For the Brasilian singer Guai – not nearly as known as she deserves to be – to take this repertoire – none of which she has...
Featured photo of Antonio Adolfo by Paul Constantinides Antonio Carlos Jobim may be one of the most revered Brasilian musicians in recent memory and few musicians...
Milton Nascimento remains one of the greatest musicians to come out of that country. He is revered and adored by Brasilians living in Brasil and the...
The celebrated Brasilian musician, composer, pianist and pedagogue Antonio Adolfo shows that it is possible to be nostalgic without having to be sentimental on Samba Jazz...
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...
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...
Finas Misturas is Portuguese for fine mixtures or delicate mixtures, a suitable title for Antonio Adolfo new release. Finas Misturas combines Antonio Adolfo outstanding, lyrical compositions...
The song selection and the effective use of the synthesizer on Ithamara Koorax new release "Got to be real" gives the album a vintage 70s feel....
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...
The music of guitarist Ricardo Silveira flows—especially on Até Amanhã/'Til Tomorrow--flows like an interminable river into the proverbial ocean of sound where a world of music...