Results for "Brazil"

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Lupa Santiago 4teto + Ed Neumeister: Ubuntu

by James Nadal
September 8, 2016

The Brazilian jazz scene has undergone subtle but noticeable changes, as many Brazilian musicians continue to travel, tour, and study abroad, returning with applicable innovative ideas. Expanding beyond the customary bossa and samba boundaries, the music is encompassing global influences with impressive results. Guitarist Lupa Santiago is the embodiment of this positive trend, and throughout his ...

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Nomade Orquestra: Nomade Orquestra

Read "Nomade Orquestra" reviewed by Chris M. Slawecki

by Chris M. Slawecki
August 5, 2016

In 2012, ten of the most adventurous and accomplished musicians in São Paulo, Brazil, came together, took root and blossomed like a tropical flower. Nomade Orquestra describes their music as “the point where different musical expressions and strands meet and interact in a unique way," a fair way of pointing out that there is no other ...

Article: Bailey's Bundles

Jazz Quanta June: Todos na família: Antonio Adolfo and Carol Saboya

by C. Michael Bailey
June 10, 2016

The greatest international contribution to American Jazz may well be that from Latin America, generally, and Brazil, specifically. Brazil lends to jazz a rhythmically humid breeze that is, at once, floral, earthy, fecund, and sated. Two contemporary Brazilian gift-givers include the father-daughter forces of nature pianist/composer Antonio Adolfo and his daughter Carol Saboya. There is no ...

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Ivo Perelman: Breaking Point

Read "Breaking Point" reviewed by Glenn Astarita

by Glenn Astarita
June 10, 2016

Tenor saxophonist Ivo Perelman usually releases albums in waves. Thus, Breaking Point is one of five concurrent productions issued on UK-based Leo Records, and offers the listener a kaleidoscopic glimpse of various ensemble lineups. Over the years Perelman has attained a comfort zone and noticeable synergy with the artists' performing on this outing, as the saga ...

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Carol Saboya: Carolina

Read "Carolina" reviewed by Mark Sullivan

by Mark Sullivan
May 5, 2016

Classic samba from enchanting Brazilian vocalist Carol Saboya and a first-rate band. It's a family affair, with her father, pianist/composer Antonio Adolfo in charge of piano and arrangements. He is working with his regular band, so the arrangements fit like a glove. The core repertoire is unimpeachable, with three songs by the legendary Antonio Carlos Jobim ...

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Harry Allen: Something About Jobim

Read "Something About Jobim" reviewed by Jakob Baekgaard

by Jakob Baekgaard
March 16, 2016

Back in 1964, saxophonist Stan Getz made one of those perfect albums. He teamed up with famed Brazilian songwriters and guitarists, João Gilberto and Antonio Carlos Jobim, and delivered one of the best records in his career: Gezt/Gilberto (Verve, 1964). The combination of the wistfully vibrant bossa nova and the sensual saxophone sound of Getz proved ...

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Fernanda Cunha: Olhos De Mar

Read "Olhos De Mar" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan

by Dan McClenaghan
September 24, 2015

The Brazilian sounds, Samba and Bossa Nova, washed over the United States like a wave in the early sixties. American saxophonist Stan Getz, in his collaborations with Brazilian artists Antonio Carlos Jobim and Joao Gilberto, on Getz/Gilberto (Verve Records, 1962) and American guitarist Charlie Byrd, on Jazz Samba (Verve Records, 1962) can take a good deal ...

Article: From Far and Wide

A Jazz Holiday In Rio

by Mark Holston
July 6, 2015

For most, mention a trip to Brazil and what comes automatically to mind is that vast tropical country's annual Carnaval celebration and the lure of its endless beaches. The high season, from December to early March, is when this nation of 200 million receives the most visitors by far. During Brazil's winter season, from roughly from ...

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Ivo Perelman: Counterpoint

Read "Counterpoint" reviewed by Glenn Astarita

by Glenn Astarita
June 30, 2015

Tenor sax strongman Ivo Perelman underscores the objective for this release, advising that “This combination, with viola and guitar--I've never before used this particular grouping ... I knew it would be challenging, with dense textures and this three-part counterpoint." However, the respective musicians have recorded in various formations in the past, so one would immediately surmise ...

Article: Live Review

14-Bis at Centro Dragao do Mar

by Ernest Barteldes
June 4, 2015

14 Bis Centro Dragao do Mar Fortaleza, Brazil May 30, 2015 On their second concert at Fortaleza's Centro Dragao do Mar concert series for the 2015 season, 14-Bis kicked off their set with “Bola de Meia, Bola de Gude," a Milton Nascimento composition from the band's second album ...