Caminhos do Jazz with Katchie

Photo credit: Valter Pontes Listen to this week's show Caminhos do Jazz celebrates the life and work of the great  Hermeto Pascoal this week-- "O Bruxo,"  wizard of Universal Music, Brazilian composer and multi-instrumentalist who Miles Davis named as "one of the most important musicians on the planet" (1936-2025). We'll hear a few of his 2,000+ compositions, cuts drawn from his first commercial recording ( Em Som Maior , Som Maior, 1965) to his last ( Pra Você Ilza , Rocinante, 2024). Sending profound condolences to his loved ones. 💓   As a teaser, here are two clips, both live takes. The first, from 1976, features Pascoal on flute, with Flora Purim and Airto Moreira , performing  his "Andei" (I Walked)  for a television broadcast.  The second, recorded in Brazil in 1988, features Pascoal on keyboards with Carlos Malta on saxophone, Jovino Santos Neto  at the piano, Itiberê Zwarg on bass, Marcio Bahia at the drums and Fabio Pascoal, Hermeto...

Listen to this week's show Dreams and nightmares this week on Caminhos do Jazz. Performers include Maria Bethânia , Gal Costa , Nação Zumbi , Music for a While , Jorge Continentino , Lionel Loueke , Alaide Costa , Ben Webster  and  Bill Charlap . We'll hear Kurt Elling 's breathtaking rendition of Paul Simon 's " American Tune ." The set ends with its seed, Charlap's elegantly simple take on Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim 's " Somewhere ." Time permitting, we'll follow that up with a short take from Dave Brubeck Quartet with Peter, Paul and Mary . Até lá, see you there.    As a bonus, here's Rhiannon Giddens sitting in with Simon, offering her aptly altered lyric. And, below it, a poignant pandemic video of an adaptation entitled "Because We All Are Brothers," with a lyric by Tom Glazer and Pete Seeger . The tune, a hymn, goes back to the Middle Ages, and there are many other versions, including  J.S. Bach's ...

Listen to this week's show This week's edition of Caminhos do Jazz is a two-fer... First up is the new disk from Brazilian singer-pianist Catina De Luna and Venezuelan guitarist and arranger-producer Otmaro Ruíz .  Lado B Brazilian Project 2 (Sunnyside, 2025) is the second installment of the illustrious duo's B-side project.  The project was born in 2015 with the release of Lado B Brazilian Project (Self Produced), which received a Grammy nomination in 2016. The idea was to interpret what we might call Great Brazilian Songbook—classics by Antonio Carlos Jobim , Chico Buarque , Dorival Caymmi , Ivan Lins , Ary Barroso and their ilk—but focusing mainly on B-sides rather than greatest-hits and giving them an infusion of LA jazz... Read our album review  here .   The "Lado B" idea includes not only B-sides but also works by composers deserving of wider recognition, including Delia Fischer .  Click the YouTube below for Fischer's "Aluvião" (Floodwa...

  Listen to this week's show This week's radio show features declarations of madness of various sorts, performed by Vitoriano e Seu Conjunto , Nadje Noordhuis with James Shipp , Alexandre Marmita , Zé Paraíba , Maria Bethânia , Gil Camará , Dolores Duran , Seiva , Dona Onete , Vivalda Dula , Choro Ensemble with Anat Cohen , Carlos Pial , Rosa Passos and 8 1/2 Souvenirs . The music crosses decades, genres and idioms, held together by an appreciation for insanity... ( Photo credit: Fernando Young ) Click below for a YouTube of our opening salvo, guitarist  Raimundo Amador 's "Lunático," featuring vocalist Concha Buika ...     Click the playlist (below) to expand the image.   Click  here (or on the image below) to hear the show and browse the archive. ...   Caminhos do Jazz with Katchie airs live on Saturday mornings at 10 Central.  KRTU 91.7 FM in San Antonio, worldwide at KRTU.org. ...follow us on  Facebook ,  Instagram , and  All...

Listen to this week's show This week on Caminhos do Jazz we mark the passing of the great singer Nancy King , and bid farewell to several other towering musicians who have left us: the inimitable pianists Hal Galper and Eddie Palmieri , and San Antonio's own  Flaco Jiménez , the celebrated  conjunto accordionist, singer and songwriter. The heart of the program is a deep dive into Impending Bloom , the unforgettable album by King and bassist Glen Moore , which features the whimsical lyrics of Samantha Moore (Justice Records, 1991). Photo credit: Ziggy Spiz . Check the YouTube (below) for King's stunning solo rendition of Arthur Schwartz and Howard Dietz's 1937 classic, "By Myself."    Playlist Flaco Jimenez "Blanca Rosa" (Instrumental) from San Antonio Soul (Rounder, 1991) 00:37 Eddie Palmieri "Mi Mambo Conga" from Mambo Con Conga Es Mozambique (Tico Records, 1966) 03:01 Hal Galper "Song Title" from Live at Maybeck Recital Ha...

Listen to this week's show This week on Caminhos do Jazz, we present  Circles in a Yellow Room (VOF Records, 2025),  vibraphonist  Mike Freeman 's new release with his ZonaVibe project. The album features his compositions and performances with Guido Gonzalez on trumpet, Jim Gailloreto on tenor sax and bass clarinet, Ruben Rodriguez on bass, Roberto Quintero on percussion and Joel Mateo on drums. Freeman, who lives in the Hell's Kitchen area of New York City,  meticulously mixed and mastered the recording during the pandemic. The beautiful physical disc package contains his heartfelt and eloquent notes on the lockdown experience, when "everything was totally unknown and eerily unsettling as the normal sounds and life of the city disappeared."  To begin the show, we return to last week's feature, playing a few more selections from  trombonist-arranger Ryan Keberle 's  Choro das Aguas (Alternate Side, 2025), with pianist-arranger Felipe Silveira , ...

Listen to this week's show This week on Caminhos do Jazz, we wish--belatedly--feliz aniversário to Ivan Lins , the celebrated Brazilian songwriter and singer-pianist who turned 80 on June 16, 2025, and to trombonist-arranger Ryan Keberle , who shares the same birthday. Keberle  and his Collectiv do Brasil ensemble  have just released an album in tribute to Lins , entitled Choro das Aguas (Alternate Side, 2025), which features pianist-arranger Felipe Silveira , bassist Felipe Brisola and drummer Paulinho Vicente . You'll hear selections from Choro das Aguas , and several of Lins' original versions...   Check the YouTube (below) to watch Keberle and company perform "Lua Cirandeira" live in the studio. Click  here (or on the image below) to hear the show and browse the archive. ...   Caminhos do Jazz with Katchie airs live on Saturday mornings at 10 Central.  KRTU 91.7 FM in San Antonio, worldwide at KRTU.org. ...follow us on  Facebook ,  Ins...

    Listen to this week's show   This week on Caminhos do Jazz, we're spinning  Antonio Adolfo 's new release,  Carnaval - The Songs Were So Beautiful (AAM, 2025) . They were and it is. Read our review here , on All About Jazz . Click the YouTube for a taste (below). Até lá, see you there...    Click  here (or on the image below) to hear the show and browse the archive. ...   Caminhos do Jazz with Katchie airs live on Saturday mornings at 10 Central.  KRTU 91.7 FM in San Antonio, worldwide at KRTU.org. ...follow us on  Facebook ,  Instagram , and  All About Jazz . W hile you're at it, why not support community radio by becoming a member of the station at  join.krtu.org ?  What's that catchy theme music for Caminhos do Jazz?  Damas Grátis  (Ladies Free) / 4:37 / 2007 /  Eduardo Neves  /  Gafieira de Bolso  /  Eduardo Neves

Listen to this week's show On this week's edition of Caminhos do Jazz, we focus on two standout 2025 recordings: Speaking in Tongues from Rachel Ekroth & John Hadfield (Adhyaropa) and Watersong from Savina Yannatou & Primavera en Salonico with Lamia Bedioui (ECM). Both have interesting back stories, which you can read on All About Jazz (articles linked to album titles, above). Check the YouTube (below) for a taste of "Full Fathom Five," Ariel's song from Shakespeare's Tempest , performed exquisitely by Yannatou and company...     And click below (YouTube) for a live version of "Speaking in Tongues," the title cut of Ekroth and Hadfield's brilliant release...     Click  here (or on the image below) to hear the show and browse the archive. ...   Caminhos do Jazz with Katchie airs live on Saturday mornings at 10 Central.  KRTU 91.7 FM in San Antonio, worldwide at KRTU.org. ...follow us on  Facebook ,  Instagram , and  Al...

Listen to this week's show This week on Caminhos do Jazz, we enter Rocky and Bulwinkle's Wayback Machine and imagine that we are in 1939 on the brink of WWII, when "the world is falling apart." We begin with our seed, a lovely rendition of "Are You Havin' Any Fun" from Danish jazz singer Marie Mørck 's brand new release, My One and Only Love (Zack's Music, 2025).  "Are You Havin' Any Fun"  was a big hit for Tommy Dorsey and his orchestra in 1939, but it might have been sung by the character Edward Weyse in PBS' Seaside Hotel , the hugely popular Danish TV show ( Badenhotellet ), set in Denmark during the WWII period,1928-1947.  Read more about all that in our  review of Mørck's album on All About Jazz.  Our program is comprised of songs from the 1939 hit parade--mainly in the US, but we also dip into Brazil and Germany. In the first set, we feature the artists who made the tunes hits, while the remainder focuses on other ...