Rio-based Pandeiro Jazz Pioneer Scott Feiner Goes the Crowdfunding Way

Rio de Janeiro-based Scott Feiner, like many independent artists of late, is reaching out ...

Helio Alves: The Wizard of the Brazilian Keys

Helio Alves is not the kind of pianist that you can pigeonhole into any ...

Meet Monica da Silva: A New Voice in Bicultural Brazilian-American Music

Among the new voices in Brazilian music to emerge in recent years, Florida-based Monica ...

Hendrik Meurkens: The Brazilian Sounds of a Carioca from Germany

Harmonica player, vibraphonist and composer Hendrik Meurkens may have been born in Germany, but ...

Brazil’s Nilson Matta: The Master of Lower Tones

After having interviewed Romero Lubambo and Duduka Da Fonseca in this series, it was ...

A US Jazz Cat Finds New Life and Career by the Beach, in Rio, Brazil

It is not every day that a jazz  musician discovers a new instrument and ...

Elin, Swedish Voice & Brazilian Soul

This versatile multilingual vocalist was born in Sweden, but you would never know it ...

Flí¡vio Chamis Takes Us on a Discovery Voyage Through Brazilian Musical Lands

The mix of classical and popular occurs as a seemingly natural development in the ...

Brazil’s Cultural Warrior Adnet Reinvents Jobim

While fine art can definitely arrive in conventional containers, we experience another kind of ...