Results for "Rio Bossa"

Rio Bossa

Rio Bossa performs traditional Latin, jazz, popular and original music in a unique and sensuous style, captivating audiences and weaving soulful melodies and savory Latin rhythms. Rio Bossa’s catalog is inspired by diverse Latin traditional, folk and popular music including bossanova, samba, baiao, bolero, choro, and others. The quartet collectively contribute more than a century of musical expression and experience. Guitarist Jorge Torres brings deep ethnomusicological expertise and arranging abilities, and specializes in a distinctive fingerpicked nylon guitar style

Rio Bossa

By Paul Donat

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2008
Track listing: Postcard; Rio Bossa; Ipanema Breeze; The Beat of Brazil; Breakfast Samba; Quiet Night; Coo Coo; Ipanema Reprise.

Paul Donat: Rio Bossa

by Michael P. Gladstone
February 10, 2008

Some good news about Brazilian music is received from the North Country. Canadian bandleader Paul Donat brings Rio Bossa to fellow enthusiasts in Canada as well as abroad. Donat is an acoustic bassist and guitarist/vocalist, bitten by the bossa bug in the early 1980s. Traveling to Rio, he worked in a nightclub ...