Tell Me About These Musical Acts from Brazil

Helio is a really good piano player and Maucha is good too, she sang with Jobim when she was quite young and I believe is now married to the drummer Duduka da Fonseca. Why? Are they playing near you?

There is picture of them here: http://www.congahead.com/legacy/On_The_Scene/duduka/duduka.html

Thanks. They're gonna be in D.C. at Blues Alley for $25 (plus a drink minimum) on Monday November 11th

Think you're gonna go?

No, although it sounds like it would be nice show. But I will probably see Jorge Ben at the Howard Theatre on the 16th

Yeah, you should definitely go see Jorge Ben. I should too.

You can always see Maucha and/or Helio and/or Duduka and/or Romero Lubambo at Dizzy's the next time you come to New York.

Ahh, that's right.

Wouldn't be surprised if you they played in DC reasonably often.

Could be, and they were just never on my radar. Although,it's Brazilian music month it seems in DC. Blues Alley just had Trio De Paz reviewed here in the W. Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/music/at-blues-alley-trio-da-paz-showcases-the-lovely-complexities-of-brazilian-jazz/2013/11/07/61d1e802-4760-11e3-95a9-3f15b5618ba8_story.html

and trumpeter Claudio Roditi is gonna be there as well as Maucha and Helio. The Jorge Ben gig at the Howard is pricey ($65), but I liked him back in 2004 live.

Ha, I meant to mention Nilson.

I'm just learning who those folks are

There is good Brazilian guitar player with an English name, Richard Miller, who used to live in DC, I think he was getting a PhD in music education, but now he lives here.

Oh yeah, he used to play everywhere around here

Maybe not everywhere, but I know the name

Boogarins, from Brazil, where in the 1960’s psychedelia was also tropicalia, with its rebellious underpinnings. They had the sweet melodic convolutions of tropicalia, some playfully unconventional meters and, at times, some of the modal hypnosis of San Francisco bands like the Jefferson Airplane

Jon Pareles in NY Times blog re group doing a free 8 pm Monday/tonight in-store at Other Music in NYC; and playing in Brooklyn Tuesday

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Juçara Marçal of the 80s Vanguarda Paulista has a pretty interesting album Encarnado out. The parts I've heard bit like Sonic Youth playing MPB:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xdu6uwpbJZs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjyACV-faHs

So, Brazilian records ca. 1969-73 are filled with amazing "sunshine pop", Free Design style harmonies, for example this soap opera soundtrack:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppmrjMgoRG0

And this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfSMsBiarz4

I can't find any evidence of a direct influence, but intriguingly, the Azymuth guys turn out to be session players on two albums by "Projecto 3" (which is of course a Portuguese version of the name of Enoch Light's label). Surely a coincidence? The title track seems to me to have been ripped of by Tortoise on 'the Bridge at Iguazu Falls', maybe that title is a hint:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2obLyHq3gbE

Brazilian soap opera soundtracks from the 70's often function as great samplers of quality tracks from the era.

Julio Medaglia > Rogerio Duprat

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wN0t4axPcKg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxJTsk5fO_I

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIh7DNI0BT8

That last one is completely nuts