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2009 Latin Grammy nominees (in the Best Tropical Brazilian Roots Album category) Orquestra Contemporânea de Olinda are bringing their Pernambuco-inspired tunes to Rumba this Tuesday night in their Chicago debut. The ten-member big band makes innovative music, reinventing classics in an avant-garde, brass-infused way.
Gilú, Hugo Gila, Tiné, Maciel Salú, Rapha B. and Juliano Holanda constitute the first half of the band, which accounts for its creative basis. They come in tune with the experience of their previous works in bands such as Bonsucesso Samba Clube, Academia da Berlinda, Variant, Orchestra Santa Massa and Terno do Terreiro. The other half comes from Grêmio Musical Henrique Dias, led by Maestro Ivan do Espírito Santo; the other members of Orquestra –- Daniel Marinho (trumpet), Ibraim Genuíno (trombone) and Alex Santana (bass horn) –- are musicians who learned their craft in this musical society, the first nonprofit musical school in the band’s native Cidade Alta de Olinda (Pernambuco).
04/02/10
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