Jazz Articles about Nailor Proveta

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Album Review

Gabriela Machado: Equilibrando no Acupe

Read "Equilibrando no Acupe" reviewed by Katchie Cartwright

by Katchie Cartwright
April 27, 2025

Choro's popularity is on the rise. In the US, camps like Brazil Camp, Choro Northwest (aka Centrum Choro Workshop), Choro Camp New England and programs like Antonio Adolfo's Brazilian Music Workshop have attracted top artist-teachers, and eager students have brought the genre back to their local communities. Equilibrando no Acupe, a program of original choro compositions, was born into this 21st-century global market, with fans in and outside of Brazil. Gabriela Machado lives in Salvador da ...

Album Review

Felipe Senna & Câmaranóva: Overture

Read "Overture" reviewed by Katchie Cartwright

by Katchie Cartwright
January 9, 2025

Felipe Senna's expansive oeuvre defies genre, encompassing popular, classical, jazz, folkloric, abstract and narrative elements. Music, as he put it, “needs no excuses to thrill and move us...that's why I believe genre and style are not an end--they're just tools with which we take music to wherever we want it to go." Overture is the second release by the composer and pianist's Câmaranóva, a superb chamber orchestra that aims to expand the repertoire and audience for music of ...