All About Jazz — El violonchelista y arreglista Jaques Morelenbaum estA desde el pasado jueves en Barcelona, tras una semana de ensayos en Hamburgo con la NDR Big Band y el cuarteto de Omar Sosa. MA sico apasionado por la mA sica (parece un truismo, pero no lo es), ... more info

L.A. Times - Pop & Hiss — A charismatic pop chameleon and his band subtly but decisively transform cover tunes. For Brazilian musicians, imitation is not only the sincerest form of flattery but sometimes of creativity as well. Tropicália founders Gilberto Gil, Caetano Veloso... more info

Totally Fuzzy — Ishkabibliophile said... A girl group mixtape He Was Really Sayin' Somethin' Bananarama Chains The Cookies Needle In A Haystack The Velvelettes Bhang, Bhang, I'm a Burnout Dum Dum Girls You're No Rock N' Roll Fun Sleater-Kinney Nobody Knows What's Go... more info

Guardian Music — Royal Festival Hall, LondonThe former Brazilian minister of culture advised hecklers that he "wouldn't be playing the hits – only forró, just for a change", and proceeded to continue the musical experiments that he began back in the 60s. Since the... more info

Guardian Music — A series of debates at the Southbank Centre shows how Brazil understands things that supposedly 'developed' countries don't – not least about the transformative social power of artTwenty years ago, it seemed as if Brazil couldn't stop dreaming abou... more info

Guardian Music — Hackney Empire, LondonThis is a great time for Brazilian music in London, with those celebrated veterans of the 60s Tropicália movement, Os Mutantes, Maria Bethânia and Gilberto Gil, all appearing at Festival Brazil on the South Bank. But for new m... more info

Guardian Music — Festival Brazil, LondonAlmost exactly 40 years ago, a bunch of frazzled Brazilians made their way to the stage at the Isle Of Wight festival, and played an impromptu set. Temporarily displaced from their Ladbroke Grove squat – and more permanently ... more info

Guardian Music — In 1969, Gilberto Gil and Caetano Veloso were exiled by their country's military dictatorship. Their years in London influenced Brazilian – and British – music for everIt's August 1970 and there are 600,000 people in a field in the Isle of Wight ... more info

All About Jazz — Earlier this year the great Brazilian artist Gilberto Gil toured the United States performing what he referred to at UCLA's Royce Hall as a "very simple concert": vocals, cello and two guitars. Gil's contemporary Sergio Mendes takes the opposite t... more info

L.A. Times - Pop & Hiss — Earlier this year the great Brazilian artist Gilberto Gil toured the United States performing what he referred to at UCLA’s Royce Hall as a “very simple concert”: vocals, cello and two guitars. Gil’s contemporary Sergio Mendes takes the oppos... more info