NEW ALBUM BY Multi Latin Grammy® and Grammy® nominated pianist, arranger and composer Antonio Adolfo
BALAIOS, the newest album by Brazilian jazz master ANTONIO ADOLFO, was conceived and recorded over the past few months, but the music spans a lifetime.
Featuring an extraordinary group of Brazilian musicians, the nine compositions on BALAIOS were written at different points along Adolfo’s musical journey, forming a personal chronology of ideas, memories, and melodies that resonate today with renewed meaning.
Antonio Adolfo – piano
Lula Galvao – guitars
Jorge Helder – acoustic bass
Rafael Barata – drums and percussion
Andre Siqueira – pecussion
Jesse Sadoc – trumpet and flugelhorn
Danilo Sinna – alto sax
Marcelo Martins – tenor sax and flute
Rafael Rocha – trombone
Special Guests:
Thom Rotella – electric guitar on “Claudia”
Leo Gandelman – alto sax on My “Chant”
In Brazil—especially in the Northeast—balaios (bah-lie-ohs), woven baskets carried gracefully on the head, are part of daily life. More than simple objects, they carry meaning: work, resilience, ancestry, and abundance. Crafted from natural fibers such as vine and straw, the balaio transports what sustains life—food, goods, and stories passed from one generation to the next.
In many ways, an album is also a balaio.
Within it, a musician gathers what he has cultivated over time—ideas, memories, melodies. Each piece is placed carefully inside, shaped by the moment in which it was born, yet carried into the present with renewed meaning.
BALAIOS was conceived and recorded over the past few months, but its contents span a lifetime. The nine compositions presented here were written at different points along my musical journey, forming a personal chronology:
· “3D Blues” (1965)
· “Journey to the Interior” (Caminhada, with Tiberio Gaspar, 1967)
· “Vision” (Visão, with Tiberio Gaspar, 1968)
· “Claudia” (with Tiberio Gaspar, 1969)
· “Zah Toom Toom” (Samba 4, 1978)
· “Love Will Come” (Até Que Venha o Amor, 1980)
· “San Expedito, Near the Town of…” (Santo Expedito, 1988)
· “Sambalaio” (Agitadinho, 1989)
· “My Chant” (Meu Canto, 2018)
What you hold here is my balaio: a gathering of sounds, times, and emotions—offered with gratitude and shared with you.
– Antonio Adolfo
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