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Marcelo Martins

Balaios

By Antonio Adolfo

Label: AAM Music
Released: 2026
Track listing: 3D Blues; Claudia, featuring Thom Rotella; San Expedito (Santo Expedito); Sambalaio (Agitadinho); Love Will Come (Até que Venha o Amor); My Chant (Meu Canto), featuring Leo Gandelman; Vision (Visão); Journey to the Interior (Caminhada); Zah Toom Toom (Samba 4).

Antonio Adolfo: Balaios

by Katchie Cartwright
July 20, 2026

Antonio Adolfo draws a parallel between balaios, the baskets that African Brazilian women have carried on their heads for centuries, and musical albums. “Each piece is placed carefully inside, shaped by the moment in which it was born, yet carried into the present with renewed meaning," he says. He speaks of Balaios as a gathering of ...

Riofonic

By Mafalda Minnozzi

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2025
Track listing: Corcovado; Só Danço Samba; Corcovado; Café South American Style; Eu e a Brisa; O Barquinho; Telefone; Tu Si 'Na Cosa Grande; Você (You); Postcard from Rio; The Gentle Rain; Garota de Ipanema; Se é Tarde Me Perdoa; Água de Beber.

Carnaval - The Songs Were So Beautiful

By Antonio Adolfo

Label: AAM Music
Released: 2025
Track listing: É Com Esse Que Eu Vou (I'm Going With This One); Vassourinhas (Vassourinhas Carnaval Group); Oba (Breath of the Jaguar); Mal-Me-Quer (She Loves Me, She Loves Me Not); Vai Passar (It's Going To Be OK); As Pastorinhas (Girl Singers of Carnaval); Exaltação À Mangueira (Ode to Mangueira); A Lua É Dos Namorados (The Moon Belongs to Lovers); Agora É Cinza (Now It Is Ashes).

Antonio Adolfo: Carnaval - The Songs Were So Beautiful

by Pierre Giroux
August 10, 2025

Veteran pianist, composer, and arranger Antonio Adolfo has long been a master at capturing the essence of Brazilian music through a jazz perspective. On Carnaval (The Songs Were So Beautiful), Adolfo draws on a wide range of traditional Brazilian carnival styles-- sambas, marchinas, marchas-rancho, and frevos--to create a vibrant and richly textured album that bursts with ...

Mafalda Minnozzi: Riofonic

by Katchie Cartwright
April 17, 2025

Singer Mafalda Minnozzi, who already had a solid recording career in Italy, went to Rio for a date in the late 1990s, stayed for a year, then decided to make it her home. Like many musical immigrants to that great city, she went to feel the salt air, to drink in the natural beauty and learn ...

Love Cole Porter

By Antonio Adolfo

Label: AAM Music
Released: 2024
Track listing: Easy To Love; Ev'Ry Time We Say Goodbye; I Concentrate On You; I Love You; I'Ve Got You Under My Skin; Just One Of Those Things; Love For Sale; Night And Day; So In Love; You Do Something To Me.

Antonio Adolfo: Love Cole Porter

by Pierre Giroux
August 1, 2024

Love Cole Porter is pianist Antonio Adolfo's masterful tribute to the genius of Cole Porter, capturing his musical essence while infusing it with a Brazilian flair. This release is not just a tribute but a careful reimagining, bringing his timeless melodies, intricate lyrics, and sophisticated harmonies into a new light. Accompanying Adolfo is a coterie of ...

Antonio Adolfo: Bossa 65

by Katchie Cartwright
June 28, 2023

In 1963, a seventeen-year-old Antonio Adolfo was already gigging professionally on the exploding bossa nova scene in Rio de Janeiro, his hometown. His career has continued unabated. For decades, he has been putting out a steady stream of admirable albums, earning critical praise and multiple Grammy nominations. His releases have often focused on the work of ...