I first encountered the great Tony Mottola on Music Minus One records. Very influential.

Unless I read too fast, the list doesn't include any Brazilians. Perhaps they don't match the author's definition of jazz. But I would submit some of these should have been considerd: Joao Gilberto, Oscar Castro-Neves, Romero Lubambo, and Bruno Mangueira.


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