Gaia Wilmer Large Ensemble featuring Mônica Salmaso: Reflections on Gilberto Gil
Friday, September 11, 2026
7:00 PM
Dizzy's Club
Broadway at 60th Street, New York, NY 10019
$24
Scheduled
About This Event
At Dizzy's Club, the Gaia Wilmer Large Ensemble presents a repertory-driven program centered on the songs of Gilberto Gil, with Brazilian vocalist Mônica Salmaso. Wilmer's arrangements deploy big-band resources with clear structure and sectional balance while leaving space for Salmaso's precise phrasing, highlighting Gil's blend of samba, reggae and Afro-diasporic rhythms within a jazz-informed harmonic framework.
About The Music of Gilberto Gil
At Dizzy’s Club in New York, the Gaia Wilmer Large Ensemble joins vocalist Mônica Salmaso to revisit the songbook of Gilberto Gil. Gil, a Brazilian singer-songwriter and former Minister of Culture, wrote across samba, rock, reggae, and African-derived traditions, mapping pop music onto civic life. This program places those melodies inside a large-ensemble jazz frame, testing how orchestration can shift a song’s center of gravity without flattening its roots. The result reads as cultural translation as much as tribute.
About the Artists
Gaia Wilmer Large Ensemble
Gaia Wilmer Large Ensemble is a jazz group heard in New York City at Dizzy’s Club, where it brings big-band resources to repertory-driven programs. The ensemble has collaborated with Brazilian singer Mônica Salmaso for a set centered on the songs of Gilberto Gil, whose writing moves between samba, rock, reggae, and African-derived rhythms.
Mônica Salmaso: The Music of Gilberto Gil
Mônica Salmaso brings a Brazilian songbook sensibility to New York City stages, including Dizzy’s Club, where she appears with the Gaia Wilmer Large Ensemble in a program devoted to Gilberto Gil. Her work sits at the crossroads of MPB, samba, and Brazilian jazz, shaped by long collaborations with artists such as Gil and Wilmer.
Mônica Salmaso
Mônica Salmaso is a Brazilian vocalist whose work moves between MPB, samba, and Brazilian jazz, with phrasing shaped by songcraft and rhythmic detail. In New York City she has appeared at Dizzy’s Club, including with the Gaia Wilmer Large Ensemble in a repertory program centered on the songs of Gilberto Gil.
Gilberto Gil
Gilberto Gil is a Brazilian singer-songwriter whose work moves between MPB, samba, bossa nova, and other Afro-diasporic and popular forms, often filtered through a jazz-informed sense of harmony and groove.
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Mônica Salmaso: Reflections on Gilberto Gil
Mônica Salmaso is a Brazilian vocalist whose work moves between bossa nova, samba, and jazz, often in close dialogue with the Brazilian songbook. In New York City, she appears at Dizzy’s Club with the Gaia Wilmer Large Ensemble in a program reflecting on the writing of Gilberto Gil.