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Rodrigo Ferrari Nunes: The Bias Project

by Michael P. Gladstone
December 20, 2006

Here's an unusual entry in the new releases department! For his debut recording, Rodrigo Ferrari-Nunes, a 29-year-old bassist/composer/producer and anthropologist, has come up with a bebop tribute from his Brazilian group--with a twist. The album is subtitled “A Tribute To the Music of Charles Mingus, John Coltrane, Charlie Parker, Freddie Hubbard, Bill Evans & Hermeto Pascoal."

As an aspiring musician who was also studying for his degree in anthropology at University of British Columbia, Ferrari-Nunes was also working as a ...