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Catina De Luna, Otmaro Ruíz, Roswell Rudd, Sheila Jordan

by Katchie Cartwright
September 7, 2025

A two-fer on this week's edition of Caminhos do Jazz... First up is Lado B Brazilian Project 2 (Sunnyside, 2025), from Brazilian singer-pianist Catina De Luna and Venezuelan guitarist and arranger-producer Otmaro Ruíz, the second installment of the illustrious duo's B-side project. Read our review here. The idea of the project is to interpret what we might call Great Brazilian Songbook--compositions by Antonio Carlos Jobim, Chico Buarque, Dorival Caymmi, Ivan Lins, Ary Barroso and their ilk--but focusing on their lesser-known ...

Album Review

Catina DeLuna & Otmaro Ruíz: Lado B Brazilian Project 2

Read "Lado B Brazilian Project 2" reviewed by Pierre Giroux

by Pierre Giroux
August 26, 2025

Catina DeLuna and Otmaro Ruíz have once again teamed up to explore the rich tapestry of Brazilian music in Lado B Brazilian Project 2. As a follow-up to their earlier exploration of this repertoire, this album sees the duo delve even deeper into Brazil's lyrical and melodic treasures, producing results that are both innovative and rooted in tradition. They have assembled a stellar band to perform Ruíz's arrangements, including two carry-overs from their first edition: guitarist Larry Koonse and bassist ...

Album Review

Catina DeLuna & Otmaro Ruíz: Lado B Brazilian Project 2

Read "Lado B Brazilian Project 2" reviewed by Katchie Cartwright

by Katchie Cartwright
August 17, 2025

In a time of disembodied digital-only releases, luxuriously well-crafted albums like Catina DeLuna and Otmaro Ruiz's Lado B Brazilian Project 2, with physical disk, album notes, lyric translations and evocative graphics, can really be the balm. The project was born in 2015 with the release of Lado B Brazilian Project (Self Produced), which received a Grammy nomination in 2016. The idea was to interpret what we might call Great Brazilian Songbook--classics by Antonio Carlos Jobim, Chico Buarque, Dorival ...