Past Programs
Jazz - 2008
Carlos Del Junco
06/12/2008
His eclecticism may annoy the odd ‘blues policeman’, but Carlos Del Junco’s Steady Movin ought to delight any ears with an open mind between them. Whether your tastes incline to blues, to jazz or simply to good music, the Cuban-born, Canadian harmonica ace’s new album offers a feast of delight and amazement. As one reviewer observes, ‘One needn’t be a harp-o-holic’ to enjoy it.’ Fittingly, its cover image of a harmonica in flames is a clever variation on an image popular in Mexican culture - of a burning heart.
Carlos Del Junco’s site:
www.carlosdeljunco.com
Jonathan Zwartz
23/11/2008
Double-bassist Jonathan Zwartz has for decades been one of Australia’s ‘most valued/most flexible’ musicians, especially {but not only} in jazz. The Sea is one of the lovelier - and longer-awaited - Australian debut recordings as leader. Its composed notes are all Jonathan’s. The superb players are a ‘dream band’ of longtime mutual admirers. This is intimate, very lyrical, keenly focused music - never self-indulgent, but conversational, with some inspired improvisation. Sound quality is remarkable. As tonight’s show will divulge, behind The Sea there is quite a story.
Jonathan Zwartz site:
www.myspace.com/jonathanzwartz
Conrad Herwig (Latin, Shorter )
22/11/2008
After his John Coltrane and Miles Davis Latin side of... projects, trombonist Conrad Herwig offers a brilliant take on the music of another jazz genius. One critic says of Herwig's The Latin Side of Wayne Shorter, 'if you know a person who thinks jazz is difficult to get, lacks melody, or you can't dance to it, this CD will change their mind.' It was recorded 'live' at the Blue Note in New York. Herwig is technically phenomenal, but 'technique' is definitely not his obsession—expression is. Herwig has said, repeatedly, 'all of us need to listen to vocalists' Here, you really need to listen to the incredible playing of his special guests , trumpeter Brian Lynch and pianist Eddie Palmieri.
To discover more about Conrad Herwig, this is a good place to start:
www.allaboutjazz.com/php/musician.php?id=7600
Although 1990s-vintage, the interview here is still very revealing:
www.trombone.org/articles/library/viewarticles.asp?ArtID=6
Lila Downs
15/11/2008
On Shake Away Lila Downs is all over the place - mostly, in interesting, unpredictable ways. The daughter of a Mexican, Mixtec mother and a Scottish-American father, Lila Downs grew up in Mexico, then Minnesota. Now, she mostly lives in New York. Even if you already love her work, expect to be surprised by an album that is ‘bigger than Ben Hur’, but much more culturally diverse and much more likely to move you to dance!
Lila Downs site:
www.liladowns.com
You can read a recent, revealing, interview-based article here:
www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/latinamerica/la-et-culture13-2008sep13,0,3329769.story
Jim Conway's Big Wheel
08/11/2008
Share this Life is the second album from Jim Conway’s Big Wheel. The leader is Australia’s most celebrated harmonica player. His colleagues comprise a ‘dream band’ of top-shelf singers and players. All know more than a bit about the blues, other musics, too... and each other. Everyone co-operates, not competes. Each is a master of what NOT to play. Pianist Don Hopkins and guitarist Arne Hanna are the primary singer-songwriters. Moods and grooves are nicely varied, but the ‘feel’ is always just-right. Recorded superbly, the Big Wheelers sound wonderfully relaxed... and highly alert.
Jim Conway’s Big Wheel site:
www.bigwheel.com.au
Jim Conway’s site:
www.jimconway.com.au
Patricia Barber
26/10/2008
The Cole Porter Mix is the latest from Patricia Barber. Her piano would be worthy of attention, alone. Barber also offers - as W Magazine wrote - ‘the voice of a cabaret chanteuse, the soul of a beat poet and the mind of an English professor’. She sets herself high standards and leads a superb little band. Eight years ago Barber said, ‘my ideal would be a songwriter like Cole Porter’. Her new CD offers acute, fresh readings of ten Porter songs. Irony informs them all, but none are merely-ironic. The same applies to the album’s other three, equally sophisticated songs, penned by herself.
Patricia Barber’s site is here:
www.patriciabarber.com
A very revealing {2000-vintage} interview can be read here:
http://jazzinchicago.org/educates/journal/interviews/conversation-patricia-barber
Zim Ngqawana
25/10/2008
Multi-instrumentalist and occasional vocalist Zim Ngqawana is one of South Africa’s most interesting, passionate musicians. Zimology in Concert (USA) is the 2-CD fruit of an invitation from the University of Tennessee. The moment he knew pianist Donald Brown {once of Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers} was on the faculty, he agreed to be visiting artist in residence for their African Semester. Once there, Zim found the other members of the UT faculty ensemble ‘as great and broad-minded’. Zim has said ‘it’s not a question of Africa or America’, that ‘music is as free as the air’. His concert illustrates those points, perfectly. Mostly wide-ranging Zim originals, it includes a wonderful Ellington salute.
Zim Ngqawana’s site is here:
http://zimology.net
Bako Dagnon
12/10/2008
Titati is spectacular. Bako Dagnon’s debut CD is also spectacularly overdue. As singer and cultural knowledge-bank, Bako is one of Mali’s living musical treasures, long recognised as such by her peers. The late Ali Farka Toure used to consult her. Mali’s most celebrated diva - Kandia Kouyate - was her protogé. In a career of more than 35 years she had made 5 albums, domestically. But only in 2007 - the year before her 60th birthday - did she record the album which now introduces her to the world. Bako Dagnon is powerful in every sense and well-served by her accompanists; they include two splendid acoustic guitarists and a harmonica ace.
Discover more about Bako Dagnon at these two sites:
http://bako_dagnon.mondomix.com/en/chronique4177.htm
www.geocities.com/fbessem/frames/art_dagnon_bako.html
Sainkho with Huun-Huur-Tu
05/10/2008
Mother-Earth! Father-Sky! is a sublime set of new and old songs from Tuva. This southern Siberian, central-most Asian nation is wildly beautiful. So is its music, most especially the singing. Sainkho is Tuva’s most celebrated female vocal artist. Huun-Huur-Tu is the seminal band in traditionally-based Tuvan music’s creative renaissance. Their collaboration is quintessentially Tuvan, but would have been absolutely unthinkable until a very few years ago. Some sounds may startle a Western newcomer, but most ought prove irresistibly beautiful to any attentive ears.
Sainkho’s site:
www.sainkho.net
Huun-Huur-Tu’s site:
www.huunhuurtu.com
Steve Tilston
28/09/2008
His 1971 debut made clear that Steve Tilston was one of England’s finer acoustic guitarists/songsters. Ziggurat shows he is even better now, in all departments. Ziggurat is a set of new, shrewdly-observant originals, plus lovely new versions of two traditional songs. Tilston’s keen melodic sense is always-evident, as are his guitar skills and good taste. He borrows well, too: ‘One of the best melodies I never wrote’, he says of Chopin’s unwitting contribution to a very beautiful, otherwise-original love song.
Steve Tilston’s site:
www.steve-tilston.co.uk
Bennie Maupin ( in Poland )
27/09/2008
Bennie Maupin is a gifted composer and brilliant improvising player of reeds and flute. His bass clarinet work with Miles Davis was likened to a barracuda, prowling the lower clef. Keenly aware that ‘there are infinitely more sounds than there are notes’, Maupin is a master of quiet surprise and space. He is still growing, musically. On Early Reflections the 68-year-old from Detroit makes beautiful new music in Warsaw, with three fine young Polish jazz players and a superb female singer. Having previously recorded only operatic and Polish folk musics, Hania Chowaniec-Rybka here proves ‘sui generis’, quietly astonishing and absolutely comfortable.
Maupin’s official site:
www.benniemaupin.com
A very revealing, 2006-vintage interview is here:
www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=22723
Dørge Becker Carlsen ( in church! )
21/09/2008
For nearly three decades Danish guitarist Pierre Dørge has led one of the world’s more eclectic, creative and entertaining large ensembles. Keyboardist Irene Becker and reeds player Morten Carlsen are also founder-members of New Jungle Orchestra. Pierre, Irene and Morten’s occasional trio inclines rather more to contemplation and to intimate settings, most especially churches. The Skagen Concert was recorded in one, in Denmark’s northernmost town, near the tip of the Jutland Peninsula. We also venture into a Norwegian church tonight - in Oslo, where John Surman and Howard Moody recently recorded some sublime duets.
For more about Pierre Dørge etc, this is still the best place to start:
www.newjungleorchestra.com
<i>Miles from India</i>
13/09/2008
Miles from India presents the music of Miles Davis, as never before seriously attempted. The late ‘prince of darkness’ had a following in India. Indian influences were at times audible in his recordings and Indian instruments and/or players occasionally present. But this is the first full-on collaboratiion between distinguished Davis alumni and leading musicians from the Subcontinent. One of many delightful surprises: an All Blues for north and south Indian classical virtuosi (Hindustani lutenist/Carnatic hand-percussionist, respectively, on sitar and ghatam) plus some Davis ’old scholars’, including the drummer who’d played on Davis’s original nearly fifty years earlier. No-one replicates their own or anyone else’s previous efforts.
Two good places to discover the story behind Miles from India:
http://home.nestor.minsk.by/jazz/news/2008/01/2801.html
and:
http://mixonline.com/recording/tracking/miles_from_india
Various interview/performance videos are here:
www.nme.com/video/id/jE3IcK1gOMU/search/abou
Darrell Scott { Modern Hymns }
24/08/2008
Darrell Scott is living proof that a ‘talented non-conformist’ can enjoy success, even in today’s Nashville. He has won more than one national award for ‘Songwriter of the Year’, but other great North American songsters wrote everything on his Modern Hymns. Darell is a superbly soulful singer and multi-instrumentalist. With top-shelf accomplices, he does wonderful, non-imitative, oft-surprising, but always-appropriate things to Joni, Bob, Kris, Leonard, Paul et al... including some writers whose surnames you’d not so easily guess!
Darrell Scott’s site:
www.darrellscott.com
Lionel Loueke
23/08/2008
Jazz guitar’s rising star grew up in Benin. Lionel Loueke has also lived and studied in other parts of Africa and in Paris. His musical world is not just ‘jazz.’ He is, however, American-resident and already a refreshing force in American jazz. Karibu is at core a trio set of new music. Most of the composed notes are the leader’s. His bassist and drummer are, respectively, Swedish-Italian and Hungarian. Loueke’s guests are jazz icons who have already employed and championed him: saxophonist Wayne Shorter and pianist Herbie Hancock. Says Hancock, ‘I haven’t found anybody that’s excited me this much in a long time.’
Lionel Loueke’s site: www.lionelloueke.com
Timo Alakotila and Johanna Juhola
17/08/2008
Our featured duo’s members are, respectively, one of her and his generation’s key figures in Finnish music. Johanna Juhola was born in 1978. Her ‘creative fury’ moved one approving reviewer to remark that she was one reason ‘Finnish tango is not what it used to be’. Tango is just one aspect! Before she was born Timo Alakotila was already one of the keys to Finnish ‘folk’ music becoming so vibrant, creative, so unconfined by ‘folk’ or any label. On Vapaassa Tilassa {their first duo album} Timo plays grand piano and Johanna two kinds of accordion. The duo performs its own original music, with very nice cameo roles for splendid players of other instruments.
Johanna Juhola site: www.johannajuhola.net
Timo Alakotila site: www.myspace.com/timoalakotila
Baaba Maal (‘live’, acoustic)
16/08/2008
Senegal’s Baaba Maal has one of this planet’s singular voices. For too long, it has not graced a new album. His 2008 release On the Road is not on a shop shelf near you, and Baaba Maal did not enter a studio to make it! A lot of Maal’s finest moments occur on stage, especially when he is in intimate, ‘acoustic’ mode. Available via the artist’s own site, On The Road presents 8 such performances. The late-great kora player Kaouding Cissoko is on several cuts. Ernest Ranglin plays very tasty guitar on one. Maal’s mesmerising singing is the key, constant element.
To learn more about Baaba Maa (and to purchase this CD-download) go to:
www.baabamaal.tv
Bar Kokhba: <i>Lucifer</i>
09/08/2008
Sephardic ‘Surf’? This hitherto-unsuspected genre almost fits some of the music on Lucifer: Book of Angels Volume 10. The more extreme end of John Zorn’s wildly eclectic musical world may be ‘hellish’ to some ears, but not so anything here. Zorn’s compositions for Lucifer are immediately-attractive, mostly genial and nigh-irresistible. They also reward close attention. Lucifer is the first new recording in a decade by the Bar Kokhba sextet: violinist Mark Feldman, cellist Erik Friedlander, guitarist Marc Ribot, double bassist Greg Cohen, drummer Joey Baron and percussionist Cyro Baptista.
Zorn is an extraordinarily multi-faceted musician. To discover a little (or a lot) more, begin at this well-linked place:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Zorn
Lau 'live'
02/08/2008
Lau’s studio CD (featured here on 27.10.07) was this young millennium’s most auspicious debut from a British ‘roots music’ group. Lau Live is even better. These two Scots and an Englishman are very creative musicians within a living tradition. Much of their repertoire is brand-new and/or self-penned. Their appetite for interplay and improvisation is still very evident when they interpret ‘traditional’ songs and tunes. Kris Drever sings and plays guitar, Martin Green is the squeezer and Aidan O’Rourke plays the fiddle.
Discover more, here:
www.lau-music.co.uk
Monica Salmaso { repeat: 1st aired on 9.2.08 }
26/07/2008
In a world over-full of ‘bossa-nova polite’, ‘bossa-lite’ and ‘post-bossa-trendy-and-trite’, Brazil’s Monica Salmaso is especially welcome. Womanly as opposed to girlish, she is comfortably herself, rather than one more pale shadow of someone else or yet another of those who try far too hard to appear ‘different’. Her voice is beautiful, not just pretty, her singing subtle and relaxed, but strong. On Noites de gala, samba na rua, accompanied by the excellent quintet Pau Brasil, Monica celebrates one of Brazil’s greatest songsmiths - Chico Buarque.
Her site, in English as well as Portuguese:
www.monicasalmaso.mus.br
Discover more about Chico Buarque here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chico_Buarque
Marc Copland { repeat 1st aired on 22.7.07 }
06/07/2008
Marc Copland is a very lyrical, sensitive pianist. He’s adventurous, too. There are plenty of louder, busier improvising keyboardists, but very few so creative and consistently eloquent. Time Within Time is a sublime solo set. Bookends is an equally compelling double-CD of studio and concert duets with saxophonist David Liebman. Copland’s pianistic ‘voice’ is as distinctive as any singer’s, his ‘touch’as tender as any lover’s.
Marc has an informative website (especially the ‘interview with Marc’) :
www.marccopland.com
Andrew Robson Trio
28/06/2008
The Andrew Robson Trio’s Radiola may prove 2008’s landmark Australian release. Don’t be fooled by the cover: Radiola is no nostalgia trip. It offers brilliant new music. Andrew is the saxophonist and composer. His are real compositions, but what makes this such a special CD is the sensitive/empathic/alive, ‘in the moment’ interplay between all three players. Andrew, double-bassist Steve Elphick and drummer Hamish Stuart have been this particular trio since 1995. Each listens as well as he plays. All pay great attention to their actual SOUND. Sound engineer Ross Ahearn has captured them, perfectly.
Discover more, here: www.andrewrobsontrio.com
Bill Frisell/ Eilen Jewell
14/06/2008
Tonight revolves around two intriguing new American releases. Their makers see ‘connections’ where lesser artists see ‘divisions’. Guitarist Bill Frisell leads an octet on his unassuming-yet-ambitious double-CD. History, Mystery is all-instrumental, but a highlight is Frisell’s version of one of the 20th century’s seminal songs. Letters from Sinners and Strangers is the first international release from Eilen Jewell. She is a remarkable singer: you’ll understand why ‘Eilen’ rhymes with ‘feelin’. She and he are gifted composers and also fine interpreters of existing songs. Both know how to use space. Each has a keen sense of history. Both are grown-up. Each is still growing.
Bill Frisell’s site: www.billfrisell.com
A revealing interview with him is here:
www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=22930
Eilen Jewell’s site: www.eilenjewell.com
e.s.t. ( 'live' in Hamburg )
24/05/2008
‘Europe Invades!’ screamed Downbeat when e.s.t. became the first European group ever to make its cover. Pianist Esbjörn Svensson - their nominal leader - admits to drawing more inspiration from Beethoven and Bach than from any jazz icon. But the collective mind that is e.s.t. has no place for silly wars about continents or genres. Double bassist Dan Berglund mostly listens to hard rock. Drummer Magnus Öström listens ‘to every kind of music.’ Their double-CD Live in Hamburg is exciting, powerful, lyrical, surprising. Two members of this ‘definitely not just another piano trio’ have made music together almost their entire lives - since 1967, when they were aged 2 and 3.
Discover more, here:
www.est-music.com
Aretha Franklin
17/05/2008
Everything on Aretha Franklin’s new double-CD is at least 35 years old. Rare and Unreleased Recordings from the Queen of Soul is a magnificent exception to a general rule: that ‘rare/unreleased’ is code for ‘should have stayed in the vault, but we can milk fans who will buy anything with their idol’s name on it!’ 31 of these 35 cuts {all, from 1966 through 1973} have never previously been issued. Not a few are stupendous. Jerry Wexler chose them. In many cases he was their orignal producer or co-producer. Wexler is - literally - the inventor of the term ‘rhythm and blues.’
Discover more about Aretha, here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aretha_Franklin
A nice bio-of-cum-interview with Jerry Wexler can read here:
www.popentertainment.com/wexler.htm
Andrew Robson {reverence}
11/05/2008
Andrew Robson is not the first musician to fall in love with music penned nearly half a millennium ago by the Tudor composer Thomas Tallis. Vaughan Williams’ Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis; is one of the best-loved 20th century classical works. The young Australian improvising saxophonist is, however, likely the first jazz artist with an album subtitled ‘The Hymns of Thomas Tallis’. His is a respectful, loving embrace; Robson’s Bearing the Bell is quite free of swinging and/or ‘Swingle’-esque inanities. This is profoundly lyrical, quietly adventurous instrumental music for Robson’s and Sandy Evans’ saxophones, James Greening’s trombone and pocket trumpet and Steve Elphick’s double bass.
Andrew Robson’s site:
www.andrewrobsontrio.com/index.html
Discover more about Thomas Tallis ( 1505 - 1585 ) here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Tallis
Wanderlust
10/05/2008
When in Rome ... give the locals an inspired, multi-cultural, Australian surprise! Wanderlust did so at Villa Celimontana one 2004 night, as documented on their new CD. When in Rome features a compact edition of Wanderlust, plus an oud-toting guest. He’s Joseph Tawadros. The band-proper is led by trumpeter and primary composer, Miroslav {Mike} Bukovsky. His colleagues are trombonist James Greening, drummer-percussionist Fabian Hevia and keyboardist Alister Spence. Their musical conversations range widely and probe deeply.
Discover more here:
www.wanderlust.com.au
Tim O'Brien (alone)
04/05/2008
‘There is a soul inside of them waiting to come out’ says Tim O’Brien. He’s speaking of the vintage and custom-made instruments he plays on Chameleon. This masterful instrumentalist, singer and songwriter’s umpteenth album is the first on which he is quite solo, throughout. In Tim’s hands - one at a time - are a banjo, two different acoustic guitars, two (very different) bouzoukis, a mandola, a mandolin and a fiddle. The delicious results are sometimes unpredictable - his re-assessment of Judas, for instance. Another song sees a fiddle much older than Tim - and an even older ‘feel’ - support wry observations concerning 21st century communication modes.
Discover more about Tim O’Brien here:
www.timobrien.net/index.cfm
Horn Please! ( Jonas Knutsson)
27/04/2008
File under ‘Swedish folk’. But prepare to be surprised, very nicely! Horn Please! is an octet, led by Jonas Knutsson. He is a saxophonist, as are five of his seven colleagues. The others play acoustic and electric basses and various percussion. Their eponymous debut CD offers a mostly-Scandinavian repertoire of ingeniously-arranged traditional tunes and Swedish-accented originals, plus the odd Carnatic {South Indian} number. The band’s name comes from the back of the Subcontinent’s trucks!
Discover a little more, here:
www.hornplease.se/e/hornplease.html
and here:
www.touchemusic.se/jknutsson.html
Huong Thanh and Nguyên Lê
19/04/2008
Fragile Beauty is unmistakably Vietnamese, yet full of hybrid vigour... and delicacy. Happily, Huong Thanh made an incorrect assumption in 1977, when she and her parents moved from Vietnam to Paris. The then-17-year-old singer was in tears, thinking ‘my dream of performing on stages had turned to dust.’ In 2008 she’s renowned worldwide as a superb singer and very interesting recording artist. On her new CD are many fine musicians of highly diverse backgrounds - most crucially, its co-leader, producer and guitarist Nguyên Lê.
Discover more about the singer and the new CD here:
www.actmusic.com/product_info.php?products_id=217&show=2
and:
www.actmusic.com/artist_detail.php?bio=1&manufacturers_id=12
Nguyen Lê’s site is here:
www.nguyen-le.com
www.antoniosanchez.net/press.html
Gest8 {repeat: first aired on 10.11.07}
15/03/2008
Kaleidoscope is all over the place.. in the very best sense! It’s the debut CD from Gest8. Pleasingly unlike any other octet on earth, Gest8 really has nine members. One does not play regularly, six play ‘normal’ jazz instruments, one a Japanese zither, the other a computer.. Co-leaders/primary composers Sandy Evans and Tony Gorman have long been two of Australia’s most consistently rewarding/creative musicians in jazz....and in music well beyond what most people consider ‘jazz’.
Discover more, here: www.jazz-planet.com/sandy/gest8.htm
New Jungle Orchestra
16/02/2008
‘Jazz is Like a Banana.’ If you know which famous Frenchman said so, rejoice - the New Jungle Orchestra’s Jazz is Like a Banana is much more fun than he was! Danish guitarist Pierre Dørge founded the NJO in 1980. Musically and physically, they’ve explored more of our planet than has any other large ‘jazz’ ensemble. However defined, ‘jazz’ is but one of their many sources. The NJO is an ever-inventive, never-predictable marriage of tenderness, exuberance, reverence, dadaist humour, exquisitely intricate constructions, earthy grooves and spontaneous explosions.
Discover more here: www.newjungleorchestra.com
To read a revealing article, click its ‘All About Jazz on Pierre Dørge’ link.
Monica Salmaso
09/02/2008
In a world over-full of ‘bossa-nova polite’, ‘bossa-lite’ and ‘post-bossa-trendy-and-trite’, Brazil’s Monica Salmaso is especially welcome. Womanly as opposed to girlish, she is comfortably herself, rather than one more pale shadow of someone else or yet another of those who try far too hard to appear ‘different’. Her voice is beautiful, not just pretty, her singing subtle and relaxed, but strong. On Noites de gala, samba na rua, accompanied by the excellent quintet Pau Brasil, Monica celebrates one of Brazil’s greatest songsmiths - Chico Buarque.
Her site, in English as well as Portuguese:
www.monicasalmaso.mus.br
Discover more about Chico Buarque here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chico_Buarque
Frifot
27/01/2008
Frifot is not electrified, but certainly electrifying. Flyt (‘flow’} is the sixth CD from Swedish roots music’s ‘supergroup’ or ‘power trio’. Frifot began in 1987. Its members are leaders or participants in many other contexts and each is a singular musician. Lena Willemark is one of the more arresting vocalists, anywhere. She’s a fine fiddler too. Per Gundmundson is one of the greats of Scandinavian fiddle/viola. Multi-instrumentalist Ale Möller is primarily a man with a unique approach to the mandola. Although strongly rooted in traditional music, Frifot deliver many new, truly original songs and tunes.
Discover more, here: www.frifot.se
Rahim Alhaj with Sadaqa Quartet { first aired on 3.6.07 }
13/01/2008
Tonight’s featured album is an ’unlikely’ success. Friendship is a collaboration between an Iraqi master of the oud {the fretless, Arabic lute} and a Western string quartet. Lutenist/composer Rahim Alhaj fled Iraq in1991. Since 2000 - having gained sanctuary as a political refugee - he’s lived in Albuquerque. He and the Sadaqa Quartert recorded Friendship at the University of New Mexico.
Note: this program’s original broadcast came one week after another show which involved a string quartet where you would not expect one. In our summer season that show did not air ’last week’ - it is that of Saturday 29.12.07. The ’Turtle-’Trane’ edition’s audio is yours to demand from this website until Saturday 26.1.08.
Rahim Alhaj has an informative site, here: www.rahimalhaj.com
Doug de Vries and Mauricio Carrilho {first aired on 4.8.07
05/01/2008
Jacaranda is a notable new Brazilian CD collaboration between quietly-spoken leaders/guitarists/composers. One guitar hero is from Rio De Janiero. The other is Melbourne’s Doug de Vries. Mauricio Carrilho is a major figure in choro. That singular Brazilian genre is both a refined/‘chamber’ and an earthy/‘street’ music. Mauricio believes all the best popular Brazilian music is choro, or drawn from it. This album is no small compliment to the Australian. Choro, says Mauricio, ‘definitely isn’t music for beginners.’ Mauricio, Doug and some of Rio’s choro elite have made beautiful, new music.
Discover the nature of choro, here: www.geocities.com/sd_au/samba/choro
Doug De Vries site: www.dougdevries.com
Discover very much more about Mauricio Carillho and friends, here:
www.brazzillog.com/pages/musapr00.htm
