There are days when I’m really snarky and it just so happened that I was reviewing a CD that day. Kristy got the brunt of my snark when I called her a bit unoriginal. But I guess that’s what you get for making an album full of covers, you lack originality. I mean, I still [...]

If Brasilianos 2 was a racer, it would have unleashed its turbo rocket boosters early to get ahead of the pack, only to cool off and found its right tempo at the end. While all of the songs by the Hamilton de Holanda Quintet are fresh and original, the opening three tracks are hectic, fast [...]