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Ivan Lins was born in Rio de Janeiro, on June 16th, 1945. He is a complete musician and great songwriter, known for many Grammy Awards and Latin Grammy Awards he received, by numerous recordings of his work worldwide, differentiated by their harmonies and its arrangement at the same time refined and popular. Not coincidentally, he is the most recorded Brazilian artist living abroad. Autodidact, he began playing piano at eighteen years old and was very influenced by the music he heard in his childhood in the United States, as well as by jazz and bossa nova, this genre that made him abandon the volleyball courts, sport practiced with passion, to devote to music. For this reason, gave up the career of Chemical Industrial, course completed in 1969 with pos graduate in 1970.
Catina De Luna, Otmaro Ruíz, Roswell Rudd, Sheila Jordan
by Katchie Cartwright
A two-fer on this week's edition of Caminhos do Jazz... First up is Lado B Brazilian Project 2 (Sunnyside, 2025), from Brazilian singer-pianist Catina De Luna and Venezuelan guitarist and arranger-producer Otmaro Ruíz, the second installment of the illustrious duo's B-side project. Read our review here. The idea of the project is to interpret what we ...
Catina DeLuna & Otmaro Ruíz: Lado B Brazilian Project 2
by Katchie Cartwright
In a time of disembodied digital-only releases, luxuriously well-crafted albums like Catina DeLuna and Otmaro Ruiz's Lado B Brazilian Project 2, with physical disk, album notes, lyric translations and evocative graphics, can really be the balm. The project was born in 2015 with the release of Lado B Brazilian Project (Self Produced), which received ...
Ryan Keberle & Collectiv do Brasil: Choro das Aguas
by Katchie Cartwright
Ryan Keberle began to study music at age four in Spokane, first at the piano with his mother, Ann, followed by Suzuki violin lessons. His father Dan, a university jazz director, encouraged him to pick up the trombone at 10, for the sensible reason that he always seemed to be short a trombonist in his ensembles. ...
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 ...
Brasil
By Lee Ritenour
Label: Candid Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: Cravo E Canela (Cloves And Cinnamon); For the Palms; Catavento; Vitoriosa; Meu Samba Torto; Stone Flower; Boca De Siri (Keep A Secret); Lil Rock Way; Canto Invierno (Winter Song).
Lee Ritenour and Dave Grusin at Tsuen Wan Town Hall, Hong Kong
by Rob Garratt
Lee Ritenour and Dave Grusin featuring Ivan Lins Tsuen Wan Town Hall Auditorium Hong Kong November 12, 2024 Lee Ritenour and Dave Grusin's musical relationship might date back some five decades--the pair may be, in the former's words, “best buddies"--but it was still startling to see how relaxed the pair ...
Brasuka: A Vida Com Paixão
by Katchie Cartwright
The big lockdown buried a lot of music that was ready to roll when Covid struck in 2020. Tours and gigs were canceled, album launches fizzled. Some of us are still discovering good sounds we missed out on. These include Brasuka's debut album, which arrived several years post lockdown in a large packet of CDs sent ...
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 ...
Lee Ritenour & Dave Grusin: Brasil
by Edward Blanco
Friends and musical partners since the '70s, guitarist Lee Ritenour and pianist Dave Grusin continue their collaboration on Brasil, thanks to Ritenour's Brazilian wife Carmen, who was influential in recommending the project, and to the many outstanding Brazilian players who grace the album. Though the repertoire contains two Ritenour originals and one from Grusin, the producers ...
