Jazz Articles about Antonio Adolfo

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Antonio Adolfo: Finas Misturas

by Hrayr Attarian
April 29, 2013

Pianist, composer and educator Antonio Adolfo's second instrumental release as a leader, on his own AAM label, is entitled Finas Misturas (in English, “fine mixtures"). The name refers to the fusion of jazz elements with the rhythms and sensibilities of Adolfo's native Brazil. The result is a pleasing batch of six covers and four originals.A laid-back, summery ambience dominates this carefully orchestrated album. Even the pieces associated with bop and post-bop pioneers are transformed into serene, pastel landscapes ...

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Antonio Adolfo: Finas Misturas (Fine Mixtures)

by C. Michael Bailey
March 18, 2013

Brazilian pianist/composer Antonio Adolfo has been making important contributions to the Brazilian-Caribbean musical discography for 40-plus years. His most recent recordings--Chora Baiao (Self Produced, 2011), with Adolfo as leader, and La e Ca (AAM Music, 2010), made with daughter, vocalist Carol Saboya--display the results of a careful evolution of jazz through Caribbean and South American music, from trumpeters Kenny Dorham And Dizzy Gillespie's “Afro-Cubano" revolution of the mid- '50s and the bossa nova of the 1960s. On ...

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Antonio Adolfo: Finas Misturas

by Dan Bilawsky
March 12, 2013

Pianist/Composer Antonio Adolfo is a bit of a musical mixologist. Throughout his four-plus decades in the music world, he's often found his way and made his mark by merging jazz language with the sonic sensibilities of his native Brazil; now, this very idea serves as a thematic umbrella that hangs over Finas Misturas. Adolfo takes a crop of classics and serves them up with Brazilian seasoning, adding new flavors without altering the base taste of each number. ...

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Antonio Adolfo: Chora Baiao

by Edward Blanco
September 30, 2011

Chora Baiao (Cry, Baiao) explores the influences of European dances, classical music (choro) and the Moorish-flavored musical environment of the Iberian Peninsula (baiao), on Brazilian music in a light and melody-rich interpretation from Brazilian master Antonio Adolfo. An important composer, musician and exponent of the genre, the pianist is also an educator by profession, touching on Brazilian, jazz and even pop music at the Antonio Adolfo School of Music in Hollywood, FL, an experimental Brazilian music school.Choro and ...

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Antonio Aldolfo / Carol Saboya: La e Ca: Here and There

by C. Michael Bailey
June 19, 2010

La e Ca: Here and There is ostensibly a piano-oriented album by Brazilian pianist/composer Antonio Adolfo, featuring frequent collaborator and vocalist Carol Saboya, who appears on five of the disc's twelve selections. Saboya is rightfully given equal billing because of her exquisitely lightly-accented, dangerously intoxicating vocals, transforming tried-and-true vocal jazz standards. The spiritual presence of the American Southern Hemisphere permeates the recording like a breezy humid night, spreading warmth all points south.

Saboya's selections are certainly predictable, and as such ...

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Antonio Adolfo and Carol Saboya: Ao Vivo/Live

by Michael P. Gladstone
March 6, 2008

Although Brazilian pianist/composer Antonio Adolfo has been recording under his own name since 1992, his roots go back to the first wave of Bossa Nova music in the early 1960s when he wrote and accompanied music for singers Vinicius deMoraes, Rita Lee, Carlos Lyra, Elis Regina, Joyce (Silveira Palhano de Jesus) and many others. Ao Vivo/Live was originally intended to be a tribute to Elis Regina but was expanded to include a larger body of early, and essential, bossa contributors.