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An incredible set of Brazilian jazz -- one of the few albums that percussionist Dom Um Romao recorded as a leader, and sublime all the way through! The record's got a wonderful blend of funky fusion and Brazilian percussion -- and features a group from two continents that includes Sivuca on organ, ...

An unbelievably fantastic album, and perhaps the greatest one that Dom Um Romao ever did! Dom recorded this one in America with a blend of Brazilian and New York musicians -- creating an incredible sound that's unlike anything else we can think of! We'd place this record next to the best electric ...

A very unique album by Sergio Mendes -- recorded in LA in the years before his Brasil 66 albums for A&M -- but with a sound that clearly shows him going for the new bossa approach! The album's got some lovely vocals by Wanda De Sah, plus occasional guitar work by Rosinha De Valenca -- and ...

A lost bossa classic from Wanda De Sah -- aka Wanda Sa, the wife of Edu Lobo, and a singer who worked with Sergio Mendes in his pre-Brasil 66 days! The album's got a wonderfully laidback feel -- languid, yet jazzy, with the feel of some of Astrud Gilberto's best work on Verve, yet with vocals that ...

A sublime album by this lovely Brazilian quartet of female singers -- arguably their best album ever! The album features arrangements by Edu Lobo, Luiz Eca, and other baroque jazzy talents -- perfectly suited to take the bossa harmony sound of the Quarteto Em Cy into more sophisticated territory ...

While in the post fusion years when lite jazz was beginning to take off a lot of jazz and fusion artists got a bit lost, Azymuth continued to make a number of fine recordings, some of the best of their career. Bertrami and crew continue to groove along in their tight Brazilian fusion mode, with a ...

We never get enough of Jose Roberto Bertrami's vocoded vocal melodies! Sparkling Brazilian fusion, from the prolific Azymuth, with laid back grooves and light melodies, but not "lite" jazz. One of their more mellow outings, at most these tracks might approach mid-tempo, with a beautiful ...

Great stuff from Jorge! The record features a batch of 3-track medleys that combine titles that Ben recorded over the past 10 years of his career -- all blended together in a tight funky way, with that excellent soulful sound that he was using in the mid 70s! The groove is great all the way ...

One of the moodiest Verve albums from Astrud Gilberto -- a set that has some surprising arrangements by Gil Evans -- working here on one of his few 60s dates with a singer! Astrud's blue-tinged vocals work perfectly with Evans' backdrops -- and Al Cohn also takes over the helm on two of the album's ...

A killer 2LP set of Jorge's best work -- most of it from the late 60s and early 70s, and all of it pretty darn hard to find on vinyl in any form! There's a total of 24 cuts in all, and the groove is choppy and soulful on most of the cuts -- as you'd guess from tunes like "Take It Easy My ...

A tightly produced effort from the late 80s -- with a sound that's certainly more commercial than some of Milton's earlier albums, but which is still graced by some great vocals and occasional soulful moments. Herbie Hancock and Wayne Shorter make an appearance on the album, and tracks include ...

Beautiful early duets from Caetano Veloso and Gal Costa -- much more of a bossa-styled album than any of the late 60s Tropicalia albums from the pair! The set's got a really wonderful sort of feel -- bossa at some level, but also with some of the gentle darkness that Caetano and Gal would bring ...

One of the greatest albums ever from Caetano Veloso -- a rare all-English language set, recorded in London during the years of his exile! The post-Tropicalia set is a fair bit different than any other Veloso album we can think of -- not just because of the English language, but also because the ...

Some of the most beautiful work ever recorded by Caetano Veloso -- an album that carries on the style of English language lyrics used on his session in exile in 1971, but which also introduces him back to the world of Brazilian popular music! The album's a great transition for Veloso -- a set that' ...

Walter's classic, and the album that probably put all of his kids through college! Recorded in the US, but featuring one of the purest realizations of the maestro's jazzy bossa organ style. The sound is excellent, with recording by Rudy Van Gelder, and production by Creed Taylor. Includes the ...

A real classic from Sergio Mendes -- probably most famous for its funky bits! The record pushes past the formula of the earlier Brasil 66 albums, and goes for a more sophisticated approach that adds in some sweet electric moments, more complicated grooves, and an overall sound that's even hipper ...

2 classic early bossa albums by Deodato -- back to back on one 2LP set! The set features 2 records -- Samba Nova Concepcao and Impulso -- both recorded in the early months of 1964, both featuring Deodato playing Hammond organ and piano over some very tasty bossa grooves! The backing here is by ...

Groovy stuff! The album has Sergio Mendes in more of a jazz setting than his Brasil '66 LPs, with lots of nice electric grooves and keyboard lines, plus some driving orchestral backing. The set includes a stunning version of "Ponteio" -- plus other Brazilian groovers like "A ...

One of Antonio Carlos Jobim's greatest records -- and a perfect blend of his subtle bossa genius with the moody electric sound of CTI! Jobim plays electric and acoustic piano, guitar, and sings a bit -- and Deodato handled the arrangements with a breezy brilliance that matches all the magic of ...

Amazing bossa jazz from one of Brazil's best combos! The Bossa Tres were led by dynamic pianist Luis Carlos Vinhas -- an incredibly strong talent who was as great an arranger as he was a piano player -- and on this early session, he's at his most firey, really flowing out with tremendous creative ...

A simply groooooovy collection of rare bossa tunes! The set goes farther than the first volume in the series -- dipping into a wide range of material that includes Brazilian albums from the 60s, but also some more obscure American and European sources, which gives the set a slightly expanded ...

Always-great work from Azymuth -- one of the few combos who never get stale, no matter how long they keep on grooving! The album's titled after the Herbie Hancock classic "Butterfly" -- and it's put together with a sublime quality that really stretches back to the best styles of the 70s ...

Very early recordings of work penned by Antonio Carlos Jobim and Luiz Bonfa -- nearly all of which predate their more familiar sides from the first years of bossa nova! The dates for these recordings are mostly between 1953 and 1956 -- and they show a very early version of the bossa, one that's ...

Heavy heavy stuff from the wild days of the Brazilian music scene -- 19 tracks that put the psyche into psychedelica, and which show that in many ways, the Brazilian approach was even more mindblowing than American and British music at the time! Back in the late 60s, even easy listening in Brazil ...

A great album from Eliana Pitman -- one of the more soulful singers of early 70s Brazil, working here in a baroquely grooving style that's every bit the best side of the Odeon Records scene! The arrangements have a slightly percolated style that blends orchestrations with small jazz combo touches, ...

A mad mix of styles that perfectly sums up the sound of late 60s Brazil! Som Tres have their roots in the bossa generation, but they're stretching out here with a flurry of 60s styles -- mod instrumental pop, groovy psyched-out production, and endless strands borrowed from European and soundtrack ...

Excellent work from this fab Brazilian organ player! Next to Walter Wanderley, Ed Lincoln was one of Brazil's greatest talents on the Hammond Organ during the 1960s -- and this sparkling LP of samba and bossa groovers is one of his best recordings ever! The album's got a lively jazzy groove all ...

Incredible 70s work from the lovely Astrud Gilberto -- a rare effort for the CTI label that has her teaming up with arranger Eumir Deodato and saxophonist Stanley Turrentine -- all in a groove that's totally different than most of her earlier work! Astrud's breathy vocals are still wonderfully ...

Heavy funk from the favelas -- and an 8 track set with way more music than you might expect from the EP in the title! The cuts here are all from contemporary Brazil, and offer up that searing blend of hip hop, dancehall, and other urban styles that have been simmering from the scene of late. But ...

Sweet sweet Joyce, one of our favorite Brazilian singers ever -- sounding better than ever too! The album has Joyce working with Banda Maluca -- a group that features husband Tutty Moreno on drums, plus keyboards by new groove sensation Bugge Wesseltoft! The style of the music retains all the ...

18 tracks -- most of them rare Brazilian ones, and all with a great mix of jazz, bossa, and groovy rhythms! The sound is very mod and 60s -- and there's more than a few here that we haven't seen reissued for a while. Titles include "Ponteio" by Som Psicodelico, "Balaio" by ...

A wonderful little album -- sweet jazzy MPB from Roberto Nascimento, a lost record that we're very happy got reissued! We'll be honest and say that we didn't know anything about this one in the past -- but we really enjoy the record for its warm grooves and gently soulful vocals. The overall ...

Lots of rare bossa nuggets here -- mostly material recorded for RCA in Brazil during the 60s, a good deal of which hasn't been that well reissued over the years! The set's overflowing with music -- 18 tracks in all -- and titles include "Wave" by Lucio Alves, "Dindi" by Alaide ...

2LP set that focuses on Caetano's coming of age years as a major Brazilian singer/songwriter. Gone are the rough edges of the early years, and in their place are some incredibly well-crafted songs, delivered with a voice that still leaves us cold, and a style that changes perfectly to suit the ...

Bossa nova meets organ jazz -- a real classic from the great Walter Wanderley, recorded right on the heels of his famous Rain Forest album for Verve! This set's in a very similar format to that one -- core trio grooving with organ, bass, and drums -- sometimes augmented with added percussion to ...

A really unique little album from Sergio Mendes and Brasil 77 -- one that's in a much more rootsy style than any of his other work! The "primal roots" here are taken seriously, and like some of his other contemporaries in Brazilian music, Sergio's looking back a bit, and towards a rural ...

A great collection of bossa nova roots -- one put together in 1972, but which features older Odeon Brazil sides from the 60s -- most of which are by the fathers of bossa at the time! The set features three great classics from Joao Gilberto -- "Chega De Saudade", "Desafinado", ...

Essential reissue of the legendary 1962 Bossa Nova concert at Carnegie Hall. The concert is legendary not only because it was a bit of a disaster (according to legend, just about nobody got paid!), but also because it brought together a huge amount of Brazilian talent on one stage, and premiered ...

Great work from that time when the MPB4 were way more than just a bossa harmony group! The album's got a range of interesting sounds running through the mix -- rootsy samba, tighter arrangements, and other elements that pull together a 60s Elenco sound with the early 70s Blue Brazil grooves of the ...

A hard driving set of bossa grooves -- recorded in Brazil by RGE, released in the US by Pacific Jazz, and played by one of the best piano trios of the bossa era. Tracks include "Veloso's Samba", "Aqua De Beber", "Favela", "Kao, Xango", and "So Tinha De ...

An excellent collaboration between 2 of Verve's best Brazilian artists of the late 60s -- the groovy organist Walter Wanderley, and the breezy breathy vocalist Luiz Henrique! The set is a perfect example of the way that Verve took bossa playing and gave it a groovy production twist -- turning it ...

Stunning work by one of the greatest bossa combos of the 60s -- and one of their few albums in the US! The tracks were originally recorded in Brazil for RGE, and have that crackling solid bossa style that rarely showed up so well in American studio sides of the time. The album features the group's ...

One of the better early bossa albums by Bonfa, and one that doesn't have the sleepy quality that you find on some of his other records. Luiz' guitar is backed by a nice little combo, and the tracks have a lively rhythm, with occasional vocals, and some nice flute solos from time to time. The ...

A very nice album of tracks from this legendary Brazilian singer/songwriter -- and one that has some great larger orchestrations, which gives the cuts an almost bossa-like sound. The record claims to have been recorded in Brazil, but it also says "produced for the USA by Dave Dexter", ...

Very groovy organ bossa and samba tracks -- recorded early on by Wanderley in Brasil, but released later in the U.S. to cash in on his success on Verve! The record has a lot of nice little Brazilian groovers -- including an original Brazilian version of "Summer Samba", a great cover of ...

The title says "88", but the album's from 1978 -- and it's one of Sergio's great sets from the 70s that mixes older Brazilian roots with sweeter American soul! The sound is really wonderful -- almost more LA than Rio, but still with plenty of Brazilian elements filtered into the mix -- ...

One of the earliest of the classic Verve bossa sessions, this record was recorded in 1962, and features the brilliant Brazilian guitarist Luiz Bonfa amidst orchestrations by Oscar Castro Neves and Lalo Schifrin. The sound is bright and breezy, as you'd expect from Verve at this time, and Bonfa's a ...

Very cool album recorded by Luiz Bonfa in the US, with cool electric arrangements by Deodato, and a sound that's unlike anything else he's ever done! Some tracks even get downright funky, and there's a nice break or two on here, if you're the type that digs for that sort of thing. Titles include ...

Pretty sweet stuff from Joao Gilberto -- featuring a core jazz combo playing along with a larger set of arrangements, in a manner that's similar to some of Jobim's work from the 70s. The album features a nice vocal version of Jobim's "Wave" and "Zingaro", plus the tracks "E ...

A tasty session of west coast Brazilian grooves -- cut by the great percussionist Paulinho Da Costa, with a group that includes Claudio Slon, Larry Williams, and Lee Ritenour. The record's got a very nice breezy feel -- with a sound that's similar to some of the Fantasy Brazilian LPs of the time, ...