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Manfredo Fest: Dorian Dream

Manfredo Fest: Dorian Dream

Source: JazzWax by Marc Myers

Manfredo Fest isn't the name of a multi-day rock festival for nerds. Fest was a Brazilian bossa nova and jazz keyboardist whose music was an eclectic and fascinating blend of bossa nova, classical and fusion. Fest's father was a German concert pianist who emigrated to Porto Alegre in Southern Brazil, near Uruguay, where he taught at the university there. Blind from birth, Fest learned to read music in braille and studied formally. Influenced by Bill Evans and George Shearing, Fest, ...

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