Raul da Gama, World Music Report Anyone who doubts that all modern music in the Americas came from the erstwhile “Americanised” African slaves who wrenched from their home country and all its graceful comforts, poured their hearts and souls out into what those in continental America called the Blues and those in Rio de Janeiro, Brasil called Choro Portuguese … Read More
Dee Dee McNeil, Musical Memoirs’s Blog SAMUEL POMPEO QUINTETO – “QUE DESCAIDA” Independent Label Samuel Pompeo, baritone & soprano saxophones/clarinet; Dino Barioni, guitar; Fabio Leandro, piano; Gibson, Freitas, contra bass; Paulinho Vicente, drums. Samuel Pompeo’s baritone saxophone is startling! To hear a baritone being played at this double-time pace is quite exciting. That’s the way … Read More
Chris Spector, Midwest Record SAMUEL POMPEO QUINTETO/Que Descaida: In which your mind really has to go to another time and place. Choro and jazz were born around the same time. Pompeo asks the question only he can answer here—what if the two genres were conjoined twins? Such a wild flight of Latin fancy, this set … Read More
