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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 ...
Nancy Reed & Spencer Reed: Happying
by Katchie Cartwright
The jazz world encompasses a multitude of local communities. Jazz came to Delaware Water Gap and the Pocono Mountains of northeastern Pennsylvania via the inns and summer resorts for which the region has been known since the second decade of the 19th century, attracting New Yorkers and Philadelphians seeking summer refuge and fresh woodland air. By ...
Samara Joy at The Carver
by Katchie Cartwright
Samara Joy The Carver Community Cultural Center Jo Long Theatre San Antonio, Texas June 1, 2024 Samara Joy, 24, describes herself as a rookie despite her numerous awards, including three Grammys and the prestigious Sarah Vaughan International Jazz Vocal Competition, not to mention her acclaimed recordings as a leader, all ...
Alex Kautz: Where We Begin
by Katchie Cartwright
Born and raised in São Paulo, drummer Alex Kautz moved to Mexico City with his parents in 1996. His sound world growing up included his parents' MPB (música popular brasileira), bossa nova and samba, along with North American rock and a bit of classical music. Jack DeJohnette's New Directions (ECM, 1978)--with Lester Bowie, Eddie Gomez and ...
Hermeto Pascoal & Grupo: Pra você, Ilza
by Katchie Cartwright
During her final year on the planet, Hermeto Pascoal filled a notebook with chorinhos and other musical offerings to Ilza da Silva Pascoal, his wife of 46 years (1954-2000). Twenty-four years after her death, the Brazilian sorcerer of universal music presents 13 songs from his Ilza notebook in the form of the recording Pra Você, Ilza. ...
Kurt Elling & Danilo Pérez at Jazz, TX
by Katchie Cartwright
Kurt Elling & Danilo Pérez Jazz, TX San Antonio, Texas May 9, 2024 Kurt Elling's presence has a density that generates its own gravitational pull. He plants himself solidly in the moment onstage and draws the audience in. Danilo Pérez is similarly brilliant and focused. He shares Elling's dedication to the ...
Sued / Nandayapa / Bergmann / Saunders: Mad Dream
by Katchie Cartwright
Mad Dream is the fourth release by Sued Nandayapa Bergmann Saunders, a far-flung ensemble with geographic roots in North, South and Central America, plus Europe. Natalio Sued, an Argentinian saxophonist, Andrew Bergmann, a bassist from Massachusetts and Gustavo Nandayapa, a Mexican drummer, met in Holland, while studying at the Amsterdam Conservatory. Bruce Saunders, a New York, ...
Christopher Zuar Orchestra: Exuberance
by Katchie Cartwright
Exuberance is part of a “long-form tonal conversation" between composer Christopher Zuar and animator Anne Beal. Zuar, a Long Island New Yorker, describes the work as “a journey of personal growth," which began in 2017 when he and Beal met as fellows at the MacDowell Colony in the woods of New Hampshire. He explains that the ...
Karrin Allyson: A Kiss for Brazil
by Katchie Cartwright
A Kiss for Brazil is Kansas-bred Grammy-nominated singer Karrin Allyson's third release to feature Brazilian music (From Paris to Rio, Concord, 1999; Imagina, Concord, 2008), and her first to showcase Brazilian musicians: Vitor Gonçalves on piano and accordion, Rafael Barata at the drums, plus the acclaimed singer-guitarist and songwriter Rosa Passos. First-call New York-based guitarist Yotam ...
