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Artist
Guilherme Vergueiro
12+ albums
jazzacid jazzJazz Sambabrazilian
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The whatmusic.com interview... To coincide with the re-issue of Guilherme Vergueiro's first solo LP, 'Naturalmente', we caught up with the man himself, currently working and recording in Rio de Janeiro... At what age did you start playing piano? I started to "fool around" at the piano at age 5. What and who were your musical influences (Brasilian and international) in your formative years? Well, I had classical training, and when I was a teenager the Bossa Nova trios were happening in Brazil, and I enjoyed listening to them very much. All of them. Tenorio Jr., Joao Donato, Luiz Eca, The Bossa Tres; and I liked very much the simplicity and touch of Jobim as a piano player. With the disappearance of the trios in the repression era, American Music (jazz) became more and more present in Brazil, and I enjoyed listening to Thelonious Monk, Errol Garner, Duke Ellington, Red Garland, Andrew Hill, and again the simplicity of Count Basie and originality of Nat Cole. Who did you perform with in Brasil? At the beginning of my career, I worked many years for Edison Machado, and with his quintet we played and recorded for Agostinho dos Santos. I also played for Leny Andrade, and on occasion for Djavan, Nana Caymmi and Chico Buarque. For almost the last 20 years I've been leading my own groups and recording solo albums, and sometimes I have special guests like Joao Nogueira, Mariana de Moraes, Ron Carter and Wayne Shorter, among others. Any obvious stylistic differences betwee
