahia are from these places (a single marker can denote multiple accesses).
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Susan Rogers
Julian Lloyd Webber
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Kamasi Washington
Randy Brecker
Matt Garrison
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