Rogerio Souza - Brasil Choro CD Release at An Die Musik Live

Internationally known seven-string guitarist Rogerio Souza brings the engaging sounds of Brazilian choro to the U.S. on one of his most exciting tours to date with world class musicians Leonardo Lucini on bass and Andrew Connell on saxophone and clarinet. The concert celebrates the release of the group's CD Brasil-Choro featuring the historic and ever popular music of great Brazilian composer Ernesto Nazareth (1863-1934). Brazilians still love this music and American audiences will soon understand why.

One of the oldest and most distinctively Brazilian musical styles, choro predates samba, bossa nova and even American jazz! Some 50 years before jazz emerged in the U.S., choro was already building itself on improvisational principles. It is, in fact, one of the pioneering New World forms of popular music, a genre created when urban musicians blended imports such as polkas, waltzes and mazurkas with their Africanized rhythmic affinities and melodic instincts. Before jazz, before samba and bossa nova, before even Stravinsky had been born, musicians in 19th Century Rio were testing their virtuosity playing choro tunes....

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Internationally known seven-string guitarist Rogerio Souza brings the engaging sounds of Brazilian choro to the U.S. on one of his most exciting tours to date with world class musicians Leonardo Lucini on bass and Andrew Connell on saxophone and clarinet. The concert celebrates the release of the group's CD Brasil-Choro featuring the historic and ever popular music of great Brazilian composer Ernesto Nazareth (1863-1934). Brazilians still love this music and American audiences will soon understand why.

One of the oldest and most distinctively Brazilian musical styles, choro predates samba, bossa nova and even American jazz! Some 50 years before jazz emerged in the U.S., choro was already building itself on improvisational principles. It is, in fact, one of the pioneering New World forms of popular music, a genre created when urban musicians blended imports such as polkas, waltzes and mazurkas with their Africanized rhythmic affinities and melodic instincts. Before jazz, before samba and bossa nova, before even Stravinsky had been born, musicians in 19th Century Rio were testing their virtuosity playing choro tunes.

Tickets: $20 in advance/$23 at door/$10 full-time students with ID

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