"Amor, yo se que quieres llevarte mi ilusión.
Amor, yo se que puedes también llevarte mi alma.
Pero, ay amor, si te llevas mi alma,
llévate de mí también el dolor,
lleva en tí todo mi desconsuelo
y también mi canción de sufrir.
Ay amor, si me dejas la vida,
déjame también el alma sentir;
si sólo queda en mi dolor y vida,
ay amor, no me dejes vivir."
Traditionally, Samba, Choro, and Baião have been the most popular music styles among Brazilian Jazz musicians.
On Chora Baião pianist and composer Antonio Adolfo, with a quintet formed by gifted musicians Leo Amuedo (guitar), Jorge Helder (double bass), Rafael Barata (drums), Marcos Suzano (percussion), plus vocalist Carol Saboya, has focused their efforts mainly on Choro and Baião, and recorded music by two great Brazilian composers whose work embodies the finest modern combination of the styles above: Guinga and Chico Buarque.
" Acredito que todos têm o direito de amar livremente, até mesmo as baleias jubarte. Depois de viajar milhares de quilômetros, não é à toa que este mamífero encontra em Abrolhos o melhor canto do mundo para se reproduzir e amamentar seus filhotes. Afinal, este paraíso natural é a região de maior biodiversidade do Atlântico Sul e casa de mais de 1300 espécies, entre elas exuberantes corais, tartarugas, aves e peixes.
Como brasileiro, tenho orgulho de que Abrolhos seja nossa e também entendo nossa responsabilidade em preservá-la.
Acidentes como o do Golfo do México já comprovaram que não existe tecnologia capaz de evitar desastres ambientais de grandes proporções. Por isso, um vazamento de óleo poderia ser fatal para os diferentes ecossistemas de Abrolhos e para 80 mil pessoas que sobrevivem atualmente da pesca e do turismo na região..."
Se vcs compartilham comigo o desejo de proteger Abrolhos de qualquer ameaça, peço que assinem a petição entrando no link abaixo.
Arte de amar Se queres sentir a felicidade de amar, esquece a tua alma.
A alma é que estraga o amor.
Só em Deus ela pode encontrar satisfação.
Não noutra alma.
Só em Deus — ou fora do mundo.
As almas são incomunicáveis.
A bit cheesy but food for thought none the less!! So, with the passing of Steve Jobs this week I wanted to write about him and also the three apples that completely changed the world.
Adam and Eve – the power of storytelling
The Biblical story of Adam and Eve eating the apple – the forbidden fruit - will be well known to you, whatever your religious viewpoint. In fact it is one of the best known stories in the entire world.
Adam and Eve is the story of creation and sets the tone for God’s relationship with human kind. It tells the story of our fall from Grace, is the basis for the Christian doctrine of Original Sin and forms the basis of not just one but three of the great religions of the world.
These are complex theological ideas but brilliantly delivered in a story (whatever your view of Biblical truth or allegory) and one of the best examples in history of the power of story-telling to get over complex ideas.
Isaac Newton – this is the modern world
Isaac Newton is widely considered to be the most influential scientist who has ever lived and his greatest theories – on which our entire understanding of the physical universe is based – are said to all be based on an apple falling on his head while he sat under a tree.
Newton laid the foundations for classical mechanics by describing universal gravitation and the three laws of motion which describes how we have understood the physical universe for over three centuries. His work forms the basis of the Physics we learn at school to this day.
He also proved the concept of planetary motion and established that the earth circles the sun – not the other way around.
He also takes the credit along with a guy named Leibniz for the development of differential and integral calculus.
He did a lot of other clever stuff, was a theologian, ran the Royal Mint and was an all round genius.
Put simply, he advanced the scientific revolution that created the entire modern world we live in to this day.
Steve Jobs – intuitive beauty
And so to Steve Jobs who sadly died this week. Steve Jobs is synonymous with Apple, the company he co-founded and the company he has led since 1996. In his innovative drive he has changed so much about technology and the way we live our lives today.
He developed one of the first commercially successful PCs – the Apple II
He created the MacIntosh because he saw the potential of a mouse driven graphical user interface – how crap and unintuitive was computing using the keypad and BBC Basic command prompts.
He set up Pixar out of Lucasfilm which lead to the re-birth of film animation and to films like Toy Story and a Bugs Life.
His revolutionary work at NeXT included a multi-media email system which could share voice, image, graphics and video in email for the first time.
He went back to Apple and turned in upside down, becoming the completely dominant figure.
He achieved enormous commercial success with the iMac based on beautiful design.
He developed the iPod and iTunes digital software which revolutionised the way we access, buy and listen to music. MP3s and digitally sourced music has all but killed CDs and high street record stores. You are more likely to listen to your iPod on the bus or out jogging than listening to music on the car CD player now.
He then developed the iPhone – the first smartphone – a multi touch display mobile phone.
Jobs was an inspirational, charismatic and highly energetic business leader – autocratic too. He was also something of a lifestyle guru. His foresight in setting trends and in innovations of style and intuitive usability has shaped much of our day to day living and the way we use technology in our lives.
Jobs didn’t do market research. He was a true market leader, knowing what the public wanted before they knew it – understanding the marriage of intuitive functionality and beautiful design.
When you think of the blues, you think about misfortune, betrayal and regret. You lose your job, you get the blues. Your mate falls out of love with you, you get the blues. Your dog dies, you get the blues.
While blues lyrics often deal with personal adversity, the music itself goes far beyond self-pity. The blues is also about overcoming hard luck, saying what you feel, ridding yourself of frustration, letting your hair down, and simply having fun. The best blues is visceral, cathartic, and starkly emotional. From unbridled joy to deep sadness, no form of music communicates more genuine emotion.
The blues has deep roots in American history, particularly African-American history. The blues originated on Southern plantations in the 19th Century. Its inventors were slaves, ex-slaves and the descendants of slaves - African-American sharecroppers who sang as they toiled in the cotton and vegetable fields. It's generally accepted that the music evolved from African spirituals, African chants, work songs, field hollers, rural fife and drum music, revivalist hymns, and country dance music.
The blues grew up in the Mississippi Delta just upriver from New Orleans, the birthplace of jazz. Blues and jazz have always influenced each other, and they still interact in countless ways today.
Unlike jazz, the blues didn't spread out significantly from the South to the Midwest until the 1930s and '40s. Once the Delta blues made their way up the Mississippi to urban areas, the music evolved into electrified Chicago blues, other regional blues styles, and various jazz-blues hybrids. A decade or so later the blues gave birth to rhythm 'n blues and rock 'n roll.
No single person invented the blues, but many people claimed to have discovered the genre. For instance, minstrel show bandleader W.C. Handy insisted that the blues were revealed to him in 1903 by an itinerant street guitarist at a train station in Tutwiler, Mississippi.
During the middle to late 1800s, the Deep South was home to hundreds of seminal bluesmen who helped to shape the music. Unfortunately, much of this original music followed these sharecroppers to their graves. But the legacy of these earliest blues pioneers can still be heard in 1920s and '30s recordings from Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, Georgia and other Southern states. This music is not very far removed from the field hollers and work songs of the slaves and sharecroppers. Many of the earliest blues musicians incorporated the blues into a wider repertoire that included traditional folk songs, vaudeville music, and minstrel tunes.
Without getting too technical, most blues music is comprised of 12 bars (or measures). A specific series of notes is also utilized in the blues. The individual parts of this scale are known as the blue notes.
Well-known blues pioneers from the 1920s such as Son House, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Leadbelly, Charlie Patton and Robert Johnson usually performed solo with just a guitar. Occasionally they teamed up with one or more fellow bluesmen to perform in the plantation camps, rural juke joints, and rambling shacks of the Deep South. Blues bands may have evolved from early jazz bands, gospel choirs and jug bands. Jug band music was popular in the South until the 1930s. Early jug bands variously featured jugs, guitars, mandolins, banjos, kazoos, stringed basses, harmonicas, fiddles, washboards and other everyday appliances converted into crude instruments.
When the country blues moved to the cities and other locales, it took on various regional characteristics. Hence the St. Louis blues, the Memphis blues, the Louisiana blues, etc. Chicago bluesmen such as John Lee Hooker and Muddy Waters were the first to electrify the blues and add drums and piano in the late 1940s.
Today there are many different shades of the blues. Forms include:
Traditional county blues - A general term that describes the rural blues of the Mississippi Delta, the Piedmont and other rural locales;
Jump blues - A danceable amalgam of swing and blues and a precursor to R&B. Jump blues was pioneered by Louis Jordan;
Boogie-woogie - A piano-based blues popularized by Meade Lux Lewis, Albert Ammons and Pete Johnson, and derived from barrelhouse and ragtime;
Chicago blues - Delta blues electrified;
Cool blues- A sophisticated piano-based form that owes much to jazz;
West Coast blues - Popularized mainly by Texas musicians who moved to California. West Coast blues is heavily influenced by the swing beat.
The Texas blues, Memphis blues, and St. Louis blues consist of a wide variety of subgenres. Louisiana blues is characterized by a swampy guitar or harmonica sound with lots of echo, while Kansas City blues is jazz oriented - think Count Basie. There is also the British blues, a rock-blues hybrid pioneered by John Mayall, Peter Green and Eric Clapton. New Orleans blues is largely piano-based, with the exception of some talented guitarists such as Guitar Slim and Snooks Eaglin. And most people are familiar with blues rock.
