Claudio, 1962 - recording with Dick
Farney.
Slon
Tidbits, Trivia, and Articles
Tidbits:
Oddity!
Are you wondering why this album is not
pictured along with the other Brasil '77 albums on previous pages?
It's here instead because this is actually not a Brasil '77
album at all, despite what the cover says. This was a printing mixup
of an Australian release of the Brasil '66 album entitled "Live at
Expo '70". I have included it here in the Trivia section because the
(wrong) cover photo includes Claudio's picture (back row, far
right)!
Trivia: Claudio is the drummer on the track "Summer Samba" on at least three different albums, featuring three different arrangements:
1) Walter Wanderley Trio's "Rain Forest"
album;
2) Walter Wanderley Trio w/Astrud Gilberto on the "A Certain
Smile, A Certain Sadness" album;
3) Marcos Valle's "Samba '68" album.
News:
1996 Monterey Jazz Festival
Jimmy Lyons Main Stage
Saturday, September 21, 1996 (evening)
Performing with Nana Caymmi (vocals): Dori
Caymmi, musical director, guitar; Ramon Stagnaro, guitar; Otmaro
Ruiz, keyboards; John Leftwich, bass; Claudio Slon, drums; Mike
Shapiro, percussion.
Lamont School of Music (Colorado):
Lamont Jazz Ensembles: Claudio Slon is
listed as having presented a master class in "recent years".
Teacher.pdf
This is from a flyer made by Claudio Slon himself offering drum
and percussion lessons in the 1970s!
Folha.pdf
This is an article (in Portuguese) about Claudio's then current
career with Sergio Mendes (Folha de São Paulo, 1975).
Mendes-article.jpg
- This is a large photo file - over 300k - (text in Portuguese) about
Sergio Mendes' personnel from the 1970s.
Arizona-republic.pdf
From June 5, 1996 "Burning Bossa to Melt 'Elevator' Mold".
Rimshot.pdf This
was an interview article done with Claudio Slon.
Crossover.pdf
In April 1999, Claudio was a panelist in the Conference on
World Affairs in Boulder, CO. Read what he had to say in this
article.
Denver_Post.pdf
This is a previous article that was written in the Denver
Post about Claudio Slon.
Speak-up.pdf This
is an article written by Diana Kohlmann called "A Big Drummer" (Speak
Up, April 2000).
Lobo.pdf
In early April 2000, this page (captured from the Verve
Music Group "Upcoming" section) mentions Claudio Slon on the "Sergio
Mendes Presents Lobo" CD reissue.
Program front cover from
concert which featured tracks from the "Amazonas" CD, which had just
been released in Brazil.
Below are two pages from the inside of the program. The live concert
album recorded from this event is listed in the
discography. Video stills
from that concert can be seen here.
OEstado_Donato.pdf This is a Portugese (São Paulo) newspaper article (2000) about Claudio's participation in Joao Donato's "Amazonas" CD.
Planet Music magazine (Brazil) featured an
interview article with Claudio Slon (Issue #2,
1998). ARTICLE IS IN
PORTUGUESE.
Complete text of article can
be read in the following pages:
Batera &
Percussão magazine (Brazil) featured an interview article
with Claudio Slon (May 2000). ARTICLE IS IN PORTUGUESE.
Complete text of article can be read in the following pages:
Claudio was featured in an
interview article in Spain's Serenidade Fanzine (June 2000
issue #4). ARTICLE IS IN SPANISH.
Complete text of article can be read in the following pages:
Claudio was featured in an
interview article in U.S. Modern Drummer magazine
(February 2002 issue). ARTICLE IS IN ENGLISH.
Complete text of article can be read in the following pages:
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denver_post-3-31.pdf
- This is a story
appearing in Colorado's Denver Post newspaper outlining the career of
Claudio Slon and his health battles resulting from the car accident
of 12/31/01--as well as his battle with cancer.
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Batera & Percussão magazine (Brazil) featured a short article pictured below mentioning the death of Claudio Slon (May 2002). ARTICLE IS IN PORTUGUESE.
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Mendes raros
Cristina Granato/1996
Sérgio Mendes
relança raridades
Três raridades de
Sérgio Mendes gravadas nos EUA nos 70 aportam aqui dia 20,
reeditadas via BMG com produção e minuciosos textos de
Arnaldo de Souteiro. Home cooking (1975) conta com Gilberto Gil
(vocal e violão) em Emoriô, Hey, people hey (Ê
povo ê) e a obscura Cut that out, Hermeto Pascoal
(órgão Hammond e flauta), a dupla de trombones Raul de
Souza e Frank Rosolino, além de Paulinho da Costa
(percussão) e Claudio Slon (bateria). Carlos e Kate Lyra
assinam It's so obvious that I love you (Cara bonita) e Kate é
parceira de Sérgio na faixa título. Em Sérgio
Mendes & The New Brasil 77 (1977), brilha o conviva Stevie
Wonder, que toca teclados em várias faixas e fornece os hits
Love city e The real thing. A percussão é
reforçada por três bateristas (Steve Gadd, entre eles) e
sete percussionistas, incluindo Dom Chacal, Laudir de Oliveira,
Tião Netto (fora do baixo) e Stevie Forman, um ianque bom de
cuíca, além do hit do Chicago If you leave me now. O
terceiro é Brasil 88, com Naná Vasconcellos, Nelson
Angelo, Ernie Watts, Buddy Shank, Alex Acuña (bateria) e Emil
Richards (percussão), arranjos de cordas de Dave Grusin e Dick
Hazard. De 26 a 31 de agosto, Sérgio faz temporada com a nova
banda Brasil 2002 no Blue Note de Tóquio, promovendo
três CDs que só sairão no Japão:
País tropical (1970), Stillness (1971) e Live at Expo 70,
gravado ao vivo em Osaka.
Bounce-cover.JPG
- This is a Japanese magazine cover which contains an article on
Sergio's 2002 CD reissues produced by Arnaldo DeSouteiro (article
below).
Bounce-article.JPG
- This is the Japanese article which talks about Sergio's 2002 CD
reissues produced by Arnaldo DeSouteiro (albums are pictured on the
right hand side of the article).