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“Everything I am mentally, physically, spiritually resides in Minas.” Milton Nascimento made this existential declaration several years ago. The implication was that his music, famous for cross-genre pollination, was a product of growing up in a town in which musical categories were overlooked. It was a disappointment therefore that this concert was so narrow in its interpretation of Bossa Nova. Given that this Nascimento-Jobim Trio (made a quartet for this occasion) project is in celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of this genre, it was an opportunity to showcase how the music has developed and what awaits us in the future. To the detriment of this performance, such a direction was sorely missed. Paulo Braga (drums) bustled with energy. His fills, accents and rhythms were tight and punchy but he rarely strayed from the pulse of a light Bossa shuffle. It was also regrettable that neither Paulo Jobim (guitar) nor Rodrigo Villa (bass guitar) did more to interact with him. Daniel Jobim (piano) played nicely timed and well structured voicing throughout, particularly during “Medo de Amar” but his phrasing never really departed from the classic Bossa Nova idiom. Nascimento, complete with dread-locks, shades, leather trousers and bathed in purple and white spotlights, cut quite a figure. During, “Dias Azuis,” the concert’s zenith, Nascimento unleashed his most compelling qualities. The lyrics were delivered with a remarkably effortless intimacy, irresistible to the listener’s sense of romanticism. The effect was entrenched when Nascimento began to wail and chant in an ethereal falsetto, which communicated an exotic lyricism as though directly from the soul of the Amazon. Antonio Carlos Jobim once described Nascimento as “a true songbird,” which flawlessly conveys the impression made by his musical personality. This project however, could have done so much more to have given him flight. Joseph Kassman-Tod
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