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"The definition of a successful artist residency:
decades of "real-world" performing experience in unfathomably
diverse musical styles,
rock-solid and cutting-edge pedagogy,
all culminating with inspirational performances of the highest
musical and technical caliber - aka...
Richard Boukas and Jovino
Santos Neto.
They bring all this to the table and everyone walks away with
as much as they can handle!"
Malcolm
Lynn Baker, Director
Jazz
Studies and
Commercial Music Program
Lamont School of Music
University of Denver
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Mesa Trail
in Boulder, Colorado
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"Boukas
personifies precisely
the kind of musician we feel is needed
in the 21st century to take our art to the next evolutionary level."
F. Joseph Docksey
Director,
Lamont School of Music
University of Denver
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LEFT: Richard
and Jovino meet at centerstage after
their inspiring and well-attended
concert
at Foote Hall, University of Denver.
The
nearly three-hour concert featured their compositions and those
by the legendary Hermeto Pascoal,
with whom Jovino performed and recorded for fifteen years.The
performance capped off a highly successful
week-long Duo Residency in Denver,
Colorado and Casper, Wyoming.
To
hear excerpts from the
Duo's live Denver performance,
click on these SOUNDFILES:
• Vale da Ribeira
(Hermeto Pascoal)
•
Mais Que Tudo
(Jovino Santos Neto)
•
Homeopatia (JSN)
•
Violão Nordeste
(Richard Boukas)
•
Metamorph
(JSN)
To
listen to these soundfiles, you need to have version
G2 of REALPLAYER on your hard
drive. These are not downloadable.
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"If
a concert had any legitimate expectations, the Duo featuring
Richard Boukas & Jovino Santos
Neto in Denver exceeded them by a cool and great
margin, escaping any pre-determined definition. I don't
think I or the large audience in attendance could have felt
closer to the Brazilian culture of creative musicmaking-
what individuality and interactive pollination! Their concert
raised the standard of music in Denver!
Alex Lemski,
Executive Director
Creative Music Works, member
Western
Jazz Presenters Network
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Lamont Jazz director Malcolm Lynn
Baker and Richard Boukas
in New Orleans this past January at the IAJE Conference.
In addition to being the key figure behind the Duo's recent
Denver residency, Baker coordinated Boukas' National
Endowment-funded Jazz Tours in Denver ('94) and
Minnesota ('85) when he was teaching at Carleton College.
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