LUCIANO

Music:

Member Since: 11/16/2007
Band Website: blog.myspace.com/lucianocalazansmusic
Band Members: LUCIANO CALAZANS ++

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T here are some great jazz bass players in the world, and Luciano Calazans (a Salvador native living in the neighborhood of Barris) is one of them. What he has -- and the others don’t -- is a bone-deep Brazilian sensibility and a peerless knowledge of Brazilian rhythms woven into his compositions and style. A facile, but not entirely futile, collocation might be "the Brazilian Jaco Pastorius" (Luciano has a pithy tale of one cold night outside a jazz bar on the south side of Chicago, when there was no way the passing taxis could be bothered to consider him and his two musician companions as fares...the three were on a night off from Margareth Menezes’ U.S. tour. In desperation Luciano approached a cop -- African American -- who was able to hail a cab for them. And no, language wasn’t the problem...Luciano speaks excellent English.)

T he first cut here is something of virtuosic showoffishness -- just bass and pandeiro (tamborin) playing choro, a classic Brazilian style usually involving several more instruments -- the music then moving onto Luciano’s eclectic jazz and funk styles.

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Luciano - Paris, France, 2007.

by:: Gordon Sheard
Toronto, Canada

" B assist, composer and conductor Luciano Calazans is one of the foremost musicians of Salvador, the capital of the Brazilian state of Bahia and a city that is a musical hotbed within this intensely musical country. Luciano has played with the vast majority of his hometown’s prominent musicians as well as with some of Brazil’s biggest stars. He is one of Salvador’s most respected and sought-after bassists, both for recording and live performance. Among those who have called upon Luciano’s talents are Gilberto Gil, Margareth Menezes, Ivete Sangalo, Banda Reflexus, Sarajane, Simone Moreno, Gerônimo, Léo Gandelman, Ricardo Chaves, Fafá de Belém, Zezé Di Camargo e Luciano, Leo Gandelman and Maestro Aldo Brizzi. Luciano has made numerous concert appearances in Brazil and has performed in large festivals in Europe and the U.S.

A native of the Salvador neighborhood of Liberdade—South America’s largest centre of persons of African descent—Luciano’s early development as a musician took place during a time of political and social ferment and intense creativity on the Bahian musical scene. He absorbed all of the diverse sounds of his environment—the samba-reggae pioneered by Olodum and others in the 1980s; various traditional Afro-Bahian genres, including samba and the ijexá of the traditional afoxé carnival groups; the various traditional styles of Northeastern Brazil (such as baião, xote and xaxado); the Afro-Cuban salsa sounds that took firm root in Salvador in the 80s; along with the classic songs of one of Música Popular Brasileira’s most fertile periods. Also informing his creativity are North American jazz, popular and rhythm-and-blues currents, as well as the classical music he assimilated during his training at the School of Music of the Federal University of Bahia. Luciano recombines all of this musical DNA to create a sound that is at once Bahian, Brazilian, global, and uniquely personal, and which may be heard in his first solo CD, Contrabaixo Astral."
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Influences:
Luciano's INTERESTS & Influences:
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MUSIC WORLDS:
Bass, Brazilian Music, Fusion, Jazz, Samba, Choro, Funk / Soul, Classical, Baião, Maracatú, Frevo, African Music, Classicals etc.
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CONTACTS WITH:

Musicians, Music Composition & Compositors , Music Arrangement & Arrangers, Music Professionals;
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PREFERED SUBJECTS:

Bass, Music Harmony, Music Performance, Part Harmonies, Chords & Tensions, Consonant & Dissonant Sound Balance, Chord Sequence, Chromatic Chords, Polychord, Magnetic & Non-magnetic pickups.
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LINKS (please, copy&past):

LUCIANO BRIEFING 1:
http://www.canabrava.org/lucacoas.html

Designer (Myspace, too) - Artur:
http://www.artursamenezes.com

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MUSIC INFLUENCES & FAN
(But, not at all, a complete list):

Pastorius, Villa Lobos, Jobim, Herbie Hancock, Chick Corea, Weather Report, Bach, Mozart, Bramhs, Vivaldi, Milton Nascimento, Lo Borges, Beto Guedes, Tavinho Moura, Toninho Horta, Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil, ElisRegina, Cartola, Jacob do Bandolin, Waldir Azevedo, Copinha, Armandinho Dodô e Osmar, Iron Maiden, Van Halen, Tears for Fears, Pixinguinha, Ernesto Nazaré, Calado, Zeca Pagodinho, Jonh Coltrane, Charlie Parker, Miles Daves, Stanley Clarck, Chiquinha Gonzaga, Nico Assumpção, Arthur Maia, Nelson Gonçalves, João Gilberto, Chico Buarque, Wagner Tiso, Charles Mingus, Elvis Costello, Tito Bahiense, Alexandre Leão, Saul Barbosa, Boca Livre, Mpb 4, Jonh Patitucci, Michael Brecker, David Sanborn, Marcus Miller, Youssou'Ndour, Salif Keita, Khaled, Sixun, Ultramarine, Ndoumbe Django, Casiopea, Lobão, Hermeto Pascoal, Chico Science, Strawinsk, Cassio Calazans, Fábio Paes, Jurema Paes, Elomar, Xangai, Catulo da Paixão Cearense, Bill Evans, Assis Valente, Rubens Blades, Carlos Gomes, Toto, Alceu Valença, Rage Against The Machine, Everything that is really music for me.
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MOVIES

Natural Born Killers, Bird, Round Midnight, Ray, Cinema Paradiso, Faca de Dois Gumes, Last Tango in Paris, among others...
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TELEVISION

National Geographic, Discovery Channel, Animal Planet, Cartoon Network, and all television news.