Spok Frevo Orquestra

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The SpokFrevo Orquestra is a Brazilian big band .

history

The SpokFrevo Orquestra was founded in 1996 in Pernambuco under the name Banda Pernambucana . The group was then renamed Orquestra de Frevo do Recife and has had its current name since 2003. The big band consists of eighteen musicians and plays a mixture of the traditional music of north-east Brazil, especially the Frevo - the music of the Carnival in Recife - and jazz . The musical director and arranger is the saxophonist Inaldo Cavalcante de Albuquerque, also called condutor Spok .

In 2004 her first album Passo de Anjo was released . The big band has made many successful appearances across Brazil since it was founded, such as at the Cascavel Jazz Festival . In recent years the group has also given a number of concerts in Europe, in 2006 as part of the Copa da Cultura in the House of World Cultures in Berlin , in 2007 at the Copenhagen Jazz Festival and in 2009 at the Moers Jazz Festival . The big band has worked with a number of well-known musicians in Brazil since its inception.

The musicians

The big band consists of the following musicians:

  • Inaldo Cavalcante de Albuquerque (Spok), sax
  • Gilberto Pontes, sax
  • Gilmar Silva, sax
  • Edson Faro, sax
  • Pêto trumpet, tp
  • Alexandre Rodrigues, tp
  • Germerson Netto, tp
  • Jailson Silva, tp
  • Cleber Silva, tb
  • Marcílio, tb
  • Flávio de Souza, tb
  • Marcone Nascimento, tb
  • Renato Bandeira, g
  • Hélio Silva, b
  • Adelson Silva, dr
  • Augusto Silva, dr
  • Dedé Simpatia, perc

Discography

  • Passo de Anjo , 2004
  • 100 anos de Frevo / É de perder o sapato , 2007
  • Passo de Anjo ao vivo , 2008
  • Ninho de vespa , 2014

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Deutschlandradio Kultur: In Concert: 38th Moers Jazz Festival 2009 .

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