It is – and always be – perplexing why in cultural topography as vast and variegated as Brasil is, why contemporary musicians seem to gravitate towards...
With the release of Bossa+ the carioca musician Sergio Pereira has added six atmospheric charts [and one resurrected from the catalogue of Harry Warren – and...
By the time the 60s rolled into the 70s, Ivan Lins came to the attention of Brasilian audiences. Then a college student whose prodigious gifts were...
As in football, so also in music, Brasil’s cup runneth over. So great is the outflow in fact that both have reached the furthest corners of...
Eddie Daniels has become, without a doubt one of the finest clarinetists in the past fifty years or so. In fact, apart from Paquito D’Rivera, there...
For the carioca, Sergio Pereira, playing on the Portuguese word “Nu” as the title of his album Nu Brasil and then following it up with a...
To Gabriel Espinosa the Mexican-born bassist-turned-vocalist the essence of emotion is nothing if it cannot be transmigrated across the musical topographies that separate North and South...
So once again we are presented here with Awakening, an album by a Carioca living in New York, Itaiguara Brandao, and first things first: with about...
Yuko Ito is a patently Japanese name, but when she opens her mouth to sing in Portuguese, you could almost wager that she was not. Her...
Amanda Ruzza is one of a whole slew of talented musicians to come out of Brasil in recent years. She is a versatile bassist, a fine...
Carmen Souza is the extraordinarily talented vocalist who was born in Lisbon, Portugal, within a Christian family of Cape Verdeans. She has melded her unique mix...
It is most appropriate for Zoho Music to celebrate their 100th recording with harmonica-player Hendrik Meurkens and, among others, bassist Gabriel Espinosa...
Jon Gold is one of the most exciting virtuoso pianists, imaginative composers and original orchestrators in art of two important musical idioms—Brazilian and American. The fact...
Most fans, even aficionados of contemporary music, still only vaguely know the great trumpeter Claudio Roditi as the “Brazilian who joined Arturo Sandoval in Dizzy Gillespie’s...
It is amazing how it sometimes takes a foreign adventure to find one’s appreciation for the culture of home territory. Whereas the love of fusion, jazz...