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Musicians :
João Gilberto (guitar, vocals), Milcho Leviev, Michael Boddicker (synthesizer), Bud Shank, Glenn Garrett, Eddie Cain (flute), Ralph Grierson, Claire Fisher (keyboards), Marilyn Baker, David Schwartz, Helain ... [Show more]
Description:
Musicians :
João Gilberto (guitar, vocals), Milcho Leviev, Michael Boddicker (synthesizer), Bud Shank, Glenn Garrett, Eddie Cain (flute), Ralph Grierson, Claire Fisher (keyboards), Marilyn Baker, David Schwartz, Helain Wittenberg (viola), Israel Baker, Isabelle Daskoff, Bonnie Douglas, Nathan Ross, Paul Shure, Gerald Vinci, John Wittenberg, Joe Goodman, Bobby Dubow, Bob Lipsett, Harry Bluestone (violin), Anne Goodman (cello), Paulinho Da Costa (percussion), Jim Hughart (bass), Grady Tate, Joe Correro (drums).
When this album landed on the turntables in 1977, João Gilberto, the Nestor and father of bossa nova, had long enjoyed praise for his life's work which was still far from complete. His straightforward, sometimes dry and rasping voice sounds out distinctively in the mezzo piano and forges his totally unique and personal style of playing Latin jazz with international appeal. With "Wave", "Triste" "Caminhos Cruzados" and "Zingaro" he brings together on this LP four splendid numbers by his congenial fellow countryman Antônio Carlos Jobim.
Just how universally applicable Gilberto's bossa mixtures are is shown by Gershwin's hit "'S Wonderful", which he performs in a completely new way. In lieu of the thrilling original, a completely new version of this musical classic is created that is agreeably free of dynamic effects and filled with wide-awake declamation. The question as to whether the well-tried mix of guitar and a refined rhythm group could have done without the lush strings is answered by listening closely : Claus Ogerman's arrangements are less a highly colourful enhancement than a carefully woven interplay of internal and opposing voices. On this album we have an exclusive team of instrumentalists who carry the melancholic mood of this music right to their fingertips.
This Speakers Corner LP was remastered using pure analogue components only, from the master tapes through to the cutting head. More information under http://www.pure-analogue.com. All royalties and mechanical rights have been paid.
Recording : November 1976 at Rosebud Studios, New York, by Al Schmitt
Production : Tommy LiPuma and Helen Keane [Hide]
