The choro A Ginga do mané is the first choro contained in the songbook choro. On my homepage some time ago I have started a project to present all the 97 choros from the songbook choro with youtube videos and more interesting information. Now again I have started to work on this project, and I […]
Songbook Choro – A GINGA DO MANÉ (JACOB DO BANDOLIM) – Violão Tenor Read More »
I have a very old mandolin record by Phil Beer that I have bought many years ago, but I did not hear anything about Phil Beer since I bought this record. Now a just found a note about Show of Hands who are touring through the north of Germany, and found out, that Show of
I have just discovereda new video with the Rhapsodia Napoletana by Raffaele Calace. Yasunobu Inoue plays this Rahpsodia on a mandolin built by Calace in 1926. Calace used several famous Neapolitan songs in this Rhapsodia – you will definitively recognize some of the songs. Yasunobu Inoue was born in 1975. He has successfully taken part
Raffaele Calace – Rhapsodia Napoletana for Mandolin and Piano – Yasunobu Inoue Japan Read More »
Guitar Quartet – Quarteto Abaruna Accidentally I have found the youtube channel of the Quarteto Abaruma from Brazil. In this channel you can find many videos of concerts of the Quarteto Abaruna and the Abaruma Guitar Duo. Unfortunately the titles of the different tunes are not noted in the video, but the programs contain pieces
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The following videos show the documentation of a concert with some choro tunes played by Paulo Flores & Cambanda Jazz Combo. It shows some historic recordings and the new versions. I liked those 4 videos very much. In the last video the choro Boneca is played, a choro that I have just added to my
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Beside the Cylinder Preservation Project about which I have recently written in my blog I have found some other historical recordings. A radio staion in New York has a weekly feature with historical recordings played from Edison-cylinders and other old recordings on the original devices. I have found the following recordings with mandolin. Those broadcasts
Historical Recordings with Mandolin (Antique Phonograph Music Program) Read More »
The first recordings on Edison-cylindars were made bythe end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century. To preserve the old recordings the Cylinder Preservation Project is digitising those old recordings http://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu/index.php The following recordings with mandolin are available: Search for “mandolin”: http://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu/search.php?query=mandolin&queryType=%40attr+1%3D1016 Search for “Arriaga”: http://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu/search.php?query=arriaga&queryType=%40attr+1%3D1016
Historical recordings with Mandolin – Cylinder Preservation Project Read More »
Mario de Pietro was a mandolin and banjo player who was very popular in the 1930 in the UK. Several movies have been preserved in the archives of British Pathe. The videos are also available on youtube. JOAN REVEL AND MARIO DE PIETRO Schön Rosmarin (Kreidler) /Lollipops (8.9.1930) Playlist MARIO DE PIETRO Additional information The
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Today I want to present another concert from NPR that I have listened to recently – a concert with the Lovell Sisters. The Lovell Sisters stopped playing together as a family band by the end of 2009 when Jessica Lovell went to the collage and married. Rebecca Lovell (mandolin) and Megan Lovell (dobro, guitar) continued
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During the last days I have looked for some interesting choro music, and I have discovered a project titled Beatles’n’Choro. 4 CDs with Beatlessongs played by Brazilian Choro musicians with clarinet, flute, cavaquinho, bandolim, violao and pandeiro. On the bandolim we can hear Hamilton de Holanda who plays a nice arrangement of Something on the
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