Rogério Botter Maio

Rogério Botter Maio • acoustic and electric basses, percussion, keyboards and backing vocals
Rodrigo Botter Maio • flute, soprano and alto saxophones, and backing vocals
Oriente López • flute
Hélio Alves, Dom Salvador, Dario Eskenazi and Cid Teixeira • piano
Dom Salvador • acordeon
Romero Lubambo and Joseval Paes • guitar
Portinho, Vanderlei Pereira and André Tandeta • drums
Dario Eskenazi and Takuya Nakamura • keyboards
Jane Duboc, Thierry Péala, Francesca Sortino and Vanessa Falabella • vocals
Hendrik Meurkens • harmonica
Cláudio Roditi and Takuya Nakamura • trumpet
David Sacks • trombone
Laura Dreyer • clarinet, alto saxophone and flute
Tomoko Narumi • tenor saxophone
Satoshi Takeishi, Vanderlei Pereira and Mauro Refosco • percussion
Dom Salvador, Franya Berkman, Kate Baker, Lívia Machado and Takuya Nakamura • choir

"Rogério has been wearing several hats -composer, arranger, bass player (the latter is his main instrument)- as all these capacities are pretty well documented on this début recording. Soon after starting his career in his home state, São Paulo in Brazil, Rogério left to Europe where he shared his activities between performances and studies in different cities. Between 1987-91, he worked extensively in various styles of music as well as studying classical and jazz for a couple of years at Hochschüle für Musik in Graz, Austria.
Since he's been in New York, where he still lives, Rogério has been working with some of the greatest names in the music business such as Paquito d'Rivera, Gerry Mulligan, Lionel Hampton, Cláudio Roditi, yours truly and others -the list keeps growing as time goes by. As soon as I got acquainted with his work which was introduced to me by the drummer Portinho, I hired him for gigs of all sorts and invited him to be the bass player on my latest CD, Fascinating Rhythm (Concord Jazz), project on which he did a wonderful job. Now, a few words about each tune.
I am positive that you will enjoy this recording as much as I did."

Manfredo Fest, pianist and composer