By the time Carlos Barbosa-Lima recorded his first album at the tender age of 12, his two colleagues on this splendid session had already established strong international reputations as great artists and trend setters.

Laurindo Almeida, a respected concert performer in his native Brazil by the time Carlos was born in 1944, had revealed his jazz side through historic associations with band leader Stan Kenton and reed man Bud Shank.

Charlie Byrd, the jazzman who counted Django Rei… MORE