Al di Meola – World Sinfonia at the 2009 Vancouver International Jazz Festival

Al di Meola  and his band World Sinfonia have played at the Vancouver International Jazz Festival. This concert was available as a concert on demand of the CBC, but it has been removed in the meantime. His current project – Al di Meola World Sinfonia – blends classical, jazz, and tango music with Middle Eastern [...]

Espoirs Perdus – Speranze Perdute – Alessandro Morelli

Last week I have got a bunch of old sheet music from France, including a book Mandoline-Album with six tunes composed by Alessandro Morelli. I played the tunes and I liked it immediately. When I tried to find out more about Alessandro Morelli I did not find much information about himself, but I found that [...]

Roda de Choro de Lisboa

Edu Miranda has uploaded three new videos to youtube. This time he plays the bandolim in the Roda de Choro de Lisboa. The videos have been taken from a recent TV show. I like the version of Brejeiro by Ernesto Nazareth very much. It is not played too fast, but with a lot of rhythm [...]