{"id":5132,"date":"2013-10-01T21:23:09","date_gmt":"2013-10-02T04:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/?p=5132"},"modified":"2013-10-01T21:23:09","modified_gmt":"2013-10-02T04:23:09","slug":"oscar-castro-neves-73","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2013\/10\/oscar-castro-neves-73\/","title":{"rendered":"Oscar Castro-Neves, 73"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Castro-Neves.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Castro-Neves.jpg\" alt=\"Castro-Neves\" width=\"90\" height=\"131\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5133\" \/><\/a>News comes of the death of Oscar Castro-Neves, one of the leading guitarists to emerge from Brazil\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s bossa nova movement. As samba music moved north in the 1960s and became a powerful element in US popular music and jazz, Castro-Neves was an important player, coach, producer and catalyst. After hearing him at Seattle\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Jazz Alley with pianist Kenny Werner and harmonicist Toots Thielemans in 2005, I wrote:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Thielemans and Werner, long established as a formidable duo, became a virtual chamber orchestra with the addition of Castro-Neves\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 guitar. There were moments at Jazz Alley when the piano, guitar and harmonica melded into chords so expansive and deep, it seemed impossible that they came from only three instruments. The authenticity of Castro-Neves\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Brazilian rhythms and bossa nova spirit were an essential part of the set\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s air of happiness.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Here is Castro-Neves on the Ramsey Lewis PBS show, also in 2005, on the occasion of his friend and collaborator Ivan Lins winning two Grammys. He plays and sings Antonio Carlos Jobim&#8217;s &#8220;Waters of March.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"440\" height=\"355\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8g3-7M51Tns?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2005\/11\/toots_and_friends.html\"target=\"_blank\">Go here<\/a> for all of that <em>Rifftides<\/em> review. Read an obituary in <a href=\"\/www.latimes.com\/obituaries\/la-me-oscar-castro-neves-20130930,0,7395348.story\"target=\"_blank\">The Los Angeles Times<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News comes of the death of Oscar Castro-Neves, one of the leading guitarists to emerge from Brazil\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s bossa nova movement. As samba music moved north in the 1960s and became a powerful element in US popular music and jazz, Castro-Neves was an important player, coach, producer and catalyst. After hearing him at Seattle\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Jazz Alley [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5132","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry","8":"has-post-thumbnail"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5132\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}