About Me
Jorge Continentino:(Saxophone & Flute player, composer and arranger)Originally from Rio de Janeiro, Jorge comes from a musical family. His parents, both musicians themselves, introduced their children to music at an early age, in an environment where Jazz and Bossa-Nova were played live or on the stereo all day long.He began working as a professional musician at the age of 15, and has recorded and performed onstage with many of Brazils most respected musicians, such as Milton Nascimento, Durval Ferreira, Marisa Monte, Ramiro Musotto, Moraes Moreira, Bebel Gilberto, Zeca Balero, Edu Lobo, Skank, Marina Machado, Sandra de Sa, and Telo Borges. He has performed at the JVC and Montreux Jazz festivals, the Sfink Festival, Mexico City Jazz Festival,and others, and has played shows around the globe, from South America to Japan and in between.In 2000 he put a band together with his brothers, Kiko and Alberto Continentino, keyboardist and bassist respectively, called the ContinenTrio. Together they have played in numerous jazz festivals and recorded two specials for the Rede Minas television network in Brazil. In 2003 they released an album self-entitled ContinenTrio, with all original compositions and arrangements.
Later the same year, Jorge recorded his solo album, Jorge Continentino-Portrait, made up of his own compositions, and three by his brother, Alberto.Jorge is also finishing an album with a pecussionist and producer from Argentina, Ramiro Musotto, where he plays different kinds of wood flutes, called Pifanos, a type of flute used in the northeast of Brazil. This album brings together his own compositions and other well known songs like Asa Branca and O Baiao by Luiz Gonzaga, and have Moraes Moreira as a guest.
In August of 2004 Jorge moved to NYC, since then he's been playing in clubs around town like the Nublu, where hes been playing every wednesday since the past December(2004) with the group Forro in the Dark. An experimental group that mixes the music of the northeast of Brazil with a jazzy approuch.He plays his pifanos using diferent pedals effects, and the saxophone as well.
They just released a new cd entitled "Bonfires of Sao Joao" for the label Nublu Records, and have guests like David Byrne, Bebel Gilberto and Miho Hatori.Jorge also recorded on the Brazilian Girls new album "Talk to La Bomb".He is part of Bebel Gilberto's group since August of 2005.Check out Jorge's cds at: www.cdbaby.com/continentino and
www.cdbaby.com/continentrio
