Last night we went to see Milton Nascimento in concert at Duke. It's not every day a musical legend comes to town here so I try to take advantage of the opportunity if I can. He was performing with the Jobim Trio (inc. son and grandson of A. C. Jobim plus the drummer from Jobim's group) in a concert saluting the 50th anniversary of bossa nova. Altho as Nascimento noted, a lot of things have happened since then -- bossa nova, tropicalia, clube da esquina. Here is Sarah's write-up of last night's show. And here's a nice review of a show earlier in the tour which sounds pretty much exactly the same as the one we saw. (Found that review, btw, in a nice mention of the event at Onda Carolina)
It was a fantastic show. The trio (quartet, actually, w/ added bass player) opened alone, w/ "One Note Samba", "Corcovado" and "Aguas de Março" and I was worried that if they kept up that pace of classics I'd be exhausted by night's end. Fortunately, they branched out in territory I'm less familiar, inc. more Jobim tunes, a song by Vinicius de Moraes, a new composition by pianist Daniel (grandson of A. C.) Jobim, and several Nascimento classics. The band was in the groove all night and Nascimento has lost none of his amazing vocal range (pretty impressive, seeing as how he'll turn 66 later this month). If they come to a concert hall near you, I highly recommend that you get yrself there.
I'll be hosting the Mondo Mundo radio programme on XDU this Sat. (1-3pm) and you can expect to hear a goodly bit of Nascimento and bossa nova.