Led by guitarist, vocalist, composer, educator, musicologist and four-time NEA Jazz Performance Fellow Richard Boukas, Quarteto Moderno synergizes traditional Brazilian genres like samba and baião with a melodic and harmonic vocabulary drawn from contemporary jazz and chamber music. Richard Boukas, guitar/vocals/composer; Lucas Pino, woodwinds; Gustavo Amarente, bass; and, Mauricio Zottarelli, drums. Part of the first annual Hudson Jazz Festival.