About Me
GUSTAVO DANTAS WAS BORN IN NITEROI AND GREW UP IN PETROPOLIS,RIO DE JANEIRO. IN BRAZIL HE PLAYED WITH GROUPS SUCH AS FRANCIS DRAKE E A INVENCIVEL ARMADA ,SAX PLAYER CARLOS WATKINS AND THE VITTOR SANTOS ORCHESTRA RANGING STYLES FROM ROCK TO SAMBA. GUSTAVO HAS STUDIED CLASSICAL GUITAR WITH DORIVAL LESSA,HARMONY WITH IAN GUEST AND IMPROVISATION WITH LUIS CLAUDIO RAMOS(CHICO BUARQUE). IN 1990 HE MOVED TO EUROPE. GUSTAVO LIVED IN GERMANY,ITALY AND AUSTRIA. IN EUROPE HE HAS PERFORMED AND RECORDED WITH ARTISTS SUCH AS ROOTS GODWANA,UGANDA'S GUITAR MASTER GEORGE MULINDWA,BASSIST ANGUS THOMAS(MILES DAVIS/BUDDY MILES),EDDIE COLE,RIC TOLDON,BLACK SOUL REGGAE BAND,MOSES,PETER JOSEL,ROOTSMAN,RONNIE URINI,DUBBLE STANDART,PRINCE ZEKA,NOISESHAPER,JEFF BOUDREAUX,JON SASS,YTA MORENO,CELIA MARA,ALEGRE CORREA,RICARDO MATHEUS,BEL PADOVANI,RONALDO SAGGIORATO,TONI PORTO AND MANY OTHERS. IN 97 GUSTAVO WENT TO CHICAGO WHERE HE PERFORMED AND RECORDED WITH ARTISTS LIKE PAULINHO GARCIA,SERGIO PIRES,LUIZ EWERLING AND ARI BROWN. GUSTAVO MOVED TO NEW YORK IN 1999,WHERE HE HAS PERFORMED AND RECORDED WITH ARTISTS SUCH AS CURTIS FOWLKES(JAZZPASSENGERS/BILL FRISELL),OGANS,JORGE AMORIM AND TRIBO(GRAHAM HAYNES,BADEN POWELL),DK DYSON(M-BASE),MIKE ELLIS,JOANA SANTOS,CHORO ENSEMBLE,MONICA OLIVEIRA,CARLOS DARCI AND BRAZOOKA,ARTHUR DUTRA AND TIMBATU,NILSON MATTA AND BRAZILIAN VOYAGE AND MANY MORE. SINCE COMING TO NEW YORK ,GUSTAVO HAS PERFORMED AT VENUES LIKE JOE'S PUB,BAM CAFE,KNITTING FACTORY,ZINC BAR,JAZZ STANDARD,SOB'S,CAFE WAH,CBGB'S,BITTER END,TONIC AND CARNEGIE HALL.DISCOGRAPHY:
DANCE HUMAN-MOSES(94),
RITUAL OF MUSIC-JORGE AMORIM(96),
OUR EARTH-LUIS EWERLING & A COR DO BRASIL(97),
ALMA REGGAE(97),
DER GESTIEFELTE KATER-AUSTRIAN TV(98),
PRELAUNCH SEQUENCE-NOISESHAPER(98),
CHORO ENSEMBLE(03),
LATIN PERCUSSION CD(03),
ORIXAS-JORGE AMORIM(04),
JACOB DO BANDOLIM-TZADIK(04),
LAZY AFTERNOON-ELIN(06),
NOSSO TEMPO-CHORO ENSEMBLE(07),
EARTHLING-WETCOOKIES(07).
