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  • Sérgio and Odair Assad "Jardim Abandonado" [cover]
    Friday, November 14, 2008
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    Sérgio Assad Wins Latin Grammy for "Jardim Abandonado" Composition

    Nonesuch Records congratulates Sérgio Assad, winner of the 2008 Latin Grammy Award for Best Classical Contemporary Composition for "Tahhiyya Li Ossoulina," off Sérgio and Odair Assad's latest Nonesuch album, Jardim Abandonado. The ninth annual Latin Grammy awards were handed out last night in a celebration at the Toyota Center in Houston, Texas, broadcast live on Univision, that included a live performance by label mate Fernando Otero.

  • Sérgio and Odair Assad "Jardim Abandonado" [cover]
    Tuesday, September 16, 2008
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    Sérgio and Odair Assad's "Jardim Abandonado" Nominated for Two Latin Grammy Awards

    Congratulations to Sérgio and Odair Assad, whose most recent Nonesuch release, Jardim Abandonado has just been nominated for two Latin Grammy awards: Best Classical Album and Best Classical Contemporary Composition for Sérgio's "Tahhiyya li ossoulina." The ninth annual Latin Grammy Award ceremony will be broadcast live from Houston's Toyota Center, November 13, on the Univision network.

  • Sérgio and Odair Assad "Jardim Abandonado" [cover]
    Tuesday, January 22, 2008
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    Audiophile Audition: Assads Offer a "Winning Collection" with "Jardim Abandonado"

    Sérgio and Odair Assad's Jardim Abandonado receives five stars from Audiophile Audition, which credits the brothers' "great artistry and amazing technical facility" with setting "new standards for guitar duos." On the new album in particular, "The sound of the duo is just perfect—rich and natural, with the separation of the two instruments just enough without being exaggerated ... A winning collection with very wide appeal!"

  • Monday, October 29, 2007
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    "Guitar Gods" Sérgio and Odair Assad Lauded on Tour

    Guitar virtuosos Sérgio and Odair Assad recently performed in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, as part of a nationwide tour in support of their new album, Jardim Abandonado. Milwaukee Journal Sentinel's music critic Tom Strini, a guitarist himself, was left in awe:

  • Tuesday, October 23, 2007
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    New Yorker: Assads "Jardim Abandonado" Exquisite

    In the October 29 issue of The New Yorker, writer Russell Platt reviews Jardim Abandonado, the new record by Sérgio and Odair Assad, calling the Brazilian brothers' take on four classic tunes by Antônio Carlos Jobim "exquisite miniatures of ardent desire and ineffable regret." Platt also singles out the album's two transcriptions of French composer Darius Milhaud's "Scaramouche," which, in the Assads hands, "become mellow drops of sunshine"; and the album's "pièce de résistance ...