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Hermeto Pascoal: Intocável
by Katchie Cartwright
On this edition of Caminhos do Jazz, we celebrate the life and work of the great Brazilian composer and multi-instrumentalist Hermeto Pascoal (June 22, 1936-September 13, 2025), o Bruxo, the wizard of universal music; o Campeão, who Miles Davis named as “one of the most important musicians on the planet." The show presents just a few ...
Sonhos, Pesadelos & An American Tune
by Katchie Cartwright
Dreams and nightmares this week on Caminhos do Jazz, with a host of superb Brazilian performers, including singers Maria Bethânia, Gal Costa, Alaide Costa, Lenine and the MPB group Nação Zumbi. The set also includes a cut by the extraordinary Norwegian world-jazz ensemble Music for a While, featuring vocalist Tora Augestad, and one from the renowned ...
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 ...
Ainda Louco (Still Crazy): Nadje Noordhuis, James Shipp, Buika, Vivalda Ndula, Maria Bethânia...
by Katchie Cartwright
This edition of Caminhos do Jazz features declarations of madness of various sorts, performed by a diverse roster of artists. The playlist is mainly Brazilian, but it crosses borders, decades, genres and idioms, held together by a shared appreciation for insanity... Playlist Raimundo Amador, feat. Concha Buika “Lunático" from Lunático--Single (Arispa, 2020) 01:00 Vitoriano ...
Bangkok After Dark: Maurice Rocco, Transnational Nightlife, and the Making of Cold War Intimacies
by Katchie Cartwright
Bangkok After Dark: Maurice Rocco, Transnational Nightlife, and the Making of Cold War Intimacies Benjamin Tausig 264 Pages ISBN: 978-1-4780-3170-3 Duke University Press 2025 You may have seen pianist-singer and entertainer Maurice Rocco in Incendiary Blonde (Paramount, 1945), the rags-to-riches story of Texas Guinan, the Waco-born daughter ...
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 ...
Goin' Home: Nancy King, Hal Galper, Eddie Palmieri, Flaco Jiménez
by Katchie Cartwright
This week on Caminhos do Jazz radio we mark the passing of the great singer Nancy King, and bid farewell to several other towering musicians who have left us: the inimitable pianists Hal Galper and Eddie Palmieri, and San Antonio's own Flaco Jiménez, the celebrated conjunto accordionist, singer and songwriter. The heart of the program is ...
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. ...
Meet Katchie Cartwright
by Katchie Cartwright
I currently live in: San Antonio, Texas. I joined All About Jazz in: 2023. Why did you decide to contribute to All About Jazz? As a recently-retired professor of music, I was looking to supplement my work as a performer with more writing and responded to a call from AAJ.
Rachel Eckroth & John Hadfield: Speaking In Tongues
by Katchie Cartwright
John Hadfield wrote “Blood Moon" in shocked response to learning that, in 1504, during his fourth transatlantic voyage, Christopher Columbus had used his knowledge of an upcoming Blood Moon eclipse to manipulate reluctant indigenous Jamaicans into granting him food and supplies. The Jamaicans had been fooled before by Columbus' unfair trade practices and wanted no part ...
