All About Jazz is celebrating Oscar Castro-Neves' birthday today!
Few musicians in the world today can boast a career that reflects a lifetime of accomplishments as diverse, rich and acclaimed as those Oscar Castro-Neves has achieved. Renowned as a composer and arranger for his sophisticated harmonic concepts and the exquisite texture and color of his orchestrations, he is equally well known for his distinctive guitar style and as an accomplished record producer who has worked with dozens of major artists in a wide range of jazz, popular, Brazilian and classical idioms.
Famed jazz critic Leonard Feather wrote of Oscar, “The crystalline beauty of his arrangements... Read more.
