Thursday, May 24, 2007
Leny Andrade tours California
The singer is accompanied by pianist Stephanie Ozer & band.
Leny Andrade & Stephanie Ozer
The First Lady of Brazilian Jazz will begin her California tour at the Ninth Annual Healdsburg Jazz Festival. Leny will give two performances, at 7 and 9 pm, on Friday, 1 June 2007. The venue is the Barndiva Courtyard, 231 Center Street, downtown Healdsburg.
Saturday night, 2 June, Leny will sing at Senzala Restaurant, 250 E. Java Drive, Sunnyvale, CA.
Then she moves to LA, where she will perform from Monday, 4 June, to Wednesday, 6 June, at the Jazz Bakery, 3233 Helms Avenue, Culver City, CA 90034.
Leny will be accompanied by a stong group of local musicians, led by Bay Area pianist Stephanie Ozer, whose recordings with Leny appear in her CD O Começo, New Beginnings in Brazilian Jazz. The band also includes Mary Fettig on sax and flute, Randy Vincent on guitar, Scott Thompson on bass, and Phil Thompson on drums.
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Wednesday, May 23, 2007
Renato Braz at Spoleto Festival USA
 1 June 2007 at Gaillard Municipal Auditorium, Charleston.
The marvelous Renato Braz made his North American debut at Spoleto Festival USA 2004. This year he returns to Charleston, SC for a performance in Gaillard Municipal Auditorium, 77 Calhoun Street, on 1 June at 8 pm.
Accompanying the singer is his longtime ace backup group:
Gerson Oikawa (guitar)
Sizão Machado (acoustic bass)
José Luis Bré (percussion)
Guello (percussion)
Tickets may be purchased online or in person at the Gaillard Auditorium box office.
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Tuesday, May 15, 2007
The lesser-known Nazareth comes to light
Alexandre Dias teams up with Sovaco de Cobra.
Alexandre Dias
Alexandre Dias should be familiar to most readers of these pages from his transcriptions of the Pessoal da Velha Guarda radio programs and his Portuguese translations of the Boeuf Chronicles series.
Pianist, indefatigable researcher, and the world’s foremost collector of Ernesto Nazareth tune recordings (of which he has amassed almost 2,000), the 23-year-old Dias’ latest project brings to light the lesser-known compositions in Nazareth’s body of work.
To that end, he recorded a number of rare Nazareth tangos, sambas, waltzes, foxtrots, and classical piano pieces. These recordings and accompanying essays are being published serially on the Sovaco de Cobra website in both Portuguese and English.
A new installment is published every Friday. Keep tuned.
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