This music is collected from a stage performance at the Triple Door in Seattle, Washington in 2015, held by the distinguished Brasilian composer and musician Jovino...
Idolising its heroes is nothing new in a country like Brasil that has been blessed seemingly with more of them than those in almost any country...
Adventure Music announces the release of Guris, a celebration of Brazilian master Hermeto Pascoal’s 80th birthday by Jovino Santos Neto and André Mehmari. Two of Brazil’s...
Two years ago I signed off my critique of Clarice Assad’s album Imaginarium as being something to die for. A few days ago (August 6, 2016)...
With a mandolin player such as Hamilton de Holanda doing such wondrous things with Pixinguinha, you might be forgiven for thinking that the guitar is in...
Hamilton de Holanda is quite literally one of a kind. True, there are other mandolin players, and some, like Mike Marshall, David Grisman and Katerina Lichtenberg...
It is easy to fall in love with the Ricardo Silveira: Organ tRio. Blame that all on Vanessa Rodrigues. The organist plays softly and her undulating...
The same rich ethnic cocktail that formed Brazilian society, from African, European and native ingredients, underlies its native genius for music. It also makes the country...
The release of Clarice Assad’s Imaginarium puts her in contention for some major recognition, for with this recording, Ms. Assad has created a veritable museum of...
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...
Gismontipascoal: A Musica de Egberto e Hermeto, by two of the most precociously talented musicians from and in Brasil does not so much document the music...
It is sometimes by pure happenstance that musicians happen to be in the right place, with the right vibrations swirling between them and in a venue...
Leave a pianist to his own devices and he is likely to lose himself in the keyboard of the grand instrument. Leave Jovino Santos Neto alone...
It could not have been an easy task to compile the Adventure Music Ten Years 3-CD set to commemorate the label’s decade of recording and documenting...