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Nilson Matta: Walking With My Bass
by Ken Dryden
Nilson Matta has long been considered one of the best bassists to emerge on the Brazilian music scene, primarily as a member of Trio de Paz. Although he has had few opportunities to record as a leader, he has been widely utilized as a sideman. On this collection of studio sessions, he repays the debt to ...
Amazon River
Label: Blue Toucan Music
Released: 2005
Track listing: Mountain Drive; Amazon River; Menina Na Janela (The Girl In The Window); Passarim; Ela E Carioca; Lingua De Mosquito (Mosquito Tongue); O Cantador; Meu Canario Vizinho Azul; The Peach; Sem Voce; Piano Na Mangueira.
Somewhere
By Trio Da Paz
Label: Blue Toucan Music
Released: 2005
Track listing: Seven Steps to Heaven; Partido Alto; Look to the Sky; Babel (Samba Novo); Winelight; Ding
Dong the Witch is Dead; Brazilian National Anthem; Take Five; Batida Differente;
Somewhere; Loro; Corcovado.
Trio Da Paz: Somewhere
by Ollie Bivens
Brazil is a rich amalgam of Portuguese, African, and Indian cultures. And because of that, its musicians have always had the ability to take the music of other cultures, put it in a Brazilian mixer and produce something unique and satisfying to the taste, while still remaining Brazilian. Three Brazilian-born musicians comprise Trio Da Paz, one ...
Hendrik Meurkens: Amazon River
by Jim Santella
With a session of originals and established Brazilian songs, Hendrik Meurkens pays homage to the music that moves him. His guests play a large part in helping the harmonica virtuoso create a recommended album that accurately describes those feelings. He soars high and low, swooping effortlessly around melodic fragments that belie the rustic impression of a ...
Trio da Paz: Somewhere
by Jim Santella
Don't think that a trio consisting of acoustic guitar, acoustic bass, and drums with a name that translates to “Trio of Peace" is going to give you a mindless smooth jazz performance without any substance of note. No, Trio da Paz drives hard along jazz's mainstream, putting all their syncopated beats and spontaneous gestures into perspective ...
Trio Da Paz: Somewhere
by Jerry D'Souza
Somewhere is comprised of tunes that Trio Da Paz had never recorded before and others the group had never played. The latter were certainly more challenging, but in tandem the new options provided a lure for these three players to get in and fill the music with their own approach. And it certainly is some approach: ...
Hendrik Meurkens: Amazon River
by Chris May
When the great wordsmith in the sky invented the word “gorgeous" She might have been thinking of this album, a celebration of all that is lovely about Brazilian music, from samba and choro through bossa nova and jazz. On the face of it, Hendrik Meurkens is not the most likely outsider to have gotten ...
