Mike Marshall & Choro Famoso

Mike Marshall (Artist), Choro Famoso (Artist)

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 4, 2004)
• Original Release Date: May 4, 2004
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Adventure Music
• ASIN: B00022XEH2
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #212,395 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

Track Listings

1. Um Abraço Seu Domingos (A Hug Mr. Domingos)

2. Cochichando (Whispering)

3. Sarau Para Radamés (Tribute to Radames)

4. Receita de Samba (Recipe for Samba)

5. Choro da Gafieira (Gafieira Choro)

6. Choro Negro (Black Choro)

7. Espinha de Bacalhau (Codfish Bone)

8. Noites Cariocas (Carioca Nights)

9. Não Me Toques (Don't Touch Me)

10. Luis Americano Na P.R.E. #3 (Luis Americano on the P.R.E.)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Nice mellow acousto-Brazilian set, May 25, 2004

By	Joe Sixpack -- Slipcue.com (...in Middle America) - See all my reviews (TOP 50 REVIEWER)

Following a trip to Brazil in 1995, newgrass mandolin whiz Mike Marshall decided to tackle an entire album of Brazilian "choro" music, the zippy, propulsive instrumental style pioneered in the late 1800s, alongside it's better-known musical cousin, the samba. This is the latest in a series of choro albums by Marshall, and is perhaps the most mellow set to date... Nice, relaxing stuff, but with enough of a bite and enough virtuoso picking to keep even the grumpiest of us from thinking it's just an ez listening set... Nice stuff, very true to the style with warm versions of classic choro themes by Paulinho Da Viola, Jacob Do Bandolim, and others. Recommended!

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Mellow Brazil, November 17, 2004

By	WorldDiscoveries.Net "Bill Donovan, Reviewer" (Petaluma, California) - See all my reviews

MIKE MARSHALL & CHORO FAMOSO is gentle but danceable Brazilian music that harkens back to the 1940s when Jacob Dobandolin was giving Django Reinhardt a run for his money (albeit playing mandolin.)
 Some would describe this music as 'soft jazz', others as 'new acoustic music': both descriptions would be right, even though some of the tunes are over fifty years old.

4.0 out of 5 stars This group has made a Choro fan out of me, June 26, 2007

By	A. E. Allen (San Francisco) - See all my reviews

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I enjoy this recording. The group is very tight and all of the compositions are beautiful. My one complaint? It's too darn short. Only about 40 minutes in length. Not a lot of bang for the buck.