Toninho Horta - Foot on The Road

Styles: Latin Jazz
Year: 1994
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 50:22
Size: 115,6 MB
Art: Front

(4:55) 1. Party In Olinda
(3:44) 2. Afternoons In Thailand
(4:05) 3. Moon River
(7:04) 4. Akiko's Song
(5:28) 5. Encantament
(7:29) 6. Tecno Burger
(3:48) 7. Where Are You
(6:20) 8. Foot On The Road
(3:38) 9. Nenel
(3:47) 10. Mocidade

Toninho Horta is a virtuoso electric and nylon-string guitar player; his music could be defined as (jazz influenced) Brazilian music. He has developed his own very personal style. His compositions are marked by beautiful harmonies and rich melodies often with surprisingly virtuoso right hand grooves. Besides being a strong composer and player, he worked many years as arranger or/and guitarist for many of the biggest stars in the Brazilian pop music scene such as: Elis Regina, Milton Nascimento, Maria Bethania, Joao Bosco, Airto Moreira, Edu Lobo, Nana Caymmi, Flora Purim, Gal Costa, Sergio Mendes, Chico Buarque, Flavio Venturini, Joyce, Johnny Alf, Wagner Tiso, Francis Hime and Beto Guedes (to mention but a few).

His beautiful compositions and original guitar playing has influenced a whole generation of musicians in Brazil. Pat Metheny, who considers him to be "one of the world's great composers on nylon-string guitar (named violao in Brazil)," comments, "He (Toninho) plays such great voicings with such a cool time feel... I've often described him to other musicians as the Herbie Hancock of Bossa-Nova guitarists ...in short, Toninho Horta is an incredible musician, the rare guitarist who understands harmony in its most intimate ways..." (Pat Metheny's words on the booklet of Toninho's "Diamond Land"). Pat's strong admiration for Toninho's music can be heard on many of his own compositions.Among Toninho's most beloved compositions are Beijo Partido (Broken Kiss, on Diamond Land), Gershwin, Pedra da Lua and Manuel o Audaz (the last three on Moonstone. The last two appear with English titles consecutively Moonstone and Eternal Youth).
https://www.allaboutjazz.com/musicians/toninho-horta

Foot on The Road

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Kenny Barron - Sambao

Styles: Piano Jazz
Year: 1992
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 59:56
Size: 137,8 MB
Art: Front

( 6:21)  1. Sambao
( 5:50)  2. Yalele
( 6:37)  3. Bacchanal
( 5:43)  4. Belem
(10:51)  5. Encounter
( 6:08)  6. Ritual
(10:12)  7. Gardenia
( 8:11)  8. On the Other Side

Sambao is Kenny Barron's tribute to Brazilian music done his way. These original compositions by the peerless pianist combine jazz and samba in a modernistic way, with no copying of tunes from the master Antonio Carlos Jobim, and no hint of the populist Stan Getz approach due to the lack of a lead instrument, save Barron's attractive and inventive piano. He's accompanied by heavyweights of the Rio-cum-New York City scene, including guitarist Toninho Horta, bassist Nico Assumpção, and French-born percussionist Mino Cinelu. Barron's (and most people's) favorite jazz drummer Victor Lewis is included, reinforcing the rhythms expertly as usual. Though not a working or touring group on any level, the ensemble sounds extremely tight and exactly in tune with what Barron's wants to portray. The tune "Bacchanal" is one Barron's fans might remember in his early days when recording for the Muse label, also included on the Sonny Fortune LP Serengeti Minstrel, and it is happily revised in full, bright regalia. Cinelu's composition "Yalele" is also joyous, as shouted vocals and a group chorus of the title soar over a deeper piano sound from Barron. The lengthy "Encounter" and "Gardenia" stretch out, allowing all the players to fully interact and especially improvise, the former in a mysterious mood mixing up meters but settling in 4/4, the latter nicely sweet, patient, and more collaborative as Barron's genius musings turn into occasional flourishes à la Oscar Peterson. Modal jazz meets the rain forest during "On the Other Side" as a pure singsong melody is adopted, quite similar to the Barry Harris tribute "Nascimento." "Ritual" is a fast, faded-in-samba jam that might have been an accidental afterthought turned into a welcome inclusion, while the most airy and breezy tune is "Belem," in the straightest Brazilian style. Horta is always excellent, but is more restrained save "Gardenia," and Lewis keeps thing rolling along without allowing them to burst out. Anyone who has appreciated the genius of Kenny Barron over the many fruitful years of his career can easily enjoy this sidebar project, with the hope that someday, he'll do it again. ~ Michael G.Nastos http://www.allmusic.com/album/sambao-mw0000094902

Personnel: Kenny Barron (piano); Toninho Horta (guitar); Nico Assumcao (bass); Victor Lewis (drums); Mino Cinelu (percussion).

Sambao

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Silvana Malta - Céu de Brasília

Styles: Vocal, Latin Jazz
Year: 2005
File: MP3@256K/s
Time: 45:11
Size: 86,5 MB
Art: Front

(5:07)  1. No Mais, Geraes
(5:57)  2. Vera Cruz
(6:00)  3. Didilin
(5:09)  4. Por Causa De você
(4:02)  5. Viver De Amor
(5:27)  6. Céu De Brasília
(3:46)  7. Ana Luiza
(4:41)  8. Mountain Flight
(4:58)  9. Minha Ratinha Campeão

Silvana Malta has been living in Denmark for a number of years, but stems from Brazil, where she sang with the two greats, Hermeto Pascoal og Toninho Horta. Her previous album Céu de Brasilia, won much acclaim and featured among others the legendary percussionist, Airto Moreira. The album was nominated for a Danish World Grammy. http://www.last.fm/music/Silvana+Malta

Personnel: Silvana Malta (vocals); Toninho Horta (vocals, acoustic guitar, electric guitar); Steen Rasmussen (vocals, piano, keyboards); Jonas Johansen (drums); Airto Moreira (percussion).

Céu de Brasília

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Tom Lellis, Toninho Horta - Tonight

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 55:06
Size: 126.2 MB
Styles: Latin jazz
Year: 2008
Art: Front

[4:25] 1. Maybe September
[4:13] 2. Dindi
[3:55] 3. An Infinite Love (Infinite Love)
[4:08] 4. My Romance
[4:31] 5. Let's Face The Music And Dance
[3:17] 6. In The Still Of The Night
[2:47] 7. Fly Me To The Moon
[4:45] 8. Tonight
[3:39] 9. Dreamwalking
[5:15] 10. Three For Marie
[2:45] 11. The Nearness Of You
[4:23] 12. Summertime
[3:52] 13. I Love You
[3:05] 14. Over The Rainbow

This is Tom Lellis’ seventh album as leader (rather disappointing output, considering the immensity of his talents as singer and keyboardist, since those seven releases span 27 years). It is also his fourth to include Brazilian guitar virtuoso (and sometime vocalist) Toninho Horta. On previous platters, additional players surrounded Lellis and Horta. Here they are left solely in one another’s company, and the results are sublime. Indeed, if lustrous pearls set against black couture represent the height of understated elegance, then Lellis and Horta are, in combination, the Audrey Hepburn of Latin-fused jazz.

As they wind their leisurely way through 11 standards and three originals, Lellis’ inherent Mark Murphy-ness remains strongly, often startlingly, evident. It is, however, softened—or perhaps “lulled” is a better word—by the gentle seductiveness of Horta’s guitar. The covers are so consistently gorgeous that it is impossible to elevate one above the others, though “Dindi” and “My Romance,” on which Lellis sings the English lyrics as Horta counters in Portuguese, are uniquely stunning. As for the originals, two—the grand “An Infinite Love,” at once cloud-soft and sharply angular as it explores love’s limitless magnitude, and “Dreamwalking” (sort of a modern-day “Girl From Ipanema,” praising a passing, and perceivably unattainable, goddess)—were cowritten by Lellis and Horta. The third, “Three for Marie (3/4 Marie),” is Lellis’ own, and cunningly suggests a mellower, more sensuous “Waltz for Debby.” ~Christopher Loudon

Tonight

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Toninho Horta - From Ton To Tom: Tribute To Tom Jobim

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 58:24
Size: 133.7 MB
Styles: Post bop, Brazilian jazz
Year: 1998
Art: Front

[4:32] 1. Meditacao
[3:58] 2. Infinite Love
[4:44] 3. From Ton To Tom
[4:39] 4. Christiana
[4:53] 5. Promessas Que Eu Flz
[5:12] 6. Desafinado
[5:42] 7. Retorato Em Branco E Preto
[3:26] 8. Modinha
[5:48] 9. Agua De Beber
[3:27] 10. Sem Voce
[6:07] 11. Chega De Saudade (No More Blues)
[5:14] 12. Se Todos Fossem Iguas A Voce
[0:36] 13. The Girl From Ipanema

When you abbreviate "Anthony" in English, you say "Tony or Tom". When you abbreviate "Antonio" in Portuguese, you say "Toninho". So Antonio Carlos Jobim and Toninho Horta are both "Antonios" and the similarity does not end with their name. This Toninho Horta's tribute to Tom Jobim happens to make it clear how similar they are in their open mind and how different they are in their top quality wonderful results. Both are great composers and players with an orchestra's conception in their minds.

This is a must-have CD. The Brazilian master guitarrist, arranger and composer Toninho Horta pays his tribute to Tom Jobim. I think it is always dangerous for an artist to use Jobim's material because it has been re-recorded over and over and over. However, this is not absolutely the case here. Toninho Horta simply re-creates all material. His creative fresh approaches are unique.

Toninho Horta sings his vocalises on all tracks and Brazilian singer Gal Costa sings on two tracks: "Chega de Saudade" (aka "No More Blues") and "From Ton to Tom", the Horta's composition dedicated to Tom Jobim. All sung in Portuguese except for one track.~Carlos from Rio

From Ton To Tom: Tribute To Tom Jobim

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