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Article: Year in Review

Katchie Cartwright's Best Jazz Albums Of 2025

by Katchie Cartwright
January 3, 2026

These are a few of my favorite things from 2025: songs of water and womb; music of light, shadow and illusion; strange and familiar tongues; beginnings and golden days; suns, moons and mysterious particles; liminality and light; equipoise, gratitude and pure aesthetic pleasure. Many thanks to the dedicated musicians who offered deep and joyful music in ...

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Carnaval - The Songs Were So Beautiful

By Antonio Adolfo

Label: AAM Music
Released: 2025
Track listing: É Com Esse Que Eu Vou (I'm Going With This One); Vassourinhas (Vassourinhas Carnaval Group); Oba (Breath of the Jaguar); Mal-Me-Quer (She Loves Me, She Loves Me Not); Vai Passar (It's Going To Be OK); As Pastorinhas (Girl Singers of Carnaval); Exaltação À Mangueira (Ode to Mangueira); A Lua É Dos Namorados (The Moon Belongs to Lovers); Agora É Cinza (Now It Is Ashes).

Article: Album Review

Antonio Adolfo: Carnaval - The Songs Were So Beautiful

Read "Carnaval - The Songs Were So Beautiful" reviewed by Pierre Giroux

by Pierre Giroux
August 10, 2025

Veteran pianist, composer, and arranger Antonio Adolfo has long been a master at capturing the essence of Brazilian music through a jazz perspective. On Carnaval (The Songs Were So Beautiful), Adolfo draws on a wide range of traditional Brazilian carnival styles-- sambas, marchinas, marchas-rancho, and frevos--to create a vibrant and richly textured album that bursts with ...

Article: Album Review

Antonio Adolfo: Carnaval - The Songs Were So Beautiful

Read "Carnaval - The Songs Were So Beautiful" reviewed by Katchie Cartwright

by Katchie Cartwright
July 14, 2025

What prompted pianist and composer Antonio Adolfo to record, in 2025, an album of songs from the 'golden age' of Brazilian carnaval music, circa 1920-1950? He has known and loved this music since he was a child, growing up in Rio de Janeiro. “All these songs are very alive in my memory," he told All About ...