Tag Archives: Brazilian Jazz

Fábio Jr. started carrying out in São Paulo as a kid on Television (Bandeirantes) and radio displays. In 1971, he used the stage name Uncle Jack port and later Tag Davis, under which he documented many singles sung in British, having achievement with “DON’T ALLOW Me Try” and “I wish …

Because the ’70s, Marcos Ariel has dedicated himself to Brazilian instrumental music and jazz, achieving international status through the entire next decade. Ariel analyzed traditional music in his child years, being drawn to jazz later on by famous brands Hermeto Pascoal and Chick Corea. He created his first music group, …

Guinga began his music studies like a self-taught violonista in 13. Later, he’d deepen his apprenticeship of traditional violão. At 16, he started to create his personal compositions and in 1967, he offered one of these at II FIC (Rede Globo, Rio). In 1973, MPB-4 documented two of his tunes …

Caito Marcondes originates from a long type of great Brazilian percussionists. Similarly versed in Brazilian folk and traditional music, Marcondes provides used Milton Nascimento, Hermeto Pascoal, Toninho Horta, and Marlui Miranda and provides composed ballet ratings and tv and film soundtracks. Marcondes became a member of using the California-based Turtle …

Influential composer/guitarist using a established personal design of harmonization, Toninho Horta has already established comprehensive participation in various other artists’s tasks, and in addition has documented more than 10 single albums (having particular guests like Pat Metheny, Naná Vasconcelos, and Eliane Elias), most of them released internationally. A few of …

The honey-toned chanteuse within the surprise Brazilian crossover hit “THE LADY From Ipanema,” Astrud Gilberto parlayed her previously unscheduled appearance (and professional singing debut) within the song right into a lengthy career that led to nearly twelve albums for Verve and an effective performing career that lasted in to the …

Antônio Adolfo was a significant composer, having written tunes recorded by Nara Leão, Marisa Gata Mansa, Ângela Rô Rô, Dóris Monteiro, O Grupo, Wilson Simonal, Geraldo Vespar, Leci Brandão, Emílio Santiago, Beth Carvalho, and Sérgio Mendes & Brasil ’66, amongst others. Adolfo also experienced a mentioned role along the way …

Although Opa made some thrilling contributions to Brazilian jazz in the 1970s and had a solid supporter in percussionist Airto Moreira, the Southern American trio under no circumstances became popular commercially. Opa was founded in 1969 by Uruguayan keyboardist/pianist/vocalist Hugo Fattoruso (b. Jun. 26, 1943, Montevideo, Uruguay), who recruited drummer …

Noel Rosa was a well-known and celebrated composer while alive, but is increasingly more popular after a while. When active, well-known music in Brazil was generally “nation” music, sertaneja music. But he sensed free to give his true-spirited samba in a fresh way, his method: advanced melodies conjugated with uncommon …

Delivered Luciano Nakata Albuquerque to Spanish and Japan parents, Curumin spent his impressionable years in São Paulo, Brazil, hearing Jorge Ben, Tim Maia, and Bebeto. At eight he shaped his first rock-band, and by enough time he was 16 he was a percussionist and keyboardist in best clubs around the …