Opening track off the funky absolute monster from 1971
Album is titled “Sangue, Suor, e Raca”
Blood, Sweat, and Race
Except “Raca” in Portuguese also means something like energy, tenacity
Persistence
The bandleader is “Dom” Salvador
I can’t match the write up from this nyt article
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/09/nyregion/brazilian-samba-star-dom-salvador-river-cafe.html
You should definitely read it
Dom Salvador left Brazil and came to NY after the album
He’s been playing a nightly gig at a restaurant in Brooklyn for over 40 years!
Surely shut down now due to COVID-19
Will it come back?
Whole LP is just incredible
Samba, jazz, funk, baiao (the much-comped “Hei, Voce“), soul, balanco
It’s one of my favorite 11 albums of all time
Ed Motta did a tribute to Dom Salvador in 2002
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUxlQG76-sI
He’s kinda like Salvador’s heir
Pianist/keyboardist (often on Rhodes or Wurlitzer), multi-instrumentalist
Huge record collector
Eclectic tastes
That’s from Dwitza, probably his jazziest album https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUxlQG76-sI&list=PL678EBD3F570BE722
and my favorite of his
Tati gave it to me as a birthday present many years ago
He came to Chicago in 2014
Did a show at the Morseland in Rogers Park
So we went of course.
He showed off his chops as a human beatbox…and riff-box, and upright bass-box, and…
https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipO86DxohhIUab0yiSRoGfpBHWpBjGTD-2ifLhupqMk9Jhcr70oM7qo_CWpot4aMIA?key=S2NmeFB5WEswUGx1NmxiMmdCanAtNUcwX0Z4c0RR
Sorry for the shaky camerawork
I had had a lotta cachaca by that point
Whole Dom Salvador album
https://youtu.be/Pcsnv2FkfGk
I think I’m pretty ecumenical and tolerant
But if you don’t like anything on this, you may be dead inside
Hoping we get through this, and I get to hear Dom Salvador play at River Cafe one day
Oh one final footnote
His band was called Abolicao (abolition)
It’s the name of a street and neighborhood on Rio’s North side
Street was originally called “May 13th Street”
Because that was the date of the law that abolished slavery in Brazil
1619 project has done a phenomenal job educating folks about the centrality of slavery in American history
And points out for the neophytes (most of us) that the U.S. was actually very late in abolishing slavery
But in Brazil it didn’t happen until 1888!
[Response to posting of Clara Nunes’ Canto das Tres Racas]
Turek, I love that song and love Clara Nunes
I am a fan of the samba school Portela, to whom she is a diety (in fact one of their most famous sambas, she appears as Iansa, the orixa of winds and storms)
Here’s what the school looked like on the day of her funeral after her untimely passing.
