Joel Nascimento

Joel Nascimento Is An Important Choro Master A Keeper Of The Tradition After Jacob Do Bandolim And Together With Déo Rian A Developer On His Own. He Had A Noted International Career And Enjoyed Popular Acclaim In His Own Country. He Also Formed Camerata Carioca A Group That Opened New Directions For The Choro Genre. He Began To Learn The Cavaquinho As A Child Taking Up The Piano And The Accordion At Age 14. He Formed The Group Joel E Seu Ritmo Who Animated Dances. In 1955 He Undertook Formal Piano Studies At The Conservatório Brasileiro But Was Forced To Abandon Music In 1959 Due To Audition Problems. He Became A Radiologist Returning To Music Only Ten Years Later After Being Noticed By The Host Of A Traditional Roda De Choro Oraci In 1968. Receiving A Mandolin As A Present From Oraci He Switched To That Instrument. In 1974 He Presented The Suite "Retratos" Radamés Gnattali Written For The Choro Virtuoso Jacob Do Bandolim Gnattali Applauded The Performance. In August Of The Same Year Nascimento Participated In The Recording Of A Música De Donga With His Idols Since Childhood Dino Canhoto Meira And Others. He Soon Became An Active Accompanist For Masters Of Samba Like João Nogueira With Whom He Recorded Still In 1974 The Tracks "Braço De Boneca" And "De Rosas E Coisas Amigas" And Beth Carvalho. This Introduction To The Samba Scene Yielded Invitations For Shows Like Vem Quem Tem Vem Quem Não Tem Together With Cartola Roberto Nascimento Cláudio Jorge And Others. His First Solo LP Came Out In 1975 Chorando Pelos Dedos Odeon Selling A Total Of 40 000 Copies In Six Years An Excellent Mark For The Instrumental Genre. With Waldir Azevedo Paulo Moura And Others He Participated In The Show Choro Na Praça Which Was Recorded And Released By WEA. Asking Gnattali To Transcribe His Suite "Retratos" For Nascimento's Choro Regional The Group Now Adding Chamber Music Elements Into Their Playing Opened The Doors To A New Choro School And Became Known As Camerata Carioca. In 1978 He Recorded Meu Sonho Odeon And In The Next Year Recorded The Album Tributo A Jacob Do Bandolim With Gnattali And Camerata Carioca On WEA. He Performed With The Orquestra Sinfônica Brasileira The Orquestra De Blumenau -- SC And The Orquestra Do Teatro Municipal -- RJ Among Others. In 1982 He Performed At The Lincoln Center In New York With Arthur Moreira Lima Rafael Rabello And Others. Then He Played In Germany Austria Portugal Italy France French Guyana Argentina And Japan. He Performed At Festivals In Montreux Switzerland Nice And Corsica France And New Mexico U.S.A. . He Also Recorded Several Other Solo Albums read less