Biography
Documentary filmmaker, movie director, screenplay writer, and freelance music producer for Verve, Milestone, CTI, BMG and Sony labels, with over 530 albums to his credit according to the All Music Guide.
DeSouteiro is a voting Member of NARAS-Grammy, Jazz Journalists Association (NY) and LAJS (Los Angeles Jazz Society), working as journalist, radio and TV host, Jazz & Brazilian Music historian, publicist, public relations, composer, lyricist (he wrote lyrics to Dave Brubeck's "Broadway Bossa Nova" at the invitation of Brubeck himself, among other songs), arranger, percussionist, keyboardist, educator (conducting clinics and panel sessions worldwide as the first Brazilian member of IAJE- International Association of Jazz Educators during its existence). He has also acted as consultant for several companies and jazz festivals all over the world.
Founder and CEO of JSR (Jazz Station Records), a Division of Jazz Station Marketing & Consulting. He also founded LaCalifUSA Pictures and JSR Casting in 2007 for movie and TV productions featuring music & fashion.
Supervised and/or Directed TV specials featuring João Gilberto, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Dizzy Gillespie, Chuck Mangione, Flora Purim & Airto Moreira, Miles Davis, Dom Um Romão, Ithamara Koorax, Eliane Elias, Diana Krall, Eumir Deodato, Bjork, CTI All Stars and many others.
DeSouteiro has appeared in several movies and TV series such as "Laurindo Almeida, Muito Prazer" (1999) "Do Jazz Ao Samba" (2019), "Homo Brasilis - João Donato" (2025) and the award winning documentary "Beyond Ipanema" (2013), alongside Creed Taylor, Lalo Schifrin, Wayne Shorter, Gene Lees and Norman Gimbel.
In 1992, at the invitation Bossa Nova icon João Gilberto, DeSouteiro wrote the script, handled the audio mixing and served as content consultant for the Rede Globo television program titled "João & Antonio," directed by Walter Salles, documenting the final joint concerts of João Gilberto and Antonio Carlos Jobim.
DeSouteiro and Salles also worked together on the "Minuto da Bossa" TV series (1992) as well as on "Bossa Nova Music & Reminiscences" (1993), nominated for a NAIRD Award as Best Documentary Video.
In the early 2000s, DeSouteiro produced special compilations for Quincy Jones ("Summer in the City - The Soul Jazz Grooves of Quincy Jones"), Chick Corea ("Electric Chick") and Deodato ("Do It Again - The Fantastic Jazz-Funk of Eumir Deodato"), all released by Verve/Universal.
Produced the acclaimed CD compilation series "A Trip To Brazil," "CTI Acid Jazz Grooves," "Brazilian Horizons," "Focus on Bossa Nova," "Focus on Brazilian Music Grooves", "Bossa Nova Singers," "Bossa Nova Guitar","Jazz Rock" etc.
De Souteiro has produced over 530 albums and sessions featuring: Luiz Bonfa, João Gilberto, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Ithamara Koorax, Eumir Deodato, Dom Um Romão, Thiago De Mello, João Donato, Palmyra & Levita, Mario Castro-Neves, Claudio Roditi, Luiz Millan, David Sanborn, Randy Brecker, Mark Egan, Mike Mainieri, Hubert Laws, Rodrigo Lima, Hermeto Pascoal, Don Sebesky, Sammy Figueroa, Bjork, Anna Ly, Carlos Barbosa-Lima, Carlos Pingarilho, Nelson Angelo, Marcelo Salazar, Ron Carter, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Steve Swallow, Herbie Hancock, Hugo Fattoruso, Larry Coryell, Sadao Watanabe, Jurgen Friedrich, Eloir De Moraes, Jadir De Castro, Azymuth, Marcio Montarroyos, Sivuca, Laudir De Oliveira, Marcos Valle, George Young, David Matthews, Lew Soloff, Alphonso Johnson, Gene Bertoncini, John McLaughlin, Claus Ogerman, Raul de Souza, Gonzalo Rubalcaba and many others.
He directed and wrote three documentary movies about Carlos Pingarilho, one about Eumir Deodato, and the full-length documentary movie "Luiz Millan: Brazilian Match - Making Of" (filmed in 2023, released in 2026) starring David Sanborn (documented on his final recording session), Randy Brecker, Ada Rovatti, Alice Soyer, Mark Egan, John Tropea, Ellen Johnson and the vocal group New York Voices.
