4.0 out of 5 stars
Tribute to legendary Brazilian "choro" composer Pixinguinha, July 31, 2008
This review is from: Pixinguinha De Novo (Audio CD)
"Pixinguinha De Novo" (EMI-Brazil, 1975)
This is a nice tribute to the work of legendary Brazilian saxophonist and composer Pixinguinha, who pioneered the jazz-like instrumental "choro" style in the 1920s. The performers are flautists Altamiro Carrilho and Carlos Poyares, who give a reverential, classicist reading of many choro standards. (Pixinguinha, who died in 1973, does not play on this album.) This record doesn't have the dynamism and drive of Pixinguinha's own records, but it's a nice pretty-sounding recording. Nice! (DJ Joe Sixpack, Slipcue Brazilian Music Guide)
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