timeless
Frank Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim (guitar, voice), medley (“Quiet Nights of Quiet Stars [Corcovado],” A. Jobim, et al.; “Change Partners,” I. Berlin; “I Concentrate on You,” C. Porter; “The Girl From Ipanema,” A. Jobim, et al.), 1967 (published 1/2/26)
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random sights
other day, Oak Park, Illinois
sounds of Brazil
João Gomes, live, São Paulo, Brazil, 2025 (published yesterday)
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random sights
other day, Oak Park, Illinois
what’s new
What you need, right now, whether you know it or not.
Milton Nascimento & esperanza spalding, live (“Cais” [Milton Nascimento]; “Outubro” [Milton Nascimento]; “Saci,” feat. Guinga [Guinga, Paulo César Pinheiro]; “Saudade Dos Aviões Da Panair (Conversando No Bar),” feat. Maria Gadú [Milton Nascimento, Fernando Brant]; “When You Dream,” feat. Maria Gadú [Wayne Shorter, Edgy Lee]), Rio de Janeiro, published 8/7/24
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random sights
other day, outside Chicago
sounds of São Paulo
Laurent Garnier (French DJ), live (Na Manteiga Radio), São Paulo, 2021
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random sights
yesterday, Oak Park, Ill.
more sounds of Brazil
Tom Zé (1936-, vocals, compositions), live, Sao Paulo (Brazil), 2018
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random sights
yesterday, Chicago (Alexander Calder [1898-1976], Flamingo [1973], detail)
passings
Gal Costa, singer, September 26, 1945–November 9, 2022
“Sua Estupidez” (R. Carlos), live (TV show), 2002
Gal Costa, one of Brazil’s greatest singers and a model for generations of Brazilian performers, died on Wednesday at her home in São Paulo. She was 77.
Her death was announced on her social media accounts. No cause was cited.
Ms. Costa’s voice, a lustrous mezzo-soprano, was a marvel of grace and vitality, equally capable of gravity-defying delicacy, tart teasing, jazzy agility and rock intensity. Over a recording career that spanned more than 50 years and three dozen albums, she championed innovative Brazilian songwriters and cross-fertilized Brazilian regional styles with international pop and rock.
In the 1960s, Ms. Costa was at the forefront of tropicália, the movement that brought psychedelic experimentation and anti-authoritarian irreverence to Brazilian pop music. When the leading songwriters of tropicália, Gilberto Gil and Caetano Veloso, were forced into exile by Brazil’s dictatorship, from 1969 to 1972, Ms. Costa recorded their songs for Brazilian listeners.
—New York Times obituary (excerpt), 11/9/22 (Jon Pareles)
sounds of Brazil
How about something quiet, and delicate, and beautiful?
João Gilberto (1931-2019, voice, guitar, compositions), live, Tokyo, 2006
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random sights
yesterday, Oak Park, Ill.
The world today: two guys from Ukraine—DJs/producers—playing a set in Rio de Janiero.
Artbat, live, 2019
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reading table
Mountain streams flow down
into each other
out of their sounds—Yosa Buson, 1716-1784 (translated from Japanese by W.S. Merwin and Takako Lento)
sounds of São Paulo
Bixiga 70, live, São Paulo, 2017
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art beat
Danny Lyon (1942-), Jack, Chicago, 1965
tonight in Chicago
These guys are playing at Constellation.
São Paulo Underground (Rob Mazurek, cornet, electronics; Mauricio Takara, percussion, cavaquinho, electronics; Guilherme Granado, keyboards, electronics, vocals), live, Italy (Pisa), 2012
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