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Jorge Pescara

Discovered by Arnaldo DeSouteiro in 1998, when playing with his pop band Linha Amarela at Rock in Rio Café, Pescara was soon recommended to Ithamara Koorax and Dom Um Romão. Deeply impressed, Dom Um hired Pescara as the new bassist for his group in 1999, and since then he has toured extensively with him, besides recording on Dom Um’s two latest albums (Lake of Perseverance and Nu Jazz Meets Brazil, both for JSR). He also took part in an all-star benefit project (Street Angels) for the London-based Mr. Bongo label, playing on tracks led by Luiz Bonfá, Pingarilho and Ithamara Koorax. Pescara is also one of the featured artists on Friends From Brazil 2001 and Rio Strut, as a member of the Brazil All-Stars unit, alongside Deodato, Koorax, Dom Um, João Donato, Claudio Roditi etc. Since then, his performances have been praised by such critics like Ira Gitler, Patrick Dalmace (Jazz Hot), Douglas Payne, and Alex Henderson (All Music Guide). But nothing compares to his outstanding debut album as a leader, Grooves in the Temple, carefully recorded (during four years!) in Rio de Janeiro and NY, with state-of-the-art digital techniques. The repertoire was carefully chosen, mixing surprising treatments of very famous songs (Comin’ Home Baby, Led Zeppelin’s Kashmir, Jimi Hendrix’s Power of Soul) and haunting Pescara’s originals in tribute to bass heroes Jaco Pastorius, Marcus Miller and Tony Levin. ‘This all serves to whet one’s anticipation for Grooves in the Temple, as auspicious a debut, perhaps, as Jaco Pastorius’ 1975 solo debut’, states the renowned jazz historian Douglas Payne in the liner notes.

Awards

1991 UNESP Brazilian's competition of composition for electric bass

Gear

D'Alegria Defender Jorge Pescara signature; BC8000JP D'Alegria modified fretless 8str; Megatar ToneWeaver 12str; Elixir Strings; StudioR Z900 power amp; AmpworksBass Toneworks; Line6 FM4; Zoom G2-1U; High-EBow; Funk Fingers...


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Album Review

Ithamara Koorax: Brazilian Butterfly

Read "Brazilian Butterfly" reviewed by Chris M. Slawecki


Except for two ballads--the cosmopolitan “Carinhoso with her Brazilian jazz fusion compatriots Azymuth, and Herbie Hancock's title track--Ithamara Koorax's ninth album is her most adventurous release. It seems constructed to honor legendary Brazilian vocalist Flora Purim and her husband/bandleader/percussionist Airto. This Brazilian Butterfly soars and flutters while multiple percussionists (often as many as four on the same song, most often led by the late and legendary Dom Um Romão, with Koorax frequently flailing away among them) knit together, pull apart, ...

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Ithamara Koorax: Love Dance: The Ballad Album

Read "Love Dance: The Ballad Album" reviewed by Chris M. Slawecki


Ithamara Koorax has released several albums in Brazil and Japan, but Love Dance is only the second US album for this star from Rio, the follow-up to her debut Serenade in Blue.

With her unmistakable voice, Koorax sings English, Portuguese, and Spanish love songs composed by such masters as Antonio Carlos Jobim, Luiz Bonfá, Marcos Valle and Ivan Lins, plus songs by Claus Ogerman and Jurgen Friedrich (in German). Her voice manifests this diversity to its advantage: ...

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Primary Instrument

Bass

Willing to teach

Intermediate to advanced

Credentials/Background

Pescara studied music in the FASCS, ULM, and EMM, and electric bass with renowned bassists Cláudio Bertrami and Arthur Maia. Pescara took a lot of invaluable acoustic bass lessons with Nicolaus Tchevtchenko. Writer and Musician, he often writes several articles to various kinds of music magazines like: Tok Pra Quem Toca, On and Off, Rock Brigade, Áudio Música & Tecnologia, Backstage, TKT News and Cover Guitar. Among the many books he has written, most of them currently in-print: Arthur Maia Transcriptions (editora MPO), six volumes of TKT Electric Bass Course (TKT Music Adviser), Dicionário de Contrabaixo Elétrico (H.Sheldon editora), Contrabaixo Completo para Iniciantes (Irmãos Vitale Editora), Manual do Groove (Irmãos Vitale editora), and Harmônicos (HMP editora). In ‘94 the bassist published the Video Workshop O Contrabaixo Completo by MPO Video. Since then, Pescara has appeared in many recording projects and live dates with such artists as Arthur Maia Project Band, Celso Fonseca (opening for Stanley Clarke at Rio’s Metropolitan concert hall), ZERØ, Dom Um Romão, Fernando Girão (portuguese singer & composer), DJ Marcelinho DaLua, Roberto Menescal, Eumir Deodato, Carlos Lyra, Sylvio César, Ithamara Koorax (with whom he toured in Europe and Asia), Lord K, Luiz Bonfá, Mario Castro-Neves, Thiago de Mello, Ney Matogrosso, Jadir de Castro, Márcio Montarroyos, José Roberto Bertrami (Azymuth) and Nabby Clifford.

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Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson

This Is Hammock House

Irma Records
2023

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Knight Without Armour

Viceprint // Tratore
2013

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Got To Be Real

Irma Molto Jazz
2012

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Hotaru

Singer & Songer Records
2011

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Brazilian Butterfly -...

Irma Molto Jazz
2007

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Grooves in the Temple

Jazz Station Records
2005

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