Ricardo Baldacci Trio - Tain't What You Do, It's The Way That You Do It

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 56:56
Size: 130.4 MB
Styles: Contemporary blues
Year: 2013
Art: Front

[3:56] 1. You Make Me Feel So Young
[2:42] 2. Because Of You
[3:41] 3. Tain't What You Do (It's The Way That You Do It)
[4:24] 4. Baldacci's Blues
[2:53] 5. (I Love You) For Sentimental Reasons
[4:21] 6. The Frim Fram Sauce
[3:49] 7. It's Only A Paper Moon
[3:41] 8. Is You Is Or Is You Ain't (My Baby)
[5:19] 9. Baby All The Time
[4:30] 10. All I Need Is The Girl
[3:15] 11. S Wonderful
[3:32] 12. Do The Lindy Hop
[4:28] 13. Sutra's Blues
[3:20] 14. Come Fly With Me
[2:58] 15. I Can't Give You Anything But Love

Influenced by Nat King Cole, Frank Sinatra, John Pizzarelli, Brazilian singer/guitarist Ricardo Baldacci leads his drumless trio, backed up with piano and double bass. He sings and plays the classic repertoire of the Great American Song Book and has been called as "The reference for Swing Jazz music in Brazil" (Jornal A Tarde, Salvador / BA) .

In just over four years as a professional, Baldacci collects memorable presentations. In Made In New York Jazz Festival (USA), held at a packed Tribeca Arts Center he shared stage with legends Lenny White and Randy Brecker. Baldacci also had a standing ovation performance at the Municipal Theatre of Asuncion, during the XV International Jazz Festival of Paraguay. While in Sweden, he played for a huge crowd of dancers, in the 30th. Anniversary of Herrang Dance Camp Festival (the most traditional Lindy Hop Festival), and won the Swing Battle Award. In Brazil, Ricardo Baldacci made many shows in several festivals and was the main attraction of famous venues like Terraco Italia and L'Hotel Porto Bay. The work of Ricardo Baldacci has increasingly been gaining ground in national and international markets; singer / guitarist keeps swinging and entertains the audience of Sao Paulo and other places in the world.

In 2013, Ricardo produced and released 'Tain't what you do, it's the way that you do it', his first album with national and international distribution . The recording had the precious collaboration of Swedish vocal trio, The Hebbe Sister, and also featured the award-winning virtuoso pianist, Hercules Gomes and Ricardo Ramos on acoustic bass. This release was broadcasted on Radio Eldorado (Jazzmasters and The Jazz Face) and USP FM (Jazz Caravan). The CD also received positive reviews in newspapers like O Globo (Rio de Janeiro / RJ), A Tarde (Salvador / BA) and Hoje em Dia (Belo Horizonte / MG).

Tain't What You Do, It's The Way That You Do It

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Ricardo Baldacci, Martin Pizzarelli, Konrad Paszkudzki, Bucky Pizzarelli - Brothers In Swing

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 60:25
Size: 138.3 MB
Styles: Swing
Year: 2015
Art: Front

[4:42] 1. Do Nothing Till You Hear From Me
[3:29] 2. Sometimes I'm Happy
[4:38] 3. In A Mellow Tone
[3:38] 4. Embraceable You
[2:48] 5. L.O.V.E
[3:53] 6. Little Girl
[2:46] 7. Darn That Dream
[3:02] 8. Coquette
[4:01] 9. When I Take My Sugar To Tea
[3:21] 10. Take The A Train
[3:11] 11. Frankie Manning Will Smile On Us
[5:00] 12. Supimpa! (Brothers' Blues)
[4:13] 13. Say You Will Be Mine Forever
[2:34] 14. Walkin' My Baby Back Home
[3:13] 15. Call The Police
[3:54] 16. Route 66
[1:55] 17. Come Rain Or Come Shine

Ricardo Baldacci, Brothers in Swing is the second career album of the singer/guitarist, and to this day the first national record with jazz guitarist and legend, American Bucky Pizzarelli. The collaborative project also includes bassist Martin Pizzarelli, who christened the CD, and Australian pianist Konrad Paszkudzki. Baldacci is one of the few representatives of Swing Jazz in Brazil and a longtime admirer of the Pizzarelli family. In May of 2014, he was invited to play at a festival in Manhattan by Lenny White and met Bucky Pizzarelli, one of the patriarchs of jazz guitar. On the occasion, he met the sound engineer Bill Moss and commented on the utopian possibility of recording an album with his idols. In January 2015, Ricardo wrote to Bill asking if there would be a chance to realize that project they had spoken about. The answer came in two weeks, with the already scheduled recording dates. Ricardo Baldacci made a brief selection of songs, wrote some arrangements and went to New York 15 days later.

Recorded in two sessions at the Samurai Hotel Studios in Queens, NY, Brothers in Swing takes place in a mood of spontaneity and camaraderie and has the swing as a trademark. It is a great tribute from Baldacci to the music of the Pizzarelli family, which repays the same proportion to the Brazilian artist. Once again, like his previous CD, Baldacci chose to preserve, in most bands, the sound of the trio without drums (bass-acoustic, piano, guitar / vocals) that alternates between arrangements of guitar duos and Voice, piano and voice, as well as solo guitar numbers. The CD features in 17 tracks, a series of classical compositions, as well as two original works by Ricardo Baldacci and one in partnership with Martin Pizzarelli and Konrad Paszkudzi. In the repertoire, there is a wide variety: swing, ballads and novelty songs - songs such as In a Mellow Tone (Duke Ellington), Embraceable You (Gershwin) and Route 66 (Bobby Troup), among other standards. They some unknown as the little recorded Call The Police (Nat King Cole). Brothers in Swing is a tribute to the joy and sonority typical of the Swing Jazz, an album full of thrilling inspirational performances and a full plate for lovers of the Great American Songbook.

Brothers In Swing

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