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Hermeto Pascoal: Slaves Mass
by John Kelman
Hermeto Pascoal Slaves MassWarner Bros.1977 It's not hard to see why the creator of today's Rediscovery, Hermeto Pascoal, was such a significant figure to everyone from Miles Davis and Gil Evans to Herbie Hancock and, of course, Flora Purim and Airto Moreira, who co-produced Slaves Mass. Had the Brazilian multi-instrumentalist only ...
Opus Classico
Label: Petrobras
Released: 2014
Track listing: Vocalise; Iluminada/Balada en
Sol Menor No. 1; O Trenzinho do
Caipira; Ária das Bachianas
Brasileiras No. 5; Prelúdio de
Solidão/ Prelúdio No. 3; Corpo e
Luz/ Ária de ópera Tristão e
Isolda; Adagio do 'Concierto de
Aranjuez'; Pavane; The Lamp is
Low/Pavane; As Pombas;
Coração Triste; Modinha; O
Canto do Pajé; Stranger in
Paradise/Danças
Polovtzianas/My Reverie.
Rio de Janeiro’s shrine to Brazil’s fabled Bossa Nova
by Mark Holston
While CD stores have virtually disappeared in most countries, Brazil remains a notable exception. In most large cities, specialty shops featuring contemporary and historic recordings by the country's legendary music-makers are still prospering. Visitors from abroad will delight in finding so much entrancing Brazilian sound at their fingertips. Enter the multi-level Bossa Nova & ...
Ithamara Koorax: Opus Classico
by Chris M. Slawecki
Throughout her career, Ithamara Koorax has consistently exercised a singing voice that approaches the eternal; Ira Gitler once famously described Koorax's singing as celestial elegance." On Opus Clássico, that amazing voice finds material to match: Vocal and vocalized melodies written by such master composers as Frederic Chopin, Claude Debussy, Sergie Rachmaninoff and Heitor Villa-Lobos, lovingly and ...
Raising Vision and Voice
by Chris M. Slawecki
Decades ago, Archie Shepp and Sun Ra were among the first musicians to expand their vision for the human voice beyond the traditional verse-chorus-verse song structure. Today, through digital sampling and other technology, musicians incorporate and manipulate the human voice in ways that even these two iconoclasts might not recognize. At the same time, the profound ...
Ithamara Koorax: Celestial Elegance
by Chris M. Slawecki
Singer thamara Koorax recorded her 15th solo CD, Got to Be Real (Irma, 2012), live in the studio" in Rio de Janeiro, the place of her birth, with her touring band--bassist Jorge Pescara, drummer Haroldo Jobim (a cousin of Antonio Carlos Jobim) and keyboardist Jose Roberto Bertrami, founding member of Brazil's famous fusion export Azymuth, on ...
George Duke: The Complete 1970s Epic Albums Collection
by Chris M. Slawecki
The George Duke Band: The Complete 1970s Epic Albums Collection compiles the six albums that keyboardist, bandleader, composer, arranger and producer George Duke released on Epic Records between 1977 and 1979, accompanied by extensive and reflective notes on each album personally written by Duke, who wrote, arranged and produced just about every track. As ...
Brazilian Butterfly - Featuring Dom Um Romão, Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Azymuth, Raul de Souza
Label: Irma Molto Jazz
Released: 2007