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Cassio Vianna: Infância
by Jack Bowers
As composer / arranger Cassio Vianna was born and raised in Rio de Janeiro, an argument could be made that there is rhythm in his genes. The notion is underscored on Infancia, Vianna's debut recording as leader of his well-schooled Jazz Orchestra, a bright and thematic excursion on which the seductive rhythms of his native Brazil carry the day. Infancia (Portuguese for “childhood") opens with a handsome three-part suite focused on that singular time of life: “The Nomad" ...
read moreLukas Hein: Lukas Hein & Dialeto Brasileiro
by Jack Bowers
In the early 1960s, bright new rhythms traveled northward from Brazil, kindling a “bossa nova craze" that swept through the jazz world and spilled over into the realm of pop music, led by saxophonists such as Stan Getz, Bud Shank and Zoot Sims, and abetted by guitarists Charlie Byrd, Laurindo Almeida and others. After scoring a hit in 1962 with an adaptation of Antonio Carlos Jobim's “One Note Samba," Getz had a million-seller the following year, again thanks to Jobim, ...
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