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                             Ivan Lins Participates On A Camerati Disc 
 

The composer plays piano on a track of the first disc of saxophonist Gerson Galante,  that will be released in May. 
 
 Singer and composer Ivan Lins comes to Santo André today, to record a track on the first disc of saxophonist Gerson Galante, on the Camerati label.  The disc, still untitled, will have a thousand copies released in the month of May. 
 
Also invited were the trombonist Bocato, responsible for the production, Maestro Zaccaro and the band Terra de Ninguém.  The first meeting between Gerson Galante and Ivan Lins happened in 1980, during the Novo Tempo tour.  At that time, Galante was only 13 years old. 
 
“The baritone sax was bigger than Gerson and he had to stay seated in a chair to support himself,” remembers the composer, who established himself with music of political protest from the end of the 1970s to the middle of the 1980s.  Afterwards, the two followed different paths.  Ivan Lins went to Rio. 
 
The recording will be pure improvisation, much to the taste of Ivan Lins, who will play piano and sing.  The music will be chosen at the time.  Beyond improvisation, sound quality is a great concern to Galante. 
 The technical treatment of the disc will be the same shown to artists like Arrigo Barnabé and Eliete Negreiros, that had their Camerati recordings mastered in the United States.  Mastering is the process that transforms the recorded sound from the studio into the final product, CD and vinyl.   
 
Among the repertoire are four pieces that Galante composed in 1990, the period during which he lived in New York.  The ballads Full Moon and Winter Time boast the participation of guitarist Marcelo Gomes and bassist Zeli, both members of the band Terra de Ninguém, and drummer Paulo Mello. 
 
The samba 501 refers to the number of the New York apartment Galante lived in, and the waltz Elgin is the name of the theater he played at in Toronto, Canada.  To escape the traditionalism of the genre, Elgin has altered measures, which opens space, according to Galante, to forge a jazz concept with a Brazilian language. 
 
The disc even pays homage to Arrigo, with the recording of Salsa Barnabé, composed by Bocato, who participates on guitar, and also to bassist Edu Fiori, who died last December. 
 
The Camerati label is preparing to officially enter the national and international record market starting in March, with a series of releases.  The recordings were done last year in their Santo André studios. 
 
For that, the label is counting on weighty names in the São Paulo musical scene, like Arrigo Barnabé, Eliete Negreiros, Ná Ozetti, Pixinga, TNT, Groupo Rumo,  O Beijo, and Gerson Galante. 
 
The company Interdisc was contracted to do the distribution in Brazil and in the United States, Germany, France, Holland, Italy, England, Japan, Chile and Argentina. 

 
 One of the marketing strategies to be adopted by Camerati, according to the owner Cláudio Lucci, is to not sell the product in Brazil in magazines and supermarkets, preserving their brand. 
 
Another bit of clout that the label is using to earn its place is the reinforcement of Doctor Toby Mountain, an expert in mastering who has worked on discs by the Rolling Stones, David Bowie and Frank Zappa, among others.  Doctor Toby receives the material recorded by Camerati in his studios in Boston, USA. 
 
The first to be released are Arrigo Barnabé, Pixinga, and TNT, anticipated in March.  The discs will go out on CD and vinyl, in an initial media edition of three thousand copies. 

I met Gerson when he was still a young boy, he was only 9 years old, when he entered the Foundation of Arts school in São Caetano do Sul (FASCS) where I was the coordinator of the Music department.

 

He was prodigious and performed with the “Grupo Obus” and with the school’s orchestra which represented FASCS, playing in theaters and music festivals. 
 

At 11 years old he performed in Jazz Clubs participating in dance orchestras, in independent phonographic productions, in publicity productions and sound tracks for TV and cinema. He has also played with well-known and great artist in the Brazilian music scene such as Pery Ribeiro, Cauby Peixoto, Wilson Simonal, Raul Seixas, , Sá & Guarabira.

 

He has also participated in the so called “Broadway musicals of Brazil.” In 1980, Ivan Lins made an excursion with the tour called “Novo Tempo” (New Times) and I recommended to him that Gerson be part of the team, he was 13 years old at the time. 
 

In 1992 Gerson Galante released the Cd called “501” where I participated as an instrumentalist  in the song “Love Dance” a song of Ivan Lins with Gilson Peranzzetta which was distributed by Tower Records. Gerson has been active since then playing in Jazz Festivals and Brazilian pop music and in Jazz Clubs and in tours in Brazil, Europe, Latin America and the USA. 

 

 In 2014 I recorded the CD called “Na Base de Improviso” (Based on Improvisation), having Gerson Galante as one of the guests. 
 

With all my artistic, musical experience I believe I have enough experience to confirm the status of Gerson Galante as a musician of extreme recognition and excellence. 

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Ivan Lins - Gerson Galante - Amilson Godoy

 Amilson Godoy : Pianist, Composer, Maestro, Arranger and  Teacher  

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The Godoy Brothers

Adylson, Amilson, Amilton

Currently along with my work as a musician and arranger for the Orquestra de Arte Viva I am a counselor of music on the National Counsel of Cultural Incentive. With all my artistic, musical experience I believe I have enough experience to confirm the status of Gerson Galante as a musician of extreme recognition and excellence.

 

A prodigious musician, brilliant, a virtuoso on his instrument, of extraordinary abilities, he is a band leader, composer and arranger.

I have accompanied his career since the beginning. I met Gerson when he was still a young boy, he was only 9 years old, when he entered the Foundation of Arts school in São Caetano do Sul (FASCS) where I was the coordinator of the Music department.

 

He was prodigious and performed with the “Grupo Obus” and with the school’s orchestra which represented FASCS, playing in theaters and music festivals.

 

At 11 years old he performed in Jazz Clubs participating in dance orchestras, in independent phonographic productions, in publicity productions and sound tracks for TV and cinema. He has also played with well-known and great artist in the Brazilian music scene such as Pery Ribeiro, Cauby Peixoto, Wilson Simonal, Raul Seixas, , Sá & Guarabira. He has also participated in the so called “Broadway musicals of Brazil.” In 1980, Ivan Lins made an excursion with the tour called “Novo Tempo” (New Times) and I recommended to him that Gerson be part of the team, he was 13 years old at the time.

 

In 1992 Gerson Galante released the Cd called “501” where I participated as an instrumentalist in the song “Love Dance” a song of Ivan Lins with Gilson Peranzzetta which was distributed by Tower Records. Gerson has been active since then playing in Jazz Festivals and Brazilian pop music and in Jazz Clubs and in tours in Brazil, Europe, Latin America and the USA.

 I am Amilton Godoy  ( Clam school, Zimbo Trio group.)

 Pianist, arranger, composer, music professor and I come from a family of musicians.

In 1964 the musical group called “Zimbo Trio” made their debut. We have developed important work in the Brazilian music scene, with 51 LPs recorded and edited in more than twenty two countries.

 

We have divided the stage with important names of Brazilian Popular music (MPB) such as Elis Regina, Elizeth Cardoso on tour in several countries.

 

I am also one of the creators of the musical movement that created the style called Samba-jazz, different from Bossa Nova, it maintains the warmth of samba, but with the didactics similar to Jazz, exploring the freedom of improvisations.

I met Gerson Galante when he was very young only 11 years old at the Fundação de Artes a school way ahead of its time and later he studied harmony and Brazilian music at courses at CLAM music school.

Currently he gives workshops about saxophones, improvisation, harmony and Brazilian music.

 

He plays in jazz combos and Big Bands in our schools cultural space where he presented a show with the “InterXchange Ensemble” which has projects of cultural exchange programs between Brazil and the USA.

Also he will present a new intercultural exchange program where the guests artist from the New York musical scene; “NYWC” New York Women Composers, in honor of female musicians worldwide.

 

Gerson Galante besides being an excellent musician also acted as a talented arranger, some of his arrangements have been played by the Jazz Symphonic Orchestra also in Big Bands and Universities in the USA. He formed the InterXchange Ensemble as their arranger and interpreter with Dr. Melanie Mitrano, an award winning North American composer with than 70 compositions and 20 songs, the ensemble goes from jazz combo to Big Band playing in diverse show places and jazz clubs.

 

He has also played with well-known and great artist in the Brazilian music scene such as Wilson Simonal, Raul Seixas, Pery Ribeiro, Cauby Peixoto, Sá & Guarabira and Ivan Lins who participated in Gerson’s CD “501” on the song “Love Dance”.

 

He performed in famous dance orchestras in São Paulo, in jazz clubs and shows promoted by famous universities, university festivals, also actuating in publicity productions and sound tracks for TV and cinema and played in Jazz Festivals in tours in Brasil, Europe, Latin America and the USA.

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