Happy International Choro Day!

[rickfaulknernyc]

For those not familiar with choro, it's roughly analogous to New Orleans jazz in Brazil, except that it's still a living and developing tradition.

Here's the elder statesman of choro trombone, Zé da Velha, playing Pixinguinha's classic "Os Oito Batutos":

[rickfaulknernyc]

And Fred Dantas playing "É Do Que Há":

[Doug Elliott]

[Kbiggs]

Thank you all! Such happy music! I really needed this!

[rickfaulknernyc]

Nice - "O Bom Filho" is one of my favorites.

[rickfaulknernyc]

Our choro CD has been in the works for a while, but will hopefully be completed sometime this year. Meanwhile, here's a video of the group from a few years ago: