If ever there was a burnished glow to Brasilian music, it is here on Hybrido – From Rio to Wayne Shorter by Antonio Adolfo. It is...
Editor’s Pick · Album of the Month · That Antonio Adolfo should be paying homage to the Jazz side of his music should come as no...
In Brasil, among many other wonderful things, musician-families abound. Consider the Jobim, Caymmi and Assad… and you could probably find many other families where the art...
What a marvelous disc this is. Absolutely marvelous. Antonio Adolfo and his music have been congenial bedfellows and the Brazilian’s pianism and his music are compelling...
Stories of Stéphane Grappelli meeting anyone in Latin America may be apocryphal but those of Federico Britos doing so are certainly not. Nor is...
The concept of a kind of Rio de Janeiro/ New York mash-up—Copa Village—as it is called might not be anything new. Many years ago Antonio Carlos...
In agonizing what truly links Brasilian music so inextricably to jazz, all the more it is possible to come to the conclusion it is the blues....
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...
It is never easy to record repertory music, especially when it is so familiar because of the personality and character of the composers who are associated,...