Edison Machado - Edison Machado & Boa Nova (2025) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

Far Out Recordings proudly presents a landmark discovery in Brazilian jazz: the long lost album by drumming pioneer Edison Machado. Recorded in New York City in early 1978 but never released, Edison Machado & Boa Nova captures a pivotal figure in Brazilian music history at the height of his artistic powers.

Combining North and South American jazz traditions with Machado's revolutionary samba innovations, Edison Machado & Boa Nova represents a triumph against the odds. After facing persecution under Brazil's military dictatorship and being forced to sell his drum kit in 1976, Machado found renewed creative purpose in New York with the Boa Nova ensemble. The resulting album captures the essence of his genius - sophisticated yet wild, controlled yet daring, leading an ensemble of some of the best jazz, samba and bossa nova players of the day.

At just fifteen years old, Machado revolutionized Brazilian music through an accident that would change everything - when his snare drum broke during a performance, he began playing samba rhythms on the cymbal. This innovation, known as "samba no prato" (samba on the cymbals), brought new layers of dynamism to samba and proved instrumental in the development of bossa nova alongside contemporaries like Antonio Carlos Jobim and João Gilberto.

TRACKLIST

1. Edison Machado - Porto Feliz
2. Edison Machado - Janeiro
3. Edison Machado - Serena
4. Edison Machado - A Chegada
5. Edison Machado - Para Ana
6. Edison Machado - Pra Nova
7. Edison Machado - Constelação
8. Edison Machado - Ascensão
9. Edison Machado - Clodes
10. Edison Machado - Naquela Base
11. Edison Machado - Atlantico



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