Results for "Fernando Saci"

Fernando Saci

Água e Sol

By Laura Dreyer

Label: Lavasphere
Released: 2025
Track listing: Água e Sol; Inocência; Viagem Para Dakar; O Verão do Nosso Amor; Dancing Through Time; Dolphin Dreamscape; Samba da Esperança; O Macaco Azul.

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 ...

Cape Verdean Blues

By Kavita Shah

Label: Folkalist Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: Angola (ft. Bau); Flor di nha esperança (ft. Bau); Joia (ft. Bau); Um abraço di morabeza (ft. Fantcha, Bau); Amor di mundo (ft. Bau); Situações Triangulares (ft. Bau); Flor de lis (ft. Bau); Cize (ft. Bau); Chaki Ben (ft. Maalam Hassan Benjaafar, Bau); Um porta aberte (ft. Bau); Sodade (ft. Bau); Cape Verdean Blues (ft. Miroca Paris).

Imaginary Road

By Reza Khan

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2021
Track listing: Waiting for the Sky; Neo Funk; I See Stars; La Liaison; Midnight Runner; Broken River; Seven Miles Road; It’s Happening; Somewhere East; Imaginary Road.

Waiting for the Sky

May 4, 2021

Album: Imaginary Road
By Reza Khan
Label: Self Produced
Released: 2021
Duration: 3:45

Reza Khan: Imaginary Road

by Jack Bowers
March 23, 2021

To impartially assess Imaginary Road, Bangladeshi-raised, New York-based guitarist Reza Khan's sixth album, it is best to lay aside as best one can his disposition for or against what could reasonably be labeled “smooth jazz" and start from there. Is the music melodically and rhythmically likeable? Yes, it is. Are the musicians technically able? Yes, they ...

Brazil’s Michel Nirenberg Announces Fall Tour Dates In Mid-Atlantic

October 11, 2016

Saxophone master and composer Michel Nirenberg returns to the United States for his 2016 fall tour. In October and November, he’ll share the vibrant melodies and rhythms of his native Brazil with world music and jazz fans in the Maryland cities of Laurel, Baltimore and Annapolis and in Washington, D.C. In recent months, Nirenberg has been ...

A New Album, "Predawn Shenanigans Club" By Wataru Uchida

July 28, 2015

Born in Japan, tenor saxophonist Wataru Uchida was compelled by the power of swing to move to New York, only to come under the spell of Latin rhythms such as samba, Baião and Maracatu that form the core of a new release entitled Predawn Shenanigans Club. A specially recruited lineup of Brazilian jazz players bring life ...

Nilson Matta: Nilson Matta's Black Orpheus

by Edward Blanco
March 28, 2013

Brazilian bassist Nilson Matta has, like all artists, has drawn inspiration for his music from a variety of sources--of which a play and a movie serve as the influence for the moving Black Orpheus. Antonio Carlos Jobim's compositions for the 1957 Vinicius de Moraes Brazilian play Orfeu da Conceicao and the 1959 Black Orpheus movie that ...