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Cassio Vianna is a pianist, arranger, music educator, clinician, and a Latin GRAMMY-nominated composer whose work reflects a broad range of musical and cultural influences. Born and raised in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Vianna started his music studies in classical music, while developing his skills as a composer and interpreter of popular music and Brazilian jazz. Between 1993 and 1995, Vianna studied under Hungarian teacher Ian Guest, who had a great impact on Vianna's decision to pursue a career as a composer.

From 1996 to 2009, Vianna engaged in recording and performing projects in the vibrant Rio de Janeiro music scene, including a successful career with the Brazilian jazz trio Dialeto Brasileiro

Article: Year in Review

Jack Bowers' Best Jazz Albums Of 2025

by Jack Bowers
December 17, 2025

2025: Another year which proves that jazz is not only alive and well but flourishing in its own little corner of the musical world. The number of splendid new recordings by groups large and small was as plentiful as ever and, even better, spanned the globe from the U.S. to Europe, Asia to Latin America, and ...

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Cassio Vianna Jazz Orchestra: Vida

by Jack Bowers
January 2, 2025

As you can't always describe a book by its cover, neither can you invariably pinpoint with accuracy a jazz ensemble's locale by its name alone. The Cassio Vianna Jazz Orchestra, to choose a random example, is not from Italy--nor from anywhere else in Europe. Although born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Cassio Vianna has lived in ...

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Vida

By Cassio Vianna

Label: Teal Creek Music
Released: 2025
Track listing: Tocando a Vida; Sea-Song; Flight 962; Unwritten Letter; Scrabble; In Her Garden; Choro for My Boys; Mistlike.

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Infância

By Cassio Vianna

Label: Teal Creek Music
Released: 2017
Track listing: Infância – 1. The Nomad – 2. Distant Dreams – 3. Baião Moderno 4. April Song - 5. Belmont - 6. Amizade - 7. For the Rise of a New Day - 8. Rio Vermelho.

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Cassio Vianna: Infância

by Jack Bowers
September 3, 2017

As composer / arranger Cassio Vianna was born and raised in Rio de Janeiro, an argument could be made that there is rhythm in his genes. The notion is underscored on Infancia, Vianna's debut recording as leader of his well-schooled Jazz Orchestra, a bright and thematic excursion on which the seductive rhythms of his native Brazil ...

Song of the Day

Tocando a Vida

April 15, 2012

Album: No Caminho
By Cassio Vianna
Label: Teal Creek Music
Released: 0
Duration: 04:29

Song of the Day

Like The First Time

March 8, 2012

Album: Letters to Grace: A Song Cycle
By Cassio Vianna
Label: Teal Creek Music
Released: 2011
Duration: 03:47

Article: Album Review

Lukas Hein: Lukas Hein & Dialeto Brasileiro

Read "Lukas Hein & Dialeto Brasileiro" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
March 3, 2012

In the early 1960s, bright new rhythms traveled northward from Brazil, kindling a “bossa nova craze" that swept through the jazz world and spilled over into the realm of pop music, led by saxophonists such as Stan Getz, Bud Shank and Zoot Sims, and abetted by guitarists Charlie Byrd, Laurindo Almeida and others. After scoring a ...

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