Bixiga
2000
- Prêt-à-Porter de Tafetá (João Bosco / Aldir Blanc) 5:36
- Três no Choro: Aperitivo (Mário Rossi / Pernambuco / Aires da Costa Pessoa), Arranca Toco (Jaime Florence), Modulando (Rubens Leal Brito) 7:23
- Bixiga (Nailor Proveta) 7:50
- Catavento e Girassol (Guinga e Aldir Blanc) 6:19
- Cartola e Cavaquinho: As Rosas Não Falam (Cartola), Folhas Secas (Nelson Cavaquinho / Guilherme de Brito), Notícia (Nelson Cavaquinho / Alcides Caminha / Nourival Bahia) 9:04
- Baião de Lacan (Guinga / Aldir Blanc) 7:32
- Urubu Malandro (Lourival Carvalho / João de Barro) 3:21
Nailor Proveta – alto and soprano sax and clarinet
Cacá Malaquias – tenor sax and flute
Vitor de Alcântara – tenor and soprano sax and flute
Ubaldo Versolatto – baritone sax, flute and piccolo
François de Lima – trombone
Valdir Ferreira – trombone
Nahor Gomes – trumpet and flugelhorn
Walmir Gil – trumpet and flugelhorn
Odésio Jericó – trumpet and flugelhorn
Jarbas Barbosa – guitar and acoustic guitar
Edson Alves – electric bass
Lelo Izar – drums
Fred Prince – percussion
Produced by Rodolfo Stroeter
Recorded at studio Banda Sonora in Sao Paulo in August, 1999. Mixed at studio Tom Brasil in November, 1999 by Alberto Ranellucci
Design: Marcílio Godoi
This is the second album by Banda Mantiqueira, the most important Brazilian big band of the last fifty years. In “Bixiga”, the band’s leader, sax player Nailor Proveta, together with his bandmates feature unreleased versions of original compositions by most renowned composers such as Pixinguinha, Abel Ferreira, Cartola, Nelson Cavaquinho, and João de Barro. By exploring more deeply Brazilian genres such as choro and samba, the band potentially extends these traditions with amazing arrangements and improvisations.