Paula Morelenbaum & Joao Donato
Agua
Biscoito Fino (Brazil), 2010. New Copy
We've always loved the music of Paula Morelenbaum, but this time around she's really got something special going on – thanks to keyboards and vocals from the legendary Joao Donato! Most of the tunes in the set are Donato numbers – themselves already a treat, but given a little
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Disco Bertas (Brazil), Early 60s. New Copy 2CD
Some of the earliest work ever recorded by Gilberto Gil – served up here in a really great 2CD set! The first CD in the set a beautiful album of rough-hewn samba tracks, done in a really lively style! Gil's great vocals are very firmly in the lead of the album's arrangements – and
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Atracao (Brazil), 2009. New Copy
A beautiful new live album from Oscar Castro-Neves – done with all the warmth and soul of his classics from many years back! The group here is a cool small combo, with a nice emphasis on jazz – mixed in amidst the familiar bossa grooves we've come to expect from Oscar! Group members
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Warner (Brazil), 1977. New Copy
Easily one of the greatest albums ever by Hermeto Pascoal – a masterpiece of free-thinking jazz that combines all of the best elements of his work! At one level, there's an experimental approach to instrumentation that really grabs the ears – but it's also wrapped around a key sense of
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Som Livre (Brazil), 2010. New Copy
Ivan Lins is working here with a help from a host of international artists – no surprise, considering the influence he's had on music around the world over the past few decades! At its core, the set's got the spirit of all of Lins' best recent work, with that warmer, jazzier vibe he's picked
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Biscoito Fino (Brazil), 2010. New Copy
A performance of work by two of the more important instrumental composers in Brazil during the past few decades – Francis Hime and Nelson Ayres! Neither Ayres or Hime play on the record, but the set's based around a serious composition from each – played beautifully, and just in the
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Universal/Mercury (Brazil), 1974. New Copy
The group MPB4 pays tribute to some of the greatest Brazilian singers of the 20th Century, from Tom Jobim to Monsueto to Baden Powell to Nelson Cavaquinho. The LP features a number of different "pot pourri" sets dedicated to an individual singer. The group runs through tracks by the
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Lumiar (Brazil), 1996. New Copy 2CD
One of the best of the Lumiar Songbook series – and a 2 CD set that features a host of Brazil's great artists, all interpreting the work of one of the country's greatest songwriters! Unlike the other volumes, the artist in question – Edu Lobo – does not perform on the discs, but
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Lumiar (Brazil), 1993. New Copy
The fourth and final volume in Lumiar's tribute to the great singer/songwriter Dorival Caymmi. This volume's got a lot of nice moments, including "Dona Chica" by Ze Ramalho & Sivuca, "Adeus" by Nelso Goncalves & Marco Pereira, "A Vizinha Do Lado" by Chico
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Elektra (Brazil), 1987. New Copy
A later album by Joao – but a really lovely live performance that sparkles with the warmth and intimacy of his earlier studio albums! The album's got a total of 13 tracks, all recorded at the Montreux jazz festival in 1985 – with no backing for Joao's voice other than his light lively
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Biscoito Fino (Brazil), 1983. New Copy
An ambitious larger production from the team of Edu Lobo and Chico Buarque – the famous stage musical O Grande Circo Mistico, based on the poem by Jorge De Lima, and featuring a range of top-shelf performers that includes Gilberto Gil, Gal Costa, Milton Nascimento, Jane Duboc, Zizi Possi,
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Lumiar (Brazil), 1996. New Copy
Jobim doesn't play on this series, but his absence is more than made up for by the masterful assortment of Brazilian musicians who play on the set. Included on this 15 track set of interpretations of Jobim tracks are such great numbers as Marcos Valle doing "Este Seu Olhar", Rosa Maria
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Dubas Musica (Brazil), Late 60s/1970s/Early 80s. New Copy
A loving journey through the early work of Brazilian singer Gal Costa – one that starts with her late bossa masterpiece Domingo, from 1967 – and which ends up with material from her last Philips album, Baby Gal, recorded in 1983! The evolution of Gal's sound during the time is
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RCA (Brazil), Late 70s. New Copy
Sweet later work from bossa jazz drummer Milton Banana – a set of tunes delivered as a tribute to Antonio Carlos Jobim, but done very much in the spirit of Banana's best 70s work! The style here is a bit more expansive than Milton's harder-edged sets of the 60s – core trio work
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WEA (Brazil), 1980. New Copy
A great live recording done for Brazilian TV – one that features Joao in a very stripped-down setting, like the best of his classic recordings! The material is pure bossa – with lots of lovely guitar work, and Joao's soulful vocals right up front in the mix. Rita Lee joins in on the
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EMI (Brazil), 1978. New Copy 2CD
Milton's second volume of tracks cut with his legendary "corner club" – with a very similar approach to the landmark first volume! Loads of great artists make guest appearances on here, like Lo Borges, Wagner Tiso, Toninho Horta, and Chico Buarque – and the production has
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Cesar Camargo Mariano & Pedro Camargo Mariano
Piano & Voz
Trama (Brazil), 2003. New Copy
Father and son of the Camargo Mariano family team up in a very personal set of vocal and piano numbers – spare, subtle, and filled with the richness of Cesar's years of accompaniment behind Elis Regina and other Brazilian singers. Cesar's piano is tremendous – lean and flowing, with a
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Continental/Warner (Brazil), 1966. New Copy
2 groovy guys with a real love of Anglo rock – one they manage to express strongly on this mid 60s Brazilian album from the Jovem Guarda years! Like other work of that time, this one's influenced strongly by British and American pop modes – and played in ways that are a bit garagey at
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Continental/Warner (Brazil), 1967. New Copy
Os Vips fuzz it up nicely for this 1967 release – taking things a bit farther than the simple pop of previous records, and showing some of the changes going on at the time in the American and British groups who influenced them! The album's still a few shades more rock than psyche, but you
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EMI (Brazil), 1975. New Copy
Sweetly compressed rock from O Terco – one of the strongest mainstream Brazilian rock acts of the 70s, and a group who managed to fuse their progressive roots into a well-honed sound by the time of this mid 70s set! There's some nice Brazilian elements bubbling underneath the set's heavier
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