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Maurício Einhorn (born May 29, 1932 in Rio de Janeiro ) is a Brazilian musician ( harmonica ) and composer.

Life

Maurício Einhorn was born in 1932 to Austrian immigrants in Rio de Janeiro , Brazil . His parents both played the harmonica . At the age of five, Maurício also got a mouth organ - and never let go of it. "I went straight to the bathroom because I liked the echo-like sound there, and about half an hour later I was able to play the first little melody." He was already performing on the radio when he was ten . Initially, Borrah Minevitch was his role model, and he joined the Brasilian Rascals in 1945 , with whom he appeared in clubs and on the radio and made his first record in 1949 .

But Maurício had been listening to jazz for a long time and finally turned to him as a musician. From 1954 he played regularly in the bar of the Hotel Plaza in Rio and on the local radio station Mayrink Vega. When Bossa Nova appeared in 1957 , Maurício Einhorn was right in the middle - as a soloist, as an accompanist and above all as a composer. He writes countless pieces - e.g. B. Batida diferente (“The other rhythm”), Estamos ai , Tristeza de nos dois , Jóia , Alvorada , Sambop - those of well-known jazz musicians such as Cannonball Adderley , Hubert Laws and Herbie Mann , and even the most successful of all bossa composers , Tom Jobim , to be played.

Maurício Einhorn was invited several times to the USA to present his jazz samba, as the bossa nova was called there back then. He took the opportunity and played with many greats in jazz such as Jim Hall , Ron Carter , Richard Kimball , David Sanborn , Monty Alexander , Romero Lubambo , Barney Kessel , Chuck Mangione , Fred Hersch , Paquito D'Rivera , Joe Carter and also with Toots Thielemans . The list of Brazilian musicians with whom he has played is longer, but relatively few of them are also known in Europe: above all Tom Jobim , Baden Powell , Edu Lobo and Sebastião Tapajós . He often accompanied singers such as Bobby McFerrin , Helen Merrill , Nina Simone , Sarah Vaughan or Elis Regina .

As a soloist, Maurício Einhorn is valued for his creative improvisations and interpretations, but he also has an unmistakable sound as an accompanist. A technical means also contributes to this, which he has mastered with ease: playing the octave.

Maurício Einhorn has now been musically active for more than six decades, making him one of the most avid harmonica players and one of the most creative composers for this instrument. He mainly plays the Super-64-X-Chromonicas (models 7582 and 7584) and the Super-48 (model 270) from Hohner . He first had Jehovah Tavares de Lucena - also an excellent harmonica player - in Recife , Pernambuco ( Brazil ), retune and adapt new instruments .

As a microphone he prefers the good old Shure SM58 , and as a booster a Roland Super Cube 60 - but only in small appearances such as in clubs. In front of a larger audience, where he performs with PA , he values ​​a sound engineer who “trusts my taste and neither underestimates the ears of the listener nor mine”, which means: not too loud, little treble, little reverb!

Discography

  • Baden Powell: Tempo Feliz , Polygram / Philips n ° 848.852-2 (1966);
  • Maurício Einhorn: ME , CLAM n ° 1.47.404.004 (1979);
  • Maurício Einhorn & Sebastião Tapajós: Maurício Einhorn & Sebastião Tapajós , Poligram / Philips n ° 821.376-2 (1984);
  • Zimbo Trio / Maurício Einhorn e Seu Trio: CCBB - Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil , Tom Brasil (1993);
  • The Joe Carter Quartet: Um abraço no Rio , Empathy Records (1992/1996);
  • Sebastião Tapajós, Gilson Peranzzetta, Maurício Einhorn e Paulinho Nogueira: CCBB - Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil , Tom Brasil TB CCBB-6 (1996);
  • Altamiro Carrilho, Maurício Einhorn, Sebastião Tapajós, Gilson Peranzzetta: Nas Águas do Brasil - Oounter de solistas , ABES AM1009 (1997);
  • Sebastião Tapajós & solistas: SantaRio , Tropical Music 68.802 / BMG Ariola (1999);
  • Maurício Einhorn qu4rteto: Conversa de Amigos Vol. 1 (2006);
  • Maurício Einhorn qu4rteto: Conversa de Amigos Vol. 2 (2007);
  • Maurício Einhorn: Travessuras (2007)
  • Maurício Einhorn e convidados: Concerto Instrumental de Harmônica de Boca (2010)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The harmonica - a musical globetrotter , published by Christoph Wagner, TRANSIT-Verlag Berlin 1996
  2. ↑ a b Listed web links that no longer work, as well as personal correspondence
  3. ↑ a b Personal correspondence
personal data
SURNAME Unicorn, Maurício
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Brazilian musician (harmonica) and composer
DATE OF BIRTH May 29, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Rio de Janeiro