This is a jazz/blues quintet written thinking of orchestral jazz works such as Artie Shaw's and Benny Goodman's... I wrote this during the same time that I was watching a  beautiful collection of documentaries about the blues directed by Wim Wenders. I was especially drawn to "The Soul Of A Man", by Wim Wenders, and this inspired me so much that I decided to shift to the blues inside the Sarava Quintet, hoping to evoke the emotional origin of the blues, including the complaint, the cry... The Sarava Quintet bears the pain that black people suffered. They say that no one can sing or play the blues if he or she has not lived through all this pain. I truly believe this, so although I cannot play it with the same soul and heart as they do, ‘I'll do it my way...’ This piece is full of musical quotations of works by my favourite jazz composers, all black people too, such as Duke Ellington, Charlie Parker, Charlie Mingus, Thelonious Monk. This is a black quintet, and I thought of using this name at first but then I realised that there was also a ‘white part’ in it too. There were arrangements in the style of Gerschwin, and other influences that were also very far from the world of the blues pains... I then remembered that Vinicius de Morães celebrated the union of black and white people in music in his "Samba de benção." He blesses all the great musicians of the samba galaxy, a black and white galaxy, greeting them with the term ‘Sarava’ derived from the language used between the black people from the North West of Brazil. This is why this quintet is named the Sarava Quintet, bringing together different cultures in harmony just as Vinicus did, and as I have always done through my music all my life.