Musica Popular Brasileira: Grandes Nomes 1

Donga
Ernesto Joaquim Maria dos Santos
* Rio de Janeiro 05/04/2009
+ Rio de Janeiro 25/08/1974

Filho de Pedro Joaquim Maria e Amélia Silvana de Araújo, Donga teve oito irmãos. O pai era pedreiro e tocava bombardino nas horas vagas; a mãe era a famosa Tia Amélia do grupo das baianas Cidade Nova e gostava de cantar modinhas e promovia inúmeras festas e grandes reuniões de samba.

Participava das rodas de música na casa da lendária Tia Ciata, ao lado de João da Baiana, Pixinguinha e outros. Grande fã de Mário Cavaquinho, começou a tocar este instrumento de ouvido, aos 14 anos de idade. Pouco depois aprendeu a tocar violão, estudando com o grande Quincas Laranjeiras.

Em 1917 consagrou a gravação de Pelo Telefone, considerado o primeiro samba gravado na história.

Organizou com Pixinguinha a Orquestra Típica Donga-Pixinguinha. Em 1919, ao lado de Pixinguinha e outros seis músicos, integrou, como violonista, o grupo Oito Batutas, que excursionou pela Europa em 1922.

Em 1940 Donga gravou nove composições (entre sambas, toadas, macumbas e lundus) do disco Native Brazilian Music, organizado por dois maestros: o norte-americano Leopold Stokowski e o brasileiro Villa-Lobos, lançado nos Estados Unidos pela Columbia.

No final dos anos 50 voltou a se apresentar com o grupo Velha Guarda, em shows organizados por Almirante.

Enviuvou em 1951, casou-se novamente em 1953 e foi morar no bairro de Aldeia Campista, para onde se retirara como oficial de Justiça aposentado. Doente e quase cego, viveu seus últimos dias na Retiro dos Artistas, falecendo em 1974.

Pelo Telefone
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As canções mais conhecidas

• Passarinho Bateu Asas
• Benedito no Choro
  
• Bambo-Bamba
• Pelo Telefone
  
• Cantiga de Festa
• Macumba de Oxóssi
• Macumba de Iansã
• Seu Mané Luís
• Ranchinho Desfeito
• Patrão Prenda seu gado

Curiosidade : trecho do Vídeo CONVERSA DE BOTEQUIM, de Luiz Carlos Lacerda, com depoimento de Donga ao MIS que põe fim a discussão se o samba veio da Bahia ou nasceu no Rio de Janeiro. De quebra João da Baiana t...

Jazz History : Giants of Jazz 2

Joe "King" Oliver
* 11/05/1885 Abben,La (USA)
+ 08/04/1938 Savannah,Ga (USA)

Joe Oliver is one of the most important figures in early Jazz. When we use the phrase Hot Jazz, we are really referring to his style of collective improvisation (rather than solos). He was the mentor and teacher of Louis Armstrong. Louis idolized him and called him Papa Joe. Oliver even gave Armstrong the first cornet that Louis was to own. Oliver was blinded in one eye as a child, and often played while sitting in a chair, or leaning against the wall, with a derby hat tilted so that it hid his bad eye. Joe was famous for his using mutes, derbies, bottles and cups to alter the sound of his cornet.

He was able to get a wild array of sounds out of his horn with this arsenal of gizmos. Bubber Miley is said to have been inspired by his sound. Oliver started playing in New Orleans around 1908. At various times he was a member of several of the marching bands like The Olympia, The Onward Brass Band, The Original Superior and the Eagle Band. He often worked in Kid Ory's band and in 1917 he was being billed as "King" by the bandleader.

In 1919 he moved to Chicago with Ory and played in Bill Johnson's The Original Creole Orchestra at the Dreamland Ballroom. He toured with the band, but when he returned to Chicago in 1922 he started King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band at Lincoln Gardens (459 East 31st Street). Oliver imported his protégé Louis Armstrong from New Orleans. The band also included Johnny Dodds, Honore Dutrey, Lil Hardlin and Baby Dodds among others. The group's 1923 sessions were a milestone in Jazz, introducing the playing ofLouis Armstrong to the world.

Unfortunately the Creole Jazz Band gradually fell apart in 1924. Oliver went on to record a pair of duets with pianist Jelly Roll Morton that same year, and then took over Dave Peyton's band in 1925, renaming it the Dixie Syncapators. Oliver moved the band to New York in 1927, where he made some lousy business decisions, like turning down the regular gig at the Cotton Club, that went on to catapult Duke Ellington to fame.

Oliver had a life long sweet tooth. He was famous for his love of sugar sandwiches, This of course led to dental problems that made playing his cornet very painful. On top of that he was suffering from a bad back. In 1929 Luis Russell took over the Dixie Syncopators and changed the name to Luis Russell and his Orchestra. Oliver continued to record until 1931, but he was quickly becoming a forgotten name. He continued to tour the South with various groups, until he ran out of money and settled in Georgia, where he worked as a janitor in a poolroom up until his death in 1938.

From : RedHot Jazz

Riverside Blues (1923):

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Canal Street Blues (1923)

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Snag It:

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Sobbin' Blues (With Creole Jazz Band)

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Listen more tracks of King Oliver:

1. Just Gone (With Creole Jazz Band)(1923)
2. Big Butter and Egg Man from the West(With Creole Jazz Band)(1927)
3. St. James Infirmary(With Creole Jazz Band) (1930)
   
4. Dippermouth Blues (Sugarfoot Stomp)(With Creole Jazz Band)(1923)
5. Mabel's Dream - (With King Oliver's Jazz Band) (1923)
6. Mandy Lee Blues(With Creole Jazz Band)(1923)
7. Snake Rag (With Creole Jazz Band)(1923)
8. West End Blues (With his Dixie Syncopaters)(1928)
9. Four or Five Times (With his Dixie Syncopaters)(1928)
10. Nelson Stomp
    

Jazz History : Giants of Jazz 1

Jelly Roll Morton
Ferdinand Joseph la Menthe Morton
* Gulport,Mississipi 20/09/1885
+ Los Angeles 10/07/1941

Jelly Roll Morton was the first great composer and piano player of Jazz. He was a talented arranger who wrote special scores that took advantage of the three-minute limitations of the 78 rpm records. But more than all these things, he was a real character whose spirit shines brightly through history, like his diamond studded smile. As a teenager Jelly Roll Morton worked in the whorehouses of Storyville as a piano player. From 1904 to 1917 Jelly Roll rambled around the South. He worked as a gambler, pool shark, pimp, vaudeville comedian and as a pianist. He was an important transitional figure between ragtime and jazz piano styles. He played on the West Coast from 1917 to 1922 and then moved to Chicago and where he hit his stride. Morton's 1923 and 1924 recordings of piano solos for the Gennett label were very popular and influential. He formed the band the Red Hot Peppers





















Jelly Roll Morton's Red Hot Peppers in 1926. Left to right: Andrew Hlaire, Kid Ory, George Mitchell, John Lindsay, Jelly Roll Morton, Johnny St Cyr, Omer Simeon

Listen to the Red Hot Peppers:

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Red Hot Peppers and made a series of classic records for Victor. The recordings he made in Chicago featured some of the best New Orleans sidemen like Kid Ory, Barney Bigard,Johnny Dodds, Johnny St. Cyr and Baby Dods.Morton relocated to New York in 1928 and continued to record for Victor until 1930. His New York version of The Red Hot Peppers featured sidemen like Bubber Miley, Pop Foster and Zutty Singleton. Like so many of the Hot Jazz musicians, the Depression was hard on Jelly Roll. Hot Jazz was out of style. The public preferred the smoother sounds of the big bands. He fell upon hard times after 1930 and even lost the diamond he had in his front tooth, but ended up playing piano in a dive bar in Washington D.C. In 1938 Alan Lomax recorded him in for series of interviews about early Jazz for the Library of Congress, but it wasn't until a decade later that these interviews were released to the public. Jelly Roll died just before the Dixieland revival rescued so many of his peers from musical obscurity. He blamed his declining health on a voodoo spell.

From: RedHot Jazz


More from Jelly Roll Morton:

Hesitation Blues:

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Finger Breaker

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Wolverine Blues:

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Listen More Jelly Roll's Songs:

1. Blue Bod Blues
2. Honky Tonk Blues
3. Pretty Lil
4. Steamboat Stomp
5. Jungle Blues
6. Sidewalk Blues
7. Dead Man Blues
8. Jelly Roll Blues
   

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