Jaques Morelenbaum

Former <a href="spotify:artist:1CnyOcoitdKDn2OkHdevpo">A Barca do Sol</a> member, Jaques Morelenbaum participated in Tom Jobim's and <a href="spotify:artist:7HGNYPmbDrMkylWqeFCOIQ">Caetano Veloso</a>'s Grammy-winning albums and has been actively working with <a href="spotify:artist:6L31zhaK3DUZEze55P3lYJ">Egberto Gismonti</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:1tcgfoMTT1szjUeaikxRjA">Ryuichi Sakamoto</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:0Nks3cFWU2a7rooAlFQYgn">Cesária Évora</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:3mlxV3eHtMwvoOSLzR6CFj">Madredeus</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:0rSTXALHu0EKAawPLBdODH">Marisa Monte</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:2euX7vCVnJy3TVEGfc0RCl">Titãs</a>, Skank, <a href="spotify:artist:5jvQoouPSDvUEwynz5KPpv">Carlinhos Brown</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:2krrkKvM52JgvfGu2Uewbg">Daniela Mercury</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:5BWqFYIPTnFx3OPWOoJvmD">Gabriel o Pensador</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:4ph6Bt1mkDlmf32PSvRa8A">Elba Ramalho</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:23T5kuXiRZWsH5w1lxowMh">Fernanda Abreu</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:1b8kpp4DUwt1hWaxTiWQhD">Gal Costa</a>, and many other top artists. Also a member of <a href="spotify:artist:1WxunfiOh9Ws0uu2JoDmjL">the Quarteto Jobim/Morelenbaum</a>, formed with <a href="spotify:artist:7EFkAxz0BUzUJ7ZmAdBmSN">Paula Morelenbaum</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:6lq7wtjRyBIwR2aJj57kuf">Paulo Jobim</a>, and Daniel Jobim (respectively, Tom Jobim's son and grandson, all four former members of Jobim's Banda Nova), Morelenbaum has writing music for cinema (including for the award-winning Central do Brasil and Orfeu do Carnaval). Son of conductor Henrique Morelenbaum and piano teacher Sarah Morelenbaum, Jaques Morelenbaum grew up in a highly musical environment, starting to study music at age three. At 12, he took up the cello. Morelenbaum's first professional experience was in the <a href="spotify:artist:1CnyOcoitdKDn2OkHdevpo">A Barca do Sol</a> group. Having performed under <a href="spotify:artist:2LmyJyCF5V1eQyvHgJNbTn">Leonard Bernstein</a> at <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22Tanglewood%22">Tanglewood</a>, he also participated in Jobim's Banda Nova from 1984 to 1994, having already performed live with him in 1985 at a concert at Carnegie Hall. Among his other albums, Morelenbaum participated in the Grammy-winning Antonio Brasileiro. After 1988, he also became a sideman for <a href="spotify:artist:6L31zhaK3DUZEze55P3lYJ">Egberto Gismonti</a> for five years, having taken part in his albums for <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22ECM%22">ECM</a> Infância, Música de Sobrevivência, and Amazônia. Morelenbaum also conduced the Orquestra Sinfônica da Bahia in 1997, played <a href="spotify:artist:6L31zhaK3DUZEze55P3lYJ">Gismonti</a> pieces, and collaborated with <a href="spotify:artist:6L31zhaK3DUZEze55P3lYJ">Gismonti</a> on the composition of music for ballets, films, and diverse ensembles. After having participated in the Chico & Caetano TV show (hosted by <a href="spotify:artist:6tOsSffQQIXmK8TqsDck8t">Chico Buarque</a> and <a href="spotify:artist:7HGNYPmbDrMkylWqeFCOIQ">Caetano Veloso</a>), Morelenbaum started to work for <a href="spotify:artist:7HGNYPmbDrMkylWqeFCOIQ">Caetano Veloso</a> on his Circuladô (1991), beginning a prolific collaboration with <a href="spotify:artist:7HGNYPmbDrMkylWqeFCOIQ">Caetano</a> as instrumentalist, musical director, producer, and arranger, having been responsible for the arrangements and production of the Grammy winner Livro, along with other albums by him. During production on Circuladô, Morelenbaum met <a href="spotify:artist:1tcgfoMTT1szjUeaikxRjA">Ryuichi Sakamoto</a>, who was also participating on the album, and started collaborating with him, too. In the mid-'90s, Morelenbaum performed in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo at the Free Jazz Festival with ten percussionists of the drum section (bateria) of the Mangueira samba school. With <a href="spotify:artist:7HGNYPmbDrMkylWqeFCOIQ">Caetano Veloso</a>, Morelenbaum wrote and produced the soundtracks for the films O Quatrilho (Fábio Barreto), which was nominated for an Oscar in 1995 as Best Foreign Film, and Tieta do Agreste and Orfeu do Carnaval (both by Cacá Diegues). He also co-wrote (with <a href="spotify:artist:7jBJcoFeQkHaqrJBIZsd5h">Antônio Pinto</a>) the soundtrack for the film Central do Brasil (by Walter Moreira Salles), which won over 30 international awards and was nominated in 1999 for a Best Foreign Film Oscar. That year, Morelenbaum was awarded the Prêmio Sharp in the Best Cinema Soundtrack category. Two years later, Morelenbaum² (Jaques and wife <a href="spotify:artist:7EFkAxz0BUzUJ7ZmAdBmSN">Paula</a>) collaborated with <a href="spotify:artist:1tcgfoMTT1szjUeaikxRjA">Sakamoto</a> on an album of Jobim material entitled Casa. In 2003 the trio, with guitarist Luis Brasil and percussionist Marcelo Costa, cut their live set in a Manhattan studio, A Day in New York. In 2006, Morelenbaum produced, arranged, and conducted the Lisboa Sinfonietta, was a soloist on fado singer <a href="spotify:artist:65nZq8l5VZRG4X445F5kmN">Mariza</a>'s landmark Concerto Em Lisboa, and arranged strings for <a href="spotify:artist:0Nks3cFWU2a7rooAlFQYgn">Cesaria Evora</a>'s Rogamar. While he didn't record on his own for five years, he was instrumental in providing arrangements and production help to recordings by <a href="spotify:artist:7HGNYPmbDrMkylWqeFCOIQ">Caetano Veloso</a> (Lingua) and <a href="spotify:artist:0rSTXALHu0EKAawPLBdODH">Monte</a> (Infinito Particular) among others. In 2011, he collaborated with <a href="spotify:artist:2qW0CNnmvdEQwiabdareHi">Paolo Fresu</a> and <a href="spotify:artist:2zyVwasA2QkaVopBFZ2RfX">Omar Sosa</a> on Alma, and followed it three years later with Rendez-Vous in Tokyo with Japanese composer, arranger, guitarist, and producer <a href="spotify:artist:0c2aTzwUggNnIFSBi09OmV">Goro Ito</a>. In 2014, he issued CelloSam3atrio: Saudade Do Futuro Futuro de Saudade with himself on cello, Rafael Barata on drums, and guitarist <a href="spotify:artist:1fjf6ys7DWMxBlHVVT8HTs">Lula Galvão</a>. Morelenbaum's trio with <a href="spotify:artist:2qW0CNnmvdEQwiabdareHi">Fresu</a> and <a href="spotify:artist:2zyVwasA2QkaVopBFZ2RfX">Sosa</a> expanded to a quartet to include vocalist <a href="spotify:artist:0aVJmlOwIxTZeHzhFiFL5Y">Natacha Atlas</a> for 2016's EROS; Live in Italia (Omaggio a Jobim) was performed and recorded with <a href="spotify:artist:7EFkAxz0BUzUJ7ZmAdBmSN">Paula</a> and CelloSam3atrio. The following year saw the release of Zélia Duncan and Jaques Morelenbaum Interpretam Milton Nascimento: Invento Mais. In 2017, he arranged and guested on <a href="spotify:artist:19WFN60SGDkHINkU6FjS3V">Os Argonauta</a>'s Samba delle Streghe. ~ Alvaro Neder, Rovi