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Encanto

CD-Charts > Music > Brazilian Jazz
by: Sergio Mendes

Release Date June 10, 2008
Sergio and Will.I.Am back at it again. This album has a much stronger Brazilian backdrop than Timeless did; and the organization, content and structure of the album are a little more mature. Featured artists such as Natalie Cole, Herb Alpert, and Ledisi show the maturity and growth in assembly and production. The album is one that can definitely be played through with continuity and will be overly enjoyed. I would give the album 4 Stars. In analyzing my rating, please be aware that I am disposed to comparing this album with Timeless and I am just a bigger fan of Timeless.

CD-Charts Position 2
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Getz/Gilberto

CD-Charts > Music > Brazilian Jazz
by: Stan Getz, Joao Gilberto, Astrud Gilberto

Release Date May 20, 1997
Paying $3.99 for a jazz masterpiece that you don't own is a gift. Grab it!

CD-Charts Position 3
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Imagina: Songs of Brasil

CD-Charts > Music > Brazilian Jazz
by: Karrin Allyson

Release Date March 25, 2008
.............never heard of Karryn Allison until just now? I am nearly 60 years old and love love love "musica brasileira" from almost anyone who can pull off a good recording. This CD is just amazing, and I've heard lots of artists try to record these songs.
I spent 2 years in Brasil many years ago and loved what I heard so have always loved the music. Karryn has a great voice and I am going to go seek out other things she has done.
Great CD!!

CD-Charts Position 4
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World's Greatest Audiophile Vocal Recordings

CD-Charts > Music > Brazilian Jazz
by: Various Artists

Release Date September 26, 2006
A very good compilation that is well recorded. I would recommend this to any body who likes audiophile quality music.

CD-Charts Position 5
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On a Starry Night

CD-Charts > Music > Brazilian Jazz
by: Various Artists

Release Date April 15, 1997
I bought this CD because of all the rave reviews I read about it. The other people must have been a bit more earthy-crunchy than I am. I found all the wind instruments a bit boring. I think I like to hear a little more piano or something... I love the baby Mozart CD but I thought my baby needed a change every once in a while. Thats why I bought this one. It's ok....

CD-Charts Position 6
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Something for You: Elaine Elias Sings & Plays Bill Evans

CD-Charts > Music > Brazilian Jazz
by: Eliane Elias

Release Date January 15, 2008
There are two tributes that I highly recommend for Bill Evans fans. One is by Paul Motian simply titled Bill Evans with Bill Frisell, Joe Lovano, and Marc Johson. And the other is this release by Elaine Elias. Elias weaves through a nice mix of three Evans originals rarely heard plus several standards, such as But Not For Me. It was also very nice to hear certain songs with lyrics, such as Detour Ahead. I loved the precision which Bill Evans played this song. It was especially nice to hear the song to both music and words. Elias also sounds really close to Bill Evans on some of the slower cuts. Overall, this is an extremely nice CD. I just wished I could have heard RE: Person I Knew which was released only on the Japanese version of this CD.

CD-Charts Position 7
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Wave

CD-Charts > Music > Brazilian Jazz
by: Antonio Carlos Jobim

Release Date October 25, 1990
I really enjoy listening to Wave. I find the sound relaxing and the songs enjoyable. I recently started listening to the famous Getz/Gilberto album and I wanted to pickup albums from some of the other artists featured on it, hence Wave. Good album and I would recommend it to anyone who liked Getz/Gilberto.

CD-Charts Position 8
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Jazz Samba

CD-Charts > Music > Brazilian Jazz
by: Stan Getz, Charlie Byrd

Release Date May 20, 1997
Want to know what the world was like in 1963, in San Francisco, on sunny afternoons, when all the windows were open on a garden from a small apartment high on the Ashbury Street Hill where Anne and Stan Rice lived and wrote? --- Before the Flower Children came. ---- Then listen to this classic album, the album that defined "jazz" for me more than bossa nova. It was an album that made me want to flee the foggy streets of San Francisco, put on khaki clothes and drift south. It took me well over twenty years to get to Brazil, and the tunes were no longer in my head. Don't know who Stan and Anne are? No surprise. --- They were young writers, dreamers and students. ---- Just wanted to make this review a little reflective of what those moments were like, ... Read More:

CD-Charts Position 9
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Woman on Top

CD-Charts > Music > Brazilian Jazz
by: Various Artists

Release Date September 12, 2000
Good music, easy to listen to a few times but not over and over like some of the pagode, more Bossa Nova.

CD-Charts Position 10
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The New Bossa Nova

CD-Charts > Music > Brazilian Jazz
by: Luciana Souza

Release Date August 21, 2007
Bossa nova has been in Luciana Souza's blood since she was a child growing up in Sao Paulo, Brazil, in the early '60s as the daughter of two of its innovators, Walter Santos and Tereza Sousa.
So, after six critically acclaimed albums where her expansive, homegrown Brazilian musical vocabulary converged with American jazz, the three-time Grammy Award-nominated Los Angeles-based vocalist returns to the wellspring and explores bossa nova from a different slant on "The New Bossa Nova," produced by her husband, jazz musician/producer Larry Klein"(D.Quellette-Reuters).
"The New Bossa Nova" marks an exciting new chapter for the Brazilian-born vocalist and three-time Grammy nominee, who's already widely acknowledged as one of jazz's most respected and accomplished ... Read More: