honors The album Beat the Donkey was picked by Jon Pareles of The New York Times as one of the ten best alternative albums of 2002. Readers of JAZZIZ magazine and DRUM magazine voted it Best Brazilian CD of the Year and named Baptista Best Percussionist of 2002. Down Beat magazine's 51st annual Critics' Poll selected Baptista as 'Rising Star' in percussion. A documentary about Beat the Donkey that was a recorded WGBH-TV in Boston program won three New England EMMY Awards in 2002. Baptista has performed on five Grammy award-winning albums: Yo-Yo Ma's Obrigado Brazil, Cassandra Wilson's Blue Light 'Til Dawn, The Chieftains' Santiago, Ivan Lins' A Love Affair, and Herbie Hancock's Gershwin's World. In 2009 Baptista won a Fellow Award in Music from United States Artists. Instruments Baptista plays alfaia, agogo bells, apito, bandora, bass drum, bell tree, berimbau, bongos, bottles, Chinese bells, cabasa, caja, caxixi, clay drum, conga, cowbell, cuica, cymbals, drums, finger cymbals, gong, kalimba, maracas, mark tree, pandeiro, rototom, repinique, shaker, shekere, snare drum, surdo, triangle, tabla, talking drum, tamborim, tambourine, temple block, timbales, tom-toms, udu, washboard, water gong, waterphone, whistle, and wood block. Discography As leader Vira Loucos (Avant, 1997) Love the Donkey (Tzadik, 2005) Banquet of the Spirits (Tzadik, 2008) Infinito (Tzadik, 2009) Sunshine Seas (RareNoise, 2016) Caym: Book of Angels Volume 17 (Tzadik, 2011) Bluefly (Tzadik, 2016) As guest With Trey Anastasio Alive Again (Elektra, 2002) Plasma (Elektra, 2003) Shine (Elektra, 2005) Bar 17 (Rubber Jungle, 2006) With Gabrielle Roth Tongues (Raven, 1995) Zone Unknown (Raven, 1997) Tribe (Raven, 2000) With Cassandra Wilson Blue Light 'Til Dawn (Blue Note, 1993) New Moon Daughter (Blue Note, 1995) Belly of the Sun (Blue Note, 2002) With John Zorn The Big Gundown (Nonesuch 1986) Film Works III/ 1990–1995 (Nonesuch 1992) Film Works 1986–1990 (Tzadik, 1996) Film Works II/ Walter Hill (Tzadik, 1996) Film Works V/ Tear of Ecstasy (Tzadik, 1996) Film Works VI/1996 (Tzadik, 1996) Film Works IV/S&M Works (Tzadik, 1997) Film Works VII/ Cynical Hysterie Hour (Tzadik, 1997) The Circle Maker (Tzadik, 1998) Taboo and Exile (Tzadik, 2000) Film Works IX/ Trembling Before G-d (Tzadik, 2000) The Gift (Tzadik, 2001) Film Works X (Tzadik, 2001) Film Works XII /Three Documentaries (Tzadik, 2002) Cobra/Game Pieces Vol II (Tzadik, 2002) The Satyr's Play/Cerberus (Tzadik, 2011) A Vision in Blakelight (Tzadik, 2012) Mount Analogue (Tzadik, 2012) Pellucidar: A Dreamers Fantabula (Tzadik, 2015) With others Geri Allen –