Velha Guarda do Samba (in red hats and/or flowered shirts), with David Rumpler on cavaquinho and Billy Newman on guitar.
Velha Guarda, with David Rumpler on cavaquinho and Harvey Wainapel, a great jazz clarinet and sax player from L.A. who happened to be in NYC and had dropped by earlier in the evening to play some chorinho.
Heitorzinho dos Prazeres on beer, with João da Valsa in foreground.
David Rumpler and Ellen Azorin, with Mestre Zé Paulo (the great Velha Guarda cavaqhinho master--and of course, he's the one wearing the NYC tee-shirt while Rumpler is wearing the Brasil tee-shirt), and Waleria Léal (left), the Velha Guarda producer from Rio.
Philip Galinsky on tantã.
Marty Lipp with tantã.
Marty Lipp, Ellen Azorin, and Philip Galinsky
A chorinho session: Laura Dreyer on flute, Dionísio Santos on violão, David Rumpler on cavaquinho, Eddie Rosenthal on pandeiro, and Ellen Azorin on audience.
Eddie Rosenthal on tantã, Ellen Azorin pretending on pandeiro, Philip Galinsky really on pandeiro, David Rumpler on cavaquinho.
Party Time--David Rumpler on cavaquinho, that's singer Vanessa Falabella at left, dancer Lygia Barreto at right, with friends Ana and Jeff Francis (surdo) in the middle.