The Cooperage Project Presents: Ryan Keberle & Collectiv do Brasil!
Friday, September 26, 2025
doors 6:30pm; music 7pm
$20 online; $25 at the door (cash/check)
Ryan Keberle’s Collectiv do Brasil brings together American composer/trombonist, Ryan Keberle, with three of the leading voices from the Sao Paulo Brazilian jazz scene: Philip Silver on piano, Philip Brisa on bass, and Paul Vincent on drums.
Few American jazz artists have delved as effectively and gleaned more bountifully than New York trombonist Ryan Keberle, whose third album with the São Paulo–based Coletivo do Brasil Choro das Águas celebrates the genius of Ivan Lins on the occasion of his 80th birthday. The album is the latest dispatch from a revelatory sojourn into the heart of MPB (Musica Popular Brasileira).
Collectiv do Brasil is a prolific unit featuring some of São Paulo’s most sought after accompanists. Reimagining songs by definitive MPB composers as modern jazz vehicles, Keberle and the trio have fashioned a joyously fervent Brazilian jazz realm in which the kindred musical traditions resonate together in particularly evocative frequencies.
“They had this desire to play jazz with an American, and I had a desire to play Brazilian music,” Keberle says. “That’s what led us to put this band together. It’s really rare to find musicians fluent in both of those languages.”
Choro das Águas follows the model established by the project’s acclaimed 2022 debut Sonhos da Esquina, a ravishing celebration of Milton Nascimento, Toninho Horta, and the landmark Minas Gerais–centered Clube da Esquina collective. They followed up with 2023’s Considerando, an exhilarating plunge into the songbook of the beloved and pervasively influential composer, guitarist, and vocalist Edu Lobo (which happened to coincide with his 80th birthday). Lins was an obvious next step.
Upon hearing Choro das Águas, Lins emailed a mutual friend with evident approval, writing “Ouvi o disco todo. Muito bom mesmo!!!! Tocam muito. E têm estilo próprio. Jazz de 1a linha!!! Adorei!!!” (I listened to the entire album. Very good indeed!!!! They play a lot. And they have their own style. First class jazz!!! I loved it!!!)
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