Piano virtuoso Kenny Barron fell in love with the sound of Brazilian music when he heard Sérgio Mendes on the radio in 1965. A few years later, as a newly adapted style of samba swept across North America – the Bossa Nova movement – Barron performed Brazilian pieces with Dizzy Gillespie....

New York-based Stan Killian’s tenor saxophone voice can be described as pensive with influences of Trane, Mobley, Griffin, and Getz. His colors are rich and they burn in a quiet fire of long, unbroken lines, so it would seem Killian’s style settles best in a ballad - as it does on...