I’ve been playing this tune a lot lately (via Suburban Guerrilla):

Yamandú Costa is Bryan Alexander‘s Brazilian brother: the same effervescent mind, but run through the fingers

Forever on the lookout for virtuoso string players, I’ve just discovered Yamandú Costa (via the fantastic Mika Kaurismäki film The Sound of Rio: Brasileirinho), and here he is with the equally awesome Hamilton de Holanda, doing an Astor Piazzolla composition, “Adios Nonino” (after a minute of intro in Portuguese):

via KlezmerShack:

Stephen Bennett:

and Michael Hedges:

Bardou:

…and see more about James Kline

Whistling Rufus, via Keep Swinging:

and

A melodic approach to Ralph Stanley’s Clinch Mountain Backstep, played by pinonnini:

(hear Dr Ralph himself, on another subject)