Paulo Moura

His duo record "Mood Ingênuo: The Dream of Pixinguinha and Duke Ellington"(Jazzheads, 1999) with Grammy Award winner Paulo Moura represents one of the first cross-cultural explorations of jazz and choro.Their recording "Gafieira Dance Brasil" (independent, 2000) pays homage to the dance roots of the instrumental and improvisational tradition of Brazilian music.

Cliff holds a Master of Arts in Jazz Performance from the City College of New York, where he trained with Roland Hanna, Ron Carter and Kenny Barron.He regularly teaches courses and seminars on Jazz Piano, Jazz Theory, Improvisation, Rhythm Section Skills, and Brazilian Instrumental Music at institutions including City College, the Escola de Música of Brasilia, the Collective, the New School.He is currently a candidate for the Doctorate of Musical Arts in Jazz Studies at the Manhattan School of Music, where he teaches a course on Brazilian Popular Music History and leads the Brazilian combo.

Korman's research in the fields of Jazz and Brazilian music has received prestigious recognition, including a Fulbright Lecture/Research grant in Brasil, the invitation by the Society for American Music to deliver a paper on the music of Thelonious Monk, the publication of an article on the same topic in the Annual Review of Jazz Studies, and the invitation to present his lecture Jazz & Brazilian Instrumental Music: Common Roots, Divergent Paths at the Jazz Research Roundtable at Rutgers University.