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 ...

Introducing the dynamic new project Laura Dreyer and the Manhattan-Rio Connection—Água e Sol, a musical collaboration that seamlessly blends the rhythms of jazz with the vibrant flavors of Brazilian ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Inspired by their mentor and legendary Brazilian guitarist and composer Guinga, the album — produced by GroundUp, Snarky Puppy’s ...

With a treasure trove of gorgeous melodies and an array of insinuating grooves, Brazilian tunes have been infiltrating just about every corner of the United States for almost a half-century, but it's ...

Over the years, the piano has assumed a leading role not just in North American jazz, but in the improvised musics that have originated all over the New World and across the lands of the African ...

Dave Pehling is website managing editor for CBS Bay Area. He started his journalism career doing freelance writing about music in the late 1990s, eventually working as a web writer, editor and ...