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Symphonic Jobim

CD-Charts > Music > Brazilian Jazz
from: Adventure Music

Release Date June 14, 2005
Jobim loves people, and gets excited about all kinds of things, I'm sure there's certain pieces by Debussy and Ravel that made Jobim red in the face because they are so beautiful.

How does an Artist manage to be influenced and still make a work of art their own?

Love and desire.

Symphonic Jobim strikes me as being very Nationalistic, a sort of spiritual road map to the heart of the World, and what better way to celebrate one's roots by drawing on the panorama of Rio and Brazil, or, Brasil.

Frank Loyd Wright once said, Architecture is frozen Music.

Jobim went on record, Music is frozen Architecture!

Thanks, Tom.

I was raised on Debussy and Ravel, but they're ... Read More:

CD-Charts Position 172
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Astrud for Lovers

CD-Charts > Music > Brazilian Jazz
by: Astrud Gilberto

Release Date January 27, 2004
Astrud For Lovers is a fine installment in this "For Lovers" CD series. The quality of the sound is great and I love that artwork. Astrud is truly in excellent form throughout on this CD; and just one listen proves it! This is fine music for lovers only.

"Only Trust Your Heart" starts the CD with Astrud Gilberto showing off her vocal talents; she handles complicated tempo and key changes very well. Astrud makes it sounds and look easy; but of course we know that it really wasn't so easy to be able to sing like that. Astrud did have a great deal of vocal talent and that's what enabled her to sing complicated songs like "Only Trust Your Heart." "Once I Loved" has a lush musical arrangement with an elegant percussion treatment to enhance ... Read More:

CD-Charts Position 173
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Alfagamabetizado

CD-Charts > Music > Brazilian Jazz
by: Carlinhos Brown

Release Date May 06, 1997
the title for my review says it all. This is one of the most beautiful, exciting, and moving albums I've ever heard. A percussionist friend recommended it to me years ago, and I've always been thankful. If you think you might like it, just get it. You'll probably love it.

CD-Charts Position 174
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Blue Brazil, Vol. 1: Blue Note in a Latin Groove

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

Release Date January 26, 1999
To talk about Brazil is to evoke the musical paradise per excellence, the untiring joy, the delirious football, its dreamy beaches, its eternal sun. that successful cornucopia has allowed to nourish an intense musicality as well musical styles, including Joven Guarda in the 50?s, samba and MPB in the 60's and 70's. That impressive crossroads of cultures; European, African and Indian. Furthermore, Brazil has inspired the jazz and vice versa with fabulous results.

This album incorporates a very valuable set of singers, ensembles between 1965 and 1980, and it constitutes an admirable tour de force throughout the Brazilian music: Quarteto Novo, Joyce, Milton banana Trio, Eumir Deodato and the delirious singer Elza Soares

If ... Read More:

CD-Charts Position 175
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Look to the Rainbow

CD-Charts > Music > Brazilian Jazz
by: Astrud Gilberto

Release Date June 03, 2008
To talk about Brazil is to evoke the musical paradise per excellence, the untiring joy, the delirious football, its dreamy beaches, its eternal sun. that successful cornucopia has allowed to nourish an intense musicality as well musical styles, including Joven Guarda in the 50?s, samba and MPB in the 60's and 70's. That impressive crossroads of cultures; European, African and Indian. Furthermore, Brazil has inspired the jazz and vice versa with fabulous results.

This album incorporates a very valuable set of singers, ensembles between 1965 and 1980, and it constitutes an admirable tour de force throughout the Brazilian music: Quarteto Novo, Joyce, Milton banana Trio, Eumir Deodato and the delirious singer Elza Soares

If ... Read More:

CD-Charts Position 176
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The Best of the Concord Years

CD-Charts > Music > Brazilian Jazz
by: Charlie Byrd

Release Date September 26, 2000
Concord Jazz is delighted to present some highlights from the last twenty years of Charlie Byrd's extraordinarily prolific, creative and influential recording career. With "Best of Concord Years", you'll appreciate the melodic and tasteful guitar playing by this legend that extends far beyond his obvious ground-breaking contributions to jazz history...which includes pioneering the application of acoustic classical guitar techniques to jazz and bringing the Brazilian "bossa nova" to the North American masses.

Byrd is equally at home in a variety of musical styles and settings, from bebop to Grappeli-Reinhardt "Hot Club" inspired swing, to classical-crossover, to a myriad of Brazilian music styles, putting this in ... Read More:

CD-Charts Position 177
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World Christmas

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

Release Date October 15, 1996
Each time I listen to this, I feel happy! I first heard this in a store, and I immediately asked what was playing! This cd is great for people who love to travel.

CD-Charts Position 178
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Neruda

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

Release Date April 06, 2004
As a Spanish speaker and admirer of (any) literature, I do believe that the most important aspect of any poetry is -- more than rhyme and structure -- its rhytm; unless, of course, someone's genius translates the same impact into another language. I cannot recall being fully satisfied when I read poetry outside its language; be it Pablo Neruda or Emily Dickinson. Here we have some of the most fabulous poetry of the XXth century translated into English and sung with a Brazilian accent....hmmm.
I admire Ms Souza's incredible musicianship. She is not just a singer, he is a true artist/musician trying to explore and expand, as has been succesfully proven in her Duos CDs. But her phrasing is rooted in Portuguese and these bland melodies do not lift Neruda's ... Read More:

CD-Charts Position 179
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Braziliana

CD-Charts > Music > Brazilian Jazz
by: Luiz Bonfá & Maria Toledo

Release Date June 03, 2008
I remember this Record album from back in the 60s,seeing it in Stores and My friends parents had the LP in their Record collection.My general feeling was."Bleeh!This is what Grownups listen to!"..I didn't have to hear it!..Bossa Nova was everywhere!..The Brazilian Invasion was as big as the British Invasion...Now here it is many years later and how happy I am to have this CD and thankful that my tastes were broadened during and beyond my Rock phase(Rock never dies tho :o)..)I'm not sure how serious Bossa experts regard this particular Album..All i know is that its a little slice of heavenly 60's fluff...A most pleasing collaberation between husband and wife music & lyrics team.
Definately music for "Lovers"..and Music Lovers alike!

CD-Charts Position 180
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Serenade

CD-Charts > Music > Brazilian Jazz
by: Toninho Horta

Release Date June 23, 2000
Toninho Horta comes from Minas Gerais, from the same place and the same group of composers and musicians which gave us Milton Nascimento. Some of the most notable songs recorded by Nascimento are Horta's compositions, featuring "Beijo Partido" in Nascimento's album "Minas".

Three qualities distinguish Horta's work:
1 - He is a great guitarrist and he plays within a conception of a big orchestra. His guitar playing seems to float wonderfully upon a sea of strings. Wonderful and unique playing! This CD shows his extraordinary conception of Henry Manicini's "Moon River". I am a big fan of Mancini's and I tell you Mr. Horta is brilliant in his recreation of "Moon River".
2 - He is a sophisticated composer of intricate ... Read More: