Online concert with pianists Cassio Vianna, Jasnam Daya Singh, and Kerry Politzer for an evening honoring three living legends of Brazilian jazz piano: João Donato, Hermeto Pascoal, and Dom Salvador. The pianists will perform with various guests, and the event will be hosted by Allen Thayer, host of KMHD’s The Brazilian Beat. This event has been funded by the Regional Arts and Culture Council (RACC).
SEVEN TIMES. That’s how many times my name appeared in the fabled pages of The New Yorker!
For decades, Chicano culture has been built on a legacy of soul music, doo wop, zoot suits, and classic lowriders.
There’s something really comforting about a cover song — familiar while still feeling fresh, soothing and confounding at the same time. As a collector and lover of Brazilian music and music inspired by Brazilian sounds, I pulled together a (nearly) two-hour mix of some of my favorite Brazilian covers of international pop and rock hits . . .
Check out my SUPER LONG feature on Scottish funkateers The Average White Band in an extended online version of the story that originally appeared in issue #56 of Wax Poetics
Talking about my book with Arcee at Live Convention ‘19 on September 22, 2019 (40 minutes)
Crate Diggers Portland: Allen “The Ambassador” Thayer’s Top 10 Brazilian “Compactos”
It’s common knowledge amongst armchair pop music historians that he Beatles album Rubber Soul inspired the Beach Boys’ creative genius Brian Wilson to raise the bar for the group’s seminal sleeper album Pet Sounds and that album, in turn, galvanized the Beatles to respond with Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. That’s usually where the factoid ends, but there’s another iconic album that emerged from this friendly transatlantic competition that perfectly encapsulates the zeitgeist of late-sixties pop-psychedelia and continues to inspire musicians around the world: the Zombies’ Odessey & Oracle. Now at AD, creative principles Colin Blunstone and Rod Argent dive in.
“Alma Doce” means “Sweet Soul” en Portugues. Check out this sixty-minute mix of early Brazilian Soul related to Tim Maia and his friends done for Records By Mail (aka Craig Moerer) a Portland, OR -based institution
That time I guested on Lil’ Smiley’s radio show playing souldies from the U.S. and Brazil, Sunday, December 6th , 2016
Check out my guest spot over at Fleamarketfunk.com for Big Ups!
I’ll be out in Toronto in a few weeks to talk about my book Tim Maia Racional Vols. 1 & 2 out on Bloomsbury’s 33 1/3 Global/Brazil imprint - more information on this “festival for record heads” event coming soon!
I wrote a little something for Aquarium Drunkard about Tim Maia’s “Seroma Years” including a lengthy Spotify mix compiling my favorite tunes of his from 1972-77
Check out the review I wrote of the new Khruangbin dub album and the lengthy interview I did with the trio back in the Spring of 2018
