Ley Line met in Brazil and are currently based in Austin, and their multilingual, genre-fluid folk music reflects their time traveling across both Brazil and the US. It very much comes across in their ...

Pascoal said he had composed thousands of pieces. "I am 100 percent intuitive," he once told NPR. Miles Davis called him one ...

Heitor Villa-Lobos: Bachianas Brasileiras No. 2, Toccata - 'O trenzinho do caipira' Early on, Heitor Villa-Lobos played cello in the cafes of his native Rio de Janeiro. He would become the most ...

Hermeto Pascoal, the innovative Brazilian composer famed for his blend of jazz and traditional music, has died at the age of ...

Conductor and Brazil native, Paulo Gomes, talks about the “Missa Afro-Brasileira” — a colorful, spiritual work that can make him a little homesick. Founded in 2012, Houston Camerata is an ensemble of ...

Featuring brothers whom a Washington Post reviewer called “the best two-guitar team in existence,” the Assad Family brings their Brazilian Songbook program to Bates College at 7 p.m. Sunday, April 6, ...

There’s no one in the world quite like Brazilian polymath Hermeto Pascoal, who at 81 continues to produce music in a world all his own. Since the 1970s, when he traveled to the U.S. and worked briefly ...

The prolific Brazilian composer Hermeto Pascoal has died. Nicknamed "the Sorcerer," Pascoal resembled a wizard from a storybook — both in his personal style, and his ability to create magical sounds ...