A native of Brazil, Marcelo Coelho’s music has been heard all over the places. His debut recording as a leader – Colagens – with his group MC4+ garnered high critical accl.. “Forging into a new and exciting rhythmic landscape, Marcelo Coelho breaks new ground with his group on this recording. This is just the beginning – I look forward to further development of the group’s sound along with the leader’s future compositions” says saxophone and educator giant David Liebman.
A graduate of the University of Miami, he earned a Master’s degree in Performance and a Doctor’s degree in Composition, the later at Campinas State University, Sao Paulo, Brazil, while focusing extensively on polyrhythmic improvisation and composition. Because of his research on rhythmic studies, Coelho associated to Ronan Guilfoyle, a major figure on the Irish jazz scene, to put together an organization called IRSA – International Rhythmic Studies Association, dedicated to the sharing and dissemination of information and knowledge regarding the study of rhythm, particularly in regard to jazz, improvised, and other creative musics. Each year IRSA has an annual meetingin which practioners in the field of improvised rhythmic techniques get together to share ideas, play and learn about the latest developments in the field of rhythmic studies.
He can be heard regularly performing on tenor and soprano leading his musical projects: MC4+, MC&RD 4teto, 4teto.ORG, Kyabatt Quartet, and Contrapunto. Coelho has shared the stage with a wide range of muscians, from jazz such as David Liebman, Phil Markowitz, Vincent Gardner, Ed Sarath, Gene Perla, Ronan Guilfoyle, Ron Miller, Gary Keller, Phil DeGreg, Mats Holtne, Cliff Korman, to brazilian and others such as Sizao Machado, Felipe Salles, Sergio Barrozo, Xavier Perez, Felipe Lamoglia, Yaniel Mattos, Rodrigo Dominguez, Ale Demogli among others. He performed in jazz festivals and international jazz meetings in South America, Europe, and the United States.
A native of Brazil, Marcelo Coelho began his music studies when he was fourteen years old. His first instruments were the clarinet and the alto saxophone. When he was eighteen years old, he changed to the tenor saxophone that would become his main instrument.He finished his bachelor in Popular Music at Campinas State University - UNICAMP, in 1999. During the undergraduate studies, he played in several combos which include jazz bands, Brazilian jazz combos, big bands, as well as dancing bands. Because jazz has exerted a great influence and attraction in his musical formation, he developed during his undergraduate years a research project entitled The Harmonic Concepts of Bebop.
In 1995, he won a scholarship from the Brazilian Government to work on this project, whose purpose was to investigate how bebop harmony was developed and its influence on Brazilian music. This work has been presented in many research seminars and its been reviewed to be published. In the beginning of 1997, on scholarship given by the Brazilian Government, he investigated the jazz influence in the way of playing Brazilian music on the saxophone, entitled The Brazilian Saxophone Language. He interviewed several Brazilian saxophonists who perform Brazilian music intensively. This research will be published soon. In 1999, he won a full scholarship from the Brazilian Government in order to earn his Masters Degree in Jazz Studies from University of Miami, under supervision of Gary Keller and Don Coffman.
During his graduate studies in USA, he studied with Gary Keller, Ron Miller, Gary Campbell, Whit Sidener, and others, played in several jazz ensembles and combos. After his graduate studies, he played in several Latin jazz combos, Brazilian jazz groups which include his Brazilian jazz trio The Bambam Z Project, deserving a whole page article from the Miami New Times newspaper. He also taught saxophone and music appreciation at high schools and conservatories of music in South Florida. In 2002, he attended the annual David Liebmans Saxophone Masterclass where he had the opportunity to present and play his compositions with David Liebmans quartet.
Based on polyrhythm and crossing-rhythms structures, his compositions would be the main purpose for his doctoral research at the Campinas States University, in 2003. In Sao Paulo, Brazil, he is currently a teacher of saxophone and advanced music theory at Souza Lima-Berklee Conservatory of Music. He is active in numerous jazz combos and bands as saxophonist, composer and arranger, leading his own jazz groups: MC3, MC4 and MC5. He also appeared on the same bill as many prominent American and Brazilian artists, including Roy Hargrove, Kenny Garret, Mike Stern, Jane Monheit, John Pizzareli, Diane Shuur, Gary Brown, Dori Caymmi, Joao Bosco, Ney Matogrosso, Fernanda Abreu, at Bourbon Street Music Club, in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Band Members
MC4+ - Marcelo Coelho (Tenor) - Vincent Gardner (Trombone) - Paulinho Malheiros (Trombone) - Lupa Santiago (Guitar) - Guto Brambilla (Bass) - Carlos Ezequiel (Drums) 4TETO.ORG - Marcelo Coelho (Tenor) - Vitor Alcantara (Tenor) - Sizão Machado (Baixo) - Pedro Ito (Bateria) MC & MICHEL LEME TABLA GROOVE - Marcelo Coelho (Soprano) - Michel Leme (Guitarra) - Edgar Silva (Tabla) - Emilio Martins (Percussao)
Influences
John Coltrane - David Liebman - Wayne Shorter - Hermeto Pascoal - Keith Jarret - Jose Gramani - Ron Miller - Jerry Bergonzi - Tom Jobim - Pixinguinha - Dalai Lama - Jean-Yves Leloup - Hermann Hesse.
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