Jazz Articles about Marco de Carvalho

Marco de Carvalho: For the Moment

by Javier AQ Ortiz
May 25, 2003

Quick and to the Point: An hour-plus chilled Brazilian jazz affair.

Brazilian guitarist Marco de Carvalho lays back on For the Moment, where he dwells almost exclusively in mounting relaxed grooves suffused with the endemic melodic tropical sensuousness so characteristic of his native country. Carvalho's slow and mid tempo compositions rely on the sweetness of guitar and flute, with barely dressed arrangements exposing much classically-toned-jazzy skin without recurring to bare and smooth nakedness with the exception of the coolly tempered ...