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Stephen Guerra: Um Violão na Cidade Maravilhosa
by Katchie Cartwright
Buffalo-based guitarist-songwriter and professor Stephen Guerra's notation has developed a slight Brazilian accent. You notice it in small things like a major chord symbol with a capital “M." Who is reading these charts? Musicians in several choro communities around the globe, as it turns out. Take “Um Negocinho pro Tito," (track 9). Guerra first released it on his self-produced 2025 album No Balanço do Choro-Samba, which featured Rogério Souza on 7-string guitar, Eduardo Neves on flute and Thiago ...
Continue ReadingStephen Guerra: No Balanço do Choro-Samba
by Katchie Cartwright
Guitarist Stephen Guerra was finishing up his undergraduate degree in engineering when he became enchanted with Brazilian music. It was the guitar and song magic of Baden Powell with its mysterious metric ambiguity. Upon graduating, he took a job in personal wealth management, teaching himself to play guitar and read music on the side. After a couple of years in finance, he went for a second undergraduate degree--this time in music--and kept going toward a PhD, never looking back. He ...
Continue ReadingAmi Molinelli, Rogério Souza, Edinho Gerber Come Together As Duo Violão + 1 On New Album, A History Of Choro, To Be Released On March 8
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GoMedia PR
On A History of Choro, their first recorded collaboration, guitarist Rogério Souza, guitarist Edinho Gerber, and percussionist Ami Molinelli survey the musical history and evolution of choro, revealing its rhythmic and harmonic permutations and, in the process, create an album that is coherent in timbre and vision while marvelously varied in its nuances. According to Molinelli, “The intention for this album overall was to ensure that each song reflects a different musical style within the genre of choro and to ...
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inDepth Jazz Clinic And Concert Celebrate Brazilian Samba in Rockville, Maryland
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The Phillips Agency
In celebration of America’s 50-year love affair with Brazilian jazz, five venerated jazz artists will teach and perform Samba music in the first inDepth Jazz Clinic and Concert of the season. The eight-year-old series near the nation’s capital serves gifted amateur and semi- pro musicians and jazz lovers with half a dozen programs annually. Last season’s Brazilian workshop was the most successful in the history of the series; many musicians and fans had to be turned away. This year’s super-charged ...
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