DESCRIPTION:
This is a Pixinguinha tune, Um a Zero, written originally in a moment of enthusiasm for futból. JAmes arranged it in his own moment of enthusiasm for organized mayhem. Filmed May 23rd, 2013 in Ditmas Park, Brooklyn.

CHORO DRAGÃO

JAmes Shipp - vibraphone, arrangements

Vitor Goncalves - nord electro

Mike LaValle - electric bass, looping effects

Rogério Boccato - percussion

Richie Barshay - drums

Choro Dragão is a group of friends and collaborators living (mostly) in Ditmas Park, Brooklyn. They all like to play choro music and tunes, but none are, first and foremost, choro musicians. This music is not an attack on traditional choro; we LOVE traditional choro! This is a celebration of these composers and their work through the lens of the many styles this band loves to play. We aim to play choro as it could only sound in Brooklyn.

www.jamesshipp.com