Circular II Carlos Ezequiel

• 1Shift In00:38
• 2Circular Ii07:11
• 3The Other Side12:25
• 4Naná05:40
• 5Não Exatamente09:57
• 6Samba pro Carlos05:45
• 7Shift Out00:37
• Total Runtime42:13

Info for Circular II

Carlos Ezequiel is a drummer, composer and producer. With a career spanning more than 20 years, his biography includes six albums in partnership or as a solo artist, and performances in Brazil and abroad with artists such as Airto Moreira, Letieres Leite, Kurt Rosenwinkel, David Binney, Lage Lund, George Garzone and Sizão Machado, among others. He has toured South America, Japan, India and Europe - in 2019, he was featured at one of the greatest temples of European jazz, Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club in London. His work as a composer combines the sound of modern jazz and Brazilian instrumental music with references from African and Indian music.

Following on from the album Circular (2017), Carlos Ezequiel releases Circular II on 1 December'23, an album in which he explores sonorities and inspirations based on musical experiences in places like India, Senegal, Scandinavia, the USA and South America. In this work, the musician also pays homage to percussionist Naná Vasconcelos (1944 - 2016).

Circular II features compositions by Carlos Ezequiel, such as Naná, The Other Side, Shift In, Shift Out and the track that gives the disc its name. Samba pro Carlos (Nenê) and Não Exatamente (Gustavo Bugni) complete the repertoire.

Carlos Ezequiel is a drummer, composer and producer of jazz and Brazilian instrumental music. Born in Maceió, Carlos lived in the USA in the 1990s, where he played with artists such as Jaleel Shaw and Vardan Ovsepian. Back in Brazil since 2000, he has been nominated for the Visa, Latin Grammy and Brazilian Music Awards. With a career spanning more than 20 years, he lives in São Paulo. He has played in Brazil with international jazz greats such as Kurt Rosenwinkel, Lage Lund and George Garzone.

Josué dos Santos, alto saxophone
Gustavo Bugni, piano
Noa Stroeter, double bass
Carlos Ezequiel, drums

Carlos Ezequiel
is a professional drummer, composer and music producer. Plays with Jazz artists from Brazil and Europe and leads his own group, Carlos Ezequiel Quintet.

In Maceió, his home town, performed at the Maceió Jazz Festival in 1995. In the next year, Carlos won a scholarship to Berklee College of Music, in Boston, USA, where he graduated in 1999. In 2014, he finished a Master`s Degree in Universidade Federal da Bahia, for a research on Polyrhythms and Odd-Meters applied to Brazilian Rhythms.

In 2017, Carlos Ezequiel released “Circular“, recorded with Lage Lund (guitar), David Binney (sax), Gustavo Bugni (piano) and Gui Duvignau (bass). In 2019, released “Aura“, a free jazz duo recording with wind player Josué dos Santos. In 2023, Carlos is releasing a new album, “Circular II“, with Gustavo Bugni (piano), Fernando Correa (guitar), Josué dos Santos (sax), and Noa Stroeter (bass).

His first cd, “images“, with Lupa Santiago, was in the indicated list of Latin Grammy 2002. For the next 12 years, Carlos worked with contemporary jazz group Sinequanon, which released the albums “Sinequanon” (2004), “Telescópio” (2006), and “Horizonte Artificial” (2008). At the present time, Carlos works with legendary bassist Sizão Machado, having played on tours in Brazil and Argentina, and sax player Vítor Alcântara.

Carlos was drummer and producer for renowned percussionist Airto Moreira from 2016 to 2019. Recorded the album “Aluê“, nominated for the Latin Grammy 2018. Performed over 40 concerts on tours in Brazil and Europe in venues and festivals such as Ronnie Scott`s Jazz Club, Copenhagen Jazz Festival e WorldWide Festival.

Carlos has worked with many European artists, such as: Finnish sax player Pekka Pylkkanen, on several tours in Europe and Asia; Irish bassist Ronan Guilfoyle, performing in India, Europe and Brazil; and the Thomas Walbum & Thomas Maintz Brazilian Quintet, recording the CD “Copenhagen São Paulo” and playing on a tour in Denmark. Also, Carlos performed in various occasions in festivals such as Montreux Jazz Festival (Switzerland), Schelde Jazz Festival (Holland), Aarhus Jazz Festival (Denmark), Jazztage Festival (Germany) and Southern Soul Festival (Montenegro).

In 2001, Carlos was a selected candidate for Prêmio Visa as Best Instrumentalist. As a music producer, he won the Prêmio da Música Brasileira with the album “A Saga da Travessia” (Letieres Leite & Orkestra Rumpilezz) in 2017.

Carlos Ezequiel is a faculty member at Faculdade Souza Lima, in São Paulo, and wrote the books “Melodic Interpretation for the Drumset, “Baião and Northeastern Rhythms”, and “Brazilian Music in Odd-Meters”, released in Europe by Advance Music.

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