Adolfo Mendonça Credit: Courtesy
It’s no surprise to see Tampa Bay’s EMIT collective bringing in some Brazilian jazz, but pianist and keyboardist Adolfo Mendonça—part of a quartet that features La Lucha’s Alejandro Arenas (bass) and Mark Feinman (drums) alongside esteemed vocalist and songwriter Ona Kirei—manages to work a lot of rock into his hybrid acoustic-electric sound.

Tickets to see Adolfo Mendonça Quartet return to Studio@620 in St. Petersburg on Sunday, Jan. 8 at 7 p.m. are still available for $10-$15.

This article appears in Jan 5-11, 2023.

Read his 2016 intro letter and disclosures from 2022 and 2021. Ray Roa started freelancing for Creative Loafing Tampa in January 2011 and was hired as music editor in August 2016. He became Editor-In-Chief...