Brazilian Landscapes - Mario Bakuna Quartet
Mario Bakuna Quartet
Entry Requirements: Under 16s are not permitted in the venue. Under 18s must be accompanied by a responsible adult at all times.
Get ready for a smooth night of bossa nova vibes with Mario Bakuna and his quartet paying homage to João Gilberto live!
Brazilian Landscapes in London! Don't miss it!
After a very successful season performing at international festivals and prestigious music venues in Europe, Africa and Brazil, promoting his previous album, Where Rio de Janeiro Meets Bahia, Mario Bakuna will be launching his latest release at The Bulls Head Jazz Club.
Brazilian Landscapes focusses specifically on Afro-Brazilian music, jazz and Bossa Nova, in addition to developing new arrangements of compositions by legendary Brazilian artists such as Tom Jobim, Paulo Moura and João Donato.
More recently, Mario has been reinterpreting Samba jazz, which emerged in Rio de Janeiro in the 1950s and was pioneered by musicians like Luiz Eça, Tamba Trio and Edson Machado.
Brazilian Landscapes celebrates the best of Brazilian music and features new arrangements of material by great composers such as Emilio Santiago, Marcos Valle, Claudio Bertrami, Gilberto Gil, João Bosco, and the 'forrozeiros' Dominguinhos and Luiz Gonzaga.
Mario says the album is a tribute to the culture and memory of its people, and is the result of years of inspiration he drew upon while travelling through Brazil, experiencing its rhythmic and harmonic richness.
From the arid landscape in the north-east that's brought to the chorus of songs of forró, baião and xaxado, to the African influence found in Ijexá, the popularity of Samba and the sophistication of Bossa Nova, Mario and his musicians celebrate the most musically-rich territory on Earth.
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Mario Bakuna Quartet
Mario Bakuna is a London-based Brazilian composer, singer and guitar player, with over ten years of professional experience. He is a graduate of the Free University of Music in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Whilst there he studied with musicians such as: Olmir Stocker, Roberto Sion and Roberto Bomilcar (pianist who played with Frank Sinatra during his visit to Brazil).
Mario has worked alongside the trombonist Itacir Bocato, guitarist Renato Consorte, and other big names from the São Paulo music scene.
His study focusses on the development of an instrumental music repertoire; inspired by the greats of Jazz and Bossa Nova. In addition to developing new arrangements of music by enshrined Brazilian artists as Tom Jobim, Paulo Moura, and João Donato, in recent years he has been focussing to reinterpretations of Samba Jazz - a music that emerged in Rio de Janeiro in the 50s and was pioneered by musicians like Luiz Eça, Tamba Trio, Edson Machado, among others. Their repertoire was based on Brazilian standards with more sophisticated harmonies, inspired on the post-Bossa Nova movement.
Recently, he travelled to Europe to expand his research, and since moving to London, he has been performing hip Brazilian Jazz music.
