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Mike Marshall & Choro Famoso: Segunda Vez

Read "Segunda Vez" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky


Segunda Vez comes a decade after this group's eponymous debut--a forty minute album featuring quintet and septet performances. Here, mandolinist Mike Marshall expands the length and breadth of the work while contracting the size of the group; all seventeen tracks on this seventy-plus minute program feature the same quartet--Marshall on mandolin, Andy Connell on clarinet and soprano saxophone, Colin Walker on 7-string guitar, and Brian Rice on pandeiro and other percussion. On the surface, Segundo Vez is ...

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Mike Marshall & Choro Famoso: Mike Marshall & Choro Famoso

Read "Mike Marshall & Choro Famoso" reviewed by John Kelman


Sometimes a single form or idea can yield a broad range of interpretations and a surprising number of results. Pianist Tord Gustavsen, on Changing Places , examined a particular tempo and mood, investigating the subdivisions within, while trumpeter Tomasz Stanko, on Soul of Things professed each movement to be a different view of the same song. Mike Marshall and his group Choro Famoso (well, actually two groups) mines the depths of the Brazilian choro and comes up with an album, ...

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Mike Marshall/Jovino Santos Neto: Serenata: The Music of Hermeto Pascoal

Read "Serenata: The Music of Hermeto Pascoal" reviewed by John Kelman


Brazilian composer Hermeto Pascoal has never sounded this good; well, at least he has never sounded this consistently accessible, and that’s a good thing and a bad thing. Good, because it will hopefully introduce a broader audience to the music of this under-appreciated artist; bad, because it will give that audience a misguided idea about what he is all about. Serenata: The Music of Hermeto Pascoal , the first ever release dedicated solely to the music of “the crazy albino,” ...

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Mike Marshall and Jovino Santos Neto: Serenata - The Music of Hermeto Pascoal

Read "Serenata - The Music of Hermeto Pascoal" reviewed by Dr. Judith Schlesinger


This is the first CD entirely devoted to the music of Hermeto Pascoal, and it has a gentle misterioso feel to it. According to Andy Connell's liners Pascoal is variously known in his native Brazil as “the sorcerer," “the crazy albino," “the tropical forest gnome," “the bushy white- haired guy who plays pots and pans and children's squeeze toes, shovels and garden hoes, sewing machines and tea pots." He's known for writing and performing rather challenging music, but this CD ...

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Mike Marshall & Chris Thile: Into the Cauldron

Read "Into the Cauldron" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey


While this recording has Mike Marshall’s name on it--and he was an instrumental member of David Grisman’s quartet--the presence of Chris Thile makes Into the Cauldron somewhat of an event. And what an event it is. Recordings like this smack of a single element—virtuosity. Here are two mandolin masters showing off in a duet style using vehicles ranging from Bach’s Goldberg Variations to Charlie Parker’s “Scrapple From the Apple." The quality of the playing makes it sound alien or divinely ...

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Marshall and Lichtenberg - Mike Marshall and Caterina Lichtenberg (2010)

Marshall and Lichtenberg - Mike Marshall and Caterina Lichtenberg (2010)

Source: Something Else!

By Mark Saleski Most people think of the mandolin as being a rootsy, countrified kind of instrument. Surely there is no denying the rich history of the bluegrass side of the mandolin. Yessir, Bill Monroe was the king, but that does not mean that the mandolin can't move ahead (or back, as we shall see). For example, check out the fabulous blues talents of Gerry Hundt. Chicago blues from the mandolin? Hell, yes! It's important to remember that the mandolin ...

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Performance / Tour

Mike Marshall Adds Mandolin Magic To Turtle Island String Quartet Shows

Mike Marshall Adds Mandolin Magic To Turtle Island String Quartet Shows

Source: GoMedia PR

Acclaimed Mandolinist Will Perform with Esteemed and Always Progressive Chamber Music Group For Five Nights Beginning November 19 Mike Marshall has always been adept at transcending the narrow restraints of gender classification throughout his more-than-25 year-long career. From his early work with the David Grisman Quintet in the mid-1980s, through his collaborations with fiddler Darol Anger, bluegrass/newgrass artists such as Chris Thile and his own Psychograss, in the course of his extensive explorations into Brazilian choro music, and his most ...

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One Track Mind: Darol Anger and Mike Marshall "Donna Lee" (1988)

One Track Mind: Darol Anger and Mike Marshall "Donna Lee" (1988)

Source: Something Else!

By Pico I know exactly what our own Mark Saleski speaks of when he states that “music obsessives and regular folks alike know of the song/memory retrieval phenomenon—you hear a song and instantly remember where you were the first time you heard it." Moreover, a song can also be forever associated with an event in your life even if the song doesn't at all speak to the event. It just happened to be playing at the time. That's why for ...

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Music Industry

Mike Marshall/Hamilton de Holanda Record Brazilian/Americana Jazz CD

Mike Marshall/Hamilton de Holanda Record Brazilian/Americana Jazz CD

Source: JazzMando.com

Few musicians on the planet can do what mandolinist Mike Marshall does. Sometimes, as in this recording project, we actually have to go to the other side of the globe to match musical wits and kinetic mandolin prowess. Mission accomplished in this magnificent recording, teaming the American versatile veteran with the 30-year-old Brazilian superstar bandolimist, Hamilton de Holanda. Marshall quips about his “Brother," the “Monster from WAY down South..." Brandishing an arsenal of Loar-era Gibson mandolin, 10-string (Terici Ribeiro) custom ...

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Sound of the Sorcerer: The Music of Hermeto Pascoal @ Merkin Hall (9/9) with Bobby Sanabria Big Band, Jovino Santos Neto, Mike Marshall, Paquito D'Rivera

Sound of the Sorcerer: The Music of Hermeto Pascoal @ Merkin Hall (9/9) with Bobby Sanabria Big Band, Jovino Santos Neto, Mike Marshall, Paquito D'Rivera

Source: Kim Smith Public Relations

Kaufman Center Presents Opening Masters Reimagined Series Concert SOUND OF THE SORCERER: THE MUSIC OF HERMETO PASCOAL

Bobby Sanabria Big Band / Jovino Santos Neto / Mike Marshall / Paquito D'Rivera at Merkin Concert Hall, Saturday, September 9, 2006 at 8:30pm New York, NY, 8/07/06-In recognition of Brazilian Independence Day, musicians from widely divergent cultural and musical traditions will come together on the Merkin Hall stage to celebrate one of the most important composers living today, ...

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Mike Marshall and Chris Thile, "Live Duets" Available January 24, 2006!

Mike Marshall and Chris Thile, "Live Duets"  Available January 24, 2006!

Source: All About Jazz

"The two best mandolinists in the world and right up there among musicians of any persuasion." --THE TENNESSEAN

LIVE DUETS is a full-scale event! A must-hear for lovers of top-notch musicianship and creativity ... and a chance for all to experience two masters stretching out!

Mandolin masters Mike Marshall and Chris Thile supported their historic collaboration on 2003's INTO THE CAULDRON with a small run of must-see tour dates. At those precious handful of shows, two of the most talented ...

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Segunda Vez

Adventure Music
2014

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An Adventure 1999-2009

Adventure Music
2011

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Serenata: The Music...

Adventure Music
2004

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Mike Marshall & Choro...

Adventure Music
2004

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Into the Cauldron

Sugar Hill Records
2003

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Serenata - The Music...

Adventure Music
2003

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