Saturday Night Jazz Dtla Presents Paulinho Garcia at Bar Fedora

SATURDAY - JULY 1st

Brazilian jazz

The utterly beautiful guitarist/singer

PAULINHO GARCIA

hear Paulinho on Youtube!


RESERVATIONS FOR SNJDTLA must be made through this site or directly with Karen


Best Brazilian International Vocalist - 2013 by The Brazilian Press Award

Chicagoan of the year in jazz - 2010 ...by The Chicago Tribune

Brazilian person of the year - 2010 ...by The Brazil Club

Chicago's best jazz entertainer - 2001 ...by The Chicago Music Awards

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SATURDAY - JULY 1st

Brazilian jazz

The utterly beautiful guitarist/singer

PAULINHO GARCIA

hear Paulinho on Youtube!


RESERVATIONS FOR SNJDTLA must be made through this site or directly with Karen


Best Brazilian International Vocalist - 2013 by The Brazilian Press Award

Chicagoan of the year in jazz - 2010 ...by The Chicago Tribune

Brazilian person of the year - 2010 ...by The Brazil Club

Chicago's best jazz entertainer - 2001 ...by The Chicago Music Awards

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Paulinho was born in Belo Horizonte, Brazil.

His first contact with music came very early in life, when he started singing in a Sunday's children program at Radio Inconfidencia in his hometown. In his teens he played first the drums and then moved to the bass, which became his main instrument until 1991 when he then switch to the guitar.
Paulinho was well known in his hometown as a jingle composer, arranger and performer. He led the band "Os Agitadores" and was a bass player for the house band at Emissoras Associadas TV Itacolomi-Radio Guarani.
Paulinho moved to Chicago in 1979 and joined the group Made in Brazil until 1991 when he started his own band Jazzmineiro whose eponymous 1996 CD received excellent reviews in the Chicago Tribune, Jazziz magazine, the Brazilian Music Review, and The Brazilians.

(...Paulinho ought to be considered a Chicago treasure... Howard Reich, Chicago Tribune and LA Times)

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Paulinho is a world-touring musician performing in renowned theaters, jazz festivals and clubs in Asia, Europe and America.
His production "50 years of Bossa Nova" at the Chicago Millennium Park on July 24th 2008 alongside João Donato was seen by a record audience of 12000 people and in December of the same year he shared the famous Esplanade Hall stage in Singapore with Jeremy Monteiro and Toots Tielemans for a sold out audience of 1600 people.
He performs regularly in many prestigious jazz festivals such as the North Sea jazz festival in Holland, Elite and Fujitsu jazz festivals in Japan, Singapore jazz festival, Jazz w museum and Jazz nad Odrq in Poland, Central Pennsylvania friends of jazz, North Beach and Sarasota jazz fest in the USA, the jazz cruise and jazz party at sea just to mention a few.
Paulinho is also a clinician and has given workshops and concerts at many prestigious universities such as Northwestern, Wisconsin at Milwaukee, Cornell, Hope College, etc. in 2009-2010 he taught in Russia at the Moscow College of Improvised Music and gave live workshops on TV for the whole Russian country.


"...He becomes the epitome of the solitary troubadour - a romantic figure hardly visible anymore even in Brazil, where, like everywhere else, popular music has grown busier, louder, and rougher. Garcia's voice, an airy baritone, has less shadow and a bit more energy than Joao Gilberto's and his languid chords and cleanly plucked lines illuminate the complicated rhythms with the cool clarity of moonlight... " Neil Tesser jazz journalist and author of "The Playboy Guide To Jazz"

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