Results for "RAFAEL ROCHA"

Rafael Rocha

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).

The Brazilian Project

By Gabriel Espinosa

Label: Origin Records
Released: 2026
Track listing: Gabriela; Caramelo; Fe; Mi Jarana; Euro 12; Paz; Encuentro Maya; Nuevos Horizontes; Klavier Latino; Morning.

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 ...

Mi Jarana

June 13, 2026

Album: The Brazilian Project
By Gabriel Espinosa
Label: Origin Records
Released: 2026
Duration: 04:30

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.

DDG19 Big Band

By Dani Gurgel

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2024
Track listing: Três Luas; Garra; 36-47; Podicrê; Rodopio; Luz; Quiet Little Lady; Adagio - Sem Fronteiras; Sem Fronteiras; Veredas; Dá Licença.

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 ...

Antonio Adolfo: Carnaval - The Songs Were So Beautiful

by Katchie Cartwright
July 14, 2025

What prompted pianist and composer Antonio Adolfo to record, in 2025, an album of songs from the 'golden age' of Brazilian carnaval music, circa 1920-1950? He has known and loved this music since he was a child, growing up in Rio de Janeiro. “All these songs are very alive in my memory," he told All About ...