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Album Review

Eliane Elias: Quietude

Read "Quietude" reviewed by Edward Blanco


Brazilian-born pianist/vocalist and multi-Grammy-winning artist Eliane Elias returns to her musical roots on Quietude, her 31st album as leader and a follow up to her Grammy Award-winning album Mirror, Mirror (Candid Records, 2021), a duet with the late Chick Corea and Chucho Valdes. Recorded in Sao Paulo, Brazil, and in New York, on this album Elias shares eleven of her own personal favorite bossa nova songs showcasing her sultry Portuguese vocals and relegating her talents on the piano to a ...

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Antonio Adolfo: Jobim Forever

Read "Jobim Forever" reviewed by Edward Blanco


Pianist, composer, educator and arranger extraordinaire, Antonio Adolfo has been at the forefront of the samba and bossa nova genre for decades. A proponent of the music of Antonio Carlos Jobim, Adolfo pays tribute to the genre master on the splendid Jobim Forever. This homage focuses on the icon's work from the 1960s, selecting songs that are instantly recognizable as being a part of an era that put Rio de Janeiro on the jazz landscape. In addition to ...

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Antonio Adolfo: Jobim Forever

Read "Jobim Forever" reviewed by Richard J Salvucci


Really, is there anyone who does not like Antonio Carlos Jobim (Tom)? Antonio Adolfo, the pianist, arranger, and producer behind this wonderful recording, seems to have lived in a parallel universe to many of us. He says, and it rings true, at the age of twelve, Jobim's music was “love at first sight" in Brazil. Well, it was love at first sight in New Jersey too, via Stan Getz and “A Garota de Ipanema" ("The Girl from Ipanema"). Getz may ...

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Antonio Adolfo: Jobim Forever

Read "Jobim Forever" reviewed by Pierre Giroux


It might be expected that everything one might want to say or write or play about Antonio Carlos Jobim and his music would have been done already. Apparently not. Pianist and friend Antonio Adolfo wanted to go back to the period of the 1960s, to record those Jobim compositions that Adolfo fell in love with as a teenager. Hence the music covered by Jobim Forever comprises those well known ear worms that lit up the bossa nova movement. ...

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Album Review

Glauco Sagebin: When Baden Meets Trane

Read "When Baden Meets Trane" reviewed by Eric J. Iannelli


Pianist Glauco Sagebin set out long ago to defy stereotypes—specifically, that Brazilian musicians can only hail from Rio and that they must confine themselves to samba or bossa nova. He cites Mahler and Coltrane as influences, in addition to the music of his native Brazil. Unsurprisingly, at least one of them is evident on the title track of When Baden Meets Trane , a superb hybrid that in Sagebin’s own words employs “the harmonic style of Baden Powell’s Afro sambas ...

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Recording

New CD "Green Heart" by Brazilian Musicians Nilson Matta, Ze Luis, and Paulo Braga to be Released on Green Label, New Orbita; CD Release Party at Joe's Pub, Monday, Dec. 17

New CD "Green Heart" by Brazilian Musicians Nilson Matta, Ze Luis, and Paulo Braga to be Released on Green Label, New Orbita; CD Release Party at Joe's Pub, Monday, Dec. 17

Source: Leah Grammatica Public Relations

"The Amazon Rainforest is called the lungs of the earth because it recycles the natural elements and cleans up pollution from all over the world. Currently, the rainforest destruction in some parts of the world is estimated to be...the equivalent of 7.5 football fields per minute." - Alice Benzecry, Ph.D.

A team of award-winning, world-class musicians has converged to create an exciting, first-of-its-kind compilation CD, GREEN HEART, a collection of songs of varying, sublime textures that epitomize the best in ...

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Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson

Quietude

Candid Records
2022

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Jobim Forever

AAM Music
2021

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When Baden Meets Trane

Blue Toucan Music
2004

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