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How Can You Lose? (Worst Form of Government Except All Those Others)
by Katchie Cartwright
"A democracia é o pior de todos os sistemas, com exceção de todos os outros," sings Sérgio Godhinho, Porto-born composer of musica de intervenção (Portuguese protest songs), on “A Democracia (Aforismos)." Winston Churchill had said in 1947: “Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all those other forms." The seed for this ...
Greed
by Katchie Cartwright
Registered voters in the US know their midterm assignment for the fall of 2026: Get out there and exercise your constitutional right to vote (early, if possible) and, while you are at it, bring a friend. Caminhos do Jazz has a tried-and-true election playlist to keep voters in the mood, from new music by Jazz at ...
The Midnight Special: The Secret Prison History of American Music
by Katchie Cartwright
The Midnight Special: The Secret Prison History of American Music Colin Asher 308 Pages ISBN: #978-1-324-05139-8 W. W. Norton 2026 Colin Asher spent the pandemic teaching remotely from his living room while his public-defender partner worked on getting her clients released from “atrocious" conditions on Rikers Island in New ...
Walking Down the Freedom Road: Oscar Brown Jr. at 100
by Katchie Cartwright
October 10, 2026 was the 100th birthday of the great Chicago-born-and-bred singer, songwriter, poet, playwright, and civil rights activist Oscar Brown Jr.. Caminhos do Jazz joined the celebration, focusing on Brown's pathbreaking debut, Sin & Soul (Columbia Records, 1961 [recorded in 1960]), and pulling in choice cuts from Los Angeles-based jazz vocalist Amber Weekes' beautiful 2026 ...
Ami Molinelli, Duo Violão Plus One: Raízes do Choro e Samba (Roots of Choro and Samba)
by Katchie Cartwright
For the better part of two decades, Ami Molinelli has been a stalwart of the San Francisco Bay Area's Brazilian music scene. Her undergraduate work in Conservation and Resource Studies at University of California at Berkeley led her to spend nine months in Salvador da Bahia, learning about Afro-Brazilian culture and performing with a group of ...
September Songs
by Katchie Cartwright
September songs mark the end of a long summer season and the beginning of one that promises to be shorter and cooler. Familiar compositions by the likes of Weill, Lins and Strayhorn stand with newer musings, performed by the composers and others. That's the long and short of it here in San Antonio, Texas, where the ...
Stephanie Borgani: Mímica: Música para Quatro Instrumentos
by Katchie Cartwright
For a jazz singer to debut with a quartet of unaccompanied voices and saxophones in a program of new music is an audacious move. But on Mímica: Música para Quatro Instrumentos (Mimicry: Music for Four Instruments), Stephanie Borgani wraps her artistic assertiveness in the subtle sounds of her ensemble, with timbres and textures that are transparent ...
Denny Zeitlin: Odyssey
by Katchie Cartwright
"Don't count stars or you might stumble," the lyric warns. The song is about falling in love, but Denny Zeitlin zooms in on the cosmos at the outset of his live journey into “It Could Happen to You" on Odyssey. He flashes around the piano's twinkling top end with whole-tone swirls and crystalline dissonances, like Tinkerbell ...
L'Abîme: L'Abîme II
by Katchie Cartwright
Montreal-based composer and pianist Jonathan Turgeon, double-bassist Hugo Blouin, and drummer Jean-Philippe Godbout have been together as a rhythm section since 2015, performing, recording, and following in the footsteps of musical heroes as diverse as Herbie Hancock, Olivier Messiaen, and Radiohead. L'Abîme II is their second release as the ensemble L'Abîme (The Abyss), following L'Abîme I ...
Ari & Cecil Alexander: Kaleidoscope
by Katchie Cartwright
A breezy virtuosity pervades Kaleidoscope from the opening title cut. “I run for the train with you on my mind," vocalist-pianist Ari Alexander sings, “watching the town kaleidoscope by..." She and guitarist Cecil Alexander call their style “rhythmic post-bop," citing Herbie Hancock, Joe Henderson and Betty Carter as influences, but you can also hear a bit ...
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