Jazz Articles about Joyce Moreno

Joyce: Gafieira Moderna

by William Grim
July 12, 2002

Joyce, the Brazilian songstress and songwriter best known as the originator of the samba subgenre called “hard bossa," presents an impressive new album containing ten of her original tunes written in the style of the music of the traditional dance halls ( gafieira ) of Rio de Janeiro. This is an album that will appeal to straight-ahead jazz fans as well as Brazilian music aficionados because Joyce combines the melodic wit and subtle harmonic sophistication of Brazilian bossa nova with ...

Joyce: Live at the Mojo Club

by AAJ Staff
March 1, 2002

A wonderfully hang-tough swinger of an album recorded at a German club. The interplay between Joyce and her band (Tutty Moreno, drums; Sizão Machado, electric bass and Teco Cardoso, saxophones/flutes) is super-tight, making for a completely captivating seventy-minute set of jazz Brazilian-style. Even though Joyce gets top billing, the album belongs to the whole group, and there are plenty of stratospheric solos by all parties. At the top of my list: “Suite Baracumbara/Banana," “Caymmis, “Berimbau" and “Taxi Driver," with its ...

Joyce: The Essential Joyce

by David Corrigan
May 1, 1998

Joyce began her recording career in Brazil in 1968, since then she has carved out a niche as one of the most admired and talented singer songwriters of her generation. She was, in those days, a rare thing, a woman who wrote and played her own songs--songs which contained a strong feminist slant and which made her somewhat of a controversial figure, and frowned upon by a male dominated music industry which reflected the Brasilian Zeitgeist.

Thankfully times ...