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Currently writing ‘A Walk in the Free World: Other Music in Brazil’ • Sonny Rollins Bridge Project https://sonnyrollinsbridge.net/ • urban planner • https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/04/arts/music/brazil-jazz-music.html?smid=url-share
There are over 150 recorded versions of “Nanã” AKA “Coisa No. 5”
08.03.2026 02:25 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Thiago França is a populist. He doesn’t need to play bars, he chooses to. And always draws a big crowd.
08.03.2026 00:53 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I hope it gets fixed soon. And hey it could be worse: my turntable & records are all in storage for a while
08.03.2026 00:46 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0If you’re not already familiar with this album please give it a listen, whether or not you give a shit about Brazil. Brilliant stuff. Hugely influential to the last 60 years of music in Brazil, but way overlooked outside it.
08.03.2026 00:31 — 👍 31 🔁 9 💬 3 📌 0
[Thiago França’s] Xepa Sounds tonight in São Paulo
📸 Jeff Caltabiano
Quarteto Novo's sole release from 1967, some of the earliest work on record from Airto Moreira & Hermeto Pascoal
ovelhanegrabr.bandcamp.com/album/quarte...
Next, a groundbreaking/highly influential record from Baden Powell & Vinicius de Moraes. Like Coisas, i've never seen this streaming before. OGs of the LP are pretty rare. ovelhanegrabr.bandcamp.com/album/baden-...
07.03.2026 17:10 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Wow, this (digital) reissue label has many albums that are otherwise difficult to hear outside of 🇧🇷!
To start, Moacir Santos's Coisas (1965) is an essential jazz record & an essential Brazilian record. He was signed to Blue Note on the strength of this debut, releasing 3 albums there from 1973-75.
v/a :: Danza Secreta: Lost and Hidden Grooves From Argentina (1970-1980) 🇦🇷
May 16 :: BBE Music
bbemusic.bandcamp.com/album/danza-...
Siba's latest soundcloud.com/sibaofficial...
07.03.2026 16:36 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Lívia Mattos's latest
found.ee/liviamattos_...
Luiza Brina, Belo Horizonte 🇧🇷 3.7.24
📸 Jeff Caltabiano
Siba with Mestre Nico
📸 Jeff Caltabiano
Siba, São Paulo 🇧🇷 3.6.26
07.03.2026 13:58 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Belo Horizonte 🇧🇷 3.7.24
📸 Jeff Caltabiano
Sacramento, CA, 3.7.20
📸 Jeff Caltabiano
Siba tonight in São Paulo
📸 Jeff Caltabiano
Lívia Mattos & Lenna Bahule
São Paulo 🇧🇷 3.5.26
📸 Jeff Caltabiano
Charles Tolliver was born in Jacksonville, Florida on this day in 1942. He turns 84 today.
Gary Bartz, Pharoah Sanders, Tolliver 📸 Jeff Caltabiano, NYC, 1.10.19
Jason Moran - BlankFor.ms - Marcus Gilmore • Shards
May 1 • Red Hook Records
redhookrecords.bandcamp.com/album/shards
Mike Makhalemele • Greatest Hits 1975-1982 🇿🇦
out today • As-Shams/The Sun Records
as-shams.bandcamp.com/album/greate...
Rosa Brunello • We Are Surging Waters 🇮🇹
w. Yazz Ahmed, Tamar Osborn, Luca Tapino, Enrico Terragnoli, Maurice Louca, Marco Frattini, Tommaso Cappellato
March 6 • Domanda Music
rosabrunello.bandcamp.com/album/we-are...
Mariá Portugal • Erosão Percussion Trio 🇧🇷 🇩🇪 🇲🇽
May 1 • Kassiani Records / Fun in The Church
mariaportugal.bandcamp.com/album/erosa-... CB
Lívia Mattos & Jefferson Babu
São Paulo 🇧🇷 3.5.26
📸 Jeff Caltabiano
Lívia Mattos tonight in São Paulo
📸 Jeff Caltabiano
New video from Lúcio Maia (formerly of Nação Zumbi) 🇧🇷
05.03.2026 19:43 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Antoine Dougbé et L'Orchestre Poly-Rythmo De Cotonou 1977 - 1982 🇧🇯
April 17 • Analog Africa No.44
analogafrica.bandcamp.com/album/antoin...
Sampled by J Dilla/Madlib, A Tribe Called Quest, Large Professor, Ghostface Killah, Kendrick Lamar, Talib Kweli, & many others. Took them a dozen years to license this reissue.
05.03.2026 17:49 — 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Gap Mangione • Diana In The Autumn Wind (1968)
May 1 • Be With Records
www.bewithrecords.com/products/gap...
2026 Jazz Legacies Fellows (The Mellon Foundation & Jazz Foundation of America):
Dee Alexander, 70
Kenny Barron, 82
Gary Bartz, 85
William Cepeda
Marilyn Crispell, 78
Donald Harrison, 65
Oliver Lake, 83
Bennie Maupin, 84
Charles McPherson, 85
Archie Shepp, 88
Mary Stallings, 86
Buster Williams, 83
