Produced in 1995 in Rio de Janeiro by guitarist Jorge Mário da Silva (Seu Jorge, who was simply living over the streets since four years previous, grew up in the indegent and violent neighborhoods from the Baixada Fluminense and acquired two brothers wiped out), French flutist Bertrand Doussain, and Gabriel …

Edil Pacheco is really a composer and performer faithfully focused on the very best Bahian custom. Author of over 250 tracks, he had a great deal of them documented by Wilson Simonal, Luís Vieira, João Nogueira (“De Amor é Bom,” “Se Segura Segurança”), Gilberto Gil (“Ojuabá”), Gal Costa (“Estamos Aí”), …

A composer who has already established his tracks recorded by Caetano Veloso (who had success in 1972 with “Clubão Beleza”), Gal Costa (the strike “Passarinho,” 1973), Tom Zé, Elza Soares, Fagner, Gereba, Jussara Silveira, and Osvaldinho do Acordeon, amongst others, Tuzé De Abreu also offers worked intensively as an author …

Bahia Dark was a short-lived music group featuring Brazilian vocalist, songwriter, percussionist, guitarist and vocalist Carlinhos Dark brown and his ten-piece drum outfit, Olodum. Joined up with by American jazz music artists including Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, Bernie Worrell, Henry Threadgill and maker Expenses Laswell, the group documented one memorable …

Percussionist and songwriter Tony Mola offers helped to create the music of Bahia, circumstances in northeastern Brazil, to international interest. Regarding his 13-piece music group Bragada, Mola has generated a dance music that combines hip-hop and salsa affects with traditional samba and forro rhythms. The group was called Best New …

For some of the next half of the ’60s, Sergio Mendes was the top-selling Brazilian artist in america, charting large hit singles and LPs that regularly produced the very best Five. His information along with his group, Brasil ’66, frequently straddled the local pop and worldwide markets in the us, …