São Paulo-born, New York-based guitarist and composer Vinicius Gomes has quietly become one of the essential connectors between Brazilian music and the modern jazz scene. His duo album Home with singer Song Yi Jeon earned 4.5 stars in DownBeat, and his 2026 release Boundless Species (La Reserve), with vocalist Jamile and bassist Joe Martin, reimagines repertoire from Ivan Lins and Guinga to Wayne Shorter and Herbie Hancock; a new solo album featuring Toninho Horta, John Patitucci, Julian Shore, and Rogerio Boccato is on the way. As a collaborator he appears on more than 40 records, working with Magos Herrera, Duduka da Fonseca, Guillermo Klein, Edu Ribeiro, and the São Paulo State Symphony, and he has performed everywhere from Newport and Winter Jazzfest to the Bimhuis and Dizzy’s Club. Bailinho, named for the Portuguese word for an intimate dance party, is Gomes at his most joyful: a celebration of Brazil’s dance traditions, samba, forró, baião, and beyond, filtered through the harmonic imagination of a player critics place in the lineage of Baden Powell and Pat Metheny. Music built for the body first, with plenty for the ears.