Brazilian jazz pianist Hélio Celso recently shared his thoughts with us about working with Lisa Ono in the early days of her career. To read his comments, click here. |
Menina Concerto, re-released in 2000 on DVD Live concert video of Lisa Ono on DVD. Brazil-born Lisa (Sao Paulo) is Japan's best-known and most acclaimed Bossa Nova artist. This beautiful movie contains footage filmed during her Menina Concert Tour of '91 (its last day in Tokyo) and footage filmed on location in Rio De Janeiro. Lisa's band is terrific, featuring outstanding performances by Hélio Celso on piano, Hidefumi Toki on sax and Yuka Kido on flute. Participating musicians are listed below. Contains 14 tracks, including "Samba Do Soho" and more. Lisa is awesome in concert, and this concert video is very highly recomended! But if you live in the USA, it will take some creativity to watch this DVD. As this is a Japanese import, it will only play on DVD players that can read Region 2 encoding (Japan, Europe, South Africa, and the Middle East including Egypt). In the USA, most DVD players are encloded Region 1 and will not play this DVD. There are two solutions available to solve this problem: 1. Play it on a PC. Most new computers sold that have DVD players installed now give you an option of which region you would like to use. Simply choose Region 2 (or if it lists by country, choose Japan) and the DVD will play beautifully. 2. Obtain a "code-free" player (a sample source for these players is available at www.dvdcity.com). We hope that someday Lisa's marketing people will release her products directly to the US market to avoid this problem. The music from this concert would also make a wonderful live CD - perhaps someday her record label could do this as well! If all of the Brazilian music fans in the USA could see and/or hear this concert recording, Lisa would become quite a sensation here in the United States. BMG, are you listening? :-) For additional information on how regional encoding works, click here. Songs Lisa performs in this movie: 1. Opening: O Samba 2. Clea 3. Rio, Flor Do Mar 4. O Corso 5. You'll Never Know 6. Cancela 7. Fim De Noite 8. Maria Ninguem 9. Amor Proibido 10. Passeio Nas Estrelas 11. Essa Noite Eu Tive Um Sonho 12. Samba Do Soho 13. Pastorinhas 14. Ending: Grumari Most of the songs in this movie are also available on Lisa's CD Menina released in 1991. See our discography page for more information on that CD. |
Musicians on this recording: LISA ONO - vocal, guitar HELIO CELSO SUAREZ - arrangement, piano TOHRU KASE - bass JOAO CORTEZ - drums TATSUJI YOKOYAMA - percussion HIDEFUMI TOKI - saxophones YUKA KIDO - flute WILMA DE OLIVEIRA - chorus WESLEY "MINEIRO" JONUSAN - chorus THE LITTLE SINGERS OF TOKYO - chorus |
Musicians on this recording: LISA ONO - vocal, guitar HELIO CELSO SUAREZ - arrangement, piano TOHRU KASE - bass JOAO CORTEZ - drums TATSUJI YOKOYAMA - percussion HIDEFUMI TOKI - saxophones YUKA KIDO - flute WILMA DE OLIVEIRA - chorus WESLEY "MINEIRO" JONUSAN - chorus THE LITTLE SINGERS OF TOKYO - chorus |
Menina Concerto, re-released in 2000 on DVD Live concert video of Lisa Ono on DVD. Brazil-born Lisa (Sao Paulo) is Japan's best-known and most acclaimed Bossa Nova artist. This beautiful movie contains footage filmed during her Menina Concert Tour of '91 (its last day in Tokyo) and footage filmed on location in Rio De Janeiro. Lisa's band is terrific, featuring outstanding performances by Hélio Celso on piano, Hidefumi Toki on sax and Yuka Kido on flute. Participating musicians are listed below. Contains 14 tracks, including "Samba Do Soho" and more. Lisa is awesome in concert, and this concert video is very highly recomended! But if you live in the USA, it will take some creativity to watch this DVD. As this is a Japanese import, it will only play on DVD players that can read Region 2 encoding (Japan, Europe, South Africa, and the Middle East including Egypt). In the USA, most DVD players are encloded Region 1 and will not play this DVD. There are two solutions available to solve this problem: 1. Play it on a PC. Most new computers sold that have DVD players installed now give you an option of which region you would like to use. Simply choose Region 2 (or if it lists by country, choose Japan) and the DVD will play beautifully. 2. Obtain a "code-free" player (a sample source for these players is available at www.dvdcity.com). We hope that someday Lisa's marketing people will release her products directly to the US market to avoid this problem. The music from this concert would also make a wonderful live CD - perhaps someday her record label could do this as well! If all of the Brazilian music fans in the USA could see and/or hear this concert recording, Lisa would become quite a sensation here in the United States. BMG, are you listening? :-) For additional information on how regional encoding works, click here. Songs Lisa performs in this movie: 1. Opening: O Samba 2. Clea 3. Rio, Flor Do Mar 4. O Corso 5. You'll Never Know 6. Cancela 7. Fim De Noite 8. Maria Ninguem 9. Amor Proibido 10. Passeio Nas Estrelas 11. Essa Noite Eu Tive Um Sonho 12. Samba Do Soho 13. Pastorinhas 14. Ending: Grumari Most of the songs in this movie are also available on Lisa's CD Menina released in 1991. See our discography page for more information on that CD. |
Brazilian jazz pianist Hélio Celso recently shared his thoughts with us about working with Lisa Ono in the early days of her career. To read his comments, click here. |
