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Hamilton de Holanda
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Virtuosic, brilliant and unique – those are some of the adjectives used to describe this musician who sets world audiences ablaze, developing a career studded with awards.
Hamilton de Holanda uses the past 14 years to establish a technique for reinventing the 10 string Mandolin. He compose 24 Caprices for the mandolin and disentangled this emblematic Brazilian instrument from the legacy of some of its influences and styles, to make it a global instrument. In the US, the press soon dubbed him the “Jimi Hendrix of bandolim”.
At the age of 38, 33 years as a professional musician, de Holanda has evolved a characteristic way of playing, a character. His phrasing, the extra strings and his powerful sound, combined to the speed of the solo passages and improvisations, are inspiring a new generation and a new sound.
Stephen Guerra: No Balanço do Choro-Samba
by Katchie Cartwright
Guitarist Stephen Guerra was finishing up his undergraduate degree in engineering when he became enchanted with Brazilian music. It was the guitar and song magic of Baden Powell with its mysterious metric ambiguity. Upon graduating, he took a job in personal wealth management, teaching himself to play guitar and read music on the side. After a ...
Collab
Label: Sony Music
Released: 2024
Track listing: Incompatibilidade de Gênios; Blues Lundvall; Mandalagh; Yolanda Anas; Flying Chicken; Silence; Don't You Worry 'Bout a Thing, feat. Gabriel Grossi; Choro Fado; Incompatibilidade de Gênios, feat. João Bosco; Transparence; Saudade, Saudade.
Katchie Cartwright's Best Jazz Albums Of 2024
by Katchie Cartwright
2024 was another great year for jazz, and here are a dozen more reasons to think so... Hermeto Pascoal Pra você, Ilza Rocinante Records “I saw heaven on earth doing this work." --Hermeto Pascoal Rhiannon Giddens American Railroad: A Musical Journey of ...
Dani Gurgel: Paulista Polymath
by Katchie Cartwright
Dani Gurgel is an acclaimed artist with a restless creative spirit. Born into a musical family in São Paulo, she took up music at age four and kept on going. Her mother, an accomplished pianist and arranger, and father, an amateur saxophonist, met while playing in a big band. She began studying photography in ...
Hamilton de Holanda & Gonzalo Rubalcaba: Collab
by Katchie Cartwright
Collab, the duo album from Cuban jazz pianist Gonzalo Rubalcaba and Brazilian choro mandolinist Hamilton de Holanda, is a sparkling collaboration between two contemporary masters of rhythm and improvisation. On the wings of a finely calibrated beat and a pliable form, they present 11 selections, adding new harmonic hues to the familiar, stretching, fracturing and reconstituting ...
April Varner, Shiver, Matthew Bourne, Tomeka Reid & More
by Ludovico Granvassu
A playlist in which Brazilian Forró meets New Orleans Funk, Brazilian Choro meets Portugues Fado, and the infinite possibilities of creative jazz bring tons of surprises.Happy listening!Playlist Ben Allison “Mondo Jazz Theme (feat. Ted Nash & Pyeng Threadgill)" 0:00 Nation Beat “Forró le Fonque" Archaic Humans (Ropeadope) 0:16 Host talks 4:49 Hamilton ...
India Gailey, Michael Pagán, Findkestilts, Jay Sanders and more
by Cheryl K.
During this week's two-hour program of Jazz and improvised music--cellist and vocalist India Gailey, pianist Noah Haidu, the quartet Findkestilts, and mandolinist Hamilton de Holanda and pianist Gonzalo Rubalcaba. Playlist Dinah Washington “I'll Never Stop Loving You" from Dinah Washington (Roulette) 2:14 Lori Bell “Black Narcissus" from Recorda Me: Remembering Joe Henderson (Lori Bell) ...
2022: The Year in Jazz
by Ken Franckling
Current events impacted the jazz world in significant ways throughout 2022. In its third year, the coronavirus pandemic continued to lurk in some settings, while others recovered in robust fashion. Russia's war on Ukraine was felt by musicians and triggered an outpouring of support for its victims. Initiatives to ensure greater equity in jazz advanced. The ...
Raphaël Pannier Quartet: Faune
by Dan Bilawsky
The debut from drummer Raphaël Pannier has no difficulty laying out references to modern modes of impressionism and the nature of wildlife implied in its title. Its opener --a ten-minute take on Ornette Coleman's “Lonely Woman" that offers slinky melody, sophisticated coloring, intense upheaval, a bass soliloquy and a return to the shadowy theme--is but the ...
