It is never easy to record repertory music, especially when it is so familiar because of the personality and character of the composers who are associated, but there have been some noteworthy successes in the...
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André Mehmari – Canteiro – Canções de Andre Mehmari
André Mehmari is one of those musicians with a prodigious talent, who flashes across the stratosphere one in a lifetime. Not only is he a multi-instrumentalist of the very highest order, proficient in pianoforte and...
Hendrik Meurkens & Gabriel Espinosa with Anat Cohen & Antonio Sanchez – Celebrando
It is most appropriate for Zoho Music to celebrate their 100th recording with harmonica-player Hendrik Meurkens and, among others, bassist Gabriel Espinosa...
Phillipe Baden Powell – Piano Masters Series 2
“In every sense Phillipe Baden Powell is one of those musicians who reminds the rest of the world that there is a new musical force emanating from Brasil that is powerful… a branch of the...
Clarice Assad – Home
Clarice Assad is quite simply a phenomenon who has streaked across the world’s musical landscape like one of those comets that appears just once in a lifetime. Fortuitously, this comet has decided to stay [...]
Have You Seen My Nana? The Enduring Genius of Moacir Santos
“Moacir Santos believed that there were three kinds of musicians that came out of Brasil. There was the regional folklorist; one who celebrated the art of the region to which he belonged and celebrated it...
Luciana Souza & Romero Lubambo in Toronto
JPEC presents Brazilian Duos Luciana Souza & Romero Lubambo & Opener Amanda Tosoff’s Quartet Saturday, April 21 @ Toronto Centre for the Arts Toronto, ON – Tuesday, March 27, 2012 – On Saturday, April 21,...
Helio Alves – Musica
Review written by: Raul da Gama Pianist Helio Alves’ playing is marked by the unsurpassed beauty of expression. The poetry of this expression is pronounced and manifests itself in the epic lyricism and melodious splendour...
Mario Adnet – More Jobim Jazz (Adventure Music – 2011)
Of all the musicians who have contributed to keeping the repertoire of great Brazilian composers alive, Mario Adnet may be making the greatest contribution here. Like trombonist Roswell Rudd, soprano saxophonist Steve Lacy and pianist Misha Mengleberg who gone to great lengths to keep the music of the great pianist and composer Herbie Nichols’ and (to a certain extent) Thelonious Monk’s repertoire alive, the guitarist Adnet has created some of [...]
Jovino Santos Neto Quinteto – Corrente (Adventure Music – 2011)
From the first notes of the lilting, swaggering Afro-Caribbean melody of “Corrente” it is clear that Jovino Santos Neto is on his surreptitious way to making his Quinteto album, Correnteone of his most memorable to date. From there on, whether he is rendering a baião, a choro, marcha, samba or xoté, it is clear that his mastery of crossing rhythms as they collide with the idiom of jazz is sublime. The magical and beguiling polyrhythms of “Two Friends [...]