Nelson Ayres

Nelson Ayres is really a prominent Brazilian arranger/pianist/composer that has performed/recorded with Dizzy Gillespie, Benny Carter, Milton Nascimento, César Camargo Mariano, Chico Buarque, Simone, Dori, and Nana Caymmi, among others. As musical movie director, composer, and arranger of has and ballets (such as for example Cidadão Corpo by Ivaldo Bertazzo) was honored many times. He also offers had observed activity as an arranger and conductor from the Orquestra Jazz Sinfônica. The kid of a lady pianist, he became fascinated with Luiz Gonzaga at five, when he was offered his first device, an accordion. Enrolling at São Paulo’s conservatory, at 12 he transformed to the piano, under no circumstances following the stringent classical apprenticeship. Actually then, he researched with Paul Ursbach from 1959 until 1962. Becoming a member of the São Paulo Dixieland Music group in 1961, he remained with them until 1968, taking part on the recording documented in 1963. In 1967, he became a member of Operating-system Três Morais, documenting in that yr his first granted marketing soundtracks. He started his profession as an arranger for performers in 1968 and was musical movie director for the play Chiclete com Banana (aimed by Augusto Boal). In 1969, he visited the U.S. to review in the Berklee College in Boston; alongside Victor Assis Brasil, both had been the very first Brazilians to review there. He worked well there as an arranger and pianist, associated Astrud Gilberto and executing in Airto Moreira’s music group at concert events and in the documenting from the record Free. Coming back from Berklee, he was searched for by professional music artists like Hector Costita, Amílson Godoy, and Roberto Sion who have been eager to obtain jazz details in a period when he wasn’t well-known at music academic institutions in Brazil. The casual encounters yielded created agreements and improvisations the Nelson Ayres Big Music group naturally followed, offering five saxes, four trumpets, and four trombones. They rehearsed through the every week day from the club Opus 2000, until it begun to audience, keeping the music group energetic for eight years, from 1973 to 1981. At exactly the same time, he as well as other bandmembers begun to teach on the Fundação das Artes de São Caetano, having as learners many of the associates into the future Banda Mantiqueira. His set up for “Como um Ladrão” (Carlinhos Vergueiro) earned first place within the Festival Abertura (Globo Network, São Paulo). Ayres documented his first single recording in 1979 (MPBC series, Philips), which got “Projeto de Jingle” re-recorded by Osvaldinho perform Acordeon. Within the same yr, he co-organized and performed within the I Event de Jazz de São Paulo. 2 yrs later on, he released another solo recording, Mantiqueira (Som da Gente). While still dealing with the big music group, Ayres had to cope with the common complications of several many people where all had been requested experts, with absences and substitutions. Buying smaller sized ensemble, he started to play with Rodolfo Stroeter (bass) and Azael Rodrigues (drums), within the Lei Seca pub (São Paulo) where in fact the bohemians of this city gathered. Quickly Sion became a member of the group and Costita arrived a little later on. In a short time, they made a decision to believe that it certainly was an organization, creating the Banda Pau Brasil, called by Rodolfo after Oswald de Andrade’s Manifesto Antropófago. As the Brazilian instrumental organizations had been playing jazz-influenced pop, the Banda Pau Brasil brought a deeper fascination with Brazilian music. The music group documented three albums before he remaining, and toured European countries and Japan many times. In 1985, Ayres was asked by César Camargo Mariano to be a part of his task, Prisma, which contains both keyboardists before enormous digital paraphernalia, the very first initiative for the reason that feeling in Brazil, with that they toured the united states for just two years. In 1998, Ayres presided on the jury from the Initial Visa Award of Instrumental Music, of which the winners had been André Mehmari and Célio Barros, and Nelson Veraz (who used Aldo Romano) reached 4th place. Since 1992, Nelson Ayres provides been the conductor and creative movie director for the Orquestra Jazz Sinfônica perform Estado de São Paulo.