Healdsburg Jazz Festival

Sunday, May 31

Concert on the Green

Stars of Brazil: A tribute to Antonio Carlos Jobim

Toninho Horta (top), Airto, Leny Andrade

• Toninho Horta Trio with special guest Airto

• Trio Da Paz

• Leny Andrade with the Stephanie Ozer Quartet

Location: Recreation Park at Piper and University Streets, Healdsburg

Date: Sunday, May 31
Time: Doors open at Noon (ends 6:30 pm)
Tickets: $25; Students and seniors (65+) $15

MC: Chuy Varela

As citizens of a vast, diverse, continent-sized nation, Brazilians are united by several powerfully binding passions: samba, soccer, and Antonio Carlos Jobim. This afternoon’s concert offers a generous helping of two out of three, and who knows, maybe a futbol game will break out on the lawn.

The event is a mini-festival of Brazilian music featuring some of the country’s greatest musicians, with a special focus on the vast treasure trove of tunes written by Jobim, one of the 20th century’s most revered composers.

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Musicians: Interested in a ‘master class’ with Toninho Horta? Visit this page for the latest information.

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Guitarist Toninho Horta is a gifted improviser who has been a major force since he emerged in the early 1970s as part of Milton Nascimento’s Minas Gerais collective Clube da Esquina. For his Healdsburg performance, Horta brings an extraordinary rhythm section featuring Panamanian-born bass master Santi Debriano, drum innovator Billy Hart, and special guest Airto Moreira, a percussion giant whose career highlights includes a founding stint with Weather Report, and hit albums with his wife, vocalist Flora Purim.

» Visit Toninho Horta’s website

On a scene bursting with sumptuously talented singers, Leny Andrade has long stood out in Brazil with her warm, burnished contralto and her lithe, flowing phrasing. The Rio de Janeiro native won a Latin Grammy Award in 2007 for her ravishing duo CD “Ao Vivo” with pianist Cesar Camargo Mariano. For her Healdsburg performance, Andrade is joined by Sonoma County jazz pianist Stephanie Ozer, who  recorded much of her CD “O Começo, New Beginnings in Brazilian Jazz” in Rio with Leny, and has been delving deeper into Brazilian music ever since.

» Visit Stephanie Ozer’s website

Trio Da Paz is an all-star New York ensemble uniting three of Brazil’s finest jazz musicians, guitarist Romero Lubambo, bassist Nilson Matta and drummer Duduka Da Fonseca, who have honed a gorgeous repertoire of Brazilian standards and modern jazz tunes. Together and separately, the three musicians have played and recorded with a who’s who of the American and Brazilian jazz scene.

Trio da Paz

» Visit Trio da Paz website

All beverage sales at this event benefit the Healdsburg Jazz Festival. Special thanks to Gallo Family Vineyards, Rosso & Bianco Winery and North Coast Brewing Company for their generous donations.

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10 Responses to “Sunday, May 31”

1. 
   Carol Belcher
   on Apr 8th, 2009
   @ 5:10 am: 

   Hi,
   I’m interested in the master class with Toninho Horta. I’m a vocalist / composer / pianist, and would love to hear Toninho talk about his music and his compositional ideas as well as Brazilian music in general.
   Thank you.
   Carol

2. 
   Jim Ghafourpour
   on May 11th, 2009
   @ 4:24 pm: 

   I’m a guitar player and would be very interested in a master class with Toninho!
   Regards,
   Jim

3. 
   Sunday Evening, May 31 « Healdsburg Jazz Festival
   on May 12th, 2009
   @ 8:17 am: 

   [...] you didn’t have enough fun at the Stars of Brazil show at Rec Park, Brazilian music continues at the Palette on Sunday evening. The venue will serve [...]

4. 
   marta goncalves
   on May 12th, 2009
   @ 8:12 pm: 

   I’d love to see and talk with toninho Horta and the others brazilian musicians, especially because I don’t see them for almost twenty years, since I was living in Brazil.
   It will be a dream!

5. 
   marta goncalves
   on May 12th, 2009
   @ 8:20 pm: 

   I would love to talk with Toninho Horta especially because he is from my native country.
   My husband is a guitar player and he was a Nelson Faria student in the university in Brazil.
   Will be more than a plesure to see all the Brazilian musiicians here. It will be a dream!

   thanks !
   Marta.

6. 
   Master Class with Brazilian Jazz Great « Healdsburg Jazz Festival
   on May 22nd, 2009
   @ 8:31 am: 

   [...] Toninho Horta Trio with special guest Airto will headline the “Stars of Brazil” show on the previous day, so ears will be perked and blood will be primed among musicians for this [...]

7. 
   The Latin Jazz Corner » Blog Archive » Latin Jazz This Week
   on May 26th, 2009
   @ 4:42 am: 

   [...] DA PAZ WHEN: Sunday 5/31/09 WHERE: Recreation Park Piper and Center Streets Healdsburg, CA TIME: 12:00 p.m. TICKETS: [...]

8. 
   cliff
   on May 28th, 2009
   @ 5:53 am: 

   Does anyone know the order of performance on May 31st? I don’t want to miss Toninho, but 6 and a half hours is a long time to wait if he’s closing the show…

9. 
   Christian Kallen
   on May 28th, 2009
   @ 6:40 am: 

   The Stars of Brazil line-up is a great one, and they’re all worth hearing — 6 1/2 hours will go by fast! That said, the band Samba da Raiz will be playing on the “samba stage” when the doors open at noon, and break when the first act starts on the main stage. Bossa Nova signing star Leny Andrade will be the first performer on the main stage, followed at about 3 by Trio da Paz. Expect Tonino Horta’s group, with special guest Airto, to swing into action around 5. I’ll be there for the full show, with hat, concert chair and sunscreen, and urge you to do the same!

10. 
    11th Annual Healdsburg Jazz Festival May 29th-June 7th : The Bay Bridged - San Francisco Bay Area Indie Music
    on May 28th, 2009
    @ 10:00 am: 

    [...] mini-festival “Stars of Brazil: A Tribute to Antonio Carlos Jobim” is a perfect example of the cultural diversity engraved in this ten-day event. The festival [...]