NÓS SOMOS O QUE OUVIMOS! (E COMO OUVIMOS...)

NÓS SOMOS O QUE OUVIMOS! (E COMO OUVIMOS...)
Por Mauricio Zottarelli

(texto originalmente publicado na Revista Modern Drummer Brasil, Maio/2014)
Olá, amigo! Nesta postagem eu gostaria de falar sobre algumas ideias que vêm me intrigando. Explico melhor. Algumas situações recentes me fizeram pensar em como nós todos (incluindo a nova geração de músicos e artistas que surge agora) escutamos música. Como, onde, de que forma, com qual frequência e, obviamente, como isso influencia nossa maneira de tocar e expressar nossa arte e nossa voz.
Portanto, vamos deixar um pouco de lado os exercícios técnicos, as partituras, nossa bateria e a sala de estudo. Vamos analisar um pouco como estamos ouvindo e assimilando a música atualmente. Em primeiro lugar, eis algumas dessas situações a que me refiro acima:

WE ARE WHAT WE LISTEN TO... ( AND HOW WE LISTEN ... )

WE ARE WHAT WE LISTEN TO... ( AND HOW WE LISTEN ... ) 

By Mauricio Zottarelli 

(text originally published on the magazine Modern Drummer Brazil- May 2014)

Hello, my dear friends! On this post I would like to talk about some ideas that have been intriguing me for a while. Let me explain…. Some recent situations made ​​me think about how we all (including the new generation of musicians and artists coming up now) listen to music. How, where, in which way, how often, and obviously how all that influences our way of playing and expressing our art and our voice. 

So let's leave aside the technical exercises, musical scores, our instruments and practice rooms. Let's analyze for a bit how we are hearing and assimilating the music today. Firstly, here are some of the situations to which I refer above: 

CD Release concerts with Mike Pope and House of Cardinals band!

I am so looking forward to these upcoming dates with the amazing bassist/composer Mike Pope and his band, the House of Cardinals -  featuring Joe Locke, Eldar Djangirov, Bob Franceschini and Mauricio Zottarelli. 

June 4 - Blues Alley - Washington DC -  buy tickets: 8pm and 10pm
June 6 - An Die Musik - Baltimore, MD - buy tickets: 8pm and 9:30pm
June 10 - Regattabar - Cambridge MA - buy tickets 7:30pm

2 Cool Moments!

Here are two very cool musical moments from recent days….
First, a recording session on which I am playing percussion for my dear friend, the bassist Itaiguara Brandão. He's producing his debut recording as a leader, watch out of that album coming out later this year!

photo by Yotam Silberstein  (who played amazing guitar on the session too!!)

The next is a fantastic photo by my friend and super talented photographer Nelson Onofre, who attended my show last sunday. Check him out at http://electriceyesphotography.blogspot.com

by Nelson Onofre - Iridium NYC May 4th 2014

Prasanna and the Indian Classical Saints - NYC may 3 & 4th 2014

This past weekend (may 3 & 4) I played again with a dear friend, and somebody I know for many years, the guitarist/composer Prasanna. I also took lessons from him, and did several performances and recordings over the years. So it was very exciting to be on stage with him again, this time in NYC at Iridium.
The band was really fun, its always great to play with such talented musicians!!
Nitin Mitta on tabla
Matt Geraghty on bass
Shalini on vocals
Prasanna on guitar
and,
myself on drums.
 *** our friend Thomaz de Castro guested on percussion on sunday may 4th.

Ritenour/Grusin April 2014 tour dates

I was so incredibly fortunate to be playing drums on a few dates in April with some of my all time heroes, and it was so much fun! 
The Brazil project featured Lee Ritenour and Dave Grusin leading the band, with Abraham Laboriel and myself on the rhythm section. 
The special guests: Daniel Jobim did a beautiful job singing and playing some of his grandfather's greatest songs, and we had two great singers joining the band - Lisa Ono for the Japan dates, and Céu for the show in Miami. In the Miami date, the great Paulinho da Costa joined the band also.