Victor Assis Brasil – Victor Assis Brasil Quinteto (1979)

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Publicado em: Sunday, March 02, 2008 by zecalouro

This album is very important to me and also to Loronix and our great community. It was one of the first records included on our database and played a very important role of bringing new friends. Moreover, it is a great album, which I include between the two best ones recorded by this great musician, Victor Assis Brasil. This update includes a new digital transfer, carefully scanned cover artwork, including internal materials and the availability of the lossless FLAC audio. Let’s see.

This is Victor Assis Brasil – Victor Assis Brasil Quinteto (1979), for Odeon, featuring lots of information inside, including Victor Assis Brasil biography information written by Jose Domingos Rafaelli, both in Portuguese and English. I wish all records would be like this one, with all information available and a beautiful design. I decided to make all cover scan with no Rapidshare, just to make easy to everybody. This is a self-explanatory album that never had a CD reissue. You should not miss. Tracks include:

Personnel

Victor Assis Brasil
(tenor sax, soprano sax)

Paulo Russo
(bass)

Helio Delmiro
(guitar)

Fernando Martins
(piano)

Ted Moore
(drums)

Track List

01 – Tema Pro Einhorn (Victor Assis Brasil)
02 – Balada Para Nadia (Victor Assis Brasil)
03 – Waltz For Phil (Victor Assis Brasil)
04 – Blues For Mr Saltzman (Victor Assis Brasil)
05 – Waltz For Trane (Victor Assis Brasil)
06 – Lydian Dreams (Victor Assis Brasil)

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Este disco pode ser buscado no Abracadabra.

Victor Assis Brasil – 1° Festival de Jazz de Sao Paulo (1978)

Link original: Victor Assis Brasil – 1° Festival de Jazz de Sao Paulo (1978)
Publicado em: Sunday, November 11, 2007 by zecalouro

Hello, good evening! This is the first out of a series of posts provided by Luiz Harding with cassette tapes transfers of the Primeiro Festival de Jazz de Sao Paulo, held at Palacio de Convencoes do Anhembi, in 1978. Luiz Harding sent it in the beginning of the year and he will probably be really surprised with this post. This Festival is anthological featuring several Brazilian and international performers, such as: John McLaughlin, Tony Smith, Larry Coryell & Philip Catherine, Dizzy Gillespie, Taj Mahal, Patrick Moraz, Hermeto Paschoal, Egberto Gismonti, Chick Corea, Joel Farrel, Stan Getz, Al Jarreau, Peter Tosh, Milton Nascimento, Nivaldo Ornellas, Benny Carter, Jazz at the Philharmonic, Raul de Souza, Djalma Correa, George Duke, Etta James, Ray Brown, Zimbo Trio, Luiz Eça, Helio Delmiro, Márcio Montarroyos, Wagner Tiso, Victor Assis Brasil, which is the one selected to start this amazing series. Let’s see.

This is Victor Assis Brasil – Primeiro Festival de Jazz de Sao Paulo (1978), made available by Luiz Harding’s cassette tape transfer. Victor Assis Brasil is backed by Paulo Russo (bass), Fernando Martins (piano) and Ted Moore (drums). Luiz Harding said this Festival was broadcasted by Radio Bandeirantes in Sao Paulo and never had a commercial issue. The music is amazing, but the quality is not the same we are used to get with Loronix vinyl transfers. Take it from an historical perspective and thanks a million Luiz Harding for this sharing and also for waiting so long to see it released at Loronix. Tracks include:

Personnel

Victor Assis Brasil
(sax)
Paulo Russo
(bass)
Fernando Martins
(piano)
Ted Moore
(drums)

Track List

01 – Walking (Victor Assis Brasil) 09:16s
02 – Arroio (Victor Assis Brasil) 06:28s
03 – Balada para Nada (Victor Assis Brasil) 06:01s
04 – Not identified by zecalouro 08:56s

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Não tinha esse disco. Porém, graças ao amigo Andreas, ele pode ser buscado provisoriamente aqui.

Luiz Eca & Victor Assis Brasil – Ao Vivo no Museu de Arte Moderna (1997)

Link original: Luiz Eca & Victor Assis Brasil – Ao Vivo no Museu de Arte Moderna (1997)
Publicado em: Saturday, October 13, 2007 by zecalouro

Here we go on an album that I want to see at Loronix since the beginning. Thanks to tcisalpino for making it to our community using FLAC files to provide the best possible quality. This album was posthumously released in the year of 1997 by the label El Dorado and was recorded live at MAM, Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro. My searches were not successful to understand why we have to wait more than 20 years to have this record released. Anyway, it is not everyday an album is released featuring Luiz Eca and Victor Assis Brasil performing together. Let’s see.

This is Luiz Eca & Victor Assis Brasil – Ao Vivo no Museu de Arte Moderna (1997), for El Dorado, featuring Luiz Eca at the piano and Victor Assis Brasil at sax, performing a repertoire based on Brazilian and international standards. Definitively, this is not an album for beginners; you will have to take it for a spin several times before acquiring some intimacy. Sometimes Luiz Eca goes to a direction and Victor Assis Brasil seems to take the opposite, vice-versa. If any friend had the chance to watch this performance and has additional info about this set, feel free to use comment section to tell us something about. Thanks once again tcisalpino for providing this great album to our community. Tracks include:

Personnel

Luiz Eca
(piano)
Victor Assis Brasil
(sax alto)

Track List

01 – The dolphin (Luiz Eça)
02 – Na Baixa do Sapateiro (Ary Barroso)
03 – Fotografia (Tom Jobim)
04 – You must believe in spring (Michel Legrand)
05 – Samba de uma nota só (Newton Mendonça / Tom Jobim)
06 – Hi-lili hilô (Bronislaw Kaper / Helen Deutch)
07 – Insensatez (Tom Jobim / Vinicius de Moraes)
08 – O cantador (Nelson Motta / Dori Caymmi)
09 – The man I love (George Gershwin)
10 – Maracangalha (Dorival Caymmi)
11 – Travessia (Milton Nascimento / Fernando Brant)

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Não tinha esse disco. Porém, graças aos amigos Andreas e Martoni ele pode ser buscado na Rádio Forma e Elenco.

Victor Assis Brasil – Esperanto (1970)

Link original: Victor Assis Brasil – Esperanto (1970)
Publicado em: Monday, September 10, 2007 by zecalouro

I arrive home this week and found a package with this fantastic record inside, sent by a great friend of mine, cvllos, a great Loronixer that knows by heart the albums available at Loronix. He is also a great finder, we have been together on some vinyl searches in Rio and I have a lot to learn with cvllos. By the way, he celebrated his birthday in the past week and this is a late, but very important, birthday gift to cvllos, the Genius of Victor Assis Brasil.

This is Victor Assis Brasil – Esperanto (1970), for Tapecar, produced and directed by Roberto Quartin, which is the guy who shows something to Victor on this back cover that really worth to be presented with the front cover. Esperanto is an outcome of the same recording session of Victor Assis Brasil – Jobim, which is the last Victor Assis Brasil at Loronix. Just like Jobim, Esperanto features a constellation of Brazilian musicians. I strongly recommend Esperanto, Victor shines with his sax, leaving space for others musician’s performances with all tracks written by Victor Assis Brasil. This is also the first time he plays soprano sax on recordings. Tracks include:

Personnel

Victor Assis Brasil
(sax alto, sax soprano)
Dom Salvador
(piano, organ)
Helio Delmiro
(guitar)
Edison Lobo
(bass)
Edison Machado
(drums)

Track List

01 – Ginger Bread Boy (Victor Assis Brasil)
02 – Marilia (Victor Assis Brasil)
03 – Quarenta Graus à Sombra (Victor Assis Brasil)
04 – Ao Amigo Quartin (Victor Assis Brasil)

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Esse disco pode ser buscado no Farofa Moderna.

Victor Assis Brasil – Jobim (1970)

Link original: Victor Assis Brasil – Jobim (1970)
Publicado em: Thursday, June 21, 2007 by zecalouro

Hello, Good Evening! I’m coming back from the place of a Loronix friend who made a special contribution to Loronixers, a small contribution in number of albums (I could bring more, I’m so shy…), but an awesome contribution in terms of quality, seven anthological Samba LPs, all solid, from start to the end and some of them very difficult to find out. Loronix engineers were contacted to extra hours tonight to make available at least one album for our community pleasure.

Meanwhile, we will be in very good company with Victor Assis Brasil and his tribute to Antonio Carlos Jobim repertoire.

This is Victor Assis Brasil – Jobim (1970), for Forma, with four breathtaking renditions of Wave, So Tinha que Ser com Voce, Bonita and Dindi, considered by many the best album recorded by the Brazilian jazz legend Victor Assis Brasil. Personnel is not identified on back cover and we should thank the effort of Discos do Brasil, owned and maintained by Maria Luiza Kfouri for the identification, a constellation of top-notch musicians. Tracks include:

Personnel

Victor Assis Brasil
(sax alto)
Dom Salvador
(piano)
Edison Machado
(drums)
Helio Delmiro
(guitar)
Edson Lobo
(bass)

Track List

01 – Wave (Tom Jobim)
02 – Só Tinha de Ser Com Você (Tom Jobim / Aloysio de Oliveira)
03 – Bonita (Tom Jobim)
04 – Dindi (Tom Jobim / Aloysio de Oliveira)

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Este disco pode ser buscado no Um que Tenha. Existe uma outra versão da capa, que segue abaixo.

Victor Assis Brasil – Trajeto (1968)

Link original: Victor Assis Brasil – Trajeto (1968)
Publicado em: Sunday, June 03, 2007 by zecalouro

I said before we had no Victor Assis Brasil videos at Loronix. I’m glad to share the first one, sent by Pedro Mendes Djembe, a great video collector that has an awesome page at YouTube with more than 150 videos of Brazilian Music and Jazz. Pedro’s page is here, you will spend hours there. I recommend.

The video is just bellow, but this post is all about Victor Assis Brasil second LP and the galaxy of Brazilian musicians at the set.

This is Victor Assis Brasil – Trajeto (1968), for Equipe. This is the album I was saving for this occasion. I read today that Victor Assis Brasil won the 1969 Montreux Festival edition, accompanied by Dom Salvador, Helio Delmiro, Edson Lobo and Edison Machado, being also the best sax player of this edition. I’m wondering if there are tapes or videos available with Victor performance at Montreux. It will be a real treat to hear or watch this material. Tracks include:

PersonnelVictor Assis Brasil
(sax alto)
Paulo Moura
(sax alto)
Juarez Araujo
(sax tenor)
Oberdan Magalhaes
(sax tenor)
Ion Muniz
(sax tenor)
Claudio Roditi
(piston)
Aloisio Aguiar
(piano)
Sergio Barroso
(bass)
Claudio Caribe
(drums)
Helio Delmiro
(guitar)
Ed Maciel
(piston)
George Andre
(arrangements)

Track List

01 – Stole Stuff (Victor Assis Brasil)
02 – Plexus (Aloísio Aguiar)
03 – Round About Midnight (Thelonious Monk)
04 – What’s This Thing Called (Cole Porter)
05 – Mercy Mercy (J. Zawinul)
06 – Search For Peace (McCoy Tyner)
07 – Summertime (Heyward / George Gershwin)

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Este disco pode ser buscado no Abracadabra.

Quanto ao  vídeo, o bOssas nOvas nos enviou o vídeo acima.  Outro vídeo da mesma época segue abaixo:

Victor Assis Brasil Quarteto – Pedrinho (1980)

Link na Internet Wayback Machine: Victor Assis Brasil Quarteto – Pedrinho (1980)
Publicado em: WEDNESDAY, APRIL 11, 2007

 

One of the things that makes me feel more disturbed when I take a Victor Assis Brasil album for a hearing is the exercise I make to realize what direction his music would take in these 26 years, since he passed away prematurely at the age of 37. The last Victor Assis Brasil album was sent by Caetano, Desenhos, his debut LP and now we are showing Pedrinho, his last album from 1980.

This is Victor Assis Brasil Quarteto – Pedrinho (1980), for EMI Odeon. It is a shame this album has gone out of print. Pedrinho is considered by jazz fans as the best album released by Victor Assis Brasil. I’m making a video this time with several images of Victor taken of a Brazilian TV documentary; if someone has additional Victor Assis Brasil videos, feel free to write comments and share with our community. Tracks include:

PersonnelVictor Assis Brasil
(sax alto)
Jota Moraes
(piano)
Paulo Russo
(bass)
Ted Moore
(drums)

Track List01 – It’s All Right With Me (Cole Porter)
02 – Nada Será Como Antes (Milton Nascimento / Ronaldo Bastos)
03 – Pedrinho (Victor Assis Brasil)
04 – S’wonderful (George Gershwin / Ira Gershwin)
05 – Penedo (Victor Assis Brasil)
06 – O Cantador (Dori Caymmi / Nelson Motta)
07 – Night And Day (Cole Porter)

This is Victor Assis Brasil Quarteto – Pedrinho (1980), at Loronix.

Hope uEnjoy!

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Este disco pode ser buscado no 300 Discos.  Não consegui o vídeo do Zeca, mas segue uma reportagem sobre o Victor Assis Brasil.

Victor Assis Brasil – Desenhos (1966)

Link original: Victor Assis Brasil – Desenhos (1966)
Publicado em: Thursday, March 22, 2007 by zecalouro

Victor Assis Brasil is the best Brazilian jazzman ever, praised internationally by renowned Jazz musicians such like John Coltrane, Phil Woods and many others. Victor has passed very early, with the age of 36, when he was at his peak. Caetano Rodrigues provided this record to Loronixers, which is Victor Assis Brasil debut LP and it is necessary to say it is an unique opportunity, this is a very hard to find album and this music was taken from the master tapes and is provided to us loose less, better than any other vinyl conversions take from other media. Thanks once again Caetano for providing a anthological record in such good quality.

This is Victor Assis Brasil – Desenhos (1966), for Forma, featuring the sax of Victor with the accompaniment of Tenório Júnior (piano), Edson Lobo, with the age of 19 (bass) and Chico Batera (drums). Victor had 19 years old at this recording session. Tracks include:

Personnel

Victor Assis Brasil
(sax)
Tenorio Jr.
(piano)
Edison Lobo
(bass)
Chico Batera
(drums)

Track List

01 – Naquela Base (João Donato)
02 – Devaneio (Victor Assis Brasil)
03 – Primavera (Carlos Lyra / Vinicius de Moraes)
04 – Simplesmente (Édison Lobo)
05 – Feitiço da Vila (Noel Rosa)
06 – Dueto (Victor Assis Brasil)
07 – Amor de Nada (Marcos Valle / Paulo Sergio Valle)
08 – Eugenie (Victor Assis Brasil)
09 – Minha Saudade (João Donato)
10 – Desenhos (Victor Assis Brasil)

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Este disco pode ser buscado no 300 Discos.

Victor Assis Brasil – Ao Vivo (1974)

Link original: Victor Assis Brasil – Ao Vivo (1974)
Publicado em: Wednesday, October 11, 2006 by zecalouro

In 1974, Victor Assis Brazil performed live with a Quintet at Teatro da Galeria in Rio de Janeiro, this LP, Victor Assis Brazil – Ao Vivo (1974), released by Magic Music is the live recording of the session performed in September, 2.

I don’t know how hard to find is this LP, anyway it was release on CD and gone out of print. Ao Vivo seems to be of the more “generic” Victor Assis Brasil discography. The quintet is Victor Assis Brasil (sax), Lula (drums), Paulinho Russo (bass), Alberto Farah (piano) and Márcio Montarroyos (trumpet), directed and produced by Durval Ferreira. Victor Assis Brazil recordings are always out of class. Before you ask me, track 01 has nothing to do with me. Tracks include:

01 – Pro Zeca (Victor Assis Brasil)
02 – Somewhere (L. Bernstein / S. Sondhein)
03 – Puzzle (Victor Assis Brasil)
04 – Waving (Victor Assis Brasil)

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Este disco pode ser buscado no Abracadabra. Outra versão da capa segue abaixo (não sei qual estava no Loronix originalmente …)