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24 May

Posted at 10:00h in Reviews
The Brazilian living legend singer Maria Rita shook a packed Koko house on Tuesday night amidst an electrified crowd of Brazilondoners, cameras ready to click and hips ready to samba from the word ‘go’ and ‘Maria’.  She opened the stage-sky glittering in red and bathed in alternating shades of ocre, indigo, rasberry and emerald that accompanied our traveling with her, through no less than 20 songs, taken from her three albums, Maria Rita, Segundo and Samba Meu. This tiny graceful woman began her singing stellar trajectory in 2003 upon the launch of her first album Maria Rita.  Six latin Grammys on and numerous tours, Maria Rita returned to London after

26 Oct

Posted at 15:06h in Interviews, Music

Portico Quartet, l-r Jack Wyllie, Nick Mulvey, Duncan Bellamy, Milo Fitzpatrick I’m sitting at the Riverside Terrace Café at the Royal Festival Hall with Milo Fitzpatrick, the double bass player from experimental Jazz outfit-extraordinaire Portico Quartet. We’re waiting for fellow band member and saxophonist Jack...