Music

Brazil’s Backland Resonance

The most penetrating Brazilian music originates in the country’s proving ground, the Northeast, in ...

Brazil’s Northeast Is a Big Open-Air Forró Party

Noise pollution laws don’t exist in the northeast of Brazil. Beginning every night at ...

Jovino mission: to spread Hermeto Pascoal

Seattle-based Jovino Santos Neto has one mission: make Hermeto Pascoal musical genius known to ...

They all want to record a Chico César tune

Fans say that Chico César is the greatest because he has style and because ...

Crude Mamonas

They are rude, crass, provocative, pornophonic, sometimes funny, almost always infuriating. The Mamonas Assassinas ...

On-line samba

The Internet is full of stories of romances, of lives saved, of businesses started. ...

U.S.A. Calendar Thursday 1

THURSDAY 1 BEVERLY HILLS 10:30 PM – Kátia Moraes at Bokaos (310) 659-1200 BERKELEY, ...

Por aí Continental Sambajazz

  Continental Sambajazz Hendrik Meurkens and Charlie Byrd, both supreme jazz musicians, both touched ...

Choro, Brazilian music par excellence

Choro is Brazilian jazz many people say. It could be true if Brazil’s chorinho ...