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Victor Biglione: The Best of Brazil's Best?

by Mark Holston
March 26, 2014

Growing up in the 1960s had one propitious cultural benefit; exposure at an early age to Brazil's amazing popular music of the day, the bossa nova. As my record collection grew, so did a desire to see first hand the country responsible for producing so much singular music. In 1970s, I spent three months ...

Article: Roads Less Travelled

Rio de Janeiro’s shrine to Brazil’s fabled Bossa Nova

by Mark Holston
March 26, 2014

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 & ...

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Mario Adnet: Um Olhar Sobre Villa-Lobos

Read "Um Olhar Sobre Villa-Lobos" reviewed by James Nadal

by James Nadal
August 17, 2013

The music of Brazil is generalized with sambas and bossa novas and visualized by the colorful carnivals the country is so famous for. But Brazilian music also has a sophisticated presence, traced back to the influential composer Heitor Villa-Lobos (1887-1959) and his prolific compositions known for melding indigenous and folkloric songs and rhythms with European classical ...

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Antonio Adolfo: Finas Misturas

Read "Finas Misturas" reviewed by Hrayr Attarian

by Hrayr Attarian
April 29, 2013

Pianist, composer and educator Antonio Adolfo's second instrumental release as a leader, on his own AAM label, is entitled Finas Misturas (in English, “fine mixtures"). The name refers to the fusion of jazz elements with the rhythms and sensibilities of Adolfo's native Brazil. The result is a pleasing batch of six covers and four originals.

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Antonio Adolfo: Finas Misturas

Read "Finas Misturas" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky
March 12, 2013

Pianist/Composer Antonio Adolfo is a bit of a musical mixologist. Throughout his four-plus decades in the music world, he's often found his way and made his mark by merging jazz language with the sonic sensibilities of his native Brazil; now, this very idea serves as a thematic umbrella that hangs over Finas Misturas. ...

Article: Interview

Ithamara Koorax: Celestial Elegance

by Chris M. Slawecki
September 24, 2012

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 ...

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