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The Silva..Band

Dee Bell . Marcos Silva . Phil Thompson . Scot Thompson

Dee and Marcos have both recorded on Concord and Laser Records Each have performed professionally domestically & internationally for over 30 years

Dee has recorded with: Marcos is the professor of Phil Thompson’s CD That Rio studies at the Thing was highly acclaimed. He Conservatory has performed with Houston Person Berkeley and has served as Music Director for: Mark Murphy Marcos Silva Toninho Horta John Stowell, Pete Escovedo Andy Narell and many more. Al Plank and has recorded with too many Vince Lateano to name Scott Thompson is the first call Pete Rugalo and more Brazilian bassist and has recorded with Chico Pinheiro Two albums in National top twenty

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Dee Bell . Vocals Marcos Silva . Piano Damien Masterson’s Intercambio; Sandy Cressman’s : Homenagem Brasileira. (Produced) Discography: Multi-instrumentalist, composer, Sempre no Coração. arranger and educator Eddie Pasternak/Joel Evans recordings: project A Dozen Roses Ago. Let There Be Love Nominated for a Grammy, (Produced) with Stan Getz and Eddie Duran Airto’s Missa Espiritual, Struck Toured with by lightning, One by One Paquito D’Rivera, Flora & Airto’s The Sun is out, The with Tom Harrell and Eddie Duran Bud Shank, Magicians, Midnight Sun, , The Colors of Life, Queen of the Laser Records recordings Sagacious musical director for Flora Purim and Night, Speak no Evil Flora’s Song , Grace: for 23 years. Mary Fetig’s (Brazilian Footprints, with Houston Person, Dee Bell (Silva. Bell.Elation, Al Plank, Marcos has writen arrangements Sherie Friedlander (10 Degrees John Stowell, and Michael Spiro for ’s band and replaced as arranger- South, Silva • Bell • Elation composer of Airto’s Spiritual Mass Mary D'Orazi: To Brasil and with Marcos Silva, Andy Narell and in Germany. Bacharach, A Tribute (Produced) Barry Finnerty, Scot Thompson, Phil Thompson Marcos heads the Brazilian Music Phil Thompson . Drums Department at the California Jazz Commendations: Conservatory in Berkeley. released a masterful CD of his own Downbeat Magazine called That Rio Thing, which atracted voted Dee, Talent Deserving Wider Original compositions and kudos from numerous music greats Recognition for Female Vocals”for arrangements have been recorded and radio folk. “Phil Thompson is one both Concord albums. by Bud Shank, , Toninho of those rare American drummers BAM Magazine Horta, , New York’s who can play Brazilian rhythms nominated Let There Be Love as Trio da Paz, as without any “English” accent the Best Debut Album and One by well as Flora and Airto whatsoever. His interpretatin of One as Best Jazz Vocal Album, Brazilian music is fawless.” - Claudio Discography: both in their release years. Roditi. Marcos and Intersection White & LetThere Be Love He performs (drums) with the Pete Black – ’ was a Billboard pick and won the Escovedo Orchestra, the Marcos Crossover label. Bay Area Golden Globe award. Silva quartet, Quarteto Sonando, Bud Shank’s Tomorrow’s Rainbow. Viva Brasil, Cressman’s Homenagem Ricky Encarnacion’s One People, Dee’s rendition of the title track Brasiliera, and Toninho Horta, One Country, One Music; was chosen by Palo Alto records Claudia Villela, Ricardo Peixoto, Dori Viva Brasil’s Festa; Viva Brasil’s own Dr. Herb Wong as the Caymmi, , Wild Mango, Messages. signature interpretation of Let Rhiannon, Mark Murphy, the Ray Claudia Gomez’s Salamandra, a There Be Love for the 1988 Hal Obiedo group, and dozens of others. Leonard Ultimate Jazz frst generation direct master Fakebook. CD; Tierradentro; Scot Thompson. Bass All three of Dee’s albums have been Madeleine Eastman’s Art Atack; in the top of the National airplay Claudia Villela’s Asa Verde; was raised in a music family, picked charts for long runs with Let There Claudia Villela & Ricardo up the drums at three, and moved Be Love and One by One reaching Peixoto’s to the bass at thirteen. He is one of thirteen and nineteen respectively, Inverse Universe. the top Brazilian bass players in the the “historic release” Sagacious Terra Sul’sMoJazz release bay area and has performed with Grace at thirty-one and Kindness of Strangers; Marcos Silva, Chico Pinheiro, and Silva.Bell.Elation at ffty. Harvey Wainapel’s Ambrosia - The the Souls of Mischief to name a few. Music of Kenny Baron; deebell.net [email protected] 415.302.6274