The brilliant young guitarist Plínio Fernandes proves once again [although he probably did not set out to do so] that well before Johann Sebastian Bach –...
Benji Kaplan is an American, a New Yorker to be precise, but listening to his music you would never know that. He plays as if as...
The glorious albeit devilishly complex writing and the spirited and eloquently ornamented playing by Benji Kaplan and the wonderful members of the ensemble on Uai Sô...
You will probably never come closer to the real Guinga than on Canção da Impermanência, an album completely stripped of every stylistic deportment for seemingly lit...
Although there is a proliferation of American musicians – especially vocalists – who are dipping into Brasilian repertoire, mostly singing phonetically, it is an adventure fraught...
To speak of Guinga without a litany of praise would be almost sacrilegious and blasphemous. The musician and composer from Rio may be counted among the...
If the reeds and woodwinds player Harvey Wainapel has not been made an honorary Brasilian already, then it is time that he is made one. His...