Gil has had his albums released abroad since 1978, the year of his successful performance at the Montreux Jazz Festival, in Switzerland, recorded live. Every year he tours ... Gilberto Gil carries out ...

Devendra Banhart and the Album Leaf, featuring Mike Heron, showed how that diversity continues into the present day. Early in his set at the Hollywood Bowl, Gilberto Gil explained Samba’s birth ...

Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, Gilberto Gil filtered its sound ... In an hour-long press conference on Wednesday, Gil introduced his latest album, Banda Larga Cordel, which translates as ...

Gilberto Gil has released more than 50 albums in his career -- the latest is “Banda Larga Cordel,” which came out this month. That puts him about 45 ahead of Devendra Banhart, but the ...

Gilberto Gil — musician, Tropicalista, politician, activist and even former exile — will be making a stop at Hill Auditorium on Nov. 16 for his North American tour. Gil is promoting his first album ...

Tom Moon says simplicity is beauty in the new live album from Brazilian music legends Caetano Veloso and Gilberto Gil. Sometimes there's beauty in simplicity. That's how music reviewer Tom Moon ...

Two legends of Brazilian music, Gilberto Gil and Caetano Veloso, have teamed up for a new album. They've been close friends since the 1960s, when they helped launch the Tropicalia movement in Brazil.

is just that—a full-length album with Calexico that serves as the highly anticipated follow-up to the acclaimed 2005 EP, In the Reins. Beam says the chosen collaboration—Gil e Jorge by Gilberto Gil & ...