Jazz keyboardist Charlie Dennard left New Orleans in 2002 and spent the next 12 years touring the world with Cirque du Soleil. He's moved back to town with a new CD, 'From New Orleans to Brazil.' ...

What a cool coincidence: A year to the day before the 2016 Summer Olympic Games open in Rio de Janeiro, Maria Tiscia and her Brazilian Rio Bound jazz combo found themselves performing before an ...

This was bound to happen eventually. German vibraphonist Wolfgang Lackerschmid has worked with each man in The Brazilian Trio at different times and he's long been fascinated with the sounds of their ...

Over the years, the piano has assumed a leading role not just in North American jazz, but in the improvised musics that have originated all over the New World and across the lands of the African ...

Gilberto Gil is more iconic, Caetano Veloso is more charismatic, and Milton Nascimento is more spectacular, but Ivan Lins stands alone among his Brazilian peers when it comes to crafting sumptuous ...