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Lukas Hein: Lukas Hein & Dialeto Brasileiro

By Jack Bowers
March 3, 2012
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Lukas Hein: Lukas Hein & Dialeto Brasileiro

In the early 1960s, bright new rhythms traveled northward from Brazil, kindling a "bossa nova craze" that swept through the jazz world and spilled over into the realm of pop music, led by saxophonists such as

Stan Getz

saxophone, tenor
1927 - 1991

" data-original-title="" title="">Stan Getz,

Bud Shank

saxophone
1926 - 2009

" data-original-title="" title="">Bud Shank and

Zoot Sims

saxophone, tenor
1925 - 1985

" data-original-title="" title="">Zoot Sims, and abetted by guitarists

Charlie Byrd

guitar
1925 - 1999

" data-original-title="" title="">Charlie Byrd,

Laurindo Almeida

guitar
1917 - 1995

" data-original-title="" title="">Laurindo Almeida and others. After scoring a hit in 1962 with an adaptation of

Antonio Carlos Jobim

piano
1927 - 1994

" data-original-title="" title="">Antonio Carlos Jobim's "One Note Samba," Getz had a million-seller the following year, again thanks to Jobim, with "Desafinado." He teamed with singer

Joao Gilberto

vocals
1931 - 2019

" data-original-title="" title="">Joao Gilberto for yet another blockbuster, "The Girl from Ipanema." Others soon climbed aboard the fast-moving bossa bandwagon, which rolled merrily along for several years before the phenomenon gradually slowed to its inevitable conclusion.

Saxophonist

Lukas Hein

saxophone
b.1981

" data-original-title="" title="">Lukas Hein, not yet thirty, wasn't around when the bossa nova mania first arose, but he must have done his share of listening to Getz, Shank, Sims and the others, as his debut album with Dialeto Brasileiro, a rhythm trio from Rio de Janeiro, recreates with fondness the music of that era. Hein does his very best impression of Getz, whose sound was unique among tenor men at the time and remains pretty much so to this day. Hein, however, has listened closely to that sound, assimilated its shadings and timbre, and fashioned a modulation of his own that closely resembles the captivating sound that Getz was able to produce.

Whether the world needs a Stan Getz clone, or a bossa nova revival, is a topic for debate. Nevertheless, what we have here is a saxophonist who sounds a great deal like Getz, performing mostly bossas (including three numbers by Jobim) with a trio of native Brazilians. Hein's soft, breathy style is well-suited to the music, his improvisations graceful if not galvanizing; his teammates are staunch and supportive, as if they'd been playing this music all their lives (which in all likelihood they have). There is no guitar, but bassist Wagner Soares Trindale contributes a couple of engaging solos, as does pianist

Cassio Vianna

composer / conductor
b.1976

" data-original-title="" title="">Cassio Vianna. Meanwhile, drummer

Claudio Rochat-Felix

drums

" data-original-title="" title="">Claudio Rochat-Felix keeps impeccable time.

Besides interpreting music written by others, Hein composed the buoyant "Samba de Mais Notas," which is enchanting. The only other composer's name that would be familiar to adherents of American jazz is that of

Mal Waldron

piano
1925 - 2002

" data-original-title="" title="">Mal Waldron, whose expressive "Soul Eyes" closes the album. Although Hein's debut album leans more backward than forward, it is nonetheless admirable and pleasing, and the hope is he will soon be heard from again, whether in bossa nova apparel or some other suitable clothing.

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Track Listing

Aspettami; Samba de Mais Notas; Dindi; ? Luxo Só; Look to the Sky; Correnteza; Corcovado; Soul Eyes.

Personnel

Lukas Hein

saxophone

Lukas Hein: tenor saxophone; Cassio Vianna: piano; Wagner Soares Trindade: bass; Cláudio Félix: drums.

Album information

Title: Lukas Hein & Dialeto Brasileiro | Year Released: 2012 | Record Label: Teal Creek Music

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