With the coming of bossa-nova during my own lifetime, many things in music, and especially in the jazz genre, changed. Brazil itself awoke with pride and international recognition because of this new widely-beloved cultural and folk music idiom. Bossa-nova has become a permanent style and rhythm for the world, and for the ages, and you have done it great justice. Whenever you play, I find it necessary to put on my headphones so I can hear all the amazing nuances. Thank you, Dr. Daniel.
Thank you! I agree with you about the impact of bossa-nova, not just as its own phenomenon in the 1960s but also in terms of influencing jazz outside of Brazil in more subtle ways years later, to this day. It's also very interesting to observe the style's evolution, particularly when it is combined with other aesthetics. With guitar specifically, in my mind there is a distinct evolution that started with Raphael Rabello, who combined Brazilian jazz with flamenco and classical influences, something that would later be continued by a few other guitarists (for example Yamandu Costa). I find myself gravitating toward this combination often, such as in this very arrangement!
@@DanielVolovets Andres Segovia once said that guitar is the only instrument that can play all the music of an entire orchestra. Both you and Yamandu Costa have confirmed and proven him to be right about that astounding claim many times over again.
@@DanielVolovets I really liked your take on this beautiful bossa nova standard. Mind blowing intro. I also agree your points on bossa nova as a genre. I always think that Brazilian musicians are the ones who truly "internalized" jazz music. They made a very successful synthesis of jazz and their local music (choro, samba, etc...). As you have said: Yamandu Costa, Raphael Rabello, Baden Powell, Guinga and many others... All of them are wise musicians. Sadly, they are under appreciated around the world.
@@DanielVolovets I like your combination of flamenco, jazz and classical influences. You might like my improvisations on my channel, which have the same influences, but in a very different way.
Hello! I have a classical background and spent a lot of time learning music theory as well. Definitely not trial and error, however, lots of experimentation to find new harmonies and interesting tones (hence the altered tunings in many of my arrangements and compositions!)
