Musician

Guinga

Article: Album Review

Mafalda Minnozzi: Riofonic

by Katchie Cartwright
April 17, 2025

Singer Mafalda Minnozzi, who already had a solid recording career in Italy, went to Rio for a date in the late 1990s, stayed for a year, then decided to make it her home. Like many musical immigrants to that great city, she went to feel the salt air, to drink in the natural beauty and learn ...

Article: Album Review

Stephen Guerra: No Balan???o do Choro?-?Samba

by Katchie Cartwright
January 17, 2025

Guitarist Stephen Guerra was finishing up his undergraduate degree in engineering when he became enchanted with Brazilian music. It was the guitar and song magic of Baden Powell with its mysterious metric ambiguity. Upon graduating, he took a job in personal wealth management, teaching himself to play guitar and read music on the side. After a ...

Album

Guinga

By Natalie Cressman

Label: GroundUP Music
Released: 2024
Track listing: Contradi??o; Bolero de Sat?; Lavagem de Concei??o; Aria de Opereta; Del��rio Carioca; Ramo de Del��rios; Por tr��s de bras da Pina; Par Constante; Garoa e Maresia; Segredo de Dad��; N��tido e Obscuro/Geraldo no Leme; Ellingtoniana; Viola Variada; V? Alfredo.

Video

Guinga + Joia Luz Live at JazzB, S?o Paulo

Featuring the music of Guinga
Duration: 3:18
October 1, 2024

To celebrate Brazilian Song, Guinga joins the young Italian interpreter Joia Luz and presents a selection of his compositions arranged for guitar and voice, recorded last year and released this July 2024 by the Kuarup label. Songs like ��Fonte Abandonada,�� ��Noturna,�� ��Jogo de Damas,�� among others. Guinga is one of the greatest Brazilian composers of today, with a career spanning decades of collaborations with big names in Brazilian music, such as Elis Regina, Chico Buarque, and Ivan Lins. His compositions, marked by melodic beauty, sophisticated harmonies, and poetic lyrics, are true gems of Brazilian popular music. Joia Luz, the stage name of Gioia Persichetti, is an Italian singer, multi-instrumentalist, and producer based in Brazil. With a sweet and expressive voice, Joia Luz interprets Guinga��s songs with sensitivity and emotion, creating an intimate and engaging atmosphere.

Article: Album Review

Milton Nascimento / Esperanza Spalding: Milton + esperanza

by Chris May
July 31, 2024

Sometimes the semiology around an album can tell you more about it than any amount of words attempting to describe the music itself. And the semiology around Milton + esperanza is eloquent. It begins with the overlap with another summer 2024 release, Wayne Shorter's magical double-album Celebration Volume 1 (Blue Note), a previously unreleased recording of ...

Article: Album Review

Huw Warren: Choro Choro Choro

by Chris May
July 13, 2024

The Welsh pianist Huw Warren is not a household name--though he ought to be--so a little background to Choro Choro Choro is appropriate, just in case the album is taken to have effervesced out of nowhere. In the 1990s, Warren was co-leader of the singular London quartet Perfect Houseplants. The group's half-dozen albums ...

Article: Radio & Podcasts

Vin��cius Cantu��ria, Sam Fribush, Haroldo Bontempo, Natalie Cressman & More

by Ludovico Granvassu
April 9, 2024

The mighty organ trio of Sam Fribush opens a set mostly devoted to post-bossa nova Brazilian projects. Happy listening! Playlist Ben Allison “Mondo Jazz Theme (feat. Ted Nash & Pyeng Threadgill)" 0:00 Sam Fribush “Supper / Make Me a Plate" People Please (Flybird) 0:16 Host talks 5:23 Ricardo Dias Gomes “Morrerei ...

Article: Album Review

Natalie Cressman & Ian Faquini: Guinga

by Dan Bilawsky
March 31, 2024

Brazilian guitarist-composer Guinga is something of a legendary figure. A polyglot performer associated with m��sica popular brasileira's all-encompassing ethos, he's made his name fusing the contemporary and folkloric strains of his homeland with classical, jazz, rock and pop stylings. His influence looms large in that particular niche of the music world--and, honestly, beyond--and he receives his ...

Article: Interview

L'autorevole inventiva di Salvatore Maiore

by Angelo Leonardi
June 21, 2021

Contrabbassista, violoncellista e compositore tra i pi�� attivi in Italia, Salvatore Maiore ha evidenziato -nelle molte collaborazioni e nei progetti personali-una cifra espressiva particolarmente ricercata, dove il ruolo dei suoi strumenti assume un aspetto propositivo, in una chiara esaltazione delle forme melodiche e timbriche. Di recente ha pubblicato un progetto sulle musiche di Charles Mingus interpretate ...