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...
According to the legend on the CD jacket, the Adventure Music Piano Masters Series was created by the label’s producers, Jim Luce and Richard Zirinsky Jr....
At a time when music is in a state of flux mostly as a result of the virtual collision of idioms and metaphors it is joy...
The sky darkens, Lorca-like and a primordial wail rips through it. “Ai…leh leh leh…/No sé qué tendrá mi pecho/no sé qué tendrá mi pecho…/que mi voz...
“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...
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...
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...
When Brazil laughs, the world laughs with her. When she cries the world cries with her. No more is there greater evidence of this when the...
There is nothing predictable about the music of André Vasconcellos. To begin with, he is one of a crop of fresh Brazilian musicians that include guitarists...
There comes a time in the life of a pianist, when the lure of a solo project is strong and he or she inevitably gives in....
Few musicians deserve a retrospective more richly than the mandolin player, Mike Marshall. The ground-breaking, genre defying instrumentalist and composer has melded his prodigious skills with...
Any musician with the daring to attempt a solo project has to be on his game from the moment his fingers touch the keys. However few...
The music of guitarist Marcos Amorim penetrates the air so softly as he bends and folds notes gently creating a sort of glimmering light that wraps...
It is no longer the necessity to use the term Third Stream that Gunther Schuller “invented” to describe the music created by the Modern Jazz Quartet...