LIVE at Piedmont Piano Company
Marcos Silva Quartet
For the past three decades, Rio-born multi-instrumentalist, composer, arranger, and educator Marcos Silva has poured his energy into spreading the gospel of Brazilian music, playing an inordinate role in the San Francisco Bay Area’s emergence as a verdant outpost of Brazilian jazz. In 2019, he released his first new album in 30 years, Brasil From Head to Toe, featuring his own compositions. He’ll be joined by a couple of the musicians on the album, Mauricio Zottarelli (drums) and Gary Meek (sax & flute), as well as Richard Lindsey (bass).
General Admission
$30 in advance / $35 at the door
We are offering a limited number of seats for this performance. Advance purchase is recommended. Masking is optional.
MARCOS SILVA
Pianist, composer, arranger, producer and educator Marcos Silva performs worldwide. Nominated for a Grammys, he toured with many artists, including Paquito D’Rivera, Bud Shank, Claudio Roditi, Raul de Souza, Toninho Horta, Leny Andrade, Edu Lobo, Emilio Santiago, Dori Caymmi and many more. Marcos was musical director for Flora Purim and Airto Moreira for 24 years. He wrote arrangements for Dizzy Gillespie’s band and replaced Gil Evans as composer-arranger of Airto’s Spiritual Mass with a 63 piece orchestra in Germany. He is sought after as a producer of CDs, including two of his own. Marcos heads the Brazilian Music Department at the California Jazz Conservatory in Berkeley. marcossilva.com
GARY MEEK
Celebrated saxophonist Gary Meek hails from Encino and currently lives and teaches in Monterey, California. Early in his career, he toured and played keyboards with Dionne Warwick. A talented composer, arranger and studio musician, Gary has worked worldwide with Herb Alpert, Al Jarreau, Jeff Lorber, Brian Bromberg, Oscar Castro-Neves, Green Day, Jay Oliver, Makoto Ozone, Tom Kennedy and many others. He toured and recorded for 20 years with Airto Moreira and Flora Purim. Gary has collaborated with Dave Weckl since 2002. He has appeared on over 200 records, worked as traveling clinician with the Monterey Jazz Festival, and teaches privately in Monterey. garymeek.net
RICHARD LINDSEY
Bassist Richard Lindsey began his musical journey in Southern California studying guitar with David Amaro (Airto, Flora Purim) and classical guitar with Seiko Sesoko, then fell in love with bass guitar at the age of 16. After a stint in Seattle, where he played with jazz guitarist Michael Powers, Richard moved to New York, where he studied with jazz bassist Ron McClure and performed and recorded with a wide range of local ensembles, including the world beat group Bangaroo, jazz drummer Art Lillard’s Heavenly Band, the Celtic roots-rock-R&B group Kips Bay, and Croatian-American singer- songwriter Nenad Bach. Richard played on a number of film and television projects and was featured on the films The Fort Fisher Hermit and A Touch Of Fate. After moving to the Bay Area, he applied his eclectic musical education and love of improvisation to an intensive study of Brazilian music, with the help of Marcos Silva, and he now plays in several Brazilian-oriented ensembles in the Bay Area.
MAURICIO ZOTTARELLI
Brazilian-born and New York City–based drummer and composer Mauricio Zottarelli is a Berklee College of Music graduate credited in more than 80 albums thus far in his career. He has worked with dozens of the most notable artists of today including Hiromi, Eliane Elias, Prasanna, Lee Ritenour, Dave Grusin, Esperanza Spalding, Keiko Matsui, Richard Bona, Paquito D’Rivera, Richard Galliano, Chuck Loeb, Chico Pinheiro, Cláudio Roditi, Joe Locke, Geoffrey Keezer, Mike Pope, Eldar, Ivan Lins, Carmen Souza, Rosa Passos, Dom Salvador, Jovino Santos Neto, Nilson Matta, Toninho Horta, Filó Machado, Marcos Silva. mzdrums.com