Leandro Cabral
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Leandro Cabral
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City/Place:
São Paulo
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Brazil
Life & Work
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Bio:
Pianista, compositor, arranjador e educador, Leandro é um músico jovem de São Paulo que se destaca em sua geração. Influenciado pelos vibrantes universos musicais de Gismonti, Pascoal e Mariano, ele também encontra inspiração em mestres como Jarrett, Hancock e Evans. Em seu segundo álbum, "Alfa", distribuído pela Universal Music e gravado ao vivo no Teatro Alfa em São Paulo, Leandro e seu trio combinam a improvisação do jazz com composições autorais que exploram ritmos pouco usuais, como o vassi e o ijexá, ambos enraizados no universo percussivo afro-brasileiro. O álbum recebeu aclamação da crítica nacional e internacional, com resenhas elogiosas nos EUA, Canadá, Japão, Reino Unido, Rússia, Espanha e outros países. "Alfa" recebeu cinco estrelas do renomado site All About Jazz dos EUA e foi selecionado como um dos "10 Melhores Discos" pelo crítico musical Carlos Calado (Folha de São Paulo). No site italiano especializado Argonauta Magazine, o álbum alcançou o segundo lugar na lista de "Melhores Álbuns de Jazz" e recebeu uma "Menção Honrosa" no site Embrulhador.
Leandro também é professor no conceituado Conservatório Souza Lima, onde ministra workshops e cursos sobre Harmonia, Improvisação e Consciência Corporal, aproveitando sua experiência em Hatha Yoga.
Além de seus próprios projetos, Leandro colaborou com renomados cantores e cantoras como Ed Motta, Maria Rita, Seu Jorge, Filó Machado, Akua Naru, Honey Larochelle (Macy Gray), Zélia Duncan, Rashid, Wilson Simoninha, Paula Lima, Roberta Sá, Cynthia Utterbach, entre outros.
Ele compartilhou o palco com uma série de grandes músicos, incluindo Ed Neumeister e Adonis Rose (EUA), Lupa Santiago, Sérgio Galvão, Edu Ribeiro, Vincent Gardner (EUA), Hector Costita (Argentina), David Richards (EUA), Nailor Proveta, Jessé Sadoc, Daniel D'alcântara, Casey Scheurell (EUA), Cuca Teixeira, François Lima, Letieres Leite, Bocato, Vitor Alcântara, Jaques Morelenbaum, Vinícius Dorin, Walmir Gil, Paulinho Guitarra, Wilson Teixeira, Arismar do Espírito Santo, Thiago do Espírito Santo e Márcio Montarroyos.
Sob seu projeto "Leandro Cabral Grupo", ele gravou músicas de Letieres Leite e Moacir Santos para o documentário francês "Echoes Project" (Phonographe Corp.), recebendo elogios do próprio Letieres.
Em 2015, Leandro lançou seu primeiro álbum como líder, intitulado "Sobre Tradição". O registro audiovisual desse álbum deu origem à websérie "Arsis Piano Sessions" do Estúdio Arsis, que já contou com episódios de renomados músicos das teclas, como Nelson Ayres, Mestrinho, Arismar do Espírito Santo, Fábio Torres, Philippe Baden Powell e Sašo Vollmeier.
Atualmente, Leandro colabora em uma variedade de projetos, participando de inúmeros festivais de jazz no Brasil e no exterior, com grupos como Ed Motta, Lupa Santiago Quartet, Deep Funk Session, Lourenço Rebetez, Joabe Reis Sexteto, além de se apresentar como trio, em grupo e em performances solo de piano.
Leandro é bacharel em Piano pela Faculdade de Artes Alcântara Machado - FAAM/FMU (2004) e estudou piano, saxofone e teoria musical na Fundação das Artes de São Caetano do Sul durante sua adolescência. Em 2014, ele se capacitou em Yoga sob a orientação do professor Marcos Rojo no CEPEUSP - Universidade de São Paulo.
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Pianist, composer, arranger, and educator, Leandro is a young musician from São Paulo who stands out in his generation. Influenced by the vibrant musical worlds of Gismonti, Pascoal, and Mariano, he also finds inspiration in masters like Jarrett, Hancock, and Evans. In his second album, "Alfa," distributed by Universal Music and recorded live at the Teatro Alfa in São Paulo, Leandro and his trio blend jazz improvisation with original compositions that explore unusual rhythms, such as vassi and ijexá, both rooted in the Afro-Brazilian percussive universe. The album has received acclaim from national and international critics, with positive reviews in the USA, Canada, Japan, the United Kingdom, Russia, Spain, and other countries. "Alfa" received five stars from the renowned US website All About Jazz and was selected as one of the "10 Best Albums" by music critic Carlos Calado (Folha de São Paulo). On the specialized Italian website Argonauta Magazine, the album reached the second place in the list of "Best Jazz Albums" and received an "Honorable Mention" on the Embrulhador website.
Leandro is also a teacher at the prestigious Conservatório Souza Lima, where he conducts workshops and courses on Harmony, Improvisation, and Body Awareness, drawing on his experience in Hatha Yoga.
In addition to his own projects, Leandro has collaborated with renowned singers such as Ed Motta, Maria Rita, Seu Jorge, Filó Machado, Akua Naru, Honey Larochelle (Macy Gray), Zélia Duncan, Rashid, Wilson Simoninha, Paula Lima, Roberta Sá, Cynthia Utterbach, among others.
He has shared the stage with a series of great musicians, including Ed Neumeister and Adonis Rose (USA), Lupa Santiago, Sérgio Galvão, Edu Ribeiro, Vincent Gardner (USA), Hector Costita (Argentina), David Richards (USA), Nailor Proveta, Jessé Sadoc, Daniel D'alcântara, Casey Scheurell (USA), Cuca Teixeira, François Lima, Letieres Leite, Bocato, Vitor Alcântara, Jaques Morelenbaum, Vinícius Dorin, Walmir Gil, Paulinho Guitarra, Wilson Teixeira, Arismar do Espírito Santo, Thiago do Espírito Santo, and Márcio Montarroyos.
Under his project "Leandro Cabral Grupo," he recorded songs by Letieres Leite and Moacir Santos for the French documentary "Echoes Project" (Phonographe Corp.), receiving praise from Letieres himself.
In 2015, Leandro released his first album as a leader, titled "Sobre Tradição." The audiovisual recording of this album gave rise to the web series "Arsis Piano Sessions" by Estúdio Arsis, which has featured episodes with renowned keyboardists such as Nelson Ayres, Mestrinho, Arismar do Espírito Santo, Fábio Torres, Philippe Baden Powell, and Sašo Vollmeier.
Currently, Leandro collaborates on a variety of projects, participating in numerous jazz festivals in Brazil and abroad, with groups such as Ed Motta, Lupa Santiago Quartet, Deep Funk Session, Lourenço Rebetez, Joabe Reis Sexteto, as well as performing as a trio, in groups, and in solo piano performances.
Leandro holds a Bachelor's degree in Piano from Faculdade de Artes Alcântara Machado - FAAM/FMU (2004) and studied piano, saxophone, and music theory at Fundação das Artes de São Caetano do Sul during his adolescence. In 2014, he trained in Yoga under the guidance of Professor Marcos Rojo at CEPEUSP - University of São Paulo.
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Apaixonado por ensinar, Leandro é professor de piano e harmonia desde os 16 anos de idade. Usou sua vocação para ajudar sua família desde cedo e ao longo dos anos foi desenvolvendo sua própria metodologia. Em sua carreira de instrumentista já tocou com Ed Motta, Maria Rita, Paula Lima, Filó Machado, Letieres Leite, Nelson Farias, Proveta e Márcio Montarroyos.
Como band-leader, tem quatro álbuns lançados. Seu álbum “Alfa” ganhou cinco estrelas em um dos maiores sites de jazz do mundo: o All of Jazz (EUA), além de outras matérias premiadas no Canadá, Itália, Inglaterra, Rússia, etc.
Iniciou seus estudos de piano clássico no fundo de uma igreja no Sacomã aos sete, ganhou bolsa de estudos na Fundação das Artes de São Caetano do Sul na adolescência, e mais tarde, também como bolsista, terminou seu bacharelado em Piano em uma das faculdades de música popular mais antigas e respeitadas do país, a FAAM (FMU).
Professor da Escola de Música do Parque Ibirapuera (EMPI) à convite do Maestro Nailor Proveta (Banda Mantiqueira).
Professor convidado da Faculdade Souza Lima & Berklee.
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Bewitching, bewitched Bahia, Brazil, sprawled across broad equatorial latitudes, stoked, steamed and sensual in the broadest sense of the word, limned in prosody and cadenced melody, is where the magic (mathematical and otherwise) and enchantment upon which this matrix is based, begins...
...a matrix conceived in conversation with now 75-year-old Raymundo Sodré — man of, and for, the trod-upon folk of the Brazilian backlands; his career destroyed during Brazil's dictatorship — during a discourse ranging from the quilombos and senzalas of Cachoeira and Santo Amaro to the wards of New Orleans to the South Side of Chicago...to the sidewalks of Harlem to the villages of Ireland to the Roma camps of France and Belgium...to the Vienna of Beethoven to the shtetls of Eastern Europe... wherein Sodré opined for the ages what is now inscribed on the wall of Plato's cave: "Where there's misery, there's music!"...
...a matrix wherein it's not which pill you take, it's what pathways you take, pathways originating in the sprawling cultural matrix of Terra Brasilis: Indigenous, African, Sephardic and then Ashkenazic, Arabic, European, Asian... Matrix Ground Zero being the Recôncavo, contouring the Bay of All Saints, Earth's absolute center of gravity for the disembarkation of enslaved human beings (and for the sublimity these people created), the bay presided over by Brazil's inffable Black Rome: Salvador da Bahia.
("Black Rome" is an appellation per Caetano Veloso, son of the Recôncavo, via Mãe Aninha of Ilê Axé Opô Afonjá.)
Caetano Veloso
Son of the sertão (backlands) and Recôncavo of Bahia.
Raymundo Sodré
I built the Matrix in the place below (I'm below left, with David Dye & Kim Junod for U.S. National Public Radio) among some of the world's most powerfully moving music, some of it made by people barely known beyond village borders. Or in the case of Sodré, his anthem A MASSA — a paean to Brazil's poor ("our pain is the pain of a timid boy, a calf stepped on...") — having blasted from every radio between the Amazon and Brazil's industrial south, before he was silenced. The Matrix started with Sodré, with João do Boi, with Roberto Mendes, with Bule Bule, with Roque Ferreira... music rooted in the sugarcane plantations of Bahia. Hence our logo (a cane cutter; designed by Walter Mariano of the Federal University of the Recôncavo of Bahia).
The Matrix is a small world network in which creators may recommend other creators and be recommended by other creators. And where, like stars coalescing into a galaxy, creators in the Matrix mathematically gravitate to proximity to all other creators in the Matrix, no matter how far apart in location, fame or society. This gravity is called "the small world phenomenon".
While the Matrix's utilization of small world gravity is unprecedented (position everybody in the creative universe within discoverable range of everybody else in the creative universe), small world networks are all around us, even inside us: our brains contain small world networks. Humanity itself is a small world network, wherein over 8 billion human beings average 6 or fewer steps between any two given people, anywhere. Those steps are seldom all transitable though. In the Matrix they are. In a small world great things are possible.
"Dear Sparrow: I am thrilled to receive your email! Thank you for including me in this wonderful matrix."
—Susan Rogers: Personal recording engineer for Prince, inc. "Purple Rain", "Sign o' the Times", "Around the World in a Day"... Director of the Berklee Music Perception and Cognition Laboratory
"Thanks! It looks great!....I didn't write 'Cantaloupe Island' though...Herbie Hancock did! Great Page though, well done! best, Randy"
"We appreciate you including Kamasi in the matrix, Sparrow."
—Banch Abegaze: manager, Kamasi Washington
"This is super impressive work ! Congratulations ! Thanks for including me :)))"
—Clarice Assad: Pianist and composer with works performed by Yo Yo Ma and orchestras around the world
"Dear Sparrow, Many thanks for this – I am touched!"
—Julian Lloyd-Webber: UK's premier cellist; brother of Andrew Lloyd Webber (Evita, Jesus Christ Superstar, Cats, Phantom of the Opera...)
"Thanks, this is a brilliant idea!!"
—Alicia Svigals: World's premier klezmer violinist
Developed here in the Historic Center of Salvador ↓ .
Bule Bule (Assis Valente)
"♫ The time has come for these bronzed people to show their value..."
Recommend somebody and you will appear on that person's page. Somebody recommends you and they will appear on your page.
Both pulled by the inexorable mathematical gravity of the small world phenomenon to within range of everybody inside.
And by logical extension, to within range of all humanity outside as well.
I'm Pardal here in Brazil (that's "Sparrow" in English). The deep roots of this project are in Manhattan, where Allen Klein (managed the Beatles and The Rolling Stones) called me about royalties for the estate of Sam Cooke... where Jerry Ragovoy (co-wrote Time is On My Side, sung by the Stones; Piece of My Heart, Janis Joplin of course; and Pata Pata, sung by the great Miriam Makeba) called me looking for unpaid royalties... where I did contract and licensing for Carlinhos Brown's participation on Bahia Black with Wayne Shorter and Herbie Hancock...
...where I rescued unpaid royalties for Aretha Franklin (from Atlantic Records), Barbra Streisand (from CBS Records), Led Zeppelin, Mongo Santamaria, Gilberto Gil, Astrud Gilberto, Airto Moreira, Jim Hall, Wah Wah Watson (Melvin Ragin), Ray Barretto, Philip Glass, Clement "Sir Coxsone" Dodd for his interest in Bob Marley compositions, Cat Stevens/Yusuf Islam and others...
...where I worked with Earl "Speedo" Carroll of the Cadillacs (who went from doo-wopping as a kid on Harlem streetcorners to top of the charts to working as a janitor at P.S. 87 in Manhattan without ever losing what it was that made him special in the first place), and with Jake and Zeke Carey of The Flamingos (I Only Have Eyes for You)... stuff like that.
Yeah this is Bob's first record contract, made with Clement "Sir Coxsone" Dodd of Studio One and co-signed by his aunt because he was under 21. I took it to Black Rock to argue with CBS' lawyers about the royalties they didn't want to pay (they paid).
Matrix founding creators are behind "one of 10 of the best (radios) around the world", per The Guardian.
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