You’ll hear from the Latin Tinge, and get their insights on the group as well as their perspectives about Santos. You’ll get the inside scoop behind Levine’s experience with Santos and his connection to the body of Santos’ artistic output. The album will be released soon - you’ll be hearing about it here at LJC - but luckily for us, Levine had the good foresight to create a video that takes us into the creative process behind Off & On, The Music of Moacir Santos.
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The resultant recording sparkles with enthusiastic creativity, shines with professional performances, and remembers Santos with a fond respect.
Decades later, Levine gathered a group of Santos compositions and arranged them into a serious Latin Jazz set for his group The Latin Tinge, a collective of some of the Bay Area’s best Latin Jazz musicians. In addition to an in-depth study of Santos’ music, Levine performed with Santos in the 1960s and recorded with him on the Blue Note release Saudade. The hippest stateside musicians became familiar with Santos and his work, resulting in some artistically interesting collaborations and the occasional cover of Santos’ many compositions, including the popular piece “Nanã.” Fortunately, one of the musicians that investigated Santos’ work was pianist Mark Levine. In Brazil, Santos built a well-respected career as a songwriter, musician, and bandleader, while his foray into the music world of the United States resulted in marginal commercial success. The story of Santos’ musical career provides a good starting point for both product and process for many of us, Santos’ musical legacy represents an unfamiliar piece of the Brazilian musical world. Strangely enough, the process is the piece of the music that as an audience we often missĪs both a creative process and a tangible product, Off & On, The Music of Moacir Santos from Mark Levine & The Latin Tinge, radiates with creativity, in-depth story telling, and an intriguing history. The more that we can learn about the process, the more that we can understand the intention behind the recording and the inspirations that drive the artist to create the music that becomes such an important piece of our lives. In many ways, the developmental process provides a more revealing look into the artist’s personality and gives us much more insight about the musical output. The creative process contains the conceptual development, the spontaneous inspirations, and the hours of labor-intensive performance that shape the product. While liner notes, web site information, and interviews give us a peek into the musician’s mind, its all second hand information coming to us after the fact. For most of us, the product is the only thing about the musical output that we can comprehend it’s the only thing that the artist reveals about their musical concept. We listen to the tracks repeatedly, we analyze the improvisations, we enjoy the compositions, and it becomes part of our life.
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In most cases, the product - whether it’s a CD or MP3 download - becomes the thing most familiar to us. When a Latin Jazz artist creates a collection of music, there’s a bounty of interesting stories and ideas inherent in both the resultant product and the creative process.
Weekly Latin Jazz Video Fix: The Making Of Off & On, The Music Of Moacir Santos, Mark Levine & The Latin Tinge
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