Trem das Cores: The Music of Caetano Veloso

Gaia Wilmer Large Ensemble + Jaques Morelenbaum

Trem das Cores is a celebration of Caetano Veloso, Brazilian singer-songwriter, and important figure in Brazilian culture and in Morelenbaum’s and Wilmer’s lives. The idea comes from their love and great pleasure in working together with Caetano’s work while celebrating his 80th birthday and, most of all, honoring him as a composer, beyond his greatness as a singer and a poet – hence the idea of an instrumental journey through his music.

Gaia and Jaques worked together for the first time in 2018, in a project paying homage to Egberto Gismonti’s music - also a celebration of his 70th birthday – in a series of concerts in Brazil organized by Gaia, and the recording of “Folia – The Music of Egberto Gismonti”, with Gaia Wilmer Large Ensemble and Jaques as one of the guests. They followed up with a collaborative project paying homage to Caetano, featuring an ensemble of two flutes, clarinet, two saxophones, cello, electric guitar, accordion, bass and drums, and began developing arrangements for songs that were less or more well-known, all written by Caetano Veloso (including some collaborations, such as Terceira Margem do Rio, with Milton Nascimento).

Jaques Morelenbaum is a cellist, composer, arranger, and musical producer who has worked with great names of Brazilian music, such as Caetano himself, as well as Tom Jobim, Gilberto Gil and Egberto Gismonti. Morelenbaum has recorded and arranged/produced some of the most important recordings of Brazilian music. He has also been a fundamental part of the Jobim-Morelenbaum quartet and the duo and trio with Ryuichi Sakamoto.

Gaia Wilmer is a saxophonist, composer, arranger, and music producer and has been active both in Brazil and the United States. Wilmer has been carving herself quite a niche in the jazz and Brazilian instrumental music scene and has worked with the likes of Egberto Gismonti, Ra-Kalam Bob Moses, Frank Carlberg, amongst others.

Ensemble Personnel:

Maiara Moraes - flutes

Yulia Musayelyan - flutes

Oran Etkin - clarinet/bass clarinet

Josué dos Santos - tenor sax/flute

Vinicius Gomes - electric guitar

Vitor Gonçalves - accordion

Eduardo Belo - bass

Eduardo Ribeiro - drums

Gaia Wilmer - alto sax

Jaques Morelenbaum - cello

$20 advance | $25 day-of | $12 Student

*fees not included ($2 facility fee per ticket + cc processing fees)