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Musical Interlude: Marsalis and Spok
Wynton Marsalis is an internationally known American jazz trumpeter. Maestro Spok is a less-well-known, but no-less-virtuoso saxophonist. Together, they put on a mind-blowing performance here. The the music style is called Frevo, and it is native to the city of Recife, Brazil. Marsalis talks about this trip to Recife here.
Best of Brazil: Orlan Charles, Mickey Mouse and William Tell
We featured this clip back in 2019 in a post where I talked about our new recorder orchestra. Since we have recently restarted our recorder project at Ebenézer (more on that in a future post) I thought it would be appropriate to give the video its own Best of Brazil post. Orlan Charles (Instagram, YouTube)…
Best of Brazil: Frank Sinatra Sings “Brazil”
Perhaps nobody did as much to popularize the Brazilian Bossa Nova style as Frank Sinatra. A close second may belong to sax man Stan Getz (more on him later), but his influence pales in comparison to “Old Blue Eyes”. Though his best-known adaptation of a Brazilian song was “Girl from Ipanema”, he also did others,…
Musical Interlude: Jingle Bells, Brazilian Style(s)
Our musical interlude comes a little early this week, as I wanted to include this final Christmas number before Christmas. In the US I was often asked “what is Brazilian music like?” There is no short answer to that question, as Brazilian music is highly varied, with each region of this vast country developing its…
Musical Interlude: Day by Day
I posted this everywhere when it dropped, but just realized that I never posted it here on the blog. For my parents’ anniversary this year, my brothers and I put together this arrangement of their favorite hymn, Day by Day. Enjoy. And, of course, the blooper reel: ____________________ Did you enjoy this post? Consider making…
Contemple a Deus (Behold Our God)
While in the US last year, we were introduced to this beautiful song. At first we could not find it in Portuguese. Finally we found a version, and last night Itacyara sang it with the music team at the Boas Novas Baptist Church.