DECORAH, IOWA—The Luther College Jazz Orchestra is traveling to Brazil May 20 through June 5, where the group will perform concerts and participate in workshops in the country with prominent musicians ...

Summer Song; Golden; Christmas Black; Frevo; Seven; Bli' Min; Samba Optimista; Tomorrow Knows; Sambartido. Luckily, I have had the great fortune to be near Brazilian popular music for almost forty ...

On Friday, a samba line will snake through the Hamilton Listening Studio, as the nine-member Brazilian jazz group Desafinado plays a Batucada, leading the audience for the first time in almost 20 ...

The CJRO is set to deliver an electrifying month-long celebration of Brazilian jazz, highlighting some of the finest jazz artists in the region. Led by CJRO artistic director Drew Zaremba, these ...

Vocalist Mafalda Minnozzi has released her fourth jazz album, “Riofonic.” The album for the U.S. market was produced by New York guitarist, arranger and musical director Paul Ricci and was recorded in ...

Ever since Brazilian composer Antonio Carlos Jobim fused American jazz with Brazilian samba in the 1950s to form the new style known as Bossa Nova, countless musicians have been inspired to create ...

With 31 records to her credit over an illustrious career, Brazilian jazz pianist Eliane Elias is beloved around the world for her distinctive style of blending her Brazilian roots, piano mastery, and ...

Born in the city of Presidente Prudente in the state of São Paulo, Heloísa Fernandes has been steeped in the rich tapestry of Brazilian music since she was a little girl. At the age of 4 she began ...

Alex Malheiros can’t remember the last time he visited Miami, either alone or with his band, Azymuth. He’s speaking to New Times over the phone through an interpreter – his daughter Sabrina, herself a ...

Leny Andrade, known as the first lady of Brazilian jazz, has died in Rio de Janeiro. Andrade was a percussive, samba-driven improviser, an interpreter as worldly-wise as Édith Piaf and a consummate ...

Spalding, who was born and raised in Portland, was seated at a main floor table during the ceremony. She shared a photo on Instagram of herself holding a sign with Nascimento's picture that read, ...