Festival year 2009
SpokFrevo Orquestra
18.7.2009 >> LP 44! >> 25 EUR19.7.2009 >> Kirjurinluoto Arena >> 40 EUR
(BRA)
jazz, Brazilian music
The 18-strong band was founded in 1996 to expand the lively frevo music by accentuating improvisation, especially horn solos, modern jazz arrangements and refined harmonies. SFO sounds like Mingus Big Band meeting Sivuca and Hermeto Pascoal.
Brazil abounds with rhythms. Frevo, described as carefree and joyful, is one of them. The 100 year old rhythm is associated mostly with Pernambuco in north-eastern Brazil. Spok Frevo Orquestra comes from there and was, in fact, originally known as Banda Pernambucana. “Frevo is a unique rhythm. It differs from all the others. It has magic. It transmits happiness,” says the robust sounding band’s musical leader, arranger and saxophonist Inaldo Cavalcante de Albuquerque aka Spok. He calls SFO a frevo big band. “Frevo is to Caribaribe what jazz is to Mississippi,” the band’s artistic producer Zé da Flauta explains.
Members:- Inaldo Albuquerque-Spok, saxophone
- Carlos Silva, saxophone
- Gilberto Pontes, saxophone
- Rafael Santos, saxophone
- Carlos Lima, trumpet
- Jailson Silva, trumpet
- Jose Lima Filho, trompette
- Germerson Silva Netto, trumpet
- Cleber Silva, trombone
- Marcone Nascimento, trombone
- Marcilio Silva, trombone
- Jose Souza, Trombone
- Renato Silva, guitar
- Jose Silva, double bass
- Elizangelo Oliveira, perc
- Adelson Silva, drums
- Augusto Silva, drums
