Emy Tseng Sonho (Self Produced) By Brian Arsenault If the reality of burgeoning world music can be encapsulated in a single individual, I submit in nomination Emy Tseng. Taiwanese born, raised in the American Midwest, Ivy League educated (she appears to have overcome it) singing Brazilian jazz, in Portuguese of course, with a couple of… Read More Jazz CD Review: Emy Tseng’s “Sonho”
By Don Heckman Caetano Veloso gave a masterful performance at the Greek Theatre last night. No news there, actually, since his Los Angeles appearances have always been memorable. Some have been small, relatively intimate, emphasizing the innate lyricism of his music. Some have been bigger, samba-oriented events, drawing crowds of dancers into the aisles. This… Read More Live Music: Caetano Veloso at the Greek Theatre
By Don Heckman Los Angeles – April 12 & 13. (Mon. & Tues.) Miles Evans Band. Trumpeter Evans, named after Miles Davis, is the son of equally legendary arranger Gil Evans. His current mission, he says, is to explore, with his eight piece band, the music that had been planned for an Evans/Jimi Hendrix collaboration… Read More Picks of the Week: April 12 – 18
y Fernando Gonzalez It’s perhaps fitting that Cantora, simply woman singer in Spanish, turns out to be the last recording by Argentine folk singer Mercedes Sosa, who died of kidney and liver failure, Sunday, October 4, at a clinic in Buenos Aires. She was 74. Cantora is a disc of collaborations with a stellar roster… Read More CD Review: “Cantora” Mercedes Sosa
