A-NO-NE Music

Guitarist and Composer Mauricio Andrade, born in Salvador, Brazil, started playing in his early teens and it didn't take long for him to become a member of numerous local bands with varied styles ranging from Reggae to Rock to Fusion and Brazilian Music.
With an increasing interest in Jazz, he studied harmony and improvisation under Mou Brasil, Alex Mesquita and André Becker, while playing weekly gigs with his Brazilian Jazz quartet in a neighborhood club and frequently participating in the famed "Jam no MAM" and "Jazz no Patio" jam sessions during the weekends.
Starting in 2004, Mauricio studied Composition and Conducting at the Federal University of Bahia for two and a half years before his interest in Jazz and Improvisation led him to São Paulo, where he attended the Souza Lima Conservatory. There, he lived an intense period of musical immersion under the coaching of great names in Brazilian Jazz music, such as Sizão Machado, Vitor Alcântara, Lupa Santiago, Daniel d'Alcântara and Jarbas Barbosa.
During that period, Mauricio also took part in a number of seminars, workshops and music festivals. In the La Plata Jazz Festival (Argentina, 2007), he studied with Michael Jefry Stevens and David Becker. In Ourinhos Festival (São Paulo, 2007 and 2008), he studied with Djalma Lima, Michel Leme, and played in the festival's Big Band, led by Bob Wyatt in 2007 and Rubens Antunes in 2008. In the Aebersold Jazz Camp (São Paulo, 2008), he studied with Mike Tracy and Craig Wagner.
Mauricio was soon busy leading his own Quartet, playing in the Brazilian Jazz trio Trimaruim and playing as a sideman in both his home state of Bahia and in São Paulo.
After graduating from Souza Lima Conservatory in 2008, he was awarded a scholarship for the prestigious Berklee College of Music, in Boston. Since mid 2009, he has had the privilege to study with some of the best musicians and educators in the world, including Hal Crook, Mick Goodrick, Bret Willmott, Tim Miller, Joe Lovano, Ron Mahdi and Ken Cervenka, and has been frequently performing around Boston.