Jazz Articles about Kristine Mills

Kristine Mills: Bossanovafied

by Raul d'Gama Rose
December 27, 2009

Brazil has a very special allure--not only for the Bacchanalian enjoyment of its Carnival in Rio, but for artists as well. Swinging musicians from all over North America have found the rhythmic seduction of the samba and the urbane swish and sway of bossa nova quite irresistible for decades. Lately, however, North American musicians appear to have discovered that seduction alone is not the prerequisite for making music in an authentic Brazilian idiom, even in the most popular one of ...