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Cliff Korman is a pianist, composer and arranger. His early musical experience spanned from accompanying Yiddish theater icon Molly Picon, to the worlds of R&B and jazz, which he decided to make his own, after working with Millie Jackson, Bob Moses, Jon Lucien, and Milt Hinton.

In the early 1980’s Korman began the lifelong journey that would bring him to explore the improvised musics of the Americas and their distinctive connection to the artistic languages of the twentieth century. It is at that time that he established half of his spiritual and physical home in Brasil, becoming one of the most respected North American musicians in the country.

There he became deeply involved in a series of cross-cultural projects with the legendary clarinetist Paulo Moura: Mood Ingênuo: The Dream of Pixinguinha and Duke Ellington, Rhapsody in


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Cliff Korman is a pianist, composer and arranger. His early musical experience spanned from accompanying Yiddish theater icon Molly Picon, to the worlds of R&B and jazz, which he decided to make his own, after working with Millie Jackson, Bob Moses, Jon Lucien, and Milt Hinton. In the early 1980’s Korman began the lifelong journey that would bring him to explore the improvised musics of the Americas and their distinctive connection to the artistic languages of the twentieth century. It is at that time that he established half of his spiritual and physical home in Brasil, becoming one of the most respected North American musicians in the country. There he became deeply involved in a series of cross-cultural projects with the legendary clarinetist Paulo Moura: Mood Ingênuo: The Dream of Pixinguinha and Duke Ellington, Rhapsody in

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