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Cesar Camargo Mariano

Laura Dreyer: Dancing Through Time

by Katchie Cartwright
March 24, 2025

When something sparks her creativity, Laura Dreyer is the sort of person who jumps in with both feet and gets right down to business. A multi-hyphenate artist, saxophonist-flutist-composer-teacher-clinician, she has been serious about jazz since junior high school in jny: El Cerrito, California, across the bay from jny: San Francisco. “El Cerrito High had an award-winning--like ...

Take Five with Pianist Marta Karassawa

by AAJ Staff
May 8, 2024

Meet Marta Karassawa Marta Karassawa, a Brazilian pianist and arranger, graduated from Berklee College of Music and formed the Marta Karassawa Quintet in 2001, bringing to light the nostalgia of the great jazz quintets of the '40s and '50s. With it, she performed on the stages of various clubs and festivals. Now, completely revamped, she leads ...

Elis Regina and Antonio Carlos Jobim: A Musical Love Story and a Timeless Recording

by Victor L. Schermer
February 6, 2020

One of my all-time favorite albums and desert island picks is Elis and Tom (Phillips, 1974), featuring duets by the legendary Antonio Carlos “Tom" Jobim and Elis Regina, an iconic Brazilian singer lesser known in the U.S. who a few years later died of a drug overdose at the age of 36. I'm writing about it ...

Trio Da Paz: 30

by Dan Bilawsky
January 14, 2016

Time really does fly when you're having fun. Just ask Trio da Paz. Guitarist Romero Lubambo, bassist Nilson Matta, and drummer Duduka Da Fonseca are celebrating three decades of togetherness with the aptly-titled 30. It's a collection of music that, like the best of their work, finds them merging the sounds of Brazil with the attitude ...

Romero Lubambo: Setembro

by Angelo Leonardi
November 24, 2015

Meno celebrato di quanto dovrebbe, Romero Lubambo è uno dei grandi chitarristi brasiliani contemporanei e questo suo terzo album per la Sunnyside ce lo ricorda. Dopo il duo col pianista/compositore César Camargo Mariano (Duo, 2012) e l'esplorazione del grande songbook brasiliano che ha ottenuto 5 stelle in Down Beat (Só: Brazilian Essence, 2013), Lubambo ...

Matthias Bublath: Harvest On The Moon

by Dan Bilawsky
December 15, 2011

Musicians and farmers may have far different day-to-day routines, but they have at least one thing in common: when their work reaches full maturation, it must be harvested for public consumption. Those digesting the end result of their hard work may not think twice about how it ends up in their hands, but they know the ...

A Trip To Brazil Vol. 5

By Arnaldo DeSouteiro

Label: Verve Records
Released: 2006

Duo

By Cesar Camargo Mariano

Label: Sunnyside Records
Released: 2003
Track listing: Samba Dobrado, Choro #7, Joy Spring, Mr. Jr., Era Bom, O Que E, O Que E, Fotografia, Short Cut, April Child, Wave

Cesar Camargo Mariano and Romero Lubambo: Duo

by Dr. Judith Schlesinger
September 25, 2003

Duos can be tough to pull off, especially for a whole CD, and piano/guitar duos are tougher still. It takes a special kind of mutual craftmanship and understanding for two chordal instruments to make music together without getting in each other's way. Cesar Camargo Mariano, one of Brazil's most respected arrangers and composers (and the widower ...