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Milton Nascimento: San Vicente (Rating: 97/100) posted in Music January 03, 09

This song, from the outstanding Miltons album, opens with Nascimento singing plaintively over a rubato guitar accompa...

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Milton Nascimento rose to fame a few months after “The Girl from Ipanema” earned its Grammy as “record of the year....

Milton Nascimento: Tudo Que Você Podia Ser (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music March 21, 09

What The White Album was to American rock, Milton Nascimento's Clube da Esquina was to post-bossa Brazilian music. L...

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Milton Nascimento rose to fame a few months after “The Girl from Ipanema” earned its Grammy as “record of the year....

Milton Nascimento (with Herbie Hancock & Pat Metheny): Cantaloupe Island (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music August 03, 09

Milton Nascimento and Herbie Hancock have a musical relationship that dates back to the Brazilian star's first US alb...

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Milton Nascimento rose to fame a few months after “The Girl from Ipanema” earned its Grammy as “record of the year....

Milton Nascimento: Pão e Água (Rating: 97/100) posted in Music August 03, 09

The two Clube da Esquina double albums stand out as defining statements of Milton Nascimento's aesthetic vision, and ...

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Milton Nascimento rose to fame a few months after “The Girl from Ipanema” earned its Grammy as “record of the year....

Milton Nascimento: Chega de Saudade (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music October 29, 08

Most casual fans will find nothing surprising in Milton Nascimento releasing a bossa nova CD, and covering the classi...

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Milton Nascimento rose to fame a few months after “The Girl from Ipanema” earned its Grammy as “record of the year....

Milton Nascimento: Nos Bailes da Vida (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music August 04, 09

Most of this live album is weighed down by tepid orchestral arrangements. But on "Nos Bailes da Vida," Nascimento de...

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Milton Nascimento rose to fame a few months after “The Girl from Ipanema” earned its Grammy as “record of the year....

Wayne Shorter (with Milton Nascimento): Ponta de Areia (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music January 18, 08

The leader of the date is Wayne Shorter, but vocalist Milton Nascimento almost steals the show with his catchy melody...

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Milton Nascimento rose to fame a few months after “The Girl from Ipanema” earned its Grammy as “record of the year....

Milton Nascimento: Ofetório (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music July 13, 09

Quilombos were settlements by runaway Brazilian slaves and free-born natives of African origin. They first appeared ...

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Milton Nascimento rose to fame a few months after “The Girl from Ipanema” earned its Grammy as “record of the year....

Wayne Shorter (with Milton Nascimento): Miracle of the Fishes (Rating: 91/100) posted in Music January 18, 08

With his 1975 release Native Dancer, Wayne Shorter fully embraced the Brazilian influence that had been present in h...

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Early stints with Horace Silver and Maynard Ferguson introduced Wayne Shorter’s riveting sound to the jazz community ...

Milton Nascimento: Anima (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music October 30, 08

Anima marks one of the highlights of Milton Nascimento's career. On the title cut, he somehow creates a music withou...

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Milton Nascimento rose to fame a few months after “The Girl from Ipanema” earned its Grammy as “record of the year....

Milton Nascimento: Nozani Na (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music August 04, 09

Deep in the traditions of African music—both homegrown and transplanted to the Americas—is the implicit assumption th...

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Milton Nascimento rose to fame a few months after “The Girl from Ipanema” earned its Grammy as “record of the year....

Milton Nascimento: Courage (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music July 24, 09

"Although Nascimento speaks little English," Ralph Gleason writes in the liner notes to this release, "he sings it wi...

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Milton Nascimento rose to fame a few months after “The Girl from Ipanema” earned its Grammy as “record of the year....

Toots Thielemans (with Milton Nascimento): Travessia (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music September 02, 08

I have several versions of Nascimento singing this composition that first brought him widespread attention among the ...

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Milton Nascimento rose to fame a few months after “The Girl from Ipanema” earned its Grammy as “record of the year....

Milton Nascimento in New Jersey posted in The Jazz.com Blog October 29, 08

Tim Wilkins, who covered Toninho Horta’s recent concert in this column earlier in the week, returns below to the su...

Esperanza Spalding: Ponta de Areia (Rating: 88/100) posted in Music May 12, 08

Music, like boxing, is more about interesting combinations than sheer brute force. Esperanza Spalding has a number o...

Brazilian Trio: Tarde (Rating: 85/100) posted in Music May 20, 08

Milton Nascimento is a vocalist extraordinaire as well as a composer of haunting melodies. With "Tarde," the Brazilia...

Maria Rita: A Festa (Rating: 89/100) posted in Music February 14, 08

Maria Rita has an impressive lineage. Her mother was the late singer Elis Regina, not a household name in the U.S. b...

Jan Garbarek: Milagre dos Peixes (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music September 29, 09

Given a five year lapse since his last ECM leader date, In Praise of Dreams, any Jan Garbarek recording is a signific...

THE DOZENS posted in Miscellaneous Pages December 01, 07

In African-American tradition, "the dozens" is an informal exchange filled with ribaldry, taunting and clever put dow...

Avellar, Luiz (Joao Luiz de Avellar) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Avellar, Luiz [Joao Luiz de Avellar) , pianist, composer, producer; b. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 7, April 1956. Born to...

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