Jazz Samba: Duduka Da Fonseca, Maucha Adnet, Helio Alves
About This Event
Live event at Dizzy's Club
About Jazz Samba
Jazz Samba is a bossa nova album by Stan Getz and Charlie Byrd, released by Verve Records in 1962. Jazz Samba signaled the beginning of the bossa nova craze in America. Stan Getz was the featured soloist and the tracks were arranged by Charlie Byrd, who had first heard bossa nova during a tour of Brazil in 1961.
About the Artists
Duduka Da Fonseca
Duduka Da Fonseca is a Brazilian jazz drummer based in New York City, heard regularly at rooms like Smalls Jazz Club. He is a founding member of Trio da Paz with guitarist Romero Lubambo and bassist Nilson Matta, a long-running setting for Brazilian repertoire in a modern jazz context.
Maucha Adnet
Maucha Adnet is a jazz vocalist associated with bossa nova, heard in New York City settings such as Dizzy’s Club. She has appeared in the Jazz Samba lineup with Brazilian drummer Duduka Da Fonseca and pianist Hélio Alves, working inside a rhythm-first, ensemble-driven format.
Hélio Alves
Hélio Alves is a jazz pianist associated with Brazilian jazz and the freer edges of the tradition. In New York City he appears at Bar Bayeux, including sets with drummer Kiku Freitas alongside Marcio Philomena and Gili Lopes.
Jazz Samba
Jazz Samba is a New York City–presented jazz project heard at Dizzy’s Club, where Brazilian repertoire and small-group interaction are central. Recent performances under the Jazz Samba billing have brought together drummer Duduka Da Fonseca with vocalist Maucha Adnet and pianist Hélio Alves, musicians closely associated with modern Brazilian jazz and bossa nova lineages.