Bola Sete

Bola Sete

Bola Sete (born Djalma de Andrade) was a Brazilian guitarist born on July 16, 1923 in Rio de Janeiro and who died on February 14, 1987 in Greenbrae, California. Sete played jazz with Vince Guaraldi as well as with Dizzy Gillespie. His song "Bettina" was featured on the "Tribe Vibes" breakbeat compilation, as it had been sampled by the musical group A Tribe Called Quest.

Bola Sete's name means "Seven Ball". In Brazilian billiards, the seven ball is the only black ball on the table, and Bola got this nickname when he was the only black member of a small jazz group. He studied guitar at the Conservatory of Rio and he started performing with his own sextet and local samba groups while he was still a student. His early infuences were guitarists Django Reinhardt, Charlie Christian, Barney Kessel & Oscar Moore (of the Nat King Cole Trio), while he was also captured by the sound of the big bands that were touring South America at that time (Dizzy Gillespie, Tommy Dorsey, Woody Herman). His career started in Italy, where he played in various clubs and hotels for four years (1952-1956). Then, he returned to Brazil and started touring all of South America, during which time the manager of the Sheraton hotels noticed him and decided to bring him in the US to play in the hotels (1962). He played for a while in New York's Park Sheraton, later moving to San Francisco to play in the Sheraton Palace. Dizzy Gillespie was staying there at the time and listening to Bola Sete playing every day. When Gillespie decided to bring his pianist Lalo Schifrin to the hotel, he discovered that Lalo and Bola had already met and played together in Argentina. This meeting was the beginning of Bola's success in the US. In the fall of 1962, Gillespie took the guitarist to the Ninth Annual Monterey Jazz Festival, where he enjoyed a huge success. After that, he toured for a while with Gillespie and finally returned to San Francisco, where he joined the Vince Guaraldi trio. Bola was already well-known in the US, and his partnership with Guaraldi was another huge success for both of them. After staying for a couple of years with Guaraldi, Bola formed his own trio with his fellow Brazilians Sebastian Neto (bass) and Paulinho (drums). With his own trio, he appeared once more in Monterey (1966) with equal success.

Partial Discography

* "Bola Sete e 4 trombones" (1958)
* "Vince Guaraldi, Bola Sete and Friends" (1963)
* "Tour de Force" (1964)
* "From All Sides" (with Vince Guaraldi) (1964)
* "The Solo Guitar of Bola Sete" (1965)
* "The Incomparable Bola Sete" (1965)
* "Live at El Matador" (with Vince Guaraldi) (1966)
* "Autentico" (1966)
* "At the Monterey Jazz Festival" (1967)
* "Shebaba" (1969)
* "Working on a Groovy Thing" (1976)
* "Ocean" (1981)
* "Jungle Suite" (Dancing Cat) (1985)
* "Ocean Memories" (Samba Moon) (1999)
* "Shambhala Moon" (Samba Moon) (2001)
* "Live at Grace Cathedral" (Samba Moon) (2003)

External links

* [http://www.bolasete.com Bola Sete Official Website]
* [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:8s220rjac48z~T1 Bola Sete biography at All Music]
* [http://www.discogs.com/artist/Bola+Sete Bola Sete Discography at Discogs.com]
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