Jovino Santos Neto | KNKX Studio Session

Описание: Jovino Santos Neto salutes nearly thirty years in the Seattle area with the just released recording of his first concert with his Seattle band. In the KNKX studios, he talked about his Northwest connections and the magic of live performance.

Growing up in Rio DiJeniero, Brazil, Santos Neto explained that he first heard live music from “the kind of band that used to play in the gazebos on Sunday nights.”

He told us the band rehearsed just a block from his home. “I would walk and hear the music and all I saw was a little window, and I was too scared to go up there,” Santos Neto smiled.

Santos Neto’s growing passion for music eventually brought him to his mentor, Brazilian master musician and composer Hermeto Pascoal. He helped develop the fusion of jazz and samba and rose to international fame in the early 1970s for his work with Miles Davis.

“My very first gig with Hermeto, I rehearsed for a whole week,” Santos Neto recalled. “We didn’t play any of the songs we rehearsed.”

This lesson has become a foundation of Jovino Santos Neto’s music. “What Hermeto did was to teach us to trust our intuition, because our intuition is never wrong. If you can go to the source and drink that water from where it comes up, that’s what it is.”

Santos Neto recently retired after more than a quarter century teaching his own students at Seattle’s Cornish College of the Arts, including Tim Carey, the bass player in this quartet session performance.

The newly released Mais Que Tudo: Live at Kerry Hall, 1995 let’s Jovino Santos Neto and his fans look back to the first concert with his Seattle band with fellow Cornish educators Hans Teuber (saxophone), Chuck Deardorf (bass) and Mark Ivester who filled the drumming role in the KNKX studios on this day more than 30 years later.

“When I listen to it, I get blown away,” Santos Neto beamed. “It was like you’re cooking these beans in the pressure cooker and suddenly go ‘Pssssshhh!’ The energy of our very first chord of the very first song… it came out with such power. You know when they christen a new ship with a champagne bottle? That was us!”

Perhaps not quite as explosive, Jovino Santos Neto and his band, also including longtime collaborator Ben Thomas on vibraphone, filled the KNKX studios with music bursting with life and love.

Past Santos Neto compositions “Two Friends, True Friends” and “Feira Livre” joined the new original tune “Na Umbigaga Da Vida” for this exclusive session in front of a rapt KNKX studio audience.

As he brought the party to a close, Jovino Santos Neto promised two more live album releases coming later this year.

You can catch Santos Neto and his band opening for Latin Grammy-winning flutist Nestor Torres at the Langston Hughes Performing Arts Institute for the Earshot Jazz Festival Halloween night and enjoy this KNKX studio session at your leisure. Don't forget your dancing shoes!

Musicians:
Jovino Santos Neto - piano, melodica
Ben Thomas - vibraphone
Tim Carey - electric bass
Mark Ivester - drums

Songs:
0:00 Two Friends, True Friends
7:38 Na Umbigada Da Vida
13:27 Feira Livre

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