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Fahir Atakoğlu New Release For Love Featuring Vocalists Buika, Luciana Souza, Letizia Gambi & Aimée Allen!
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Scott Thompson Public Relations
An unrepentant romantic, Turkish-American pianist-composer-arranger Fahir Atakoğlu is all-in For Love (Far & Here, LLC) on his 18th album as a leader. A visionary undertaking that blends musical elements from Turkey, Spain, Italy, the Middle East, Cuba and Brazil while revealing touches of American jazz in the freewheeling improvisations heard throughout, For Love also carries the majestic sweep of symphonic polyphony in Fahir's stirring string orchestrations. With world-class musicians in American saxophonist Bob Franceschini, Canadian bassist Alain Caron, Turkish percussionist ...
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Monday Recommendation: Luciana Souza
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Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
Luciana Souza, The Book Of Longing (Sunnyside) Returning to recording, Luciana Souza is inspired by poetry. The Book Of Longing finds her drawing inspiration from poets of two centuries and singing three new songs of her own. Bassist Scott Colley and Brazilian guitarist Chico Pinheiro accompany her, enhancing the album’s moods, using counterpoint as commentary. Both solo with distinction. Colley is notably effective in Ms. Souza’s “These Things,” which has a nifty reference to Robert Frost. Pinheiro finds a rhythmic ...
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New England Conservatory’s Jazz Studies Department Presents The Music Of Luciana Souza On Wednesday, December 4
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Braithwaite & Katz Communications
Grammy Winner Souza Will Perform with Each of Three Student Groups Public Residency Events Include Introduction to Brazilian Music on December 2 and Expanding the Singer's Vocabulary on December 3 Her music soulfully reflects, wistfully regrets, romantically woos, joyfully celebrates." —Billboard New England Conservatory’s Jazz Studies Department presents The Music of Luciana Souza, a free concert featuring three student ensembles performing Grammy winner Souza’s music. Souza, who earned her Master’s in Music from the department in 1994, will perform with ...
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Latin Jazz icons Michel Camilo and Luciana Souza put new twists on the mellow genre
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Michael Ricci
Camilo's new CD Mano A Mano mixes American jazz with Latin grooves and European classical; Souza does American standards in The Book of Chet Pianist and composer Michel Camilo says we’re in a second golden age in Latin Jazz. The first great era occurred from the 1930s through the 1950s, with “Chano Pozo, Mario Bauza, Juan Tizol with Duke Ellington, Ray Baretto playing with Charlie Parker, Candido, and Dizzy Gillespie, of course,” says Camilo, 53, who lives in Bedford, N.Y. ...
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Luciana Souza To Release Two New CD’s August 28th
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Muse Media
CRITICALLY-ACCLAIMED JAZZ SINGER LUCIANA SOUZA TO RELEASE TWO NEW CD’S AUGUST 28TH “Luciana Souza is a jazz singer who doesn't inhabit the normal jazz-singer role. A composer and arranger of considerable gifts, her midrange voice is amazingly controlled. It is alert, directed, with undertones of calm conversation. It's the sound of a well- rested intelligence.” —The New York Times Los Angeles, CA: After a three-year hiatus from recording, consummate artist and Jazz Singer Luciana Souza returns to Sunnyside Records with ...
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Luciana Souza to Release "Tide" May 26
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Muse Media
Luciana Souza will release her new album Tide, May 26th. In describing her choice of material for Tide, Luciana Souza says “geography and language have played a big part in my life. Feeling uprooted and disoriented, but also aspiring to being centered and calm – a real dichotomy of feelings, but somehow thriving in the memories and in the unknown. Poetry and music have carried me around, as has love.” Luciana Souza has moved around. Born and raised in São ...
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Fernando Huergo, Featuring Luciana Souza Now on BlueMusicGroup.com
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All About Jazz
Argentinean bassist and composer Fernando Huergo's debut album, Living These Times, featuring Grammy nominated Brazilian vocalist Luciana Souza, is now re-released on BlueMusicGroup.com In the original liner notes from 1998, drummer Bertram Lehmann notes: For Fernando Huergo, musical diversity doesn't come as a surprise. For all he remembers growing up in a musical household in Crdoba, Argentina, surrounded by music that his father, a professional singer, pianist and guitarist would encourage him to check out. I was singing Chega de ...
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Luciana Souza to Perform at Rutgers-Camden Jazz Festival December 8th
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All About Jazz
Brazilian Singer Luciana Souza Will Perform @ Rutgers-Camden Jazz Festival Saturday, December 8, 2007 @ 8 PM
Day begins with FREE afternoon jazz concert and workshop 1 pm to 4 pm in Black Box Studio with MASTER DRUMMER KENYATTA & LA TUMBA GORDON THEATER, 3rd & Pearl Streets, Camden, NJ
November 8, 2007, Camden, New Jersey -- Three-time GRAMMY nominated Brazilian-American singer LUCIANA SOUZA will perform at the Rutgers- Camden Jazz Festival on Saturday, December 8, 2007 at 8 pm ...
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Vocalist Luciana Souza Interviewed at AAJ
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All About Jazz
Is Luciana Souza on the verge of reinventing bossa nova? A careful look at The New Bossa Nova (Verve, 2007), may well provide the answer to this question, as the Brazilian-born singer aims to present classic pop tunes with a bossa nova feeling. It's a kind of whispering, Luciana says; a whispering in a loud world.
AAJ Contributor Joao Moreira dos Santos spoke with Souza about The New Bossa Nova, and applying its minimalist aesthetic to a variety of well-known ...
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