This album brings together two of the [arguably] greatest Brasilian musical ideologues: Moacir Santos, whose music is the subject of the album, Moacir de Todos os...
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 West Coast of the United States has had a rather long – and celebrated – association with the music of Brasil. Rique Pantoja is tapping...
You cannot call yourself Brasilian if you don’t know your Moacir Santos. The clarinetist turned soprano, alto, tenor and (when the music demanded it) baritone saxophonist,...
Two years ago I signed off my critique of Clarice Assad’s album Imaginarium as being something to die for. A few days ago (August 6, 2016)...
It could not have been an easy task to compile the Adventure Music Ten Years 3-CD set to commemorate the label’s decade of recording and documenting...
Yesterday, my eighty-eight year old mother and I were reminiscing as we often do when she visits, about, among other things, my father and his love...
If ever a record could be likened to a comet streaking across the musical stratosphere and a long time coming at that, this one by Mark...