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Brazilian Music Legend Oscar Castro-Neves' New Mack Avenue CD "All One" Released 3/14/06

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Brazilian Music Legend Oscar Castro-Neves Charms on his New Mack Avenue CD ALL ONE to be Released Tuesday, March 14

Oscar Castro-Neves To Tour Select Cities with Trio Mates Pianist Kenny Werner and Harmonica Player Toots Thielemans

3/14: WBGO FM Live Broadcast at J&R Music World in-store performance with Thielemans and Werner, New York, NY
3/16: Carnegie Hall, New York, NY (Toots Thielemans Tribute Concert)
3/18: Pabst Theater Milwaukee, WI
4/6-8: Sculler's, Boston, MA
4/10-14: Conference on the World Affairs, Boulder, CO

Famed guitarist, composer, arranger and producer Oscar Castro-Neves, a leading figure of the international Brazilian music scene since the early 1960s, follows up his critically lauded 2003 Mack Avenue release Playful Heart with an equally enticing performance on his new album, All One, in stores Tuesday, March 14. The 14-track program features special guest, noted Brazilian vocalist Luciana Sousa, and an all-star line-up of instrumental talent that includes violinist Charlie Bisharat, bassist Brian Bromberg and keyboardist Don Grusin on works that tap a broad range of Brazilian and global influences. Castro-Neves' vast experience as a recording artist and producer, coupled with his keen intuitive sense and consummate good taste, create a listening experience that soothes the soul as it fires the senses.

As a contemporary of such noted bossa pioneers as guitarists Roberto Menescal and Durval Ferreira and pianists Luiz Ea and Eumir Deodato, Oscar, born in Rio de Janeiro in 1940, was in the vanguard of young Brazilian musicians who helped popularize this new music style around the world. At the tender age of 15, his composition “Chora Tua Tristeza" became a nation-wide hit, spawning over four-dozen covers. In the studio, he recorded historic albums with the music's biggest names, including Vinicius de Moraes, the poet laureate of the bossa movement; Dorival Caymmi, the godfather of Bahian-rooted Afro-Brazilian sounds; and the soon to be famous female vocal group Quarteto em Cy. In 1962, a year before “The Girl From Ipanema" became a Top 10 hit, he helped lead the bossa nova invasion of the US, playing a central role as a performer and accompanist for other noted Brazilian musicians at the historic presentation of Brazil's new music at Carnegie Hall.

On All One, the logic of his artistic wanderlust becomes abundantly clear as track after track reveal the inherent music genius that has made Oscar Castro-Neves one of the world's most complete musicians of his generation.

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