TERNURA - by Sebastiao de Barros - K XIMBINHO

TERNURA - Sebastiao de Barros arrangement by Marco Pereira
K-Ximbinho - or the legendary Sebastiao de Barros (1917-1980) , born in “Rio Grande do Norte” on January 20th 1917 he was widely known as K-Ximbinho.
Paulo Moura says K-Ximbinho was the most original instrumentalist in service of Choro, Jazz and Regional music in Brazil, being also a composer and arranger.
The piece you are listening is one of his best famous composition, arranged for guitar by the fantastic Master MARCO PEREIRA .
MARCO PEREIRA is one of the most influential "classical-Jazz" musicians of the Brazilian musical scene . Marco Pereira was born in Sao Paulo and got classical guitar lessons with the uruguayan master Isaias Sávio and music theory lessons at the Music and Drama Conservatory of São Paulo. He lived in France for five years and received a classical guitar master's degree in performance from the Université Musicale Internationale of Paris, and a master's degree in Musicology from the University of Paris-Sorbonne with his thesis Heitor Villa-Lobos and his guitar work (Editora Musimed – Brasília – Brasil). In Paris, he was strongly influenced by jazz and Latin-American music which characterizes his compositional work, added to Brazilian styles. He performed with great success at 9ème Festival de Jazz de Paris that allowed him to perform in Germany, France, Switzerland, Denmark, Italy, Austria, Canada and the United States. In Spain, he won two awards in important international guitar competitions: Concurso Andrés Segóvia (Palma de Mallorca) and Concurso Francisco Tárrega (Valencia).