Solo instrumental performances can be solitary pursuits, but not for Romero Lubambo and here is why. More than most guitarists, Mr. Lubambo has an uncanny knack...
The masterful Brasilian guitarist Ricardo Silveira has produced two records recently. The first one is a guitar duet with another guitar master, Roberto Taufic, who has...
Pedro Martins has arrived. Just like that the young guitarist has simply exploded on the musical stage, continuing the line of Brasilian guitarists who have taken...
Though born in Vitoria, Espírito Santo, Brasil, Roberto Menescal is essentially a Carioca—and a famous one, at that. He is often credited with being one of...
The French, as usual, got it right when they first used the word “gastronomie” to define both, the fine art of cookery from, say Provence, as...
The pristine nature of Adriana Miki’s voice puts it easily within the realm of reality that Ms. Miki would be one of the heraldic acolytes that...
Every year I receive lots of recordings from a diversity of Brazilian artists. Most of those recordings are good, but once or twice a year a...
Leo Gandelman is a master of playing music that describes not just the extremes of emotion, but all of the subtlety that exists in what his...
Tania Maria’s voice on Tempo, as it is on any of her records, is as distinctive as Elis’ or that of Gal Costa’s, or indeed when...
Ricardo Silveira is one of the finest guitarists in any dialect, be it his own Brazilian ones, or any other. He is much admired by other...
The song selection and the effective use of the synthesizer on Ithamara Koorax new release "Got to be real" gives the album a vintage 70s feel....
The art of the Brazilian Trio is defined by the superlative musicality of the players that comprise it: by the delicate trellis work of pianist Helio...
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...
“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...
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...
