• Home
  • About
    • Doug Ramsey
    • Rifftides
    • Contact
  • Purchase Doug’s Books
    • Poodie James
    • Take Five: The Public and Private Lives of Paul Desmond
    • Jazz Matters
    • Other Works
  • AJBlogs
  • ArtsJournal
  • rss

Rifftides

Doug Ramsey on Jazz and other matters...

More From Boukas And Arques…And Brazil

The recent Rifftides review of the Richard Boukas-Louis Arques album of music by Brazilian composers drew this comment from guitarist and composer Boukas:

The video you embedded is from our newest suite, A Dozen Choro Tributes. The suite will be premiered on November 8 in New York City as part of the NYC Classical Guitar Salon Series. Although our original repertoire is contemporary Brazilian chamber music, it uses popular Brazilian genres as its foundation and has some jazz influences as well. As with all of my pieces for the duo, each is a tribute to a great Brazilian composer/musician.

Here is another piece from the Boukas-Arques duo album, this time with Louis Arques playing bass clarinet: The piece is dedicated to the  influential composer known by the single name Pixinguinha.

I hope that performance makes it easier to have a good weekend.

Related

Doug Ramsey

Doug is a recipient of the lifetime achievement award of the Jazz Journalists Association. He lives in the Pacific Northwest, where he settled following a career in print and broadcast journalism in cities including New York, New Orleans, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle, Portland, San Antonio, … [MORE]

Subscribe to RiffTides by Email

Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

Archives

Recent Comments

  • Rob D on We’re Back: Pianist Denny Zeitlin’s New Trio Album for Sunnyside
  • W. Royal Stokes on We’re Back: Pianist Denny Zeitlin’s New Trio Album for Sunnyside
  • Larry on We’re Back: Pianist Denny Zeitlin’s New Trio Album for Sunnyside
  • Lucille Dolab on We’re Back: Pianist Denny Zeitlin’s New Trio Album for Sunnyside
  • Donna Birchard on We’re Back: Pianist Denny Zeitlin’s New Trio Album for Sunnyside