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Pixinguinha
Pixinguinha is credited on 1,129 releases across 336 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1953–2025 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.
1,129
Pressings credited
336
Albums
8
Decades active
18
In collections
Biography
Alfredo da Rocha Viana Filho (May 4, 1897 – February 17, 1973), better known as Pixinguinha, (Portuguese: [piʃĩˈɡiɲɐ]) was a Brazilian composer, arranger, flutist, and saxophonist born in Rio de Janeiro. He worked with Brazilian popular music and developed the choro, a genre of Brazilian music that blends Afro-Brazilian rhythms with European influences. Some of his compositions include "Carinhoso", "Glória", "Lamento", and "Um a Zero". Pixinguinha merged the traditional music of 19th-century composers with modern jazz-inspired harmonies, sophisticated arrangements, and Afro-Brazilian rhythms. This is attributed as having helped establish choro as an aspect of Brazilian culture. Pixinguinha was among the first Brazilian musicians to embrace radio broadcasting and studio recording, technologies that played a key role in bringing his music to a broader audience.
Bio from Wikipedia
Credited work
1,129 releases · 336 albums · active 1953–2025
- Performance · 1,960
- Other credits · 20
Studios: Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey · Impressão Digital · Skyline Studios · Nas Nuvens
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Frequent collaborators
- Various
- Baden Powell
- Elizeth Cardoso
- Toquinho
- Paulinho Da Viola
- Altamiro Carrilho
- Maria Bethânia
- Waldir Azevedo
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