Resumo

Buscando entender a relação musical entre Milton Nascimento e Wayne Shorter encontramos um primeiro contato entre eles através da canção “Vera Cruz”, de Milton e Márcio Borges, gravada por Milton 1968, e regravada por Wayne em 1970. Para isso analisamos os aspectos musicais das duas gravações no contexto biográfico e histórico de ambas as carreiras, e percebemos como cada versão expressava musicalmente as instabilidades e ambiguidades do momento político, cultural e pessoal que vivam, além da construção de uma particular náusea na versão de Wayne Shorter, resultado da relação dele com a cultura jazzística daquela época.

Vera Cruz: Between Instability, Ambiguity, and Nausea in Milton Nascimento and Wayne Shorter’s Recordings

In order to understand the musical relationship between Milton Nascimento and Wayne Shorter, we found a first contact between them through the song “Vera Cruz”, by Milton and Márcio Borges, first recorded in 1968 by Milton and after that by Wayne Shorter in 1970 of which musician. For this, we analyze the musical aspects of the two recordings in the biographical and historical context of both careers, and we noted how each one musically express the instabilities and the ambiguities of their political, cultural and personal moment. Beside that, we noted the construction of a particular nausea in Shorter's version, arising from his relationship with the jazz culture of the time.