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September , 2010
Friday

 Elis Regina sings 'The Waters of March'
By Sean Chaffin, Editor/Senior Writer Last Updated: October 26, 2009; 8:15 pm CT Gal Costa, one of Brazil’s ...
The mention of an Air France flight escaped my early-morning attention earlier this week, but ...
Vocalist and stage and television performer Cornelius Bates is bringing his own version of Bossa ...
How about a quick Brazilian cooking class to add some spice to your Summertime fun? Now ...
Sergio Mendes has been getting nice reviews for his new album and the artist recently ...
It's been a while since we've featured Kevyn Lettau here on The Sounds of Brazil, ...
Ninety-one years ago Brazilian writer and philosopher Oswald de Andrade promoted a notion of Brazilian ...
The Wall Street Journal reports that Brazilian media company Grupo Abril has purchased exclusive rights ...

Summer Sambas… So Nice!

‘Summer Sambas!’ August’s theme is a perfect match for the hottest month of the year, and Dog Days not withstanding, we’ve lined up four consecutive weeks of Brazilian sounds to stay cool with on The Sounds of Brazil radio program ...
Summer Sambas… So Nice!

Seu Jorge in Chicago; win tickets

By Sean Chaffin, Editor/Senior Writer Last Updated: July 19, 2010; 12:30 pm CT New album, new tour, and your chance to win tickets to the Chicago show courtesy of Brazil Club. Seu Jorge’s Chicago show is approaching – as well as 15 other concert ...
Seu Jorge in Chicago; win tickets

UPDATE: Gilberto shows cancelled

By Sean Chaffin, Editor/Senior Writer Last Updated: June 23, 2010; 12:o0 pm CT Mosaic Brazil has learned that all João Gilberto shows scheduled in the United States this week and next have now been cancelled. Yesterday it was announced that only the New York City show ...
UPDATE: Gilberto shows cancelled

David Chew: An amazing life in music – from England to Rio

David Chew: An amazing life in music – from England to Rio By Sean Chaffin, Editor/Senior Writer Last Updated: April 7, 2010; 11:43 am CT         To say David Chew has been in a Brazilian state of mind would be quite the understatement. This Englishman turned “Brazilian ...
David Chew: An amazing life in music – from England to Rio

Brazil’s Best Ready For 2010’s Green Flag Weekend

      By Sean Chaffin, Editor/Senior Writer Last Updated:   With the world’s top two open-wheel racing series getting ready for their opening rounds this weekend, we thought we’d bring you up to speed with Brazil’s competing drivers.   Brazil’s speed freaks can start their engines ...
Brazil’s Best Ready For 2010’s Green Flag Weekend

Remembering Johnny Alf

By Sean Chaffin, Editor/Senior Writer Last Updated: March 8, 2010; 10:00 pm CT             Johnny Alf gave a generation of young Brazilians their first glimpses of the musical style which would evolve to become Bossa Nova – helping to change the course of Brazilian pop. ...
Remembering Johnny Alf

Carnaval Fever!

By Sean Chaffin, Editor/Senior Writer Last Updated: February 12, 2010; 12:42 pm CT   No doubt Maris Gras will extra special this year because of the Saints Super Bowl win last week, but it still can't compare to Brazil's carnaval cekebrations in Rio de ...
Carnaval Fever!

Brazil on the Barbie

By Sean Chaffin, Editor/Senior Writer Posted on November 6th, 2009     With Rio staging the 2016 Olympics, why not taste a bit of Rio this weekend? Brazilian churrascarias not only a detour into a uniquely Brazilian cuisine, but a trip into the country’s ...
Brazil on the Barbie

Rio Reflections

By Sean Chaffin, Editor/Senior Writer Posted on: October 22, 2009; 8:29 pm CT   Rio de Janeiro is an amazing city with wonderful music, unique culture, inspiring geography, and charming people. But why take just our word for it? With “Rio Reflections” as our ...
Rio Reflections

Cry Of Conscience

by Scott Adams, Publisher . It was a remarkable opportunity: A chance to spend a few afternoons with one of Brazil's greatest songwriters. But Caetano Veloso is much more than that: a poet, a painter, an author and cultural warrior. And the timing ...
Cry Of Conscience

48 hours in Rio

What to do if you had only 48 hours in the Marvelous City? The options are limitless, but the Independent (UK) offers up some nice options for readers this week as part of its ongoing “48 Hours” travel series. From shopping ...
30 July 2010 I Read the full story

NEW YORK: Piano paradise

Piano is in Helio Alves’s DNA. Playing since age 6, the Jazz and Bossa Nova veteran will treat New York City audiences Aug. 11 at the Zinc Bar. Alves was born in Sao Paulo in 1966 and gravitated to jazz in ...
3 August 2010 I Read the full story

Sergio on Sergio

Sergio Mendes has been getting nice reviews for his new album and the artist recently sat down with L.A. Weekly to talk about his five decades in Brazilian music. The artist also touched on his recording history with some of ...
3 August 2010 I Read the full story

48 hours in Rio

What to do if you had only 48 hours in the Marvelous City? The options are limitless, but the Independent (UK) offers up some nice options for readers this week as part of its ongoing “48 Hours” travel series. From shopping ...
30 July 2010 I Read the full story

On Guitarist Ricardo Silveira & Facebook

August - 13 - 2010 Reporter: Scott Adams Respond

A preview of The Sounds of Brazil for the weekend of August 14th!

On Breno Sauer’s Brazilian Jazz mp3 from 1966

August - 11 - 2010 Reporter: Scott Adams 1 Response

Listen to Chicago’s Brazilian jazz pioneer, Breno Sauer – form 1966!

On This Saturday’s ‘Som Brasil’ Tribute Concert

August - 9 - 2010 Reporter: Scott Adams Respond

Brazilian Jazz in Chicago at its best for this 8/14 show at Mayne Stage.

On Summer Sambas, Gisele Bundchen & Som Brasil

August - 7 - 2010 Reporter: Scott Adams Respond

A weekly wrap up of msuic news from Brazil

NEW YORK: Piano paradise

August - 3 - 2010 Reporter: Sean Respond

Piano is in Helio Alves’s DNA. Playing since age 6, the Jazz and Bossa Nova veteran will treat New York City audiences Aug. 11 at the Zinc Bar.

NEW YORK: French Bossa

August - 3 - 2010 Reporter: Sean Respond

Suavemente! That is the term once used to describe the sound of New York-based French vocalist, song stylist, and poet Pascalito. And the performer brings his show and his band to The Metropolitan Room in New York City on Aug. 11 at 7 p.m.

Sergio on Sergio

August - 3 - 2010 Reporter: Sean Respond

Sergio Mendes has been getting nice reviews for his new album and the artist recently sat down with L.A. Weekly to talk about his five decades in Brazilian music. The artist also touched on his recording history with some of the greatest names in jazz and Brazilian sound, his life in the United States, and his music-making process.

Summer Sambas… So Nice!

July - 31 - 2010 Reporter: Scott Adams Respond

Summer Sambas… So Nice! On the radio and 24/7 with our webcast channel for The Sounds of Brazil! at Connectbrazil.com

48 hours in Rio

July - 30 - 2010 Reporter: Sean Respond

What to do if you had only 48 hours in the Marvelous City? The options are limitless, but the Independent (UK) offers up some nice options for readers this week as part of its ongoing “48 Hours” travel series.

Tales of Music & Brazil – Part V

July - 30 - 2010 Reporter: Sean Respond

I was so excited that I forgot that I couldn’t yet speak fluent Portuguese and went up to Mr. Jobim at the interval of our rehearsal and talked so much with him about his time and my time in London. I remember that all the way through rehearsal he had a bottle of Scotch at hand, on top of the piano.

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