A true avantgarde experiment with humble simplicity . . .


*QUARTETO NOVO, Quarteto Novo  1967

- CD
- 2008


Quarteto Novo was a group formed in São Paulo, Brazil in 1966. The eponymous 1967 album has been influential in jazz and pop music.
 
An impressive late 60s Brazilian jazz album, featuring early work by percussionist Airto Moreira(Miles Davis, Weather Report), multi-instrumental madman, Hermeto Pascoal(Miles Davis), and songwriter Geraldo Vandre, along with guitarists Theo De Barros and Heraldo Do Monte.

Coming from the northeastern part of Brasil, all of these men were intimately familiar with baião music, the danceable rhythmic style comprised of a syncopated 2/4 time signature that could be played on the double-skinned zabumba drum and harmonic and melodic structures written around a Lydian flat seventh scale, it is derived from the tuning of the pífano flute, which has a raised fourth and flattened seventh. The chord structure is based on a dominant seventh.

This meld of styles, traditional Brazilian music and bebop jazz, and the deep interest in subtle yet innovative rhythmic interplay, counterpoint, and taut song structures are to this day quite revolutionary.

 
Tracklist:
1. O Ovo 
2. Gica Mal com Deus 
3. Canto Geral 
4. Algodão 
5. Canta Maria 
6. Síntese 
7. Misturada 
8. Vim de Sant'Ana 


Personell:
Heraldo Do Monte, guitar, viola
Airto Moreira, percussion
Théo De Barros, guitar, bass
Hermeto Pascoal, piano, flute



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