I've been playing piano for about 40 years and I've always been attracted to the different Afro-American forms of music starting with Rock n' Roll which lead me to the Blues which turned me on to Jazz ...
For their next act, Oscar-nommed toon directors Fernando Trueba and Javier Mariscal focus on the disappearance of Brazilian jazz pianist Francisco Tenório Júnior in Argentina in the ’70s. So if you ...
"His musical touch hasn't left my ear." Sony Pictures Classics has unveiled a full US trailer for a fascinating, jazzy Spanish documentary called They Shot the Piano Player, which first premiered at ...
“Bossa Brasilia” is two pages long and is inspired by the bossa nova from Brazil, which is a two measure rhythmic pattern in 4/4 time that doesn’t actually occur in this piece. The flavor and feeling ...
A live performance video I found on YouTube, where a sense of tranquility and groove, much like an a cappella piece, coexist.
They were all so incredibly young. Caetano Veloso opened Salvador’s Vila Velha Theater, a milestone event for the city, at the age of 21. Pianist Francisco Tenório Jr., the subject of Fernando Trueba ...
Fernando Trueba and Javier Mariscal, two of the directors of the Oscar-nominated Chico & Rita (2010), are teaming up to direct They Shot the Piano Player, another animated musical feature. The film ...
Before American pop music openly took cues from the rest of the world, bossa nova changed how the country thought about international music. The reflective genre flipped the jazz world on its head, ...
When an music-loving, Oscar-winning director finds himself intrigued by the disappearance of a wildly talented young piano player, what follows is a hunt for answers – and eventually, a colourful, ...
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