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Around Brazil

by Simon Nabatov

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Desde que o samba é samba 05:16
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Estrada do Sol 04:31
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Partita de Março 10:22
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4.
Nenê 03:10
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Eu vim da Bahia 08:50
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Depois que o Ilê passar 05:31
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Na Baixa do Sapateiro 09:45
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My Sertão 04:16
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Valsa de Pôrto Das Caixas 04:50
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10.
Qualquer Coisa 06:01
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Você é linda 06:27
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Russian-born pianist Simon Nabatov is a chameleon. When I first heard him, he was playing Benny Goodman-style jazz on the 1996 album Swing Kings with vibist Wolfgang Schluter and drummer Charly Antolini. Even in this conventional setting, one could tell that Nabatov was special – not only capabale of playing classy Teddy Wilson-type piano but also displaying the most astonishing technique: creating phenomenal runs that would have made Art Tatum proud, while also treating the piano as a playground for mischievously anarchic fun.
Other Nabatov albums have emphasised his anarchy, with adventurous experiments which often explored the farthest boundaries of the avant-garde. Both (or all) sides of his nature are present on this album, which lets Nabatov loose in a repertoire of Brazilian tunes, including a couple by Antonio Carlos Jobim and three by Caetano Veloso. Simon suggests Brazilian rhythms rather than emphasizing them – and without any need for help from percussionists. Indeed, a percussionist would find it hard to keep up with the fecundity of his imagination. On Estrada do Sol, for example,his hands seem to play two entirely different rhythms at once. His own composition, My Sertao, sounds like a classical toccata with an underlying Latin pulse. Other tracks, like Gilberto Gil’s Eu Vim da Bahia, display a gentler, more lyrical side to Nabatov.
My favourite track of all is Partita de Marco, a ten-minute tour de force which starts as if it was written by Stockhausen – jumping about all over the piano, like an avant-garde kitten on the keys. Musical lines come at the listener from all directions before the improvisation settles down into Jobim’s beautiful Waters of March, decorated with gorgeous rivulets of sound flowing from the keyboard. Simon Nabatov seems capable of playing anything – but then he was trained at the Moscow Conservatory and the Julliard school.
The sound is translucent – recorded at the Rainbow Studio in Oslo.

Tony Augarde

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released October 6, 2023

Simon Nabatov - solo piano

Recorded in Rainbow Studio Oslo 2005
Recording engineer Jan Erik Kongshaug
Released 2006 on ACT Music 9754-2

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Simon Nabatov Cologne, Germany

Simon Nabatov, pianist and composer, was born in Moscow in 1959.
In 1979 he emigrated to the USA, spent in NY next 10 years and 1989 he moved to Germany.
Simon Nabatov played with the "who's who" of the jazz and improvised music community, gave concerts in over 60 countries, appeared on the numerous international festivals, received prizes and documented his music on 30 CD's under his own name. ... more

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