Rogê’s samba rock meets Tommy Brenneck’s bespoke soul
Written by Allen Thayer
Brazilian singer-songwriter Sessa shares ten influential albums.
Written by Allen Thayer
Sergio Mendes enters a new decade, revamps his band as Brasil ’77, and rubs shoulders with Harrison Ford, Stevie Wonder, the Brothers Johnson, and Pelé.
Written by Allen Thayer
DJ Nuts, aka Rodrigo Teixeira, is arguably the best known Brazilian DJ internationally.
Written by Allen Thayer
Tim Maia was never satisfied. Brazil’s number one soul brother had a voracious appetite for both carnal and philosophical indulgences.
Written by Allen Thayer
Where’s João Donato? It’s a frequently asked question, referring simultaneously to the physical location and the musical moment he inhabits.
Written by Allen Thayer
As part of Brazil’s mid-’60s bossa jazz scene and a session player in Rio’s numerous studios, pianist Dom Salvador played with that country’s best.
Written by Allen Thayer
Sure, tropicália is more than one band, but Os Mutantes encapsulated the movement’s reckless cultural cannibalism, absurdist humor, and innovative music like no one else.
Written by Allen Thayer
Lani Hall soared to great heights as the lead singer for Brasil ’66 and as a musical muse for bandleader Sergio Mendes.
Written by Allen Thayer
Blending bossa nova and samba, jazz, reggae, and Anatolian funk, Palo Santo Discos is a purveyor of sounds that instinctively move bodies.
Written by Bret Sjerven
Back in the early ’60s, my sister’s hipster boyfriend used to bring his Herbie Mann albums over to our house, along with a couple Modern Jazz Quartet and Mose Allison records....
Written by John Kruth
The ten São Paulo musicians in the Afro-Brazilian super group Bixiga 70 often feel like they’re riding a hurricane.
Written by Allen Thayer
Brazilian singer Ed Motta channeled his lifelong love for well-produced AOR groups like Steely Dan and the Doobie Brothers and delivers a slick and melodic ode to yacht rock.
Written by Allen Thayer
Producer Jneiro Jarel has followed a path of faith, experimentation, and artistic expression that has helped him create both a cache of original music and peace of mind.
Written by Jeff D. Min
Schifrin is a musical chameleon with a sense of drama so heightened, an expertise and scope so wide-angled, that some cinematographers he has worked with had to have been jealous.
Written by Dan Ubick
“He could read a newspaper and sound good,” Miles Davis famously said of the wafer-thin-voiced bossa nova originator, João Gilberto.
Written by Allen Thayer
“He is a beautiful cat,” I was told about celebrated Brazilian drummer and percussionist Ivan “Mamão” Conti, and I could hear it in his voice.
Written by Ronnie Reese
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Willed into being by one man, Earth, Wind & Fire became one of the biggest acts of the 1970s.
Written by Ericka Blount Danois
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