Jazz Articles about Cesar Camargo Mariano

Cesar Camargo Mariano and Romero Lubambo: Duo

by Dr. Judith Schlesinger
September 25, 2003

Duos can be tough to pull off, especially for a whole CD, and piano/guitar duos are tougher still. It takes a special kind of mutual craftmanship and understanding for two chordal instruments to make music together without getting in each other's way. Cesar Camargo Mariano, one of Brazil's most respected arrangers and composers (and the widower of the legendary Elis Regina, that country's Edith Piaf), is also a fine player whose uncluttered approach works perfectly with that of Lubambo, the ...