Heading down to New Orleans this weekend for a set by the Carlos Malta Quartet – live at Snug Harbor and recorded by WWOZ on April 14, 2011.
Carlos Malta Biography by Alvaro Neder:
Carlos Malta has been a professional musician since 18. In more than 30 tours around the world in the 12 years that he was soloist in Hermeto Pascoal’s band, he played in some of the biggest international music festivals in cities such as Montreal, Cannes, Hamburg, Paris, North Sea, Vancouver, Pori, and Copenhagen. He has also performed with Egberto Gismonti, Pat Metheny, Ernie Watts, Gil Evans, Marcus Miller, and Charlie Haden. A solo artist since 1993, he performed a concert at the Free Jazz Festival in 1997 with his bands Coreto Urbano and Pife Muderno, which was praised by critics. As a session musician he participated as a soloist, an ensemble member, and/or an arranger for Gal Costa and on the albums Olho de Peixe (Lenine/Marcos Suzano, Velas), Brasileiro (Sérgio Mendes, Polygram), Meia Noite (Edu Lobo, Velas), Catavento e Girassol (Leila Pinheiro, EMI/Odeon), Cheio de Dedos (Guinga, Velas), Sambatown (Marcos Suzano, MPB), Afrosick (Myazawa Kazufumi, EMI/Toshiba), Livro (Caetano Veloso), Hey na na (Paralamas do Sucesso), O dia em que faremos contato (Lenine), and Viva Noel (Ivan Lins), and for the soundtracks A Ostra e o Vento (Wagner Tiso), Tieta do Agreste (Caetano Veloso), Guerra de Canudos (Edu Lobo), and Mandacaru (Sérgio Ricardo). From 1993 to 2000 he recorded seven solo albums.
Carlos Malta is self-educated, and by learning by himself he developed new ways to arrange for all kinds of groups. His knowledge about wind instruments makes him a great musical painter,a sculptor of sounds, bringing original colors to the sound.The newest releases of Gal Costa and Ivan Lins contain his arrangements.His compositions have been recorded on his CDs “Escultor do Vento” , “Pife Muderno”-finalist Grammy 2000 ,” Pixinguinha Alma e Corpo” and “Pimenta” following an intuitive field of emotion, surprises with new phrasing, rhythms, harmonies and melodies inspired in his rich musical legacy. His “Rapsody for the Carioca Rocks”, composition commissioned by the Petrobras Sinfonica Orchestra, was acclaimed on its premiere at the Theatro Municipal do Rio.
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