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Rio, Choro, Jazz...

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Label: AAM Music
Released: 2014
Duration: 04:15

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Odeon

Featuring the music of Antonio Adolfo
Duration: 3:55

A composition by Ernesto Nazareth for the album "Rio, Choro, Jazz..." (AAM Music, 2014) by Antonio Adolfo.
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News: Contest

Enter the "Antonio Adolfo - Rio, Choro, Jazz..." Giveaway!

Enter the "Antonio Adolfo - Rio, Choro, Jazz..." Giveaway!

All About Jazz members are invited to enter the AAM Music “Antonio Adolfo - Rio, Choro, Jazz...“ giveaway contest starting today. We'll select FIVE winners at the conclusion of the contest on July 14th. Click here to enter the contest (Tracking Antonio Adolfo at AAJ automatically enters you in the contest.) Good luck! Your ...

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Jazz Quanta April

Read "Jazz Quanta April" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey


April is no more the cruelest month than the moon is made of cheese. For consideration this month we have nine recordings from far and wide: Antonio Adolfo to Little Feat far and wide. Antonio Adolfo Rio, Choro, Jazz AAM Music 2014 Before there was ...

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Article: Album Review

Antonio Adolfo: Rio, Choro, Jazz...

Read "Rio, Choro, Jazz..." reviewed by Dan McClenaghan


For the more casual fans, Bossa Nova is the Brazilian contribution to music. But there's more than that, and a background from which the popularization of Brazilian sound began in America via saxophonist Stan Getz' teamings with Joao Gilberto and Antonio Carlos Jobim on Getz/Gilberto (Verve Records, 1963) and guitarist Charlie Byrd for Jazz Samba (Verve ...

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Finas Misturas

Label: AAM Music
Released: 2013
Track listing: Floresta Azul; Balada; Giant Steps; Con Alma; Misturando; Memories Of Tomorrow; Naima; Tres Meninos; Crystal Silence; Time Remembered.

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Article: Album Review

Antonio Adolfo: Finas Misturas

Read "Finas Misturas" reviewed by Hrayr Attarian


Pianist, composer and educator Antonio Adolfo's second instrumental release as a leader, on his own AAM label, is entitled Finas Misturas (in English, “fine mixtures"). The name refers to the fusion of jazz elements with the rhythms and sensibilities of Adolfo's native Brazil. The result is a pleasing batch of six covers and four originals.

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Antonio Adolfo: "Finas Misturas"

Antonio Adolfo: "Finas Misturas"

Brazilian pianist, arranger and composer Antonio Adolfo became a professional musician in Rio de Janeiro at age 17 and has since recorded 25 albums as a leader. His teachers were Eumir Deodato and Nadia Boulanger in Paris. Adolfo's songs have been recorded by Sérgio Mendes, Stevie Wonder (Pretty World), Herb Alpert, Earl Klugh and Dionne Warwick. ...

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Article: Album Review

Antonio Adolfo: Finas Misturas (Fine Mixtures)

Read "Finas Misturas (Fine Mixtures)" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey


Brazilian pianist/composer Antonio Adolfo has been making important contributions to the Brazilian-Caribbean musical discography for 40-plus years. His most recent recordings--Chora Baiao (Self Produced, 2011), with Adolfo as leader, and La e Ca (AAM Music, 2010), made with daughter, vocalist Carol Saboya--display the results of a careful evolution of jazz through Caribbean and South American music, ...

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Article: Album Review

Antonio Adolfo: Finas Misturas

Read "Finas Misturas" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky


Pianist/Composer Antonio Adolfo is a bit of a musical mixologist. Throughout his four-plus decades in the music world, he's often found his way and made his mark by merging jazz language with the sonic sensibilities of his native Brazil; now, this very idea serves as a thematic umbrella that hangs over Finas Misturas. ...


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