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Ana Paula Moreti
Ana Paula Moreti (2023) "Grandes Clássicos Brasileiros;" "my latest release, features reinterpretations of songs that express important periods of Brazilian music. The EP includes more intimate songs such as the great classic "Cais" by Milton Nascimento and Ronaldo Bastos, "Tempo Perdido," an 80s rock song by the band Legião Urbana, and the famous samba "Trem das Onze," originally by the traditional group Demônios da Garoa, now with a funkier twist. It's extremely gratifying to sing such special songs and put my own interpretation into them, in other words, the way I feel each song. Brazilian music is extremely rich in its poetry and rhythm, and as a Brazilian, I feel this energy very strongly within me. I believe that specifically in this EP, I have been able to convey this through my music."

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MUSIC CD ARCHIVE: ONECD

Jonathan Kreisberg
Jonathan Kreisberg - Night Songs (2009) "With six dates already as a leader under his belt, including two previous efforts for Criss Cross, guitarist Jonathan Kreisberg decided to tap into the creative possibilities offered by assembling an album built almost entirely on ballads. In the process, he reveals another side of his musical personality that will be a revelation to fans only familiar with previous sets that predominantly featured his own original compositions. Nonetheless, it should be noted up front that Kreisberg was not interested in creating a novelty just for the sake of trying something different, but instead came to the concept in a very organic manner. " ~ C. Andrew Hovan - AllAboutJaz.com, Wikipedia, YouTube, Website.

MUSIC CD ARCHIVE: DOUBLECD

Horace Silver      
Horace Silver - Song for My Father (1963) "In reissuing a true classic like Horace Silver's Song For My Father (1963), Music Matters' tacit goal is to bring something new to the record, but not by the typical inclusion of substandard, rejected bonus tracks, or with aborted takes and studio chatter. The label's goal is simply to make the best possible pressing of the album, using the original master tapes as the source, to capture every possible detail of the recording session. As usual, they've succeeded admirably. Silver's band in those years had a rotating cast of musicians, many of whom would go on to be A-listers in their own right. Perhaps only Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers""a name given to Blakey by Silver""was a greater incubator of up- and-coming talent. Most of this album features a front line including the great Joe Henderson on tenor sax and a relatively obscure Carmell Jones on trumpet." ~ Greg Simmons - AllAboutJazz.com Discography, Website, Wikipedia and YouTube page.


Horace Silver - Tokyo Blues (1962) "Clearly Horace took inspiration from his visit there since several of the compositions on this album are dedicated to his fans there and embody much of their favourite aspects of his music. In his dedication on this disc 'to our many fans in Japan and to all of the Japanese people' Horace wrote that 'While in Japan I noticed that the Japanese people were very fond of Latin music…In writing some of these compositions I have attempted to combine the Japanese feeling in the melodies with the Latin feeling in the rhythms.' The extent to which he was successful in his attempt to do this is remarkable and it makes for one of his most successful and sought after discs - never was musical schizophrenia more wildly attractive! " Reviewers: Tony Augarde [Editor], Don Mather, Sam Webster, Jonathan Woolf, Glyn Pursglove - Jazz CD Reviews


MUSIC ARTS: SESSION

Music Arts Music Arts session - Concert, Station, PBS, NPR and other live mini concert sessions and interviews.

Hermanos Gutiérrez - "El Desierto" (Live at WFUV)
"Hermanos Gutiérrez (Spanish for "Gutiérrez Brothers") is a Swiss Latin instrumental band formed in 2015 in Zürich by Ecuadorian-Swiss brothers Alejandro Gutiérrez (guitar and lap steel) and Estevan Gutiérrez (guitar and percussion). In 2022, the US label Easy Eye Sound released the band's fifth album, El Bueno y el Malo. ."

BOOK RACK: FEATURED BOOK


Maylis De Kerangal - Eastbound [Translated by Jessica Moore] (2023) "Jessica Moore’s new translation of Maylis de Kerangal’s novella Eastbound is a hybrid of Joseph Conrad’s novella Heart of Darkness and Richard Linklater’s film Before Sunrise. It features two characters, at first total strangers to each other, one a man—named Aliocha—and one a woman—named Héléne—on a train heading east into territory that is for both of them unknown. Like both of those earlier works, Eastbound uses this setup to unspool a profound tale of identity, maturation and how humans relate to one another... The English translation of Eastbound features evocative, descriptive prose that constructs the world of Aliocha and Héléne in brilliant detail without slowing the relentless momentum of the story. In particular, textures and geography, including Russia’s famed Lake Baikal (which contains nearly one-quarter of all the freshwater on Earth), come to life just as surely as the inner worlds of the co-protagonists."   ~ By Ryne Clos - spectrumculture.com and Kobo Books

BOOK RACK: FEATURED SERIES

Laura Joh Rowland – Sano Ichiro Books " The novels deal with the experiences of Sano Ichiro, a samurai and minor official who, by the end of the first novel, became the trusted chief investigator for the fifth Tokugawa shogun, Tokugawa Tsunayoshi, and by the tenth novel, was promoted to a very high office. Throughout the stories, Sano constantly had to deal with his problems following the code of bushido while serving both justice and his master, the Shogun; and with his wife, Ueda Reiko (?? ??), who frequently involves herself in Sano's investigations. Sano experiences great pressure as he is faced with death if he does not fulfill his obligations to the shogun as well. Rowland takes some literary license with known figures, creating fictionalized versions of Tokugawa Tsunayoshi, Emperor Higashiyama in The Samurai's Wife, and Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu. Objective historical details, however, are credibly accurate. "      ~ Wikipedia, Books: Shinju, Bundori, The Way of the Traitor, The Concubine's Tattoo, The Samurai's Wife, Black Lotus, The Pillow Book of Lady Wisteria, The Dragon King's Palace, The Perfumed Sleeve, The Assassin's Touch, The Red Chrysanthemum, The Snow Empress, The Fire Kimono, The Cloud Pavilion, The Ronin's Mistress, The Incense Game, The Shogun's Daughter, The Iris Fan.   Goodreads and Website

MOVIES: FEATURED MOVIE

Playtime (1967)

"Jacques Tati's "Playtime," like "2001: A Space Odyssey" or "The Blair Witch Project" or "Russian Ark," is one of a kind, complete in itself, a species already extinct at the moment of its birth. Even Mr. Hulot, Tati's alter ego, seems to be wandering through it by accident. Instead of plot it has a cascade of incidents, instead of central characters it has a cast of hundreds, instead of being a comedy it is a wondrous act of observation. It occupies no genre and does not create a new one. It is a filmmaker showing us how his mind processes the world around him." ~ RogerEbert.com   Link: Playtime (1967) - Buy/Rent Watch online

CUISINE: FEATURED RESTAURANT

Mario's Peruvian & Seafood -(5786 Melrose Ave, Los Angeles, CA) " Mario's was one of the first restaurants to bring Peruvian cuisine into the LA mainstream. The place has the ambience of an old lunch counter and there's often a queue, but the food keeps people coming back: seafood fried rice, beef sautéed with potato and onion, citrusy fish ceviches and so on. The green sauce on your table is spicier than it looks, but it's so flavorful that you'll use too much of it anyway."
article: Timeout.com, and website: Mario's Peruvian & Seafood.


*The most recent featured musicians and play lists from the five Music listings on DC Bebop.   A musician listed on a DC Bebop page with an intro, is featured for 10 days with one of their songs.  Included in the play list are songs by nine other musicians in a table on DC Bebop. The songs are linked to a page (MySpace, Reverbnation, YouTube or where ever the song can be heard). The play list is not a top 10 list. It features songs I liked and think perhaps others might appreciate the music as well.


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