The all-pervasive African element that is intrinsic to the cultural topography of Brasilian music, all-too-often gets the short shrift when it comes to exposure of that...
The Latin Side of Jazz is a curated playlist that showcases selected tracks from the best Latin jazz, Cuban, Brasilian, Flamenco, Ibero-American, Afro-Caribbean, Afro-Latin jazz music....
A Magnificent Night of Jazz for Cancer Research, as it was billed, the Chords for Chordoma Jazz at the Lyric Pan-American Jazz event was the culmination...
A Night Of Jazz For Cancer Research “Jazz At The Lyric: A Pan-American Jazz Event” Toronto Centre for the Arts, 5040 Yonge Street Thursday, November 9,...
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...
Editor’s Pick · Featured Album · The Columbia University Professor, author and musician, trombonist Chris Washburne enjoys the company of some of the finest young musicians...
The Brasilian mandolinist Danilo Brito has shown himself to be a musician and composer of considerable talent. This, self-titled album is further evidence of his immense...
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...
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...
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...
Miramari is a musical whirlpool that bubbles with rhythmic ripples and swirls in a manner, at that describes some gentle disturbance that gathers in intensity at...