, Sergio Barrozo and Duduka Da Fonseca One for Dom Duduka Da Fonseca honors a seminal influence.

In 1965, Duduka Da Fonseca was a 14-year-old budding City, that he finally had the chance to play with him. drummer living in his native Rio. Every day, on his “He knew I was around, so he called me because his way to school, he’d walk past pioneering pianist Dom drummer wasn’t able to do a gig,” Da Fonseca recounts. Salvador’s rehearsals. When Salvador, who was at the “When we started rehearsing, he was surprised that I forefront of the samba- scene, released Rio 65 Trio, knew his music so well. I said, ‘I’ve been playing with it changed Da Fonseca’s life forever. The recording, you since I was 14!’” which featured bassist Sergio Barrozo and trailblazing During the ’80s, Salvador and Da Fonseca played drummer Edison Machado, unleashed a rash of samba together regularly in a quartet with saxophonist and hard-bop hybrids. Da Fonseca lived and breathed and bassist . Then in 2015 the album, playing along with it until he learned it they joined Barrozo onstage at Carnegie Hall to inside-out. “That album was amazing,” the three- commemorate Rio 65 Trio’s 50th anniversary. “It time Grammy-nominated musician says by phone was a dream come true,” Da Fonseca recalls. Missing from Los Angeles, still enthralled after all these years. was Machado, who died in 1990 and with whom Da “Just to hear the way they interacted and played was Fonseca had also shared a long friendship. amazing. I had never heard any other Brazilian group On his latest album, the fourth with his Brazil- or trio play that way.” based trio — comprised of pianist David Feldman On his latest release, Duduka and acoustic bassist Guto Wirtti — Da Fonseca evokes Da Fonseca Trio Plays Dom Salvador a range of emotions while reimagining 11 Salvador (Sunnyside), the bandleader pays compositions. For instance, “Maria,” a ballad named tribute to the prolific composer and after Salvador’s wife of 50 years, is minimalistic and friend who has indelibly influenced delicately haunting and nostalgic. On “Para Elis,” which his life and career. honors iconic singer Elis Regina, the trio is augmented Years after his adolescent by the elegant cello of . obsession with Rio 65 Trio, Da Ultimately, Da Fonseca says, Salvador’s Fonseca had a brief encounter with satisfaction with the album was the true measure of Salvador, but it wasn’t until 1980, its success. Fortunately, the drummer confirms, “He while both were living in New York was happy.” —Lissette Corsa Duduka Da Fonseca

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