the beatles nova grazyna auguscik paulinho

THE BEATLES NOVA
LABEL: MTJ CD 10999
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GRAZYNA AUGUSCIK PAULINHO GARCIA
GOING FOR ADDS: 24th SEPTEMBER, 2012
FILE: JAZZ BRAZILIAN VOCALS (Eng.)
When I’m 64 3:01
Things We Said Today 3:11
Because 2:20
Norwegian Wood 3:17
Hey Jude 4:29
We Can Work It Out 2:54
Blackbird 2:45
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I Will 4:00
Two Of Us 3:21
Hello Goodbye 2:01
Nowhere Man 2:57
In My Life 3:11
Here Come The Sun 3:14
A Hard Day’s Night 3:09
MUSICIANS: Grazyna Auguscik – Voice, Paulinho Garcia – Voice, Guitar,
Percussion; Heitor Garcia – Percussion, Brett Benteler – Acoustic Bass, Steve
Eisen – Flute, Sax
Part of the uniqueness of this CD is the “True Stereo” technique of using only
two microphones to capture the groups live recording.
Produced by Grazyna Auguscik, Paulinho Garcia
Songs are arranged by Paulinho Garcia
Vocal Arrangements by Paulinho Garcia and Grazyna Auguscik
All songs written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney
Except “Here Comes The Sun” by George Harrison
All recording and mixing: Ken Christianson
Pro Music, Chicago True Stereo
Recorded at Sherwood Conservatory of Music
June 20, 21 and July 1, 2011
Website: PROMUSICAUDIO.COM/TRUESTEREO.NET
Mastering: Grzegorz Piwkowski at High-End Audio
Warszawa: www.highendaudio.pl
Design by Piotr Piotrowski
Management: Ryszard Wojciul +48660724146 artobus@artobus,pl
Thanks to Heitor, Brett and Steve. Special Thanks to Ken Christianson for his
passion, dedication and enthusiasm to the music. Special Thanks to Ryszard
Wojciul, Tomasz Bujan, Rafal Rejowski and All the Crew.
Grazyna dedicated this record to her sister Wieslava
Paulinho Beatles… Good memories of my fourteen will be good memories
when I’m sixty four…
About Grazyna & Paulinho:
"Two voices meant for each other" - Jazz Times
"Musical chemistry that shouldn't be missed." - K Carson
About "The Beatles Nova" Album:
'The Beatles Nova' - The distinctive style of interpretation of one of
the most interesting jazz singers of our time and memorable compositions
of four from Liverpool!"
"Join Brazilian guitar master Paulinho Garcia and jazz vocalist
extraordinaire Grazyna Auguscik to celebrate the long awaited release of
their Beatles Nova CD." - OTSFM
RADIO PROMOTER:
KATE SMITH PROMOTIONS
814.482.0010
www.katesmithpromotions.com
[email protected]
PAULINHO GARCIA
www.paulinhogarcia.com
Born in Belo Horizonte (capital of Minas Gerais, Brazil) Paulinho began his
musical career at the age of nine as a singer in a Sunday children's program at
his city's principal radio station, Radio Inconfidencia.
In his teens, he performed as a house musician for all the musical programs at
the Radio network, Guarany--TV Itacolomy.
He led his own band, Os Agitadores, with whom he recorded his first two
albums.
Until his arrival in the U.S. in 1979, Paulinho composed, arranged, produced,
and performed jingles for HP Studios. Four of his commercials received
national awards.
After moving to Chicago, he performed and recorded two albums with the
band Made in Brazil.
In 1991 he founded his own band, Jazzmineiro, whose eponymous 1996 CD
received excellent reviews in the Chicago Tribune, Jazziz magazine, the
Brazilian Music Review, and The Brazilians.
Paulinho was the recipient of the "Best Jazz Entertainer" Award for the
year 2001 by Chicago Music Awards.
His recording "Homage", released in Tokyo on September 2002, was chosen
as The Best Vocal CD in Japan for 2002 and was among The Best 20 overall.
Paulinho has performed in many cities throughout the U.S. and abroad;
including a six month Tour in Japan with Made in Brazil.
In 2000 and 2001 he toured Poland, Prague and Bratislava with singer
Grazyna Auguscik.
Paulinho also performed with saxophonist Greg Fishman (his partner in Two
for Brazil). In 2001 they performed at the North Sea Jazz Festival in the
Netherlands, the Singapore Jazz Festival and at the Holland American jazz
Cruise. In 2002 they performed in Hong Kong and Bangkok and most
recently at the Fujitsu Concord Jazz Festival and throughout various cities in
Japan. It was then that Paulinho added Polish singer Grazyna Auguscik and
named his new trio Three For Brazil.
In 2003 Two for Brazil played Joe Siegel's Jazz Cruise "Jazz Party at Sea".
His line up for 2004 included a tour of Poland, the Bahamas, as well as
performing at one of Japan's largest jazz festivals, Jazz Elite, with Three for
Brazil (June 8th thru 21st), a second Jazz Party at Sea" cruise (October 23 thru
30th), and two TV concerts in the Netherlands in November.
In 2005, in addition to many festivals throughout the USA, Paulinho
performed in various cities in Poland, The Ukraine and Prague, The Singapore
Jazz Festival, Joe Siegel’s jazz cruise to Alaska, another cruise of the
Bahamas, and the Bangkok Jazz Festival.
Paulinho was honored as the "Chicagoan of the Year in Jazz, 2010" by the
Chicago Tribune. And the "Brazilian Person of the Year, 2010" by the Brazil
Club.
Paulinho has released two CDs: a solo CD (Tempo Feliz), and a CD of well
known movie songs (Two for Brazil goes to the movies) in an inviting
Brazilian style with his duo Two for Brazil.
GRAZYNA AUGUSCIK
www.grazynauguscik.com
Singer, composer, arranger, and producer Grazyna Auguscik has won the
praise and admiration of music critics, jazz enthusiasts and even non-jazz
audiences with a singular voice that speaks a universal language. She is one
of the most intriguing contemporary vocalists on today’s world jazz scene.
Her elusive style challenges the traditional definitions of jazz and shows a
vocalist and musician without boundaries.
Her unorthodox approach to rewriting classic works pays tribute to their
authors and at the same time is an adventure into uncharted territory. While
her original music gives a fresh taste of uncanny flavor.
She began her professional music career in Europe, and then completed her
Studies at the prestigious Berklee College of Music in Boston in 1992. Since
then she has become a prolific collaborator sharing the stage with such jazz
notables as Michael and Randy Brecker, Jim Hall, Toots Thielemans, John
Medeski, Paul Wertico, Kurt Rosenwinkel, Robert Irving III, Michal
Urbaniak, Terry Callier, Patricia Barber, John McLean, Jarek Bester, and
many others.
Grazyna has recorded, produced and distributed 17 albums, ten of which were
under her own record label, GMA Records, and she has appeared as a guest
on as many projects. Her album Pastels was chosen One of The Best of 1998
by National Public Radio listeners. Her 2002 release River placed her as one
of the hottest young jazz talents in the country.
Grazyna was nominated for Best Female Vocalist of 2002 by the 22nd Annual
Chicago Music Awards. And in 2003 Grazyna received a Twirlie Nomination
for one of the Top 15 Female Vocalists. She was named Best Jazz Vocalist of
2002, 2003, 2004, and 2006 by the prestigious European Jazz Forum
Magazine.
Her two European releases "Personal Selection" and "The Beatles Nova" just
came out, and her upcoming release… with great expectations… "The Man
Behind The Sun" inspired by the poetry of Nick Drake is just around the
corner.
In 2002 Fujitsu Concord Jazz Festival awarded her with the TOP VOCALIST
title, and the album Homage - Three for Brazil recorded for Pony Canyon
Records in Japan was on a TOP 20 JAZZ ALBUMS list in Asia.
“... stunning use of her lithe, mobile voice ... she is doing important work in
advancing the potential for imaginative jazz singing... result is a singer to be
watched.” – Don Heckman, LA Times
Her own release Past Forward, featuring a remarkably talented accordion
player Jarek Bester, once again resists easy classification because of its
musical eclecticism, but embraces jazz in all its contemporary potential, in the
pulsating, exhilarating, eastern musical origins that lead to the past and at the
same time give an uncanny impression of wholeness.
“Auguscik may be on the brink of innovation,” says a Chicago Tribune
critics review.
Find out why the LA Times says "Grazyna Auguscik is doing important work in
advancing the potential for imaginative jazz singing.
She is a singer to be watched.”
The Grazyna Auguscik Orkestar Universale Project, presented at Millennium
Park in Chicago in 2006, received a standing ovation, reaffirming that music
can communicate across boundaries of language. Howard Reich of the
Chicago Tribune said about her performance: “Auguscik and her ensemble
sound like nothing else you ever heard; they are out of this world. This mustsee performer is one of the best voices to be heard today.”
“She's a music machine.” – C. Loudon, Jazz Times
“Grazyna Auguscik is emerging as an individual voice in a world of sound-alike
singers ... Auguscik approaches the art of jazz singing with fervor and intensity.
She treats even the most well worn fare with a spirit of adventure.” – Howard
Reich, Chicago Tribune
“Her name is Grazyna Auguscik and she is one of the hottest jazz talents in the
country.” – American Jazz Scene
“Jazz Innovator Singer Grazyna Auguscik a fresh voice on a jazz scene ...
powerful statements.” – Mark Guarino, Daily Herald
"One of Chicago's hidden treasures, singer Grazyna Auguscik is a jazz-rooted,
genre- blurring provocateur.” – Michael Wojcik, Illinois Entertainment
“... she conjures otherworldly images of Yma Sumac sweating to an Esquivel
beat.” – C. Loudon, Jazz Times
Neil Tesser
http://www.examiner.com/jazz-music-in-chicago/a-chicago-blizzard-of-jazz-viawarsaw-and-san-juan-and-points-east
Her album Andanca, with Brazilian guitarist and vocalist Paulinho Garcia,
received a great review in DownBeat Magazine, and enthusiastic play on
radio stations around the country and abroad.
ABC link TV
http://abclocal.go.com/wls/channel?section=resources/lifestyle_community&id=7098
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Her project and concert "Chopin World Sound" at Millennium Park in
Chicago on July 25, 2010 with 14 musicians on stage, gathered an audience of
over 10,000 people and was chosen one of the 10 most important
performances during the last three decades in the Chicago area, next to Miles
Davis, Ella Fitzgerald, Wynton Marsalis Septet, Frank Sinatra, Marcus
Roberts, Tropicana Orchestra, Danilo Perez, Oscar Brown Jr., and Igor
Butman.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27hUyyBnrIU
http://explorechicago.org/city/en/things_see_do/event_landing/events/dca_touris
m/MIC081612.html
Ms. Auguscik’s collaboration as assistant producer for Patricia Barber’s two
latest Blue Note recording projects brings to her palette further highly
acclaimed worldwide recognition.
Interview with Pola Henderson: http://bit.ly/KfWjhh
The Beatles Nova Chicago Tribune 7.06.2012.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/music/
http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/music/ct-ent-0609-beatles-nova20120609,0,3104324.column
Garcia and Auguscik jazz the Beatles
sounds as fresh as the recording's title implies, the musicians reiterating the
point Thursday night at Katerina's.
Audiences in Chicago – and well beyond – already know that the Brazilianborn Garcia brings a seductive rhythmic lilt to nearly everything he sings (and
plays on guitar). Auguscik, meanwhile, applies the fervent lyricism of music of
her native Poland to a broad range of repertoire.
Over the years, Garcia and Auguscik have formed a partnership unique in
contemporary music, two voices from distinct cultures coming together in the
precincts of Chicago jazz. With each season, their instruments blend a little
more closely, and on Thursday night dual voices merged almost as one.
Better still, Garcia's arrangements transformed the Beatles originals and, in
many ways, improved upon them. The familiarity of these songs have made
them classics, but Garcia's versions extend their chordal vocabulary far
beyond anything the Beatles attempted. Here is Beatles music enriched with
the sophistication of jazz harmony, the seductive sway of Brazilian rhythm
and other variables.
During their first set at Katerina's, Garcia and Auguscik re-conceived every
Beatles tune they touched, leaving enough of the original to render the music
recognizable, but altering enough to keep matters interesting.
In "Hey Jude," for instance, Garcia re-imagined the famous melody line from
Grazyna Auguscik and Paulinho Garcia. (Photo by Pawel Skorski / June 8, 2012)
So many artists have covered Beatles tunes in so many ways that one might
wonder why anyone would bother anymore. What possibly could there be left
to say in this music?
the outset, meanwhile re-harmonizing it, as well. Yet the overall contour of the
song remained, a Beatles standard deftly reconfigured for jazz sensibilities.
The subtlety of the endeavor showed respect for the original, while the
boldness of the conception underscored the fearlessness of the artists.
Moreover, the way Garcia and Auguscik fused vocal colors stood as a high
Undeterred, Chicago jazz musicians Paulinho Garcia and Grazyna Auguscik
point of the evening, the listener virtually unable to pick out individual
have taken on some of the most familiar works in the Beatles catalog on an
strands of melody.
appealing new album, "The Beatles Nova." Their perspective on this repertoire
Beatles fans may not have envisioned "When I'm 64" as a bossa nova, but
Garcia and Auguscik did, and the ebullient results justified the experiment.
"Here Comes the Sun" rarely has sounded brighter in vocal tone, and
"Blackbird" conveyed plenty of rhythmic snap.
The only problem concerned the consistently dreamy, soft-spoken nature of
this music, which became a bit redundant at times, though Heitor Garcia
(Paulinho's brother) offered welcome contrast with hand-held percussion.
Overall, this definitely was not a hard day's night.
by Howard Reich Arts Critic Chicago Tribune Music