Gabriella Orlando and Juan Nevani have been singing classic jazz tunes together for several years. She is a pianist and one of the best male voices of the genre in Argentina. He is a cultured international law lawyer who has always had singing as a favorite hobby.
This Tuesday, December 6, they appear at the Bebop Club under the name Exactly like you -like the popular song that has been interpreted by Nina Simone, Frank Sinatra, Aretha Franklin and many others- together with the trio composed by Nevani himself on piano, Agustin Scala on double bass and German Weigert on drums.
With Mauro Ostinelli on tenor sax and Marcelo Gallo on trumpet as guests, the group will cover a repertoire ranging from duke ellington and Thelonious Monk to swing songs, passing through the classics of chançon The French of Jacques Prevert and Charles Trenet overlaid with jazz.
“These are songs that we recorded as a duo, songs that we recorded in a band. There are several singles that will be released in the coming months that we will put into an album,” warns Gabriella, who started singing in public about five years ago.
“The truth is, all my life I’ve been singing. With some intermissions, because sometimes in life you put more into one project than another,” she explains.
study here and there
When she decided to devote herself more to music, Gabriella decided to study first with private teachers, then in New York and then at the School of Contemporary Music, a local representative of the prestigious Berklee College.
“I’ve always liked jazz and today I’m in that phase. Then you venture into other genres,” he warns of a potential foray into other music.
Regarding this Tuesday’s show at 20:30 at the Bebop Club -Uriarte 1658, Palermo-, Gabriella says that the richness lies in the vocal arrangements for two voices in some versions that originally didn’t have them.
“We will premiere them live: there are songs in English, songs in French. They are all standard, there are no themes of our own, at least in this show ”, adds this specialist in international law who has France as her second homeland.
“I lived in France for four years. I travel all the time: I have family, I have a job, friends, I have a lot of history and a lot of presence with France”, says the cultural adviser of the French Alliance in Buenos Aires.
Nevani has been playing the piano since he was 4 and singing since he was 7. He studied at the Manuel de Falla Municipal Conservatory and also studied at the Berklee College of Music. He had great teachers like Manolo Juárez, Adrian Iaies and Ernesto Jodos, among others.
Today he is a figure of Argentine jazz and swing who usually tour the Buenos Aires scene with his trio Nevani. “I’ve been playing with him for a long time”, says Gabriela, “Juan for me is the best male jazz voice in Argentina. There is nothing like his”, she praises him.
“He’s got his own jazz trio, he’s had some recording material out there, and he’s also got a lot more history as a musician. I came through her mother, who is a singer and teacher of greats like Mercedes Sosa ”.
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Source: Clarin
