Tag: Chico Pinheiro

Chico Pinheiro’s album City of Dreams – so appropriately entitled for 2020 – is spectacular and proves that even in a very crowded field...

Award-winning composer John Finbury and singer-lyricist Thalma de Freitas team up for the first time on Sorte! Their new album of Brazilian-flaired Latin Jazz songs...

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...

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, 2017...

Listening to Varanda by The Reunion Project, I am struck by how they make of music a living, breathing being, drinking in its heady...

If you are one among the group who considers Sammy Figueroa to be a percussionist’s percussionist you might as well count yourself in a...

It is not unusual today for the music of any idiom to collide with another and produce a seismic event in both idioms. Music...

Lucky Charm: Sammy Figueroa and Glaucia Nasser Bring Brazilian Song and Latin Jazz Together in a Beautiful Accident on 'Talisman' With special guests Bianca Gismonti...

André Mehmari is one of those musicians with a prodigious talent, who flashes across the stratosphere one in a lifetime. Not only is he...

The near falsetto vocals of Chico Pinheiro perfectly offset the voluptuous music that he has created on There’s a Storm Inside. However narrow his vocal range, Pinheiro is a master storyteller and he weaves his lines like an elaborate tapestry, a sort of patchwork quilt that tells the story his way. Pinheiro has a softness that seems to accelerate and retard his very breath. This increases the dramaturgy of his vocalastics in both English and Portuguese [...]