Jaques Morelenbaum
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Jaques Morelenbaum is a Brazilian instrumentalist, arranger, conductor, composer and music producer.
Morelenbaum is the son of conductor Henrique Morelenbaum and piano teacher Sarah Morelenbaum. His siblings are Lucia Morelenbaum, clarinetist of the Brazilian Symphony Orchestra; and Eduardo Morelenbaum, conductor, arranger and instrumentalist. He is married to the singer Paula Morelenbaum
.
He started his musical career as part of the group A Barca do Sol, and participated in the Nova Banda that performed with Antonio Carlos Jobim
and shows and recordings that led to a Grammy win for the CD Antonio Brasileiro. A cellist, he studied music in Brazil and later joined the New England Conservatory of Music
. In 1995, with Paula Morelenbaum, Paulo Jobim and Daniel Jobim, he created the Quarteto Jobim Morelenbaum. The group toured Europe several times, including an appearance at the Expo'98 held in Lisbon
. They also toured the United States and Brazil and recorded a CD (Quarteto Jobim Morelenbaum).
, the hit American song that raised funds for African relief via USA for Africa
. The project Nordeste Já (1985), embraced the cause of the Northeast drought. 155 voices joined in a single
, collective creation, with the songs Chega de mágoa and Seca d´água. Praised for the competency of individual interpretations, he was also criticized for failure to harmonize the voices and the framework of each of them in chorus.
As arranger, he worked alongside Tom Jobim (Passarim, O tempo e o vento, Tom Jobim: inédito and Antônio Brasileiro), Caetano Veloso
(Circuladô, Circuladô vivo, Fina estampa', Fina estampa, ao vivo, Tieta do agreste, Prenda minha, Livro and Homaggio a Fellini e Giulieta), Gal Costa
(Mina d'água do meu canto), Paula Morelenbaum
, Ivan Lins
, Barão Vermelho
and Skank
, among others, besides the album Piazzollando (honoring the work of Ástor Piazzolla
) in which Morelenbaum also served as instrumentalist, conductor, and producer. The disc was considered by Argentina as one of the 10 best of 1992. He wrote arrangements for records of Marisa Monte
and Carlinhos Brown
and the acoustic disc of Titãs
, which amounted to 1.5 million copies sold.
With Gilberto Gil
and Bem Gil, Morelenbaum toured the USA in March 2010 as "The String Concert featuring Jacques Morelenbaum & Bem Gil."
, Portuguese singer Dulce Pontes
, Japanese group Gontiti
, Angolan composer Paulo Flores
, Scottish/American musician David Byrne
, Cape Verdean singer Cesária Évora
and pianist and composer Ryuichi Sakamoto
, among others. Among his best known work is Transparente, in partnership with Mariza
. In 2001, he participated as cellist on the recording of the DVD All this time, by Sting. In 2008, he produced and arranged the Mexican singer Julieta Venegas
MTV Unplugged
. In 2010, he was the arranger for Omar Sosa
's Ceremony album (World Village WVF479042) with the NDR
Bigband.
, by Pedro Almodóvar
. He composed, in partnership with Antonio Pinto
, the soundtrack to Central Station (which received the Prêmio Sharp (Sharp Award) for Best Soundtrack). Orfeu do Carnaval, Tieta do Agreste, and O Quatrilho
are among others works. Besides these works, ruled the symphony orchestras of Bahia
and Brasilia
in some presentations.
As part of the Morelenbaum2/Sakamoto ensemble, he released the CD Casa in 2002 with Paula Morelenbaum
, guitarist Luiz Brasil
, and pianist Ryuichi Sakamoto
. The project was recorded in the home of Tom Jobim, composer of all the songs on the disc. This group performed in jazz festivals at Montreux
, Vienna
, Lisbon
, Porto
, Rome
, and Milan
, among others, and in 2003 released a live album, A Day in New York.
Morelenbaum is the son of conductor Henrique Morelenbaum and piano teacher Sarah Morelenbaum. His siblings are Lucia Morelenbaum, clarinetist of the Brazilian Symphony Orchestra; and Eduardo Morelenbaum, conductor, arranger and instrumentalist. He is married to the singer Paula Morelenbaum
Paula Morelenbaum
Regina Paula Martins Morelenbaum is a Brazilian singer, born in Rio de Janeiro. She and her husband Jaques Morelenbaum were in the band that toured with Antonio Carlos Jobim from 1984–1994....
.
He started his musical career as part of the group A Barca do Sol, and participated in the Nova Banda that performed with Antonio Carlos Jobim
Antônio Carlos Jobim
Antônio Carlos Brasileiro de Almeida Jobim , also known as Tom Jobim , was a Brazilian songwriter, composer, arranger, singer, and pianist/guitarist. He was a primary force behind the creation of the bossa nova style, and his songs have been performed by many singers and instrumentalists within...
and shows and recordings that led to a Grammy win for the CD Antonio Brasileiro. A cellist, he studied music in Brazil and later joined the New England Conservatory of Music
New England Conservatory of Music
The New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, Massachusetts, is the oldest independent school of music in the United States.The conservatory is home each year to 750 students pursuing undergraduate and graduate studies along with 1400 more in its Preparatory School as well as the School of...
. In 1995, with Paula Morelenbaum, Paulo Jobim and Daniel Jobim, he created the Quarteto Jobim Morelenbaum. The group toured Europe several times, including an appearance at the Expo'98 held in Lisbon
Lisbon
Lisbon is the capital city and largest city of Portugal with a population of 545,245 within its administrative limits on a land area of . The urban area of Lisbon extends beyond the administrative city limits with a population of 3 million on an area of , making it the 9th most populous urban...
. They also toured the United States and Brazil and recorded a CD (Quarteto Jobim Morelenbaum).
Nordeste Já (Northeast Right Now)
Morelenbaum sang in the choir of the Brazilian version of We Are the WorldWe Are the World
"We Are the World" is a song and charity single originally recorded by the supergroup USA for Africa in 1985. It was written by Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie, and produced by Quincy Jones and Michael Omartian for the album We Are the World...
, the hit American song that raised funds for African relief via USA for Africa
USA for Africa
USA for Africa was the name under which forty-seven predominantly U.S. artists, led by Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie, recorded the hit single "We Are the World" in 1985. The song was a US and UK Number One for the collective in April of that year...
. The project Nordeste Já (1985), embraced the cause of the Northeast drought. 155 voices joined in a single
Single (music)
In music, a single or record single is a type of release, typically a recording of fewer tracks than an LP or a CD. This can be released for sale to the public in a variety of different formats. In most cases, the single is a song that is released separately from an album, but it can still appear...
, collective creation, with the songs Chega de mágoa and Seca d´água. Praised for the competency of individual interpretations, he was also criticized for failure to harmonize the voices and the framework of each of them in chorus.
As arranger, he worked alongside Tom Jobim (Passarim, O tempo e o vento, Tom Jobim: inédito and Antônio Brasileiro), Caetano Veloso
Caetano Veloso
Caetano Emanuel Viana Teles Veloso , better known as Caetano Veloso, is a Brazilian composer, singer, guitarist, writer, and political activist. Veloso first became known for his participation in the Brazilian musical movement Tropicalismo which encompassed theatre, poetry and music in the 1960s,...
(Circuladô, Circuladô vivo, Fina estampa', Fina estampa, ao vivo, Tieta do agreste, Prenda minha, Livro and Homaggio a Fellini e Giulieta), Gal Costa
Gal Costa
Gal Costa is a Brazilian singer of popular music.-Early life:...
(Mina d'água do meu canto), Paula Morelenbaum
Paula Morelenbaum
Regina Paula Martins Morelenbaum is a Brazilian singer, born in Rio de Janeiro. She and her husband Jaques Morelenbaum were in the band that toured with Antonio Carlos Jobim from 1984–1994....
, Ivan Lins
Ivan Lins
Ivan Guimarães Lins is a Latin Grammy winning Brazilian musician. He has been an active performer and songwriter of Brazilian popular music and jazz for over 30 years. His first hit, Madalena, was recorded by Elis Regina in 1970. Beyond his own performance of his compositions, Simone is his most...
, Barão Vermelho
Barão Vermelho
Barão Vermelho is a Brazilian rock band. Formed in 1981 in Rio de Janeiro, it was originally led by songwriting duo Cazuza and Roberto Frejat , which assumed the vocals after Cazuza's departure in 1986...
and Skank
Skank (band)
Skank is a Brazilian rock/reggae band, begun in 1991, in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais. , they had sold approximately 5,200,000 copies of their albums...
, among others, besides the album Piazzollando (honoring the work of Ástor Piazzolla
Ástor Piazzolla
Ástor Pantaleón Piazzolla was an Argentine tango composer and bandoneón player. His oeuvre revolutionized the traditional tango into a new style termed nuevo tango, incorporating elements from jazz and classical music...
) in which Morelenbaum also served as instrumentalist, conductor, and producer. The disc was considered by Argentina as one of the 10 best of 1992. He wrote arrangements for records of Marisa Monte
Marisa Monte
Marisa de Azevedo Monte is a Brazilian popular singer. As of 2011, she has sold 10 million albums worldwide.- Biography :...
and Carlinhos Brown
Carlinhos Brown
Carlinhos Brown is a Brazilian musician from Salvador, Bahia. He was born in Candeal Pequeno, a small neighbourhood in the Brotas area of Salvador de Bahia...
and the acoustic disc of Titãs
Titãs
Titãs are a rock band from São Paulo, Brazil. Their best-known line up is the one in the album Cabeça Dinossauro : Nando Reis , Branco Mello , Marcelo Fromer , Arnaldo Antunes , Tony Bellotto , Paulo Miklos , Charles Gavin and Sérgio Britto...
, which amounted to 1.5 million copies sold.
With Gilberto Gil
Gilberto Gil
Gilberto Passos Gil Moreira , better known as Gilberto Gil or , is a Brazilian singer, guitarist, and songwriter, known for both his musical innovation and political commitment...
and Bem Gil, Morelenbaum toured the USA in March 2010 as "The String Concert featuring Jacques Morelenbaum & Bem Gil."
International partners
He also served as arranger, at works by international artists such as Portuguese band MadredeusMadredeus
Madredeus is a Portuguese band. Their music combines traditional Portuguese music with influences of modern folk music...
, Portuguese singer Dulce Pontes
Dulce Pontes
Dulce José Silva Pontes is a Portuguese songwriter and singer who performs in many musical styles, including pop, folk and classical music. She is usually defined as a world music artist...
, Japanese group Gontiti
Gontiti
Gontiti is a Japanese world music guitar duo formed in 1978 by Masahiko "Gonzalez" Mikami and Masahide "Titi" Matsumura...
, Angolan composer Paulo Flores
Paulo Flores
Paulo Flores is a musician from Angola.Flores was born in Luanda and spent some of his childhood in Lisbon. His music is mostly written in Portuguese though some is in the Kimbundu language. His music is often political dealing with the hardships of Angolan life, the war, and corruption. His...
, Scottish/American musician David Byrne
David Byrne
David Byrne may refer to:*David Byrne , musician and former Talking Heads frontman**David Byrne , his eponymous album*David Byrne , Irish footballer*David Byrne , English footballer...
, Cape Verdean singer Cesária Évora
Cesária Évora
Cesária Évora is a Cape Verdean popular singer. Nicknamed the "barefoot diva" for performing without shoes, Évora is perhaps the best internationally known practitioner of "morna."-Early life:...
and pianist and composer Ryuichi Sakamoto
Ryuichi Sakamoto
After working as a session musician with Haruomi Hosono and Yukihiro Takahashi in 1977, the trio formed the internationally successful electronic music band Yellow Magic Orchestra in 1978. Known for their seminal influence on electronic music, the group helped pioneer electronic genres such as...
, among others. Among his best known work is Transparente, in partnership with Mariza
Mariza
Mariza is the stage name of a popular fado singer. She was born Marisa dos Reis Nunes on 16 December 1973 in Lourenço Marques, Mozambique. At the time, Mozambique was known as the Portuguese Overseas Province of Mozambique....
. In 2001, he participated as cellist on the recording of the DVD All this time, by Sting. In 2008, he produced and arranged the Mexican singer Julieta Venegas
Julieta Venegas
Julieta Venegas Percevault , known professionally as Julieta Venegas, is a Mexican singer, songwriter, instrumentalist and producer, who sings pop-rock in Spanish. She speaks English, Portuguese, and Spanish fluently. She has a twin sister, Yvonne, who is a photographer...
MTV Unplugged
MTV Unplugged (Julieta Venegas album)
- DVD :- Personnel :* Gustavo Borner: Recording engineer, mixing, mastering. Mixed at: Igloo Music * Juan Pablo Falluca: Movil recording* Juan Carlos Ertze: Recording ssistant* Gabriel Castanon: Recording assistant...
. In 2010, he was the arranger for Omar Sosa
Omar Sosa
Omar Sosa is a composer, bandleader, and jazz pianist.-Biography:Sosa began studying marimba at age eight, then switched to piano at the Escuela Nacional de Musica in Havana, where he studied jazz. Sosa moved to Quito, Ecuador, in 1993, then San Francisco, California, in 1995...
's Ceremony album (World Village WVF479042) with the NDR
Norddeutscher Rundfunk
Norddeutscher Rundfunk is a public radio and television broadcaster, based in Hamburg. In addition to the city-state of Hamburg, NDR transmits for the German states of Lower Saxony, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and Schleswig-Holstein...
Bigband.
Movies
Morelenbaum appears alongside Caetano Veloso in a cameo role in Talk to HerTalk to Her
Talk to Her is a 2002 Spanish comedy-drama film written and directed by Pedro Almodóvar, starring Javier Cámara, Darío Grandinetti, Leonor Watling, Geraldine Chaplin, and Rosario Flores...
, by Pedro Almodóvar
Pedro Almodóvar
Pedro Almodóvar Caballero is a Spanish film director, screenwriter and producer.Almodóvar is arguably the most successful and internationally known Spanish filmmaker of his generation. His films, marked by complex narratives, employ the codes of melodrama and use elements of pop culture, popular...
. He composed, in partnership with Antonio Pinto
Antonio Pinto
Antonio Pinto may refer to:*António Pinto , Portuguese long-distance runner*Antonio Pinto , Brazilian composer of film music...
, the soundtrack to Central Station (which received the Prêmio Sharp (Sharp Award) for Best Soundtrack). Orfeu do Carnaval, Tieta do Agreste, and O Quatrilho
O Quatrilho
O Quatrilho is a 1995 Brazilian drama film directed by Fábio Barreto. It was adapted from a José Clemente Pozenato novel by telenovela writer Antônio Calmon and screenwriter Leopoldo Serran. It stars famous telenovela actresses Patrícia Pillar and Glória Pires and Bruno Campos, which later became...
are among others works. Besides these works, ruled the symphony orchestras of Bahia
Bahia
Bahia is one of the 26 states of Brazil, and is located in the northeastern part of the country on the Atlantic coast. It is the fourth most populous Brazilian state after São Paulo, Minas Gerais and Rio de Janeiro, and the fifth-largest in size...
and Brasilia
Brasília
Brasília is the capital city of Brazil. The name is commonly spelled Brasilia in English. The city and its District are located in the Central-West region of the country, along a plateau known as Planalto Central. It has a population of about 2,557,000 as of the 2008 IBGE estimate, making it the...
in some presentations.
As part of the Morelenbaum2/Sakamoto ensemble, he released the CD Casa in 2002 with Paula Morelenbaum
Paula Morelenbaum
Regina Paula Martins Morelenbaum is a Brazilian singer, born in Rio de Janeiro. She and her husband Jaques Morelenbaum were in the band that toured with Antonio Carlos Jobim from 1984–1994....
, guitarist Luiz Brasil
Luiz Brasil
Luiz Brasil is a Brazilian guitarist. He is best known as a guitarist who has performed with Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil, Gal Costa, Nando Reis, Cassia Eller, and many other vocalists.He was born into a musical family: his mother played piano, his brothers Jorge and Marcelo became drummers, and his...
, and pianist Ryuichi Sakamoto
Ryuichi Sakamoto
After working as a session musician with Haruomi Hosono and Yukihiro Takahashi in 1977, the trio formed the internationally successful electronic music band Yellow Magic Orchestra in 1978. Known for their seminal influence on electronic music, the group helped pioneer electronic genres such as...
. The project was recorded in the home of Tom Jobim, composer of all the songs on the disc. This group performed in jazz festivals at Montreux
Montreux
Montreux is a municipality in the district of Riviera-Pays-d'Enhaut in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland.It is located on Lake Geneva at the foot of the Alps and has a population, , of and nearly 90,000 in the agglomeration.- History :...
, Vienna
Vienna
Vienna is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Austria and one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's primary city, with a population of about 1.723 million , and is by far the largest city in Austria, as well as its cultural, economic, and political centre...
, Lisbon
Lisbon
Lisbon is the capital city and largest city of Portugal with a population of 545,245 within its administrative limits on a land area of . The urban area of Lisbon extends beyond the administrative city limits with a population of 3 million on an area of , making it the 9th most populous urban...
, Porto
Porto
Porto , also known as Oporto in English, is the second largest city in Portugal and one of the major urban areas in the Iberian Peninsula. Its administrative limits include a population of 237,559 inhabitants distributed within 15 civil parishes...
, Rome
Rome
Rome is the capital of Italy and the country's largest and most populated city and comune, with over 2.7 million residents in . The city is located in the central-western portion of the Italian Peninsula, on the Tiber River within the Lazio region of Italy.Rome's history spans two and a half...
, and Milan
Milan
Milan is the second-largest city in Italy and the capital city of the region of Lombardy and of the province of Milan. The city proper has a population of about 1.3 million, while its urban area, roughly coinciding with its administrative province and the bordering Province of Monza and Brianza ,...
, among others, and in 2003 released a live album, A Day in New York.