Release Date: 01 May 2006
Label: Pure Pleasure Records
Packaging Type: Gate Fold Vinyl
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 5060149620281
Genres: Jazz Latin Music
Description
180g audiophile vinyl reissue, re-mastered from the original analogue master tapes by Ray Staff at Alchemy.
"This 1976 album by the late saxophonist Stan Getz is a reunion of sorts with Joao Gilberto, the great Brazilian guitarist and singer, and the music of Antonio Carlos Jobim (or Tom Jobim), along with the stylish and nonintrusive arrangements of Oscar Carlos Neves. The trio changed the world in the early 1960s with its Getz/Gilberto albums. With Neves, they almost did it again, but with all of the crap falling down around them in the musical climate of the mid-'70s - fusion, disco, overblown rock, and the serious decline of jazz - this disc was criminally overlooked at the time. Joining these four men in their realization of modern bossa and samba are drummers Billy Hart and Grady Tate, percussionists Airto, Ray Armando, and Ruben Bassini, bassist Steve Swallow, pianist Albert Dailey, and Heliosoa Buarque de Hollanda singing the English vocals as a fill-in for Astrud Gilberto - who was not invited to join this session and would have declined if she were. The most beautiful thing about this recording is that Jobim - whose song forms had reached such a degree of sophistication that he was untouchable - chose to write all of his lyrics in English (songwriter Gene Lees also wrote many in English)." Thom Jurek, AllMusic
Tracklisting
Nina Simone
Archie Shepp & Mal Waldron
The Descendants Of Mike & Phoebe
Lonnie Liston Smith
Nat King Cole
David Murray
John Stubblefield
The Piano Choir
