Performance

Sounds of Brazil with Hamilton de Holanda

1 upcoming performance in New York

“Sounds of Brazil with Hamilton de Holanda” arrives at Jazz at Lincoln Center as a live New York program that treats Brazilian music as part of the jazz continuum, not a side branch. Mandolinist Hamilton de Holanda draws on choro, samba, and modern improvising, foregrounding the instrument’s rhythmic role as much as its lyricism. The setting matters: Jazz at Lincoln Center has long framed Latin and Brazilian traditions as central to the city’s jazz history. One clear takeaway is how the mandolin shifts the usual jazz front line without changing the music’s swing logic.