Yamaha's U.S. subsidiary, has started a collaboration with Groover, a platform that has helped connect about one million artists and creators with industry professionals worldwide. As the first part ...

About the Brazilian Music Ensemble With a mix of Brazilian musical instruments and Portuguese-language singing, the ensemble performs a repertoire comprising roots samba, choro, samba-de-roda, and ...

It was that significant,” he says. “With other instruments, like, say piano, the technique or the way you play your instrument is the same whether you’re playing jazz or classical music.

But psychedelic rock wasn’t the only music shaking up the U.S. pop scene in the swinging ’60s. Perhaps Eartha Kitt said it best when she introduced a pioneering Brazilian jazz musician and ...

The cuíca’s central role in most Brazilian music — from samba to Tropicália — means it has swathed me all my life. While I’ll never know where I first heard the drum, I keep going back ...

At a POPgoji show, you won't hear blast beats, screeching banshee vocals or even many amplified instruments. But that doesn't mean the Brazilian music tradition the band draws from isn't extreme.

This study relates a pilot test of a band method book for group instruction written to be used in Brazilian music education. It documents how much of the content could be taught efficiently through ...

Brazilian popular music and bossa nova legend Caetano Veloso graced Los Angeles’ Walt Disney Concert Hall on one of the final stops of his farewell tour of the United States this past Sunday. The ...

Still working solo, he taught himself a myriad of instruments, studied composition and honed his production skills. And in the course of a quarter-century, he pushed the boundaries even further.