Fundada en 1995, esta compañía de danza y música no sólo ha cultivado el flamenco, lo ha mezclado con otros géneros como el jazz y el rock. La Forja se ha presentado en todos los tablaos de la Ciudad de México y ha viajado por todo el país, desde Durango hasta Quintana Roo. Teatros, restaurantes, museos y universidades en los estados de San Luis Potosí, Tlaxcala, Campeche, Veracruz, Michoacán, Tamaulipas, Morelos y Puebla, entre otros, han disfrutado diferentes espectáculos diseñados por La Forja, como Un cante para el Quijote. Algunos de los más importantes festivales y ferias en los que la compañía ha participado son: el Festival del Centro Histórico de la Ciudad de México y la Feria de San Marcos, en Aguascalientes.
La compañía también ha hecho varios programas de radio y televisión, como La Valija diplomática en Horizonte, Cultura en línea en Canal 22, Los mejores músicos.com y Otro Rollo en Televisa. Actualmente, La Forja se encuentra promocionando su disco Con Aroma de Romero, un álbum espléndidamente grabado y bellamente ilustrado por el pintor mexicano Arturo Solís.
Tamaño de la compañía: 8 personas Escenarios: teatros, plazas, galerías, espacios cerrados y abiertos que tengan entarimado. Escenario mínimo: 5 x 4 metros.
Principales Producciones: 1 Un Cante para el Quijote Festival de las Artes, Mérida, Yucatán, 2006. 2 Corazón y Ritmo Festival Internacional de Puebla, 2002. 3 Xay Museo Universitario del Chopo, Ciudad de México, 1996.
Notas de prensa: “La Forja ha creado un estilo donde la música, el canto y la danza conviven en igualdad de condiciones” –Xavier Quirarte, Milenio Diario.
“La Forja encuentra nuevos mundos desde el flamenco” –Angélica Valenzuela, El Universal.
“Cuando la pasión, la sensibilidad y el arte conviven, son capaces de encender cualquier temperamento” –José Luis Martínez, Revista Milenio.
"Con Aroma de Romero es un álbum cuya naturaleza ecléctica mezcla en sus composiciones lo mejor del bagaje musical de sus integrantes" –Víctor Manuel Torres, Excélsior.
“Equilibrio y honestidad son virtudes de este disco que, además, ha sido bellamente editado”
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Championed by some of music’s most celebrated figures, Sara Gazarek has emerged as a strikingly original artist with limitless potential. In follow up to Yours, her widely hailed 2005 debut focusing on American Songbook standards, the 25-year-old Gazarek delivers a sensational follow-up on her sophomore album Return to You (Native Language NLM-0967-2), seamlessly combining the intimacy of singer/songwriter stylings with the musical and improvisational elements of jazz. Blessed with a gorgeous, translucent voice, excellent pitch, and supple sense of time, Gazarek is steeped in the jazz tradition, but is not afraid to embrace the music that moves her generation.
Return to You was created by the same talented team that put together Yours (including Grammy-award nominated bass master John Clayton as producer, and her equally youthful, all-star LA based band, Josh Nelson (p), Erik Kertes (b), and Matt Slocum (d)). Return to You features well-planned arrangements of more contemporary standards by songwriters Leonard Cohen, Paul McCartney, Joni Mitchell, Harry Connick Jr., and Gillian Welch. Some of the best material, however, comes from Gazarek’s acclaimed pianist, Josh Nelson, as he displays his considerable gifts as a composer and lyricist with four new songs.
In choosing the material for Return to You, Gazarek explains, “our live performances are very different from the record. We do a lot more up-tempo and swinging material. But we felt secure in the base we’d created with Yours and wanted to explore some of our other influences. We wanted this album to have a flow, and a sense of purpose, and we feel the listener will be able to pick up on the part of our souls we gave to this album.” Among the album’s stand out tracks are a playful version of Mitchell’s “Carey,” and a haunting rendition of Cohen’s “Hallelujah,” with an obscure final chorus that has rarely been recorded. Gazarek’s knack for spotting first-rate material shines brightest on “Northern Lights,” a ravishing song written by the brilliant tenor saxophonist Seamus Blake – a collaboration so poignant and engaging that no one should be surprised if the tune ends up spearheading a Norah Jones-like breakthrough.
“Return to You” also introduces a number of new textures and sounds, not explored before on the bands prior release. Strings, guitar, horns, and duet vocals are, as Gazarek puts it “a way to get a message across that we couldn’t express as a quartet.” And while the singer could have had her pick of all-star instrumentalists to feature on her sophomore album, Gazarek, who possesses an easy-going charisma that quietly commands attention, refuses to hog the limelight. “In this band we prefer to keep it in the family, and featured some of our most talented friends,” Gazarek says, humbly, always referring to “we” rather than “I” when speaking of her music, highlighting the indispensability of her band mates. “We truly are a family now, and they are an integral part of the way our sound has progressed.” The quartet works together in shaping arrangements, and each piece is the result of extended collaboration. She notes the importance of this collaboration, “we are constantly learning from one another.”
Born and raised in Seattle, Gazarek grew up without much exposure to jazz. She denotes any and all preliminary jazz education to her high school big band and choir director, Scott Brown. “He afforded us a lot of educational opportunities at festivals and competitions,” Gazarek remembers. As a senior in high school, she was awarded the first ever Ella Fitzgerald Charitable Foundation Outstanding Jazz Vocalist Award at the Essentially Ellington Festival in NYC. “I guess you could say my first gig was at Avery Fisher Hall with Wynton Marsalis,” Gazarek chuckles.
Sara made her way south to Los Angeles in 2000 and found herself at the prestigious Thornton School of Music at USC, studying under the tutelage of John Clayton, Shelly Berg, Tierney Sutton, and Carmen Bradford. While there, Sara helped develop the JazzReach program and, as a result, was able to spend 2 years working with inner city elementary school children as a jazz choir director. “I’ll never forget that experience. It is so important to me to be out there, educating young people.” Sara continues to educate young people today as the sole ambassador for the non-profit music and arts education organization, Music For All. Sara and her band give clinics at local schools while on tour, because, as Gazarek puts it, “education is such an important part of our lives, and the band and I know we wouldn’t be here if it weren’t for that one teacher who showed us the way. It is our duty to give back.”
In 2003, Sara was awarded the 2003 Downbeat Student Music Award for Best Collegiate Vocalist. Shortly after the publication hit the press, Sara was asked to perform with Oleta Adams, Karrin Allyson, and Diane Schuur as the "as yet undiscovered talent" on the Concord Jazz Festival tour. Simultaneously, Gazarek joined a number of a-list clientele (including Barry Manilow and Allyson) as a Stiletto Entertainment (management) client and was soon being booked by the industrious William Morris Agency. “I remember feeling very nervous about it all,” Sara recalls. “I’d had it drilled into me that a strong career at a young age was a fast track to obscurity.”
Luckily, at a time when it would have been easy for Gazarek to lose track of her artistic goals, John Clayton, a mentor and teacher at USC, provided a grounding influence. When record labels first came knocking and she started to question her place, it was Clayton who set her straight. “He said, ‘Sara, everyone has his or her own path, and there’s no path that’s any more respectable than any other,’” she recalls. “‘As long as you do your homework and keep striving to be a better musician, you’ll have a lasting career.’”
Clayton agreed to produce her first album, Yours, and insisted she develop the arrangements herself with the band she’d been performing with. She found musical soul mates in her group, and the resulting record was a debut that was released to national and international rave reviews. It ranked in the Top 10 on the Billboard Traditional Jazz Charts, Top 10 on the iTunes top Jazz Album Downloads (US, UK, Switzerland, and Belgium), #1 on the iTunes Top Jazz Album Downloads (Germany, France), #5 on the Jazz Week Radio Charts, #4 on the HMV (Japan) chart. In addition, Sara was voted the #3 Best New Artist in the JazzTimes Readers Poll.
With her strong sense of gratitude, this talented, graceful, constantly evolving, emotionally direct, label-pushing vocalist will continue to “do her homework.” And judging by her second album, Sara Gazarek is going to have a lot to offer the music scene for many years to come.
Borned in Rio de Janeiro,Jussanam da Silva,grew up with the carioca Samba and Bossa Nova. Besides her singing, Jussanam became an actress in various novelas (soap operas) in Brazilian TV. In the play "Adoraveis Romeu e Julieta" she also became the first black Juliet ever in Brazilian theater. She was also actress in the play indicated 5 times to Shell's Prize in 2005, "O Santo Parto" by Lauro César Muniz. Jussanam now lives in Reykavik in Iceland where she sucessfully collaborates with bassist Tomas Einarsson, one of Islands foremost Jazz musicians. With Tomás R. Einarsson and his band , Jussanam sang on TV program with highest audience in Iceland, Kastljós, in 2008 . "Tomás R. Einarsson is my musical Godfather" says her
In Sweden she collaborates with Swedish pianist Harald Erici, with who she did shows in Gothemburg in February 2009. Actually, She has a band of the respected musicians in Iceland and we destac Haukur Gröndal that is one of the best saxophonist in Iceland and Thordur Högnasson, contra-bass ex Björk musician that recorded Gling-Gló and others important Cds. Jussanam has been warming the Icelandic audience with your voice and the best of the brazilian music, with her’s Icelandic Band: Haukur Grondal(Sax), Asgeir Asgeirsson(Guitar),Thordur Hognasson(Contra Bass) and Erik Qvick (Drumms). The most important shows in Iceland are: - Icelandic National Day -17th june 2009 at Austurvollur -Reykjkavik
- Mullin Jazz Klubbur -2009
- Arts Summer Festival in Akureyri 2009
- Reykjavik Jazz Festival 2009 (with the Icelandic finest pianist Agnar Már Magnússon)
The CD "Ela é Carioca" with songs by Tom Jobim was recorded live at Tonn studio,in Reykjavik, giving to CD an athmospheric and spontaneus feeling. The propose of the CD was to record the songs how them have been presented in her show around Iceland.
Below is a critic article from the news paper in Iceland, about her first show in Iceland by Vernhard Linnet, jazz critic:
“Hot Samba on a cold night"
Is there anything sweeter than a Brazilian samba, specially if it is of an Bossa Nova origin and created by the master Antonio Carlos Brasileiro de Almeida Jobim?
…Tvelve of these songs could be heard at the Gauknum performed by the Brazilian singer Jussanam da Silva and the quartet of Tomas R. Einarssonar bass player and Matti Hemstock on drums, and the brothers Oskar and Omar Gudjonsson on sax and guitar. Da Silva sang twelve of Jobim’s songs and naturally among the fantastic collection some guests where missing there favourite songs. By my side was a grate singer who wanted to hear “Insensatez” but the song pearls where many from the opening song “Dindi” to the last one “Samba de Uma Nota So”. Da Silva sang songs that most of the guests knew, like “Desafinado” and Garota de Ipanema”. She also performed “ A Felicidade” and “Triste” and songs rather unfamiliar to me. The Girl from Rio (Ele e Carioca), which is where Da Silva is originally from, and “Favela” which of the Jobim songs is the one most resembling a N-American musical song play of the Jobims songs that I have heard.
Da Silva is possibly related to the Brazilian athletic jumper who snatched the gold from our Vilhelm in the past, at the Olympics in Melbourne, Australia. But she is charming singer with a good voice- …but what toped the night for me was the singing in Portuguese which I find the most beautiful language to sing in…. Tomas and Matthias where a solid erythematic duo in the southern swing.
A lovely night that warmed the root of one’s heart in the cold of the night.
Lynne Arriale has captured the imaginations of jazz and mainstream music lovers with her outstanding CD and DVD recordings and performances. She has been critically acclaimed as having a ‘singular voice’ as a pianist, leader, composer, arranger and for “putting the heart back into jazz” (London Times). Arriale’s consistently excellent recordings have topped every notable jazz chart. With back to back #1 Jazz Week radio hits, a #17 debut on Billboard’s Jazz Chart, the top ten “Best Of” lists for The New Yorker, United Press International and The German Record Critics Association, Arriale has earned her place among elite international jazz artists. Further evidence of her status includes her being featured on the PBS nationally televised program, Profile of a Recording Artist, and on multiple NPR programs including Weekend Edition, Jazz Set, and Piano Jazz with Marion McPartland.
In August ’08, and in a departure from her ten previous trio recordings, Arriale presented an extraordinary new lineup of iconic musicians who joined her on her new CD/DVD, “Nuance,” The Bennett Studio Sessions. In addition to Arriale as leader/composer/arranger, the remarkable band features jazz legend George Mraz on bass; Anthony Pinciotti on drums, whose work with James Moody and John Abercrombie has received high critical praise; and the great All-Star, Randy Brecker on trumpet / flugelhorn. The project was recorded at the multi-Grammy and Emmy Award winning BENNETT STUDIOS, and will include video documentation of behind the scenes footage of the CD recording, a bonus DVD program of a live, private, “in-studio” audience concert, and up close and personal interviews with each artist. With the release scheduled for April ’09, this stellar group will be on tour internationally in support of this CD/DVD release. This Motéma Music release will feature Arriale’s compelling new originals, as well as her innovative reinventions of pop classics, jazz and world music selections.
Arriale’s current release, LIVE (Motéma), recorded by BR-TV at Germany’s oldest and most prestigious jazz event, The Burghausen Jazz Festival, won the 2007 German Record Critics Award for best jazz CD/DVD recording. She has toured Japan with the legendary “100 Golden Fingers”group, a bill Lynne shared with jazz legends Hank Jones, Tommy Flanagan, Kenny Barron, Cedar Walton, Ray Bryant, Junior Mance, Harold Mabern, Roger Kellaway and Monty Alexander. In 1993 she earned first place at Jacksonville’s prestigious Great American Piano Competition. Arriale continues to perform such internationally prestigious venues as The Spoleto Arts Festival, Ireland’s Cork Jazz Festival, The Montreux Jazz Festival, North Sea Jazz Festival, Pori Jazz Festival, the Burghausen and Stuttgart Jazz Festivals, The Montreal Jazz Festival, The Kennedy Center, Lincoln Center, The Folly Theater, The Gilmore Festival, The Jacksonville Jazz Festival, The San Francisco Jazz Festival, the Monterey Jazz Festival and numerous other festivals, concerts and clubs throughout Germany, Switzerland, France, Spain, Italy, Poland, Romania, Norway, The Czech Republic, Ireland, the UK and Australia.
Over the past few years, Arriale has performed with legendary saxophonist, Benny Golson as well as jazz luminaries Rufus Reid, Roy Hargrove, Buster Williams and Eddie Henderson. Upcoming dates in ‘09 include performances with Grammy winner, trumpet/flugelhorn player, Randy Brecker and jazz icon, bassist George Mraz.
Deeply committed to jazz education, Lynne Arriale is currently Assistant Professor of Jazz Piano and Director of the Jazz Combo Program at The University of North Florida. She also conducts master classes, clinics and workshops internationally for professionals, students and communities at large.
O ambiente sempre foi musical. Filha do compositor Antônio Adolfo, Carol Saboya foi criada em meio a acordes inspirados, partituras rabiscadas, músicas nascendo: arte em pleno processo de criação.
Aos oito anos registrou sua voz pela primeira vez em dupla com Miéle no compacto A menina e a TV. Ainda menina participou como vocalista de discos de Erasmo Carlos e Ângela Ro Ro. Participou do histórico musical Verde que te quero ver e de trilhas sonoras infantis.
Passou três anos estudando canto nos Estados Unidos, quando participou do CD Brasileiro, de Sérgio Mendes. Na volta ao Brasil gravou com a pianista americana Joyce Collins e participou de um tributo a Aldir Blanc, que se emocionou ao ouvir Carol cantar a música Carta de pedra no Canecão. A menina de voz doce e afinação impecável começou a chamar atenção da mídia.
O aguardado trabalho solo veio em 1998. Produzido por Almir Chediak, Dança da voz garantiu a Carol o Prêmio Sharp de Melhor Cantora Revelação do ano. No ano seguinte se debruçou sobre a obra de Tom Jobim e gravou, acompanhada pelo violão de Nelson faria, o álbum Janelas abertas.
Em 2000 é a vez de visitar o inconsciente coletivo com o repertório cinematográfico de Sessão Passatempo. Ainda nesse ano defendeu Imaginária, de Suely Mesquita e Mário Seve, no Festival da Música Brasileira promovido pela TV Globo.
O álbum seguinte, Presente (2003) retomava a sofisticada e bem sucedida mistura de música pop e tradicional presente no primeiro. Para 2005 Carol prepara um CD inteiramente dedicado ao inspirado letrista Abel Silva, seu primeiro parceiro musical.
Dois anos depois, em setembro de 2005, teve a oportunidade de gravar o seu primeiro DVD ao vivo (ainda em fase de finalização), no Teatro Leblon, com concepção e direção de Paulinho Moska. No show, interpretou músicas dos seus dois discos lançados no Japão Bossa Nova e Nova Bossa e contou com a participação especial de Marcos Valle, Rildo Hora e Os Cariocas.
O primeiro trabalho gravado integralmente com seu pai veio em 2006, quando lançou Antonio Adolfo e Carol Saboya - ao vivo / live. O CD surgiu a partir do show Bossa Nova Forever, um tributo à bossa nova e ao samba-jazz, que fizeram em outubro de 2005, na Universidade de Miami.
Dentre os projetos para o futuro, Carol quer se dedicar à carreira de compositora, firmar as parcerias com Abel Silva (com quem compôs Agora, Amanda, Sim, Olhos tontos) e com Marcelo Moutinho (Quando o verbo é partir) e ainda gravar um disco com as novas criações.
Foram 10 anos –desde 1984 – cantando ao lado do maestro Antonio Carlos Jobim, participando da gravação dos álbuns "Passarim" (1986-Universal), "Antonio Brasileiro" (1993-Som Livre), "Tom Jobim Inédito” (1995-BMG), “Tom canta Vinicius” (2000- Jobim Music/ Universal) e apresentando-se no Brasil, Japão, Europa, Canadá e Estados Unidos, destacando-se concertos realizados no Carnegie Hall e no Lincoln Center.
Tudo começou 4 anos antes, no grupo vocal Céu da Boca, formado pela carioca Paula Morelenbaum com Maúcha Adnet, Verônica Sabino, Marcia Ruiz, Rosa Lobo, Lidia Sacharny, Ronald Valle, Dalmo Medeiros, Chico Adnet, Paulo Malaguti e Paulo Brandão, com quem gravou os albuns "Céu da Boca" (1981-Polygram) e "Baratotal" (1982-Polygram), e realizou durante esses 4 anos shows por todo o Brasil.
Em 1989 concilia os show com Antonio Carlos Jobim e faz parte da montagem do musical "Lamartine para inglês ver", de Antônio de Bonis, cantando e representando, ao lado dos atores Vera Holtz, Guida Vianna, Fábio Junqueira e Paulo Andrade.
No ano seguinte, iniciou sua carreira solo em Nova York, apresentando-se em diversos clubes de jazz como o Birdland, acompanhada por músicos americanos.
Em 1991 grava o cd Amazonas/Familia Jobim (Som Livre) com a Nova Banda.
Em 1992 acompanhada pelos músicos Igor Eça (baixo), Felipe Poli (guitarra e violão), Daniel Jobim (teclados), Domenico Lancellotti, (bateria) e Luiz Jakka (percussão), lançou seu primeiro álbum solo, "Paula Morelenbaum" (Camerati), produzido por Jaques Morelenbaum, que participou também como instrumentista e arranjador em algumas faixas. O disco inclui canções de Gilberto Gil, Chico Buarque, Caetano Veloso, Rita Lee, Arrigo Barnabé, Paulo Jobim, José Miguel Wisnik, Gershwin, Vinicius de Moraes e Tom Jobim que também participa de duas faixas do cd. Com esse álbum, Paula foi contemplada com o Prêmio Sharp de Música 1993, na categoria "Revelação Feminina Pop-Rock".
Nesse mesmo ano cantou no “Songbook Vinicius de Moraes” e no “Songbook Dorival Caymmi” (Lumiar Discos), produzido por Almir Chediak
Em 1994 realizou o show "Chica-chica-boom-chic", apresentando parte do repertório de Carmem Miranda, numa releitura contemporânea, com arranjos de sua autoria. Excursionou com o show por todo o Brasil.
Em 1995, formou com Paulo Jobim, Daniel Jobim e Jaques Morelenbaum, o Quarteto Jobim Morelenbaum, um quarteto vocal e instrumental de formação camerística aclamado pela crítica e público cujo repertório era baseado na obra de Antonio Carlos Jobim, com arranjos fiéis aos do compositor, perpetuando seu estilo. Paula concilia os shows com a gravidez e em 1996 nasce Dora.
Em 1999 o quarteto lança o álbum "Quarteto Jobim-Morelenbaum" (Velas/Sony Music) e se apresenta pelo Brasil, Estados Unidos, Europa e Asia. Nesse mesmo ano Paula atuou ainda no álbum "Smoochy", de Ryuichi Sakamoto, no “Songbook Chico Buarque” (Lumiar Discos), e na trilha sonora de Antonio Pinto para o filme "Menino Maluquinho", de Helvécio Raton.
Em 2001, com Ryuichi Sakamoto e Jaques Morelenbaum formou o trio Morelenbaum2/Sakamoto e com ele gravou os CDs “Casa” (Kab/Universal Music), uma homenagem a Antonio Carlos Jobim, gravado na própria casa do maestro e o CD “Live in Tokyo 2001” (Warner Music Japan), gravado no Akasaka Act Theater, no Japão.
Em 2002 volta a Toquio para o show “Get’s bossa-nova”, que tambem contava com a participação de Roberto Menescal, Marcos Valle Bossacucanova, Moska, e Leny Andrade. Nesse mesmo ano sai em tournee com o trio Morelenbaum2/Sakamoto divulgando o CD “Casa” pelos Estados Unidos e Europa, que é aclamado pela crítica internacional.
Em 2003 o trio gravou o álbum “A Day in New York” (Kab/Universal Music), que assim como a CD “Casa” foi aclamado pela crítica internacional e nacional, em sua tournee de lançamento mundial. Esse último álbum foi agraciado com o Prêmio Tim de Musica 2004 na categoria de “melhor Grupo de MPB”.
Também em 2003 sai o DVD “3 years” (Warner Japan), que ilustra três anos do trio Morelenbaum2 /Sakamoto, em gravações e tournées pelo mundo. No mesmo ano, Paula participa dos álbuns “Nossa bossa” (BMG) produzido por Celso Fonseca, e “Conversations” (Noon Productions) do grupo holandes Vander Feen, em Amsterdam.
Em 2004, Paula Morelenbaum lança seu segundo álbum solo "Berimbaum" (Mirante/Farol Musica/Universal Music) onde homenageia o "poeta da bossa-nova" Vinicius de Moraes, numa concepção moderna e eletroacústica, que é produzido por ela em parceria com Antonio Pinto, Leo Gandelman, Celso Fonseca, Bossacucanova e Beto Villares. Para apresentar esse trabalho, Paula convidou os musicos Dudu Trentin, teclados e samples; Fernando Caneca, violão; e Alex Fonseca, bateria e samples e excursionou pelo Brasil e pelos principais países da Europa com grande sucesso de público, e obteve críticas excelentes sobre o show e o cd, que além de ter sido lançado no Brasil, na Italia, França, Espanha, Estados Unidos, Argentina, e Chile pela gravadora Universal Music, foi lançado em Portugal pela Farol Música e no Japão pela Columbia Japan. A música “Tomara”, faixa que abre o álbum, é escolhida pela Rede Globo de Televisão para ser abertura da novela “Começar de novo” 2004/2005.
Em Maio de 2005, Paula divulga o “Berimbaum” em Nova York com dois shows no Joe’s Pub, obtendo uma crítica excelente do jornalista Jon Pareles do “The New York Times” e tambem se apresenta em um show no Museu de Historia Natural de NY produzido pela Ong The Nature Conservancy homenageando o Brasil e o compositor Antonio Carlos Jobim. Em Julho volta a Italia com seu album, para se apresentar em Roma e Palermo, e no final do mês, faz uma serie de oito shows em Toquio, no Blue Note, dessa vez com a participação especial de Jaques Morelenbaum. Nesse mesmo ano, Paula participa do álbum de George Moustaki, “Vagabond” (Virgin/EMI) cantando com ele a faixa “Tom”, e também da trilha sonora composta por Jaques Morelenbaum para o filme “Paid” do diretor holandes Laurence Lamers cantando “Besame Mucho”. Dentre seus shows mais relevantes, destaca-se o do evento produzido pela ONG WCF, World Childhood Foundation, em São Paulo, com a presença da Rainha Silvia da Suécia, que preside essa Instituição. O fim desse ano foi coroado com mais uma tournê Européia, onde Paula pode percorrer diferentes cidades ampliando assim a divulgação do seu album “Berimbaum”, que foi lançado em Portugal pela Farol Música, no Brasil, Italia, França, Espanha, Estados Unidos, Argentina, e Chile pela Universal Music, no Japão pela Columbia Japan e mais recentemente na Alemanha, Austria, Escandinávia, e Inglaterra pela Edel Records.
Em 2006 suas mais relevantes performances foram no Festival de México en el Centro Histórico, com seu marido, o cellista Jaques Morelenbaum apresentando o ‘Jaques e Paula Morelenbaum Quinteto’; o show ‘Berimbaum’ com a participação especial de Chico Pinheiro, no Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil em São Paulo; no Helsinki Festival, Helsinki, Finlandia. e a participação no projeto ‘Obra Viva – Baden Powell’ no Sesc Pompéia, em SP.
No início de 2008, Paula finaliza seu novo album “Telecoteco” fruto de sua profunda pesquisa na Musica Pupular Brasileira dos anos 40 e 50, Pré-Bossa Nova, e apresenta vários estilos musicais que tinham uma variante tão rica, talentosa e renovadora como viria a ser a própria Bossa Nova - como os sambas de carnaval antigo, o samba-canção pré-Bossa Nova, incluindo até uma canção norte-americana – que tiveram grande influência na geração dos chamados criadores do movimento, recriadas com um conceito moderno, intergrando o acústico e o eletrônico. Para “Telecoteco”, Paula conta com uma lista estrelar de Produtores/Arranjadores/ Músicos, como o compositor e pianista japonês Ryuichi Sakamoto; Antonio Pinto, um dos mais requisitados compositores de trilhas sonoras em Hollywood nesses dias, compositor da trilha e temas do filme “Amor no tempo do Cólera” e “Cidade dos Homens” entre outros; Beto Villares, seu parceiro e um fantástico produtor; Leo Gandelman, renomado saxofonista e produtor; o arranjador, produtor, compositor e cellista virtuose Jaques Morelenbaum; Marcelinho Da Lua e Alex Moreira do grupo de Bossacucanova; Gustavo Santaolalla o premiado compositor de trilhas sonoras de filmes como “Babel” entre outros e seu parceiro Juan Compodónico, ambos do grupo argentino Bajofondo; os jovens promissores Chico Pinheiro e Marcos Cunha, respectivamente, violonista e produtor; e dois ícones da Música Popular Brasileira, João Donato e Marcos Valle, dois pilares sustendando e mantendo o frescor e a atualidade da Bossa Nova. Juntos eles recriaram as canções desse novo album, deslocando-as da fossa pré-Bossa Nova para o território dançante da música do século XXI. O show de lançamento do cd - que também saiu no Brasil e em Portugal – teve sua estréia em Tokyo, Japão, com uma temporada no Billboard Live, com seu trio, Pedro Millman, piano acústico e teclados; Marcos Cunha, baixo e violão; Rick De La Torre, bateria e a participação especial de João Donato. Após esses shows, eles também se apresentaram no Rio e São Paulo. A música “Manhã de Carnaval”, faixa que abre o álbum, é escolhida pela Rede Globo de Televisão Brasil, para ser parte da trilha Sonora da novela “Ciranda de Pedra” ; Também em 2008, Paula se junta a José Miguel Wisnik e Arthur Nestrovisky para uma temporada da aula-show “Vinicius: Palavra e Musica”, e se apresentam em São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro e Natal (RN); esse foi o ano de estréia de Paula como solista de uma Orquestra Sinfônica. Foi em Hannover com a regência de Jaques Morelenbaum e a NDR Pops Oschestra num concerto intitulado Brazil!. Para coroar 2008, o álbum ‘Telecoteco’, que foi lançado no Japão, Portugal e no Brasil foi eleito pelo jornal O Globo (RJ) como um dos 10 melhores cds do ano.
Antonio Carlos Jobim used to say that his group, Nova Banda, was made up of five beautiful girls, five handsome guys and a dirty old man. Paula Morelenbaum was one of these girls and her husband, Jaques, one of the boys. In the period 1984-1994, Paula toured around the world with Jobim – Brazil, Japan, Europe, Canada, U.S – performing at prestigious venues such as the Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center in New York City, being also featured in the following albums by Jobim: Passarim, Antonio Brasileiro, Tom Jobim – Inédito and Tom canta Vinicius.
It all started four years earlier (1980) as a member of vocal ensemble Céu da Boca, whose lineup was Paula Morelenbaum, Maucha Adnet, Verônica Sabino, Marcia Ruiz, Rosa Lobo, Lidia Sacharny, Ronald Valle, Dalmo Medeiros, Chico Adnet, Paulo Malaguti and Paulo Brandão. The group released the albums Céu da Boca (1981) and Baratotal (1982), having performed extensively in Brazil for five years.
In 1989, besides touring and performing with Antonio Carlos Jobim, she is also featured as singer/actress in the musical production Lamartine para inglêz ver, directed by Antonio de Bonis, in the company of singers/actors Vera Holtz, Guida Vianna, Fábio Junqueira and Paulo Andrade.
In 1991, the Rio-born singer Paula Morelenbaum is featured in the album Amazonas / Família Jobim as a member of Nova Banda. She performs in American jazz clubs, including the famous Birdland, in NYC.
The year 1992 marked the release of her first solo album, Paula Morelenbaum (Camerati), produced by Jaques Morelenbaum, also featured as musician and arranger. Paula is accompanied by Daniel Jobim (keyboards), Felipe Poli (acoustic/electric guitars), Igor Eça (bass), Domenico Lancellotti (drums), Luiz Jakka (percussion). The album contains songs written by Gilberto Gil, Chico Buarque, Caetano Veloso, Rita Lee, Arrigo Barnabé, Paulo Jobim, José Miguel Wisnik, George Gershwin, Vinicius de Moraes and Antonio Carlos Jobim, who sings and plays in one of the tracks. The album obtained the 1994 Sharp Brazilian Music Award in the category ‘Pop-Rock Revelation’.
In 1993, she is featured in Songbook Vinicius de Moraes and Songbook Dorival Caymmi, producer Almir Chediak.
In 1994, Paula Morelenbaum toured Brazil presenting a musical show titled Chica-chica-boom-chic – contemporary re-readings of Carmen Miranda’s songs in arrangements created by Paula. In the late ’90s, she integrated the critically acclaimed Quarteto Jobim-Morelenbaum together with her husband Jaques, Jobim’s son, Paulo, and his son, Daniel – a vocal/instrumental chamber music quartet whose repertoire and arrangements are based on Antonio Carlos Jobim’s musical legacy.
In 1995, Paula Morelenbaum is featured in Ryuichi Sakamoto’s album Smoochy, in Almir Chediak’s Songbook Chico Buarque and in Antonio Pinto’s movie soundtrack Menino Maluquinho, director Helvécio Raton.
The year 1996 marks the birth of her daughter Dora, but Paula happily manages to combine motherly cares with artistic activities.
In 1999, the group recorded a self-titled album, Quarteto Jobim-Morelenbaum (Velas/Sony Music). Once again, Paula was gracing concert and festival stages in Brazil, Europe, Asia and the U.S.
In the new century, she provided the vocals for the highly acclaimed trio Morelenbaum2/Sakamoto, teaming her and Jaques with Japanese composer/keyboardist Ryuichi Sakamoto. The group’s 2001 debut Casa (Kab/Warner Music Japan/Sony Classical/Universal Music) earned them plaudits from music critics throughout the world, followed by another album, Live in Tokyo 2001 (Warner Music Japan), recorded at the Akasaka Act Theater, in Japan.
In 2002, Paula is back in Tokyo for the concert Get’s bossa-nova that also counted with special guests Roberto Menescal, Marcos Valle, Bossacucanova, Paulinho Moska, and Leny Andrade. In this same year, she tours with Morelenbaum2/Sakamoto, promoting the critically acclaimed album Casa in Europe and in the U.S. This was followed up in 2003 by the release of A Day in New York (Kab/Sony Classical/Universal Music/Warner Music Japan), recorded in NYC in one single day, after the trio’s first world tour. The CD earned them the 2004 Tim Brazilian Music Award in the category ‘Best Brazilian Music Group’.
The DVD 3 years (Warner Japan) 2003, illustrates the 3-year career of trio Morelenbaum2/Sakamoto with snapshots and excerpts from rehearsals, recordings, performances and casual, off-the-record moments captured around the world in studios, stages and on the road.
In the same year, Paula is featured as a special guest appearance in the albums Nossa Bossa (BMG), produced by Celso Fonseca, and Conversations (Noon Productions), recorded in Amsterdam by Dutch group Vander Feen. In 2004, Paula Morelenbaum released her second solo album, Berimbaum, (Mirante/Universal Music/Columbia), a tribute to the ‘poet of bossa nova’, Vinicius de Moraes. Framed within a modern, electro-acoustic concept, it has garnered warm acceptance both from the public and critics. The album was produced by Paula Morelenbaum in collaboration with Antonio Pinto, Leo Gandelman, Celso Fonseca, Bossacucanova and Beto Villares. For the live performances, Paula invited musicians Dudu Trentin (keyboards/samples), Fernando Caneca (acoustic guitar) and Alex Fonseca (drums/samples). The group has toured in Brazil and in Europe reaping wide acclaim and amassing excellent reviews for the concerts and the CD (released in Brazil, Italy, France, Spain, U.S., Argentina and Chile by Universal Music, in Portugal by Farol Música, and in Japan by Columbia Japan). Now the time is ripe for Paula to step out on her own and earn her rightful place as one of the premiere interpreters of Brazilian popular music. The opening track, Tomara, was the main musical theme of TV Globo’s prime-time soap opera Começar de novo, aired in 2004-05.
In May 2005, Paula Morelenbaum promotes the release of Berimbaum in New York City with two concerts at Joe’s Pub that deserved an enthusiastic review penned by New York Times’ critic Jon Pareles. She also presented a concert at the New York Museum of Natural History – an homage to Brazil and to composer Antonio Carlos Jobim – produced by non-governmental organization The Nature Conservancy. In July, Paula is in Italy to promote her latest album, with performances booked in Rome and Palermo. By the end of the month, Paula is performing in a series of eight concerts at the Tokyo Blue Note, this time with Jaques Morelenbaum’s special guest. participation.
In the same year, Paula is featured as a special guest appearance in the album ‘Vagabond’ (Virgin/EMI) by George Moustaki and in Jaques Morelenbaum’s movie soundtrack ‘Paid’, director Laurence Lamers. Among her most relevant concerts we can emphasize the one produced by the fundraising organization WCF, World Childhood Foundation, in São Paulo, with the presence of Queen Silvia of Sweden that founded it.
The end of this year was crowned by another European tour where Paula could visit other cities, thus expanding the promotion of her album ‘Berimbaum’, that was released in Portugal by Farol Música, in Brazil, Italy, France, Spain, United States, Argentina and Chile by Universal Music, in Japan by Columbia Japan, and more recently in German, Austria, Scandinavian and England by Edel Records.
In 2006 her most relevant performances were at Festival de Mexico en el Centro Histórico besides her husband, the cellist Jaques Morelenbaum, featuring the Jaques & Paula Morelenbaum Quinteto; the ‘Berimbaum’ Concert, with the special guest Chico Pinheiro at Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil in São Paulo and at Helsinki Festival, Helsinki, Finland; and her performance in the project ‘Obra Viva – Baden Powell’ at Sesc, in São Paulo.
In the beginning of 2008, Paula finishes her new álbum ‘Telecoteco’, resulted by a profound research of her on the ‘Brazilian Popular Music’ of the 40s and 50s - the Pre-Bossa Nova period - and presents many musical styles that had a rich, talent-studded and renovating musical segment, just as Bossa-Nova itself would eventually become, like the old carnival samba, the samba songs pre-bossa-nova, then called samba-canção, including an American pop/jazz standard - other source acted in a decisive way - that have exerted wide influence in the generation of Bossa Nova musicians, re-created now within a modern concept framework integrating acoustic and electronic sounds. For ‘Telecoteco’, Paula has assembled a stellar list of musical partners and collaborators such as Japanese composer and pianist Ryuichi Sakamoto; Antonio Pinto, one of the most in demand soundtrack composers in Hollywood these days having recently scored the theme from "Love In Times Of Cholera" and “Central Station” between others; Beto Villares his musical partner and a superb producer as well; Leo Gandelman, Brazil's premier saxophonist/producer; composer/arranger/producer and cello virtuoso Jaques Morelenbaum; Marcelinho Da Lua and Alexandre Moreira both from the new electronic Bossa group Bossacucanova; soundtrack maestro Gustavo Santaolalla (“Babel” between others) and his musical partner Juan Compodónico, both founding members of the electronic Tango group Bajofondo; and finally two iconic figures of Bossa Nova, pianist João Donato and composer Marcos Valle, who are two pillars in keeping Bossa-Nova so alive fresh and up to date. The first live concerts for the cd release - that also was released in Brazil and Portugal - was in Tokyo, Japan in the Billboard Live season with her trio: Pedro Millman, acoustic piano and keyboards; Marcos Cunha, bass and acoustic guitar; Rick De La Torre, drums; and the special guest João Donato.
After these concerts, they also performed in Rio and São Paulo. The opening track, Manha de Carnaval, was part of the soundtrack of TV Globo’s prime-time soap opera Ciranda de Pedra, aired in this same year. Also in 2008 Paula meets José Miguel Wisnik and Arthur Nestrovsky for the workshop-concert season “Vinicius: Palavra e Musica”, in São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and Natal (RN). This year was the Paula’s debut like soloist in a Symphonic Orchestra. It was in Hannover, with the regency of Jaques Morelenbaum and the NDR Pops Orchestra in a concert entitled Brazil!. The end of 2008 was crowded with a good news. The album ‘Telecoteco’ that was released in Japan, Portugal and Brazil, was considered by the O GLOBO (RJ) newspaper’s like one of the 10 best of the year.
