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Claudio Roditi: A Brazilian in Iowa
by Victor Verney
Watching trumpeter Claudio Roditi lead some unfamiliar sidemen through an afternoon rehearsal prior to an evening performance provided a good look at something not readily apparent at concerts. While the audience at that night's show in Ottumwa, Iowa saw Roditi's talents as a player and improviser (and even singer) displayed, most concertgoers could only have a ...
The Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts Welcomes World-Renowned Jazz Trumpeter Herb Alpert and His Wife, Famed Jazz Vocalist Lani Hall
The Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts welcomes world-renowned jazz trumpeter Herb Alpert and his wife, famed jazz vocalist Lani Hall, for a unique one-night show Husband and wife pair will perform hits from their recently released album Anything Goes Philadelphia, PA -- The Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts welcomes legendary jazz trumpeter Herb Alpert ...
Jazz Legends Pay Tribute to Sergio Mendes at Anthology
By Erick Pettersen On July 26, at 7PM, at Anthology--a jazz club in San Diego's Little Italy neighborhood--an ensemble of seven jazz performers, including jazz guitarist Peter Sprague and vocalist Kevyn Lettau, will perform a tribute concert to Sergio Mendes--a Brazilian musician who plays bossa nova, which he crosses with funk and jazz. Mendes influenced modern ...
Anne Walsh's Brazilian Jazz-Pop Confections Turning Heads
A celestial voice with a refreshing outlook arrives on the jazz-adult pop scene with today's (June 16) release of Pretty World by Anne Walsh from A To Zink Music. Her classically-trained voice gracefully guides a dozen dreamy compositions brimful of hope, optimism and romance. Walsh's classy collection of elegant standards, sensual Brazilian jazz rhythms and dramatic ...
Emil Viklicky: Emil Viklicky 60
by Victor Verney
Emil Viklicky Emil Viklicky 60 Multisonic 2009 Imagine Barack Obama introducing, say, keyboard player Herbie Hancock for a live concert at the White House on the occasion of Hancock's 60th birthday (a milestone, incidentally, that Hancock reached on April 12, 2000). Pianist Emil Viklicky's latest CD was created ...
Sergio Mendes New CD Encanto Available Now
Concord Records presents Sergio Mendes' Encanto, in stores now, the follow up record to 2006's Timeless. “Funky Bahia" Video Stream on YouTube. “Funky Bahia" Audio Stream. On June 10th, 2008, Concord Records and Starbucks Entertainment will release Encanto (Enchantment), the newest record from the legendary Brazilian musician Sergio Mendes. Encanto is the follow-up to 2006's highly ...
Sergio Mendes Carnegie Hall
JVC Jazz Festival Review Sergio Mendes is a proud member of the generation that invented bossa nova, but he has always been more popularizer than purist. Most of the hit singles he had with his group Brasil '66 in the late 1960s were pleasant middle-of-the-road pop with a mild overlay of samba. His most recent albums ...
