LUIZ EÇA

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Luíz Eça (born Luís Mainzi da Cunha Eça) was a great asset to Brazilian music, especially for the bossa nova movement. A highly skilled, classically trained piano player, he could just as easily go from hard and swinging to quiet and introspective, having developed an original musical vocabulary mixing Brazilian rhythmic tradition and erudite advanced harmonies. He was also strongly influenced by jazz, and could perform in the style of any jazz pianist giant, which he used to do, but only for friends, because professionally, he always had a highly distinctive voice.

He began to learn classical piano at age five. In his teens, he was already taken by jazz and was a regular at Cantina do César, the bar owned by famous radio host César de Alencar, at which Johnny Alf was breaking new ground and influencing all of the bossa nova generation. Soon, in 1953, Eça was
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LUIZ EÇA Luiz Eça com Ed Lincoln ‎: Um Piano Na Madrugada album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Luiz Eça com Ed Lincoln ‎: Um Piano Na Madrugada
Bossa Nova 1956
LUIZ EÇA Luiz Eça & Cordas album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Luiz Eça & Cordas
Bossa Nova 1964
LUIZ EÇA Piano E Cordas Volume II album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Piano E Cordas Volume II
Bossa Nova 1970
LUIZ EÇA Brazil 70 album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Brazil 70
Bossa Nova 1970
LUIZ EÇA Antologia Do Piano album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Antologia Do Piano
Bossa Nova 1976
LUIZ EÇA Onda Nova Do Brasil album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Onda Nova Do Brasil
Bossa Nova 1978
LUIZ EÇA Luiz Eça album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Luiz Eça
Bossa Nova 1983
LUIZ EÇA Luiz Eça & Maria Petersen : Encontro Marcado album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Luiz Eça & Maria Petersen : Encontro Marcado
Bossa Nova 1992
LUIZ EÇA Luiz Eça & Victor Assis Brasil ‎: No Museu De Arte Moderna album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Luiz Eça & Victor Assis Brasil ‎: No Museu De Arte Moderna
Bossa Nova 1993

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