CARDUME Album Release Tour June 2025
New release: Brian Blade LifeCycles “NOW! & Forevermore” – Honoring Bobby Hutcherson
Performing 3 nights at The Village Vanguard in March to support the release of the album!
Kurt Elling / Danilo Perez’s album wins Grammy for best vocal jazz album 2021!
https://youtu.be/ntLk6RCsr5I
What an immensely deserved award!! A very special recording, and so relevant for our times. Really grateful to be part of this project!
“Secrets Are the Best Stories” ℗ 2020 Edition Records
Brian Blade & ‘Life Cycles’ – live in Seattle
What a joy to be part of this amazing project led by one of my favorite people and musicians: Brian Blade!! With Jon Cowherd, Myron Walden, John Hartt, Monte Croft and Doug Weiss. Recorded live at KEXP Studios in Seattle, Sept 27, 2019.
Grammy Nominations 2020!
Very excited to receive the news that John Finbury‘s album “SORTE”, on which I play percussion, is nominated for 2020 GRAMMY® Award in the Best Latin Jazz Album.
I’m also on percussion on Mike Holober‘s “HIDING OUT” which is nominated for 2020 GRAMMY® Award in the Best Large Jazz Ensemble category.
new video from CD release concert!
Very happy to share the first video from my album release concert ‘No Old Rain’ at the York Theater (NYC).
‘Cravo & Canela’ by Milton Nascimento
With Dan Blake (tenor saxophone), Nando Michelin (fender rhodes) and Jay Anderson (bass).
‘no old rain’ – Debut album is out!!
“The sounds in ‘No Old Rain’ transcend space and time, allowing the listener to discover unique musical paths.” Toninho Horta
Leading his own group, Rogério arrives at the release of his debut recording as a leader – No Old Rain (coming out May 25th on Red Piano Records). With his quartet, Rogério breaks out of the traditional jazz mold, collectively weaving form and structure out of the disparate threads of each member’s creative input, using motifs from each song as springboards for spontaneous group compositions. The result of this open- eared deconstruction is a reverent, impressionistic vision of each song. The album is a warmly-colored Brazilian Rorschach test viewed through a much-loved second-hand kaleidoscope.
‘No Old Rain’ focuses on gems of Brazilian music excavated from the source – written by four of the greatest composers of the post-Bossa Nova generation, who took Brazilian music into new directions: Toninho Horta, Milton Nascimento, Egberto Gismonti and Edu Lobo. Just as their music could have only come from Brazil in the late 20th century, ‘No Old Rain’ is the seemingly inevitable result of Rogério Boccato’s 13 years in New York.
release date: May 25th, 2018 / Red Piano Records
Jason Byrne @ Red Cat Publicity – redcatjazz@mac.com
On Grammy Nominated (and Winning!!) Albums
Great news about Alan Ferber‘s ‘Jigsaw‘ and Billy Child‘s ‘Rebirth‘ albums, both nominated for a Grammy this year!! I am honored to have contributed with some percussion parts on both of these recordings. And Billy Childs‘ album actually won the grammy for best jazz album of the year!!!! Many congrats to Billy and Alan and to all the musicians involved on these two recordings!
Carnegie Hall Neighborhood Series
ISTMO TRIO is playing this Sunday (May 21st) as part of the Carnegie Hall Neighborhood Series at the Queens Library in Flushing, NYC. And we are having a very special guest: Gilad Hekselman on guitar!
https://www.carnegiehall.org/Calendar/2017/5/21/0200/PM/Neighborhood-Concert-Istmo-Trio/
New Releases!
I am very happy to announce I’ve been part of this amazing new recording of the John Patitucci Trio.
John Patitucci Trio: IRMÃOS DE FÉ – with Yotam Silberstein
https://www.newvelle-records.com/pages/john-patitucci-irmaos-de-fe
John Patitucci Trio new release
Very excited about this new project led by the great John Patitucci (with my brother Yotam Silberstein on guitars)!!! The recording (on LP only!) is coming out on February 24th, produced by Newvelle Records. Here’s a teaser of one of the tunes, “Nilopolitano”, by Dominguinhos…
rogerio boccato quarteto – recording in the making!
What an amazing time we had in the studio on June 1 & 2 recording the music we’ve been working on as a group since 2013. Really looking forward to sharing this music with all of you!! It’s my first CD as a leader, so this is a very special project for me. I feel very privileged to have great friends and amazing musicians helping me to realize my musical vision: Jay Anderson, Nando Michelin, Dan Blake: thank you guys so much!!
Stay tuned!
messiaen’s gumbo – john patitucci trio
“Messiaen’s Gumbo” (J. Patitucci) – CD release concert @ Dizzy’s Club – NYC; August 2009. With John Patitucci (bass), Joe Lovano (tenor sax/flute) and Brian Blade (drums).
alfonsina y el mar with the ISTMO Trio & special guest Edmar Castañeda
Live at the Cornelia Street Cafe – Jan 19th, 2015
cais – (milton nascimento) – rb quarteto
Rogerio Boccato Quarteto, Live at Cornelia Street Cafe, NYC.
cochichando – (pixinguinha) – aguamarinha trio
Live at the Newington Library (Newington, CT, USA) – with Nailor Proveta/clarinet, Arismar do Espírito Santo/7string guitar. (2006)
bicycle ride – (toninho horta) – rb quarteto
Live at the Univ. of Minnesota, Duluth, MN (2013)
cravo e canela – (milton nascimento) – rb quarteto
Live at the Univ. of Minnesota, Duluth, MN (2013)