Mestre Negro - The Music Of Moacir Santos at JazzB

Performing a sound journey that honors the work of Master Moacir Santos, the group formed by six musicians celebrates the legacy of his Afro-Brazilian music, bringing compositions by Moacir Santos and also by two other musicians (Curt Berg and Sizão Machado) with arrangements by Curt Berg and Feldeman Oliveira.

“I think Moacir Santos would agree with me. What moves a musician is the search for a sound, the starting point for so many diverse, adverse, controversial situations, for reflections, impulses, for shared journeys and pleasures in the exploration of unknown, intuited and sometimes conquered territories. What is this search that seems to have no end?”...

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Performing a sound journey that honors the work of Master Moacir Santos, the group formed by six musicians celebrates the legacy of his Afro-Brazilian music, bringing compositions by Moacir Santos and also by two other musicians (Curt Berg and Sizão Machado) with arrangements by Curt Berg and Feldeman Oliveira.

“I think Moacir Santos would agree with me. What moves a musician is the search for a sound, the starting point for so many diverse, adverse, controversial situations, for reflections, impulses, for shared journeys and pleasures in the exploration of unknown, intuited and sometimes conquered territories. What is this search that seems to have no end?”

(Andréa Ernest Dias , book opening: Moacir Santos, or the paths of a Brazilian musician)

Paulo Braga develops an intense line of research about piano in Jazz and in Popular Brazilian Music (MPB), as well as its fusions with avant garde music. A requested musician is a member of QuartaD quartet, Paulo Braga Trio, Trio Bonsai, Trio 3-63, Patife Band, Letícia Sabatella, duo with the guitarist Lupa Santiago, duo with accordionist Toninho Ferragutti, and a long last partnership with Arrigo Barnabé in several projects

Paulo is from Jundiaí, graduated in piano in the Music Conservatory of Tatuí and was responsible for the conception of its Popular Music Department, which he coordinated until 1994. Was a professor in UNICAMP and currently serves as Artistic and Pedagogical Coordinator at EMESP - Tom Jobim ( Sao Paulo State music school). As a teacher he has participated in festivals in Tatui, Curitiba and Ourinhos, conducted workshops at Julliard School in NYC, performing in Carnegie Hall.

Braga also works as a curator, taking part of the Instrumental Visa Award, Itaú- Ramos, Jam SESC, Festival Brasil Instrumental, Mostra de Piano at Casa de Francisca, Ilhabela in Jazz, Moacir Santos Festival. He has performed as a soloist with important orchestras and groups, including Banda Filarmonica and Orquestra Jazz Sinfônica do Estado de São Paulo, the Royal Philarmonic Concert Orchestra, the Villa Lobos Camerata, the Camerata Antiqua of Curitiba, the Orquestra Sinfônica and Camerata de Cordas de Tatuí.

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