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Antônio Carlos Jobim

It’s been said that Antonio Carlos Brasileiro de Almeida Jobim was the George Gershwin of Brazil, and there’s a sound band of truth for the reason that, for both contributed large body of tunes towards the jazz repertoire, both expanded their reach in to the concert hall, and both have …

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Laurindo Almeida

During a extended and uncommonly productive job, Brazilian guitarist Laurindo Almeida accomplished a ubiquity in popular music which has yet to become fully recognized. Mainly in charge of the Brazilian/North American “samba jazz” that could ultimately catch on by means of a musical pattern referred to as bossa nova, he …

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Willie Bobo

Willie Bobo was among the great Latin percussionists of his period, a relentless swinger for the congas and timbales, a flamboyant showman onstage, and an engaging if modestly endowed vocalist. He also produced serious inroads in to the pop, R&B and right jazz worlds, and he constantly stated that his …

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Gilson Peranzzetta

Perhaps one of the most requested modern arrangers and pianists of MPB, Gilson Peranzzetta has already established classical schooling since he was a kid, also getting heavily influenced by jazz and Brazilian instrumental music. Like a composer, he has already established his songs documented by Djavan, Edu Lobo, Leny Andrade, …

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Charles Ables

b. 23 July 1943, Mississippi, USA, d. 8 Oct 2001, Washington, DC, USA. Getting started on guitar, which device he caused Ray Charles among additional leaders, Ables later on switched to electrical bass. This arrived in the behest of Shirley Horn who required a bass participant at that time she …

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Art Van Damme

Jazz accordion-master, Vehicle Damme plays a lot more than great/accordion mush. Actually, he was an innovator during 60s post-bop. He’s an unsung hero.

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Candido

Internationally celebrated because the man who essentially found where Chano Pozo still left away, Candido Camero was being among the most ubiquitous from the Cuban and Caribbean percussionists who enlivened and enriched the musical landscape of THE UNITED STATES through the second about half of the 20th century. One of …

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Sugar Blue

Among the foremost electric powered blues harpists of the present day era, Glucose Blue was created Adam Whiting in NEW YORK in 1950. The boy of the vocalist/dancer who frequently performed on the renowned Apollo Movie theater, he was presented with his initial harmonica at age ten, and by his …

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Luizão Maia

Often tagged because the father of Brazilian samba jazz, Luizão Maia continued to be a occupied session man more than many decades, especially accompanying vocalist Elis Regina for greater than a decade. Furthermore to Regina, Maia performed alongside a great many other noteworthy music artists during his energetic years, which …

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Howard Levy

b. 1960, USA. Playing music from an extremely early age group, Levy analyzed piano and music theory in the Manhattan College of Music for four years, after that studied pipe body organ for an additional 2 yrs. While going to Northwestern University or college, Evanston, Illinois, he was an associate …

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