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Anahí

Jon Gold

Label: Entropic Records
Released: 2026
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Tracks

Guanabara Eyes; Squirrel Samba; Sumidouro; Ivaniando; The Broken Partido; Anahí; For Luiz; Old Story; Theme for MZ; The Lost Minuet; Big Friends; Hymn Noire; Bonus Track: Heptane;

Personnel

Album Description

Pianist and composer Jon Gold, who fits no mold, announces his new album “Anahí”. This album showcases Gold’s wide-ranging and genre-bending compositional talents in formats ranging from solo piano to full bands with complete string orchestras.

With a discography well-received by the critics and public alike, Gold has made a remarkable series of compositions that will appeal to the “serious” jazz listener as well as the casual audience as he demonstrates a maturity in his compositions that allow for a high degree of sophistication and cleverness woven in a tapestry of charming melodies and compelling arrangements.

While many of the pieces draw from Gold’s life-changing experiences carved from his years working and living in Brazil, many of the pieces are also drawn from his love of the music he has inculcated into his repertoire from around the globe.

Anahí also grew from a desire to honor many of the people that have been important to him musically and personally, One tune is dedicated to Luiz Ribeiro (Ivan Lins, Toninho Horta, Milton Nascimento) another to his co-producer and drummer Mauricio Zottarelli (Eliane Elias, Ivan Lins, Paquito D’Rivera) while a third is a tribute to Ivan Lins. As such the compositions are truly heartfelt and reflect Gold’s love for the interesting diasporas of the musical traditions he draws upon.

The recording features many influential players from the Brazilian music scene with musicians from the bands of Ivan Lins, Joyce, Rosa Passos and Eliane Elias. Marina Marchi (one of the greatest of the new generation of Brazilian vocalists) is present to add a dizzying variety of vocal flavors to several pieces. Grammy-award winner Zach Brock is also a guest artist.

This is an album for listening truly which tells a story. There are tracks that will appeal to diverse moods and audiences ranging from the wistful and sentimental to others which give way to inescapable foot-tapping.

Gold once again has shown his ability to make music that appeals to the mind, the heart and the soul.