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| also, these recordings available through Amazon.com:
Robertinho Silva - Speak No Evil (1994) |
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| Saxophone and flute player Paul Lieberman has been crossing boundaries with his music for a long time. Reviewers, listeners, and fellow performers call Paul "inspired" and "inspiring," citing the "joy," "understanding," "commitment," and "heart" in his music, and the "great lyricism," "supreme facility," and "impeccable time" with which he plays. After a session at Mickey Hart's, Gil Evans noted to Airto: "everything he plays sounds right," and David Sanborn responded to a show at New York's Village Gate with a surprise kiss! After childhood classical flute and choral performance, Paul's junior high band director handed him a saxophone to learn. He was soon gigging on it. Paul earned his BA in Music from Yale University in 1978, and then began freelancing in New York, where he studied privately with Kenny Werner, Dave Liebman, and Lee Konitz. It was during this period, while working with the New York-based Brazilian big band "Amazon," that Paul began developing the unique approach to the piccolo with which he consistently ignites audiences. Paul responded to simultaneous tour invitations in 1982 from Buddy Rich and Brazilian Jazz legends Airto and Flora Purim by becoming the only "gringo" in the all-Brazilian group, and toured the US for the next year and a half, where he appeared at major clubs, theaters, and festivals, performed for audiences of up to 30,000, and made his Lincoln Center debut. An invitation to move to Brazil led Paul to Rio de Janeiro from 1985 to 1989, where he found the love of his life, adapted so well as to be regularly presumed a native, and became Brazil's first call studio reed player, recording on over 50 albums and many jingles and TV soundtracks, which in turn led to arranging and producing work for CBS, Warner, and other labels. Paul has performed and/or recorded with Pat Metheny, David Sanborn, Don Grusin, Jaco Pastorius, Mickey Hart, Taj Mahal, David "Fathead" Newman, Lew Soloff, Paquito D'Rivera, Ronnie Foster, Claudio Roditi, Dick Oatts, Conrad Herwig, Brian Lynch, Wayne Bergeron, David Berkman, Bobby Sanabria, The Temptations, and even Zippy the Chimp, as well as Brazilian stars such as Simone, Chico Buarque, Djavan, Toninho Horta, Alcione, Joao Bosco, Leny Andrade, and Roberto Carlos, along with a veritable Who's Who of Brazil's top instrumental artists, including Hermeto Pascoal, Cesar Camargo Mariano, and many, many others. In addition to extended gigs at such New York music shrines as Sweet Basil and SOB's and national tours of the U.S. and Brazil, Paul has also performed in Australia, Belgium, Canada, England, Germany, Hawaii, Norway, Poland, Switzerland, and Wales. He is currently a regular member of the groups of two Grammy Award winning pianists: Jeff Holmes and Paul Sullivan, has made Featured Artist and Master Class appearances at New England colleges, and in 2006 accepted a temporary appointment as Adjunct Professor of Jazz Theory and Improvisation at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. MORE: PaulLieberman.net |
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