Dave Pehling is website managing editor for CBS Bay Area. He started his journalism career doing freelance writing about music in the late 1990s, eventually working as a web writer, editor and ...

It was esperanza spalding’s longtime dream to make music with Milton Nascimento. The bassist was a student at Berklee College of Music when she first became a fan of the Brazilian singer-songwriter. A ...

esperanza spalding first heard Milton Nascimento’s music as a grad student at Berklee. “Some Brazilian friends were over for dinner, and they were so scandalized that I didn’t know who he was,” she ...

When legendary Brazilian singer-songwriter Milton Nascimento celebrated a lifetime in music with his 2022 farewell tour, it would have been safe to assume that he would also retire from the recording ...

During this week's two-hour program of Jazz and improvised music, new music from Brazilian singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Milton Nascimento and US bassist and vocalist esperanza spalding, ...

The documentary Milton Bituca Nascimento premieres this Thursday (Mar. 20) in Brazilian theaters, but preview events have taken place in Belo Horizonte, Rio de Janeiro, and São Paulo. Sitting in the ...

Milton Nascimento, the singer and songwriter who is one of Brazil’s national treasures, played up his jazzy side on Friday night at the Rose Theater, the home of Jazz at Lincoln Center. That’s the ...

Esperanza Spalding has announced a new collaborative album with heralded Brazilian singer Milton Nascimento. Recorded in Brazil last year, Milton + Esperanza is due out August 9 via Concord. They’re ...

Brazilian music legend Milton Nascimento and modern-day jazz icon esperanza spalding have announced a collaborative album, Milton + esperanza, due August 9 via Concord Records (pre-order). The album ...

In recent years, Milton Nascimento has consistently received mixed reviews. The Brazilian singer-songwriter, who performed Thursday night at George Washington University’s Lisner Auditorium, doesn’t ...

Asked to explain the powerful influence of Brazilian music, Milton Nascimento goes way beyond the rhythms of bossa nova. “With the mixing of races in Brazil, music from everywhere gets together,” he ...

Milton Nascimento says he never planned the beautiful zigzags of his musical career, and if you trace the contours of his teeming songbook, you’ll have no choice but to believe him. In 1972, he ...