Today the Brazilian bossa nova and jazz legend Sérgio Mendes has passed at 83…
Mendes played with Antônio Carlos Jobim (regarded as a mentor) and many U.S. jazz musicians who toured Brazil.
In this video Sergio Mendes & Brasil 66 are performing “Mas Que Nada”
On August 14, 81-year old Caetano Veloso performed an outdoor concert in Rio de Janeiro commemorating the 50-year anniversary of his incredible album, Transa, with a great band including fellow Tropicalia legend Jards Macalé. If you like Brazilian music you will love this show.
NYT criminalizes Brazil's rural poor today with an intellectually dishonest hit job on the Landless Rural Workers Movement, MST, parroting a neofascist narrative that ignores Brazil's Constitution to maliciously frame it as "stealing" land. This narrative encourages violence. +