…Maucha Adnet permeates the air with her velvety, warm, and passionate voice full of incomparable diction and ...
Andrea Brachfeld – Lady of the Island
There is something magical about the sound of the flute no matter how well it is played; and when it is played as masterfully as Andrea Brachfeld plays it on her album Lady of the...
Arturo O’Farrill – The Noguchi Sessions
To be alone at the keyboard of a great piano in a sound-proofed studio is a daunting prospect for the ideation process. How much more daunting, therefore, must it be to be alone in a...
Arturo O’Farrill Solo Piano Debut: The Noguchi Sessions
GRAMMY® Award Winner Arturo O’Farrill Makes Solo Piano Debut with, The Noguchi Sessions – Available on Zoho Music Album Inspired by Japanese-American Artist Isamu Noguchi and Recorded After Hours at The Noguchi Museum Listen to...
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...
Pedro Giraudo Jazz Orchestra – Córdoba (Zoho Music 2011)
Review written by: Raul da Gama The abject beauty of bassist Pedro Giraudo’s album Cordoba is contained in its pastoral imagery and in the refinement of the rustic rhythms that dance and sing with elevating...
Duduka da Fonseca Trio Plays Toninho Horta (Zoho Music – 2011)
One of the main reasons why Brazilian music has been preserved and, more importantly, kept alive through the generations has been the readiness of newer generations of musicians to create repertory albums in homage to that country’s master musicians. Over the years there have been a slew of beautiful tributes to classical masters such as Heitor Villa Lobos, from João Carlos Assis Brasil’s legendary album A Floresta do Amazonas [...]
Hendrik Meurkens – Live at Bird’s Eye (Zoho Music – 2011)
Hendrik Meurkens is, most certainly, one of the greatest musical adventurers from Europe. The harmonica wunderkind who also happens to be a fine vibraphone player seems to have almost singlehandedly rediscovered Brazil decades after Stan Getz and Joe Henderson did almost five decades ago. In doing so Meurkens along with the grandmaster of the harmonica, Toots Thielemans, has cast a refreshing light on Brazilian music [...]
New CDs – November 2011
The Andrés Ortíz Trío is formed by Colombian pianist Andrés Ortiz, Italian double bass player Antonio Cervellino and Swiss drummer Brian Quinn. They are currently based in Switzerland. Musically, Andrés has a strong Latinamerican folkloric influence from his early years growing and learning in his native country. He's a talented composer and arranger who has received several awards in Spain, where he was living before moving [...]
Patty Ascher – Bossa, Jazz ‘n’ Samba (Zoho Music – 2011)
Patty Ascher’s exquisitely floating soprano literally takes flight on her ever so memorable English album, Bossa, Jazz ‘n’ Samba, a collection of mostly original songs from her pen. With a voice that sounds as if she were so beautifully vulnerable, Ascher navigates a myriad of emotions from longing and sadness to wonder and joy. Although she is exacting in her interpretation of emotions, her voice, almost devoid of any vibrato is so fey and delicate [...]








