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Aqui, Oh!
Album: Aqui, Oh!
By Ricardo Bacelar
Label: Jasmin Music
Released: 2026
Duration: 04:47
Ricardo Bacelar And Airto Moreira Release 'Mestre Novo Da Guiné' From Their Forthcoming Album
Brazilian pianist and producer Ricardo Bacelar joins legendary percussionist Airto Moreira for the new single “Mestre Novo da Guiné,” arriving on digital platforms March 27, 2026. The track previews their upcoming album Maracanós, a project of original compositions scheduled for international release in April via Jasmin Music. Last year, Ricardo Bacelar met Airto Moreira during Moreira’s ...
Jovino Santos Neto: The Music Leads Itself
by Katchie Cartwright
Following a years-long recording hiatus, Brazilian-born Seattle-based Grammy-nominated pianist and composer Jovino Santos Neto released three albums in 2025, all captured live. Two are digital-only releases, both recorded in 2024: Retratos: Brazilian Portraits (Audiophile Society), a duo performance with Estonian bassoonist Martin Kuuskmann in a program of great Brazilian composers, and A Onça e o Pajé ...
Eddie Daniels: To Milton With Love
by Artur Moral
Even in a field as conducive to covers as jazz, it is unusual to find a complete reinterpretation of an album with all its tracks in their original order. Interestingly, 2025 has seen several releases of this type, some widely known and deservedly acclaimed, like Branford Marsalis' Belonging (Blue Note Records, 2025), which pays homage to ...
Ralph Towner: The Accidental Guitarist
by Mario Calvitti
This article was first published on All About Jazz on May 16, 2017. Ralph Towner is a rather atypical figure in the vast world of jazz guitar. His instruments of choice are the classical guitar, which when he started, in the '60s, was played almost exclusively by guitarists related to Brazilian music like Charlie ...
Brain Sync
By Michel Cury
Label: Self Produced
Released: 2025
Track listing: Night Travel (Feat. Bob Mintzer, Airto Moreira, Fernando Rosa and Victor Marcellus); All So Fleeting (Feat. Mark, Leandro
Matsumoto, Helder Lucio and Victor Marcellus); Curupira's Dance (Feat. Bobby Militello, Glecio Nascimento and Igor Willcox);
Future Beach (Feat. Rufus Reid and Igor Willcox); The Gateway; Brainwaves (Feat. Airto Moreira, Thiago Espirito Santo and Igor
Willcox); Africa (Feat. Alison Crockett, Widor Santiago, Sidiel Vieira, Helder Lucio and Cuca Teixeira); Airto's Solo; Zawinul's
Land (Feat. Flora Purim, Airto Moreira, Fernando Rosa and Cuca Teixeira); Dimensions (Feat. Thiago Espirito Santo, Helder Lucio
and Victor Marcellus).
A Jazz Reading List
by Karl Ackermann
From 2015 through 2020, a personal research project included my reading dozens of jazz books and related media. They included mainstays such as the massive reference The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (Penguin Books, 2006), Ben Ratliff's excellent interview collection The Jazz Ear: Conversations Over Music (Times Books, 2008), the off-shore perspectives of Circular Breathing: The ...
Legendary Brazilian Jazz Artists Flora Purim And Airto Moreira Join Pianist/Songwriter Ricardo Bacelar On New Single 'Aqui, Oh'
Two of the most internationally acclaimed Brazilian artists, regarded as references by generations of musicians and jazz lovers, Flora Purim and Airto Moreira, have returned to the studio at the invitation of musician and producer Ricardo Bacelar. The singer and percussionist immersed themselves in a creative and musical retreat at Jasmin Music studio in Fortaleza, Brazil. ...
Cal Tjader: Amazonas
by Richard J Salvucci
Multi-instrumentalist Cal Tjader has been gone for over forty years. Had he lived, he would be in his nineties today. The West Coast scene he entered, first as a drummer, then as a vibraphonist, was a world of clubs, acoustic bands, and enthusiastic promoters who pushed their favorite artists' careers. For Tjader, it was San Francisco, ...
Opa and The Blackbyrds: Coveted 1970s Jazz-Funk
by Mark Sullivan
Opa released only two albums before disbanding in the early 1980s. While neither of their albums found commercial success during their initial releases (despite the high-profile personalities involved), both titles gained underground followings over the following decades. The Blackbyrds' City Life celebrates its golden anniversary. “Happy Music," the dancefloor-ready title track and the group's heavily sampled ...
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