By Don Heckman Brazilian singer/dancer/songwriter Daniela Mercury is a Latin Grammy Award winner, a prolific creator of best selling albums (more than 20 million), and one of her country’s most visible and popular female artists. So it was no surprise at the Greek Theatre Thursday night when the audience members – liberally populated with the… Read More Live Brazilian Music: Daniela Mercury at the Greek Theatre
By Don Heckman Los Angeles – Oct. 11. (Tues.) John Pisano’s Guitar Night. It’s a Los Angeles jazz institution, combining veteran guitarist Pisano with some of the Southland’s (and the world’s) finest guitarists. This week, he’s trading riffs with Pat Kelley. Vitello’s. (818) 769-0905. – Oct. 11 – 13. (Tues. – Thurs.) HIT Week. Italian… Read More Picks of the Week: Oct. 11 – 16
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
The International Review of Music 