MP3 Gordon Sheard - All Saints´ Bay

Melodic, Brazilian instrumental music, featuring irresistible grooves, including samba, maracatu, baiao, forro, frevo, choro, capoeira, and samba-reggae. âAll Saintsâ Bayâ takes you on an exhilarating musical journey through a wide range of moods.

12 MP3 Songs in this album (63:23) !
Related styles: Jazz: Latin Jazz, Latin: Brazilian Jazz, Mood: Upbeat

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Recorded primarily in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil in 2009, this CD is the culmination of Gordon Sheardâs love for the music of that city and its surrounding area, a fascination that began a little over two decades ago. A professional musician and long-time fan of Brazilian music and culture, Gordonâs curiosity was piqued around 1990 when he first started hearing the new, unique and dynamic forms of popular music that had emerged in Bahia in the 1980s. When he later returned to university to do graduate studies in ethnomusicology, he made these musics the focus of his studies, making several field trips to Salvador starting in 2000. During these stays, he met many of the cityâs preeminent musicians. After obtaining his PhD, a plan took shape in his mind to return and record with some of these people. All Saintsâ Bay is the realization of this dream, and comprises his compositions â some set in established Brazilian and Bahian rhythms, others accompanied by grooves resulting from this specific transcultural collaboration â stamped with the unique instrumental voices of this Bahian musical âdream team.â