Rio

Backgrounder: Bill Evans in Rio, 1979

Source: JazzWax by Marc Myers
May 5, 2022

Bill Evans recorded a studio duet album only once—The Ivory Hunters (1959), when he and Bob Brookmeyer both played pianos. He also recorded multiple piano overdubs for Conversations With Myself (1963) and Further Conversations With Myself (1967). And then there was From Left to Right, on which he played two different keyboards—the piano and the Fender Rhodes electric piano. The only time he was recorded live playing a duet was in 1979, during his South American tour that included the ...
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Dom Um Romão: Rio, 1964

Source: JazzWax by Marc Myers
July 20, 2021

Dom Um Romão is probably best known as the percussionist who replaced Airto Moreira in the fusion band Weather Report from 1972 to '74. If you read my post last week that featured video clips of singer Astrud Gilberto, you probably remember this one, featuring Dom Um Romão on drums. Dom Um Romão was born in Rio de Janeiro in 1925 and began playing in Rio ballrooms and cabarets in the 1940s. He was then hired by Rádio Tupi’s orchestra. ...
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Pianist Antonio Adolfo releases "HYBRIDO-From Rio to Wayne Shorter" on AAM Music

Source: Jim Eigo, Jazz Promo Services
April 7, 2017

For the esteemed Brazilian composer/arranger/pianist Antonio Adolfo, his life’s work has been to bring to the world the diverse richness of the Brazilian musical traditions—with a particular focus upon its parallel developments with the profound legacy of jazz. But of equal importance is making great music, to which his many highly acclaimed and Latin Grammy-nominated albums clearly testify. For his latest delightful excursion, the incomparable Wayne Shorter provides the essence of his focus with HYBRIDO, subtitled From Rio to Wayne ...
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Studio Rio: 'Brazil Connection'

Source: JazzWax by Marc Myers
June 23, 2014

Back in the early late 1990s, before the proliferation of high-speed modems and iTunes, I spent most Saturday mornings at Tower Records near New York's Lincoln Center. The large corner store had lots of listening stations in different sections, so you could use headphones to audit new music before buying. Toward the back of the first floor, just before the international section, there was an aisle devoted to house and techno where DJs looking for ideas hung out. [Photo above, ...
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Enter the "Antonio Adolfo - Rio, Choro, Jazz..." Giveaway!

Source: All About Jazz
June 15, 2014

All About Jazz members are invited to enter the AAM Music “Antonio Adolfo - Rio, Choro, Jazz...“ giveaway contest starting today. We'll select FIVE winners at the conclusion of the contest on July 14th. Click here to enter the contest (Tracking Antonio Adolfo at AAJ automatically enters you in the contest.) Good luck! Your Friends at AAM Music About Rio, Choro, Jazz... During the second half of the 19th Century, Rio was the perfect place for the birth ...
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Previously Unreleased Music From Afro-Cuban Legend Aldo Del Rio!

Source: Sunnyside Records
May 24, 2014

Previously Unreleased Music from Afro-Cuban Legend Aldo del Rio to be released on Sunnyside Records on June 10, 2014! The best method in which to experience a culture is to go directly to the source. There is no better place to spend time absorbing the nuances of art and song than where they evolved. There might not be any location more important to the development of modern music than the island nation of Cuba with its unique amalgamation of races ...
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Sten Hostfalt Solo Performance at ABC No Rio NYC

Source: Sten Hostfalt
February 15, 2012

Award-winning New York City composer and virtuoso guitarist Sten Hostfalt is known for over two decades of documented innovative contribution to the international creative music scene, and for he past decade mainly for his critically acclaimed work as a leader using original groundbreaking instrumental techniques for interpreting former mentor Joe Maneri's ET 72 note system to the traditional 6 string / 12 fret guitar. This year, with his 7th album as a leader due out on the Sonus Rex NYC ...
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Ian Rogers Interviews VEVO CEO Rio Caraeff on "This Week in Music" [video]

Source: HypeBot
August 9, 2011

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Red Hot + Rio 2 Tropicalia Comp out 6.28

Source: JamBase
May 6, 2011

The Red Hot Organization and Entertainment One Music have established a new partnership to produce Red Hot + Rio 2 out June 28, 2011. Red Hot + Rio 2 is a modern tribute to the late 60's Brazilian Tropicália movement. The album will shed new light on the songs of this influential, politically charged era, which changed the culture of the country forever. Red Hot + Rio 2 is the latest entry in the series of tribute albums produced by ...
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Rosa Rio, Organist from Silent Films to Soap Operas, Dies at 107

Source: Michael Ricci
May 16, 2010

On Oct. 6, 1927, the day “The Jazz Singer" splashed noisily across American movie screens, Rosa Rio broke down and wept. Al Jolson was talking, and the very sound of him, she knew, would put her out of business.

But Miss Rio's fears went unrealized, and for the next eight decades--until her final performance, last year -- she built a career as one of the country's premier theater organists. Miss Rio was undoubtedly among the very last to have played ...
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