Grupo Um has been played on NTS in shows including Soup To Nuts w/ Shy One, featured first on 10 October 2022. Songs played include Cortejo dos Reis Negros, Onze por Oito and Vida.

Some artists’ beginnings remain hidden from posterity, either entirely or at least for a long time. It took the Brazilian jazz group Grupo Um almost 50 years to release their début album »Starting Point«. In 1975, brothers Lelo and Zé Eduardo Nazario, the former a pianist, the latter a drummer, joined forces with bassist Zeca Assumpção to make underground music. Literally, because they played in a cellar, but also figuratively, because…