Brazilian Song of the Day: Joyce Moreno
Known for her beautiful bossa novas, Joyce Moreno teamed up with percussionist Nana Vasconcelos and guitarist Mauricio Maestro to extend bossa nova sounds deeper into the jazz realm. Joyce Moreno:...
View ArticleBrazilian Song of the Day: Sonia Rosa com Yuji Ohno
This week is going to be tracks I’ve culled from compilations put together by non-Brazilian labels. When you’re neither a native or a speaker, it’s hard to find even the most popular foreign tracks....
View ArticleBrazilian Song of the Day: Bossacunova
This week, I’m going through my top six songs by number of iTunes recorded plays. This count is horribly inaccurate, since it doesn’t include plays from CDs, and I’ve lost play counts moving my...
View ArticleBrazilian Song of the Day: Bossa Nova Diaspora Week (Morelenbaum2 Sakamoto)
This week, I’m going to look at how bossa nova exists outside of Brasil. Since “The Girl from Ipanema” became a global hit, bossa nova has been part of the musical vocabulary outside of Brasil,...
View ArticleBrazilian Song of the Day: Sophie Milman
Bossa nova has been part of the jazz scene so long that it’s mutated into something of a distinct genre. Listen to how the wonderful Sophie Milman and her band perform the Jobim classic “Agua de Beber”...
View ArticleBrazilian Song of the Day: Tom & Joy
Tom & Joy are a duo from Paris, who were originally called Tom & Joyce (as in Tom Naim and Joyce Hoze, the duo’s names). Their eponymous debut was a fairly traditional take on bossa nova. The...
View ArticleBrazilian Song of the Day: Fred Hersch and Bill Frisell
If four days into Bossa Nova Diaspora week you’re seeing a theme, it’s probably that Jobim is the go-to composer for non-Brazilians. I don’t have numbers to know how many times non-Brazilians have...
View ArticleBrazilian Song of the Day: Koop
You could call Koop’s “Summer Sun” acid jazz if you wanted to, and nobody would likely correct you. But this is is bossa nova through and through. If Tom, Astrud, and Stan were stranded above the...
View ArticleBrazilian Song of the Day: Kurt Elling
Of all the performers I’ve seen live, nobody comes close Kurt Elling at the Green Mill. The house is always packed, the drinks plenty, and the band hot. And when Kurt takes the mic, you can almost feel...
View ArticleBrazilian Song of the Day: Wayne Shorter with Milton Nascimento
Last week, I realized I had been completely negligent and failed to showcase any of Milton Nascimento’s work. This week I’m going to exorcize my shame by devoting the entire week to Nascimento and the...
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