Jazz Articles about Fernando Brandao

About Fernando Brandao

Album Review

Dia Precioso! is the second album of exuberant Latin Jazz designed by Massachusetts-based composer Ron Rieder, gliding in on the heels of his well-received debut recording, Latin Jazz Sessions (2024). As before, Rieder leads a more-or-less octet comprised of topnotch Boston-area musicians; and as before, Rieder's music is for the most part arranged by percussionist Ricardo Monzon. While personnel remains roughly the same as on the earlier album, more brass (trumpeters Yaure Muniz or Greg Hopkins, trombonist ...

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Bruno Raberg Tentet: Evolver

Read "Evolver" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan

by Dan McClenaghan
May 20, 2024

Bassist Bruno Raberg released a nonet recording, Chrysalis (Orbis Music), in 2002--review here. That was his only foray into recording with a large-ish ensemble. Since Chrysalis he has primarily recorded in small ensembles. Evolver brings him back to the “almost a big band" format in more than twenty years. The disc features a first-rate tentet, with a pair of guest artist contributions which expand the voicings. As the opener “Peripeteia" spins, the first impression is Gil Evans, or ...

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Ron Rieder: Latin Jazz Sessions

Read "Latin Jazz Sessions" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
May 13, 2024

Even while pursuing a long and successful career in the physical sciences, Bostonian Ron Rieder never abandoned his life-long love for jazz, especially the tantalizing melodies and lively rhythms of Latin America, composing music at every opportunity before returning to writing full-time and at long last recording his debut album, Latin Jazz Sessions It was worth the wait. Rieder's colorful tunes ensnare the ears from the outset and never let go, while his septet plays Latin jazz about ...

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Pablo Ablanedo Octet(o): ReContraDoble

by AAJ Italy Staff
April 22, 2013

Quella riunita per la registrazione di ReContraDoble è la terza edizione del Pablo Ablanedo Octet (dopo From Down There, Alegria), formazione che da oltre dieci anni si rivela come l'espressione più completa e compiuta della visione musicale del pianista e compositore argentino. Tra le fila delle varie formazioni sono passati musicisti di grande personalità come Ben Monder, Chris Cheek, Jenny Scheinman, Jerome Sabbagh, Avishai e Anat Coen per citarne alcuni, che, sotto la direzione stimolante e aperta del leader, hanno ...