Savassi Festival-NY presents the Cliff Korman Trio

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Savassi Festival-NY presents The Cliff Korman Trio at Smalls Jazz Club (183 West 10 Street) September 9, 2014. In this trio performance, the first set of an evening which features three pianist-led ensembles, Cliff Korman includes original compositions and arrangements which draw from American and Brazilian jazz and popular repertoire and language. Joined by master musicians Harvie S (bass) and Rafael Barata (drums), he imagines a set of exciting encounters and discoveries.

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Pianist, arranger, composer, improviser, and educator, Cliff has performed and recorded with Brazilian artists including Astrud Gilberto, Toninho Horta, and Leny Andrade, and was featured in a two-piano production with Wagner Tiso and Milton Nascimento at the International Festival of MPB (Musica Popular Brasileira) in São Paulo. He produced and arranged a series of recordings for Chesky Records including Chuck Mangione's "The Feeling's Back" and "Entre Amigos", a project which pairs Brazilian vocalist Rosa Passos with American bass master Ron Carter.

His release "Migrations" (Planet Arts, 2004), which garnered critical acclaim from Jazz Times, Cadence and Ben Ratliff in the New York Times, is an aural representation of the mark Brazilian music and culture have made on his compositions and improvisational language His duo recording "Mood Ingênuo: The Dream of Pixinguinha and Duke Ellington" (Jazzheads, 1999) with Grammy Award winner Paulo Moura was one of the first cross-cultural explorations of jazz and choro, and exemplifies the vitality and creativity of his work with this iconical Brazilian instrumentalist and composer/arranger.
With the support of the Savassi Festival 2013, Cliff presented Interventions, his work for jazz-symphonic orchestra, at the Palaçio das Artes in Belo Horizonte, Brasil.

His tutorial book Inside the Brazilian Rhythm Section written in collaboration with Brazilian guitarist Nelson Faria is published by Sher Music. His article on Paulo Moura "Pushing at Boundaries: The Path of a Brazilian Instrumentalist" appears in the online journal Critical Studies in Improvisation (www.criticalimprov.com/article/view/1363). Cliff obtained his doctorate at the Manhattan School of Music, where as Coordinator of Brazilian Studies he developed and taught a course in Brazilian Popular Music History and led the Brazilian Jazz Ensemble. He is currently on faculty at the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais in Belo Horizonte, where he assists in the implementation of a course in Popular Music Studies and researches aspects of improvisation, choro, and Brazilian popular piano. Under the auspices of the Instituto Paulo Moura he is music coordinator of the project to digitalize and research Paulo Moura's archive.

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