Jazz Articles about Joao Bosco

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Hamilton de Holanda & Gonzalo Rubalcaba: Collab

by Katchie Cartwright
August 26, 2024

Collab, the duo album from Cuban jazz pianist Gonzalo Rubalcaba and Brazilian choro mandolinist Hamilton de Holanda, is a sparkling collaboration between two contemporary masters of rhythm and improvisation. On the wings of a finely calibrated beat and a pliable form, they present 11 selections, adding new harmonic hues to the familiar, stretching, fracturing and reconstituting the given. Their experiences and tastes are wide ranging and divergent, but they meet--seemingly effortlessly--on the Latin jazz corner. Holanda composed the ...

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João Bosco: O Canto da Terra por um Fio

by Katchie Cartwright
December 23, 2023

Released just before the 2023 solstice (winter in the US, summer south of the Equator), João Bosco's stunning “O Canto da Terra por um Fio" (The Corner of the Earth by a Thread) adds a global call for godly and human intervention to the season's more traditional holiday fare. The piece is the first single of a project to be released in mid-2024. The lyric speaks of a great river that sees its life hanging by a thread, that feels ...

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João Bosco Quartet at Soresina Jazz Festival 2019

by Danilo Codazzi
May 7, 2019

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Joao Bosco in Cleveland

by C. Andrew Hovan
August 7, 2004

Night Town Cleveland Heights OH July 2004

Fresh off a summer tour that included a 20-city stint through Europe and gigs in Japan and Africa, Brazilian master Joao Bosco and his quartet held forth for two consecutive evenings at Night Town and Cleveland was blessed to be one of only three spots in the nation to have hosted this alluring entertainer. Over the course of two generous sets of music, one had to marvel at ...