Mario Caribé

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Mario Lima Caribé da Rocha (born August 6, 1964 in São Paulo ) is a Brazilian bassist in the fields of jazz , salsa and electronic music.

Mario Caribé had guitar lessons at the age of 13, switched to bass a year later and began his musical career in the local jazz scene. He then had lessons with Nico Assumpção and from 1983 studied composition and double bass with Paulo Pugliese at the Universidade Estadual de Campinas, and was bassist with the Orquestra Sinfonica Municipal de Campinas . During this time he worked with the Campinas Youth Symphony Orchestra and was a member of the Bandida Quartet . Back in São Paulo, he joined the Heartbreakers formation , a nine-piece ensemble dedicated to the music of Duke Ellington . Caribé also worked for the formation as arranger and artistic director and also performed with artists such as Gal Costa , Emilio Santiago , Milton Nascimento , Nana Caymmi , Zizi Possi , Cauby Peixoto , Elba Ramalho and Rita Lee .

In 1990 he directed the sextet 'Hard Bop & Cafe', with which he performed at the 1991 Free Jazz Festival . He also worked with the Latin jazz band Tumbao . 1996 Caribé moved for study purposes to Scotland , where he in the sextet of Tommy Smith ( Beasts of Scotland ) and then in the Scottish National Jazz Orchestra played. In Great Britain he worked a. a. also with Kenny Wheeler , Jamie Cullum , Phil Bancroft , Brian Kellock , Clark Tracey , Jonathan Gee , Guy Barker and Claude Deppa . In 2002 he recorded the album Bacuris for the Scottish label Caber , on which u. a. saxophonist Martin Kershaw and Brian Kellock took part.

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SURNAME Caribé, Mario
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Caribé da Roche, Mario Lima (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Brazilian jazz bassist
DATE OF BIRTH August 6, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH São Paulo