Frevo music originated in the Brazilian city of Recife at the end of the nineteenth century and originated in march music. Frevo has a very fast rhythm in which the different instrument groups take turns playing a kind of question-and-answer game. This music style is accompanied by quite acrobatic dance and is ideally suited for Brazilian carnival music and accompaniment to football matches. The
… Spok Frevo Orquestra, conducted by Inaldo Cavalvante de Albuquerque aka Spok, specializes in this. In practice, Frevo boils down to hard-hitting speed jazz in which the members of the wind section raise each other to the limit over super fast Brazilian party rhythms. The interpretation is based on fast-paced bebop, 1940s swing and highly performed samba and batucada rhythms. The live recordings on Passo De Anjo Ao Vivo pass at dizzying speed and above all hard, very fast. So loud that you have to gasp for a moment when the deafening silence strikes after listening to this CD. (AD)more
