The Brazilian Jazz Collective Brings A Youthful Approach To An Honored Tradition of Music On Their First California Tour (Los Angeles, October 30, 2009) On Sunday, November 29, 2009 the Brazilian Jazz ...

DECORAH, IOWA—The Luther College Jazz Orchestra is traveling to Brazil May 20 through June 5, where the group will perform concerts and participate in workshops in the country with prominent musicians ...

Summer Song; Golden; Christmas Black; Frevo; Seven; Bli' Min; Samba Optimista; Tomorrow Knows; Sambartido. Luckily, I have had the great fortune to be near Brazilian popular music for almost forty ...

There is more to Brazilian music than bossa nova and samba. For a crash course on those deeper and wider recent pop traditions, pull up a seat and listen to guitarist Vinicius Gomes. “Bossa nova is ...

Jazz singer Raquel Cepeda and pianist Marvio Ciribelli bring Brazil to Houston with “Brazil Samba Jazz.” The concert will feature the sensual and energizing rhythms of Brazil and will include classic ...

Over the years, the piano has assumed a leading role not just in North American jazz, but in the improvised musics that have originated all over the New World and across the lands of the African ...

Mendes: Paul McCartney enjoyed his uptempo version of the Beatles standard The Fool on the Hill - Jim McCrary/Redferns Sérgio Mendes, who has died in Los Angeles aged 83, created a string of worldwide ...

On Friday, a samba line will snake through the Hamilton Listening Studio, as the nine-member Brazilian jazz group Desafinado plays a Batucada, leading the audience for the first time in almost 20 ...

Hermeto Pascoal was a virtuoso who excelled in various instruments and had an extraordinary ability to improvise - Copyright AFP/File GEORGES GOBET Hermeto Pascoal ...

Leny Andrade, known as the first lady of Brazilian jazz, has died in Rio de Janeiro. Andrade was a percussive, samba-driven improviser, an interpreter as worldly-wise as Édith Piaf and a consummate ...

The CJRO is set to deliver an electrifying month-long celebration of Brazilian jazz, highlighting some of the finest jazz artists in the region. Led by CJRO artistic director Drew Zaremba, these ...