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Baby Grand Jazz - Nando Michelin

Jazz Performance By Nando Michelin

Jazz Performance By Nando Michelin

Baby Grand Jazz - Nando Michelin

Hartford Public Library's highly-popular Baby Grand Jazz Series will return IN-PERSON and VIRTUALLY for its 19th season in 2022 with a spectacular line-up of the best jazz musicians in the region.  Enjoy every Sunday at 3:00pm from January 2nd through April 24th, 2022.

IN-PERSON: Click the registration button on this page to register. Due to library COVID policy, our audience is capped at 50 attendees for socially distanced seating in the Center for Contemporary Culture. If our registration list is full, please sign up for our wait list, and you will be contacted if we have cancellations. We will be checking names at the door at each performance.

*Masks are required inside Hartford Public Library buildings.

VIRTUAL: Tune in on Hartford Public Library's Facebook Page and YouTube channel.

Nando Michelin
On Sunday, March 27th - 3:00pm to 4:00pm
Hartford Public Library - Downtown
500 Main Street, Hartford CT 06103
Center for Contemporary Culture (CCC)

Engenheiros is a joint collaboration between composers Nando Michelin (Montevideo, Uruguay) and Ebinho Cardoso (Cuiaba, Brazil). In their music, they present songs using poems by João Cabral de Melo Neto, diving into the concrete work of a relatively forgotten poet in his own country. The result is exquisite, impressed by the beauty of the compositions, the quality of the arrangements, and the level of the recording. Both composers are very experienced educators as well, Nando being a Faculty at Berklee College of Music and Ebinho having toured with his clinics all around Brazil. The idea of producing this music was the result of Nando’s first encounter with Cabral’s poetry, so universal, yet Brazilian. “João Cabral’s voluntary exile got me even closer to his literary universe, a Brazilian poet living in Spain, just like we are foreigners residing in the US. That triggered in me a deep regard for his poetry, and made me delve into his universe.”
João Cabral de Melo Neto was a Diplomat who wrote a big part of his body of work in Spain, where he was good friends with Joan Miro and Juan Brossa. “We recorded compositions inspired by some of the most beautiful poems of Brazilian literature, and our main concern was to keep and bring out the beauty of the text in its plenitude,” says Nando.

Nando Michelin - Piano
Ebinho Cardoso - Bass/Voice
Chico Pinheiro - Guitar
Rogerio Boccato - Percussions
Tiago Michelin - Drums