Quartet transforms roadway in stage and show its CD In an afternoon of 1928, the great singer Mário Reis received an unexpected phone call. On the other side of the line, an unknown voice said: " My name is Ary Barroso and I have a samba called "Vou à Penha". I would like you listened it to see you could record it ". Mário found eccentric, but he decided to hear the such samba. It begins the career there of that would come to be the "old-guard's" most important Brazilian composer. Seventy one years after, the quartet "No Olho da Rua", composed by Fernando Roza (bass), Paulo Rego (sax), Roberto Alves (piano) and Theomar Ferreira (drums), made one of its routine morning presentations in the Beach of Ipanema, when they were approached by a lady. She had in the hands two songbooks by Ary Barroso. She gave the material to saxophonist Paulo Rego and said that she would like the group increased the repertoire with some pearls of the old genius. On the next Sunday, there it was again the stranger. Of this time she introduce herself . She was the composer's daughter, Mariúza Barroso. The unusual encounter surrendered to the band a record - performed by the first time, three weeks ago at Paço Imperial - stuffed with the beautiful waltz unpublished Shade and Shine, of the author of "Aquarela do Brazil". The instrumental group "No Olho da Rua" is an old friend of the visitors of the beaches of Ipanema and Leblon. The first presentation of the quartet was in the summer of 1997, at Leblon . Formed by musicians with long highway at Rio de Janeiro night's, the band didn't have name. Quickly it won a nickname of the fans: "Bartô Eleven and Half" (reference to the place and schedule of the show). Unfortunately the jam session was short. Some months after the premiere, the city hall prohibited the presentations alleging that the noise inconvenienced the habitants of the area. Not even a petition with 1000 signatures got to knock down the prohibition. In the beginning of this year, after a frustrated attempt of return in 1998, the four dressed the stick face and, even without license, they began to play at Ipanema Beach, always in the end of the Sunday mornings. "We adored to play together and we don't have places to do it. The way is to do our sound in the streets", says Paulo Rego. The sound, a jazz mixture, samba and hard bossa nova, attracts who goes for a walk over there. They already had a fan-club. I am " habitué". They are my amusement on Sunday ", said the media woman Paula Dutra Ximenes. "It should have bands as that in each corner of Rio. It is the face of the city ". With presentations in the beach - on a sunny Sunday they get around U$ 100, the quartet got to join money to record the first CD. The repertoire is composed of seven own compositions, two music of Ary Barroso ("Shade and Light" and "Bahia") and one of Heitor Villa-Lobos ("O Trenzinho do Caipira" from Bachianas #5). In the release night, They got to sell 120 CD's of the initial circulation of 1000. Every Sunday by the beach, they sell, on the average, 25 CD's. The CD seems like a live show: a lot of improvisation. With little money, the group recorded in fifteen hours of studio, without repetition. "Mistake doesn't exist. Music is like a son. If he borns with three ears, no matter. He is ours, and he is pretty ", argues Theomar Ferreira, the drummer. That spontaneous and happy way of facing the music was exactly what enchanted the Ary Barroso's daughter. Accustomed to hear the best from the cradle, she fell in love with the group the first view. " Those boys play with the heart, just like my father. I realized their sonority as soon as I heard them ", comments Mariúza. Karla Monteiro

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