Brasil Piano

Track Listings

1. Flôr Amorosa

2. Tango Brasileiro

3. Batuque

4. Valso Chôro Nº 10

5. Valsa Chôro Nº 11

6. Velha Modinha

7. Suave Acalanto

8. Saudosa Seresta

9. Odeón. Tango Brasileiro

10. Bébé S'Endort

11. Valsinha

12. I Allegretto Non Troppo

13. Allegro con Umore

14. Dobrado

15. Embolada

16. Seresta

17. Candomblé

18. Canção Sertaneja

19. Dansa Negra

20. I Valsa d'Esquina

See all 22 tracks on this disc

Tracks:

Mas Que Nada
One Note Samba/Spanish Flea
The Joker
Going Out Of My Head
Tim Dom Dom
Day Tripper
Agua De Beber (Water To Drink)
Slow Hot Wind
O Pato (The Duck)
Berimbau

Customer Reviews:

Excellent .......2007-07-04

I found what I was looking for at Amazon.com. I had been hunting it for a while. I ordered it and it came quickly. It was exactly as stated and I am now happy. thanks

Like a small box of expensive and delicious candies!.......2007-06-12

The sound is the best I've heard on this album, with rhyhmic percussions that make you want to move. Consider Day Tripper, the Beatles tune, where it's lead guitar lines are transferred to a latin-tinged mambo type rhythmic pattern. Many of their favorite songs are here: Mais Que Nada, The Joker, One Note Samba etc. There is much more presence heard on this album than ever before, with clean and spacious highs and lows. The only negative comment I have is that at only a bit over 25 minutes long with only 10 short cuts, this is like tasting a small box of expensive, classy and delicious Brazilian candies. Give me more! more! Why didn't they add some outakes? But......those 25 minutes are pure ecstasy.

Herb Alpert Presents Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66.......2007-05-13

I found this particular CD to be excellent to listen to. It reminds me very much of the mid 60's, the artist's singing is of high quality and the samba music sounds are great.

I recommend this cd to all people who love brasilian music.

Bossa nova brilliance!.......2007-03-02

From the frenetic opening song 'Mais Que Nada,' to the comforting 'Berimbau,' this record is a surefire winner. If you're new to Mendes and his five million incarnations of 'Brasil (insert year here),' then this album just might be the perfect starter, as 'Mais' is no doubt his best-known hit single. Of course, you could always check out the NEW version of that song on his new 'Timeless' album with Black-Eyed Peas, but if you're not crazy about the funky urban reinvention (as am I), then by all means check this original one out. It'll melt all your worries away within seconds!

Great sound & performance; but so-so packaging.......2007-01-22

I would submit this review for any and all of the recent A&M and Verve releases from the Brasil '66, beginning with Segio Mendes's debut disc (here) with the band. Unlike his contemporaries from the post-Bossa Nova wave in American jazz circles, Sergio Mendes carved a whole new genre, stylizing Brasilian sounds with jazz, and accesible popular tunes of the period. These works were greatly accentuated by the amazing vocal talents of Lani Hall, which breath new life in this pristine re-mastering. On another level, however, the running lengths of these discs are bothersome. At just over 30 minutes, it is hard to imagine why any record label could justify not issuing two-for-ones. At a retail cost of 5 or 6 bucks, there would be no room for complaint. But at $9 to $12, it seems unlikely these discs will be in print for very long.

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good listening's
Sergio Mendes/Classics Vol.18
"Pretty World"
This 1987 retrospective is badly in need of a facelift.
Keep looking, this is it.

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Tracks:

Mais Que Nada
Scarborough Fair
With A Little Help From My Friends
The Look Of Love
Fool On The Hill
Going Out Of My Head
Look Around
Like A Lover
One Note Samba/Spanish Fever
Bim Bom
Never Gonna Let You Go
Paris Tropical
Promise Of A Fisherman
Pretty World
So Many Stars
Song Of No Regrets
Alibis

Customer Reviews:

good listening's.......2007-07-07

unable to type correctly because of paine. this music is nice to listen to when bed bound, but first you must hear it.

Sergio Mendes/Classics Vol.18.......2007-04-05

One of the finest compilations by the Sergio Mendes/Brazil 66 group available. All excellent selections including but not limited to: So Many Stars, Pretty World, and the signature classic Mais Que Nada.
This is a must have.

"Pretty World".......2006-06-28

Sergio Mendes 40th Anniversary concert at the Hollywood Bowl last Sunday, June 25, 2006 was a blast! To put a few words in a capsule that would describe that memorable evening, here goes . . .

Full-packed venue.
Tickets sold out.
Wonderful, alive and responsive audience.
Great performances of Sergio Mendes and his guests.
A night to remember.

It was a very memorable concert for I have met in person a musical legend while he was signing my CD booklets I brought with me. He's such an exceptional pianist, composer and a Bossa Nova icon as well. I've followed his musical career since Day One spanning four decades and have collected a good number of his most notable recordings of all-time. To me, the best part of the concert was the appearances of the equally talented husband and wife team of trumpeter, Herb Alpert, and the original Sergio Mendes and Brasil '66 vocalist, Lani Hall. To the delight of the audience, they did a medley of my all-time favorites from this impressive collection "The Look of Love" (my friend and I as well as the audience were singing along) and "Fool On The Hill." Ditto with the performance by Joe Pizzulo of one of his hit songs "Never Gonna Let You Go." On this performance the audience started waving their cell phones (some with small flashlights) and you could see the lights illuminated from the phones - it was a beautiful sight - it's almost like seeing sparkling beads all over the place. The performances on "Mas Que Nada" and my very favorite song "Pretty World" were so nice, these are two of the seventeen tracks from this timeless and classic collection.

"Why don't we take a little piece of summer sky
Hang it on a tree
For that's the way to start to make a pretty world
For you and for me

And for the sun we'll take a lemon bright balloon
You can hold the string
Oh can't you see that little world of ours will be
The prettiest thing

We can gather rain enough for the stream
To hold our happy faces
When we want a breeze, I'll blow you a kiss or two
Take me in your arms and our little world
Will be the place of places
Nothing left to make but breakfast and love

We'll hang a little sign that says,
'Paradise: Population Two'
For that's the way to start to make a pretty world
For me and for you
For you, it's what I wanted to do, to do
To make a world..... with you."

Sergio Mendes and Brasil '66 "Classics, Volume 18" is an absolute representation of typical Sergio Mendes music from the initial track "Mas Que Nada" to the final cut, "Alibis."

This is the kind of music you have enjoyed yesterday and will enjoy today, tomorrow and forever.

Timeless music.

This 1987 retrospective is badly in need of a facelift........2005-12-29

If you did not grow up in the 1960's you just might wonder why so many baby boomers continue to be fixated on the music of that decade. The Billboard charts were filled with so many new and exciting sounds. When one thinks of 60's music the British Invasion and Motown immediately come to mind. But there were a number of other sounds that made an impact in the 1960's as well. Sergio Mendes brought his unique blend of Brazilian, jazz and American pop styles to America for the first time in 1966. His music was an instant sensation.
Although Sergio Mendes himself did not sing, he was the pianist, arranger, producer and musical director of this unique group. Led by vocalist Lani Hall, Sergio Mendes and Brasil '66 would produce some of the most innovative sounds of the late 60's. "Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66-86" features many of the highlights of the groups outstanding work during this period as well as a pair of hits from a later incarnation of the act in the mid 1980's.
To me "Sergio Mendes and Brasil '66-`86" was always a very strange concoction. Issued as part of A&M Records 25th anniversary "Classics" series in 1987, I was never very pleased with the way this one was done. If you are looking for the great 60's hits like "The Look of Love", "Scarborough Fair" and "The Fool On The Hill" then you will find them all here. Also included is the groups amazing 1969 hit "Pretty World" which is perhaps my favorite Sergio Mendes tune from that era as well as the groups very first hit single in America "Mas Que Nada". While the group experienced a fair amount of success on the Billboard Hot 100 Singles chart during this period, Sergio Mendes and Brasil '66 were a fixture on adult contemporary radio stations throughout the late 60's and early 70's. The group also sold a ton of albums. In fact, their debut LP simply entitled "Sergio Mendes and Brasil `66" remained on Billboards album charts for an amazing 126 weeks! You will find a number of selections from these LP's on this disc including "With A Little Help From My Friends", "Like A Lover" and the lovely "So Many Stars". Also included are a couple of fine instrumentals.
In 1983, Sergio Mendes re-emerged on A & M records with a brand new cast of charactors. The soulful single "Never Gonna Let You Go" featuring the splendid lead vocals of Joe Pizzulo and Leza Miller was one of the surprise hits of that year. Slightly more than a year later the wonderful pop single "Alibis" peaked at #29 on the Billboard pop chart. Both of these later singles are included on "Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66-'86" as well.
As I mentioned earlier I was never overly impressed with "Sergio Mendes and Brasil '66-86". The sound quality is OK but nothing more. The liner notes which were written some 19 years ago are dated and the packaging is drab. Of the 17 tracks in this collection I would question why 3 or 4 of them were included in the first place. Yet for all of these flaws this disc is still the best available Sergio Mendes collection released in the U.S. And that is too bad. In 1997, A&M's British unit released an updated 2 CD collection of Sergio Mendes. I am not particularly wild about that one either. Hopefully, Universal Records, who now controls the A&M catalogue in the U.S. will see fit to release an updated anthology of this remarkable act in the near future.

Keep looking, this is it........2005-09-28

I researched and this one contains most of the songs I love. Bought it and sounds great! Everyone that hears it loves it as well.

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Brazil'65 DIDN'T HAVE ANY HITS...
Great no matter what year follows Brasil
The Best of Brazil
Sweet Memories
Brasil 65

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Tracks:

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Berimbau
Tristeza Em Mim
Aquarius
One Note Samba
She's A Carioca
Muito A Vontade
Let Me
Con' Solacao
Reza

Customer Reviews:

Brazil'65 DIDN'T HAVE ANY HITS..........2006-11-18

It is fair to say that the material contained on this album is pleasing enough to listen to,and maybe,in Brazil,these sides were local hits(although this is doubtful),but the fact of the matter remains that it was not until Mendes put together Brazil'66 and put out albums on the A & M label that he actually had hit records...To say the these are"greatest hits" is to be deliberately deceptive...These are early sides,recorded when Mendes and his band were local artists..Sure,they sound similiar to his later,hit sides,but,afterall,it was essentially the same band with the same personel...So if you actually remember any of these obscure sides,or if you are a Mendes completist,this is something that you will want to own,HOWEVER,if you are looking for the artist at his peak then fast-forward to BRAZIL'66,and there you will find the real"greatest hits"...

Great no matter what year follows Brasil.......2006-11-15

Very refreshing trip back in time -- still relevant and wonderful to listen to today. The sounds of Sergio and his group are timeless--"sooo nice".

The Best of Brazil.......2006-10-04

What a great CD. I love every cut. Everyone is aware of Brasil '66 but this Brasil '65 should not be overlooked.

Sweet Memories.......2006-09-24

I was 15 when I discovered "Sergio Mendes & Brazil 65". I'd never heard of Sergio Mendes, but there was something about the cover that intrigued me. This was the beginning of a love afair with Brazilian music that has never faded over the years. I played the heck out of this record. I still have it, battered cover and all in my collection. After the dawn of CD's I often looked for it in record stores, but I never found it. What a jewel to discover here! (I only wish it had the original cover.) After 36 years it has lost none of its beauty and power.

Brasil 65.......2006-07-22

This was sweet memories from the past of which I only had a record. Having the CD is so special like the beautiful music it sends. Loved it.

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The beginning of a 40-year-love affair with Mendes's sound
another gem from the Brasil 66 collection....
Sergio Mendez aficionados
Sergio Mendes is a genius
Smooth as Silk

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Release Date: 2004-09-28

Tracks:

The Fool On The Hill
Festa
Casa Forte
Canto Triste
Upa, Neguinho
Lapinha
Scarborough Fair
When Summer Turns To Snow
Laia Ladaia (Reza)

Customer Reviews:

The beginning of a 40-year-love affair with Mendes's sound.......2007-06-10

Besides being the first Sergio Mendes album in my collection, "Fool on the Hill" is probably the SECOND album that I ever bought with my hard-earned 1960's allowance.

That said, the release remains one of my favorite of both my childhood and adult years. With two hit covers (the title cut and "Scarborough Fair), along with scorchers like "Laia Ladaia (Reza"and "Upa, Neguinho," the album is just as exciting today as it was four decades ago. Though the latter tracks are sung in Spanish, that fact is not a deterrent to appreciating and enjoying them and others.

However, the best track is the ballad "When Summer Turns to Snow." This is an evocative tune and offers Mendes one of the few times he has taken the lead vocals...and he does a darn good job at it, too!

another gem from the Brasil 66 collection...........2007-06-02

If you are looking for a great example of latin/fusion from the mid to late 1960s, I highly reccomend FOOL ON THE HILL, by Brasil 66. Brazilian bandleader Sergio Mendes led this band, made up of both American and Brazilian singers. This included Lani Hall, one of the most well-loved singers of samba and pop music (made famous through the popularity of this group). The result of this fusion of Brazilian and 1960s style lounge music? It's beautifully balanced with East meets West sensiblity. If you haven't heard their take on The Beatles' "Fool on the Hill," then you don't know what you're missing. What's more, "Scarborough Fair" (a traditional song made famous by Simon & Garfunkel) is just beautiful here, with swaying rhythms (reminiscent of Rio De Janeiro on a hazy, lazy afternoon). There are some other songs, in Portuguese, but the group is really great in both languages!

Sergio Mendez aficionados.......2007-04-05

Fool on the Hill by Sergio Mendes/Brazil 66, is a delectable collection of the groups finest offerings. The arrangements, vocals and sheer artistry of the group define one of the top Brazilian artists of our time. Simply a pleasure !

Sergio Mendes is a genius.......2006-09-05

It's nice for Sergio Mendes to have all this attention again because of the revamped Mas Que Nada, but I think there will be little room for discussion when you compare it to the brilliant original, which isn't polluted by obnoxious rapping. His whole Brazil '66-discography is amazing: this is timeless, sweet, slightly exotic music that's upbeat with a hint of melancholy. So the same goes for this great record, which leans on two very good covers, but the originals are what's special here. The perfect blend between 60's pop and bossanova, sweet but not sappy, cheerful but not annoying, and always this sweet, glowing, after-summer vibe. He's the man.

Smooth as Silk.......2006-05-16

I recently decided I have been buying too much new music on CDs, and not listening to my large collection of great music on LPs. One of the first LPs on my platter (for the first time in years) was this great outting by Brazil 66. I couldn't believe how exciting, timeless, and classy (and even sexy) this music is. The singing and the instrumentation blend perfectly. Some of the rhythms get complex, yet they come off as smooth as silk in the hands of these great musicians. If you still don't know this music, this would be a great starting place. It is definitely one of their best. Also, though tame by today's standards, the cover of the LP once unfolded (and I presume the CD) is interesting--to say the least. I might also add that the range of sound in the music of Brazil 66 really shows off a good stereo system.

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Great american pop and latin mix
A high energry treat from beginning to end
The Original and the Best

Ye-Me-Le
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Release Date: 2006-09-26

Tracks:

Wichita Lineman
Norwegian Wood
Some Time Ago
Moanin'
Look Who's Mine
Ye-Me-Le
Easy To Be Hard
When Are You Coming From?
Masquerade
What The World Needs Now

Customer Reviews:

Great american pop and latin mix.......2007-02-09

During the late 60's as america looked for an escape from the the news of war and violence they turned toward latin music.Artist like sergio mendes and herb alpert came out with music that mixed latin music with american pop.This album came out in 1969 when the interest in latin music started to wane and was not as popular as earlier albums by Brazil 66.My favorite songs are Wichita lineman with it's great vocal arrangment and YE-ME-LE.Both of these songs were performed on the tv show music scene and are available on dvd.

A high energry treat from beginning to end.......2007-01-17

"Ye-Me-Le" was almost a return to the original group sound heard on "Herb Alpert Presents" and "Equinox" and, in my opinion, is a much better album than its 2 predecessors, "Fool on the Hill" and "Crystal Illusion".

The album starts out with a bang with a cover of Glen Campbell's "Wichita Lineman" that puts the original to shame. Mendes follows this with a mind blowing cover of "Norwegian Wood". Very seldom does a cover of a Beatles song come even close to the original, but this one does. "Moanin'" and "Masquerade" are great high energy songs combining a touch of R&B with the bossa nova. The title song sounds like a Brazilian street carnival with the band approaching from a distance and then suddenly exploding right in front of you. This song is guaranteed to make anyone smile. The album finishes with a great cover of "What The World Needs Now".

This is indeed a group album with all members participating and orchestrations kept to a tolerable level. Mendes and company sound like they really enjoyed recording these songs and they are a treat to listen to.

The Original and the Best.......2007-01-04

Ye-Me-Le is the best album put out by Sergio Mendez and Brasil '66. Lani Hall and Karen Philipp on vocals really brought the Beatles song "Norwegian Wood" to life and they are terrific with the Jim Webb classic "Wichita Lineman". If you like Latin American rhythms this CD is for you.

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Best Latin Group Ever!
Great Music- Not So Great Sound
Too many covers? Bah!
The Sturdy Brazilian Pop of Brazil '66 Ages Well
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Mais Que Nada
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(Sittin' On) The Dock Of The Bay
Watch What Happens
With A Little Help From My Friends
Look Of Love
Norwegian Wood
Wave
After Midnoght
Chelsea Morning
Fool On The Hill
For What It's Worth
Day Tripper
Crystal Illusions (Memorias De Marta Sare)
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Te-Me-Le
Lai Ladaia (Reza)
Promise Of A Fisherman
After Sunrise

Customer Reviews:

Best Latin Group Ever!.......2007-06-22

Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66 is my absolute favorite Latin group. Their music makes you want to dance and sway. Their renditions of Beatles' songs is wonderful and really unusual. Together with Bossa Nova and other Brazilian beats makes this a great CD.

Great Music- Not So Great Sound.......2007-03-16

Sergio Mendes & Brasil 66 were a hot act in the 1960's... pumping out hit after hit of music with a enique Latin twist. All of the songs hold up well today... the music is still 100% enjoyable, in spite of the less than great recording quality. If you listen in your car it'll probably sound OK... but if you listen with higher quality music reproduction system, you'll hear the flaws; I took away a star due to the poor audio quality

Too many covers? Bah!.......2005-11-24

Almost every track on this 4-sider (neat how 4 lp sides now take up just one CD) got plenty of radio play in La La Land when I was growing up so this really is a "greatest hits" album from my youth. And who cares if they're covers or not? They're excellent covers. Great arrangements. Terrific vocals. Top notch players. Love it!

The Sturdy Brazilian Pop of Brazil '66 Ages Well.......2005-02-06

The pop music of Sergio Mendes and Brazil '66 has aged well over the past 40 years. Brazil '66 quartet fronted by a pair seductive female singers, Lani Hall and Janice Hansen who sang American pop music and contemporary Brazilian bossa nova and samba music in the Portuguese language of Brazil. Hall and Hansen's lilting, frothy vocals gave Brazil '66 it's distinctive signature sound. Four decades later the pop/jazz/Brazilian fusion music of Brazil '66 sounds suprisingly fresh, while a lot of the critically lauded experimental music of the Sixties sounds...well.. quaint by comparison. It's a credit to the vision of Mendes who assembled a band of great players like guitarist John Pisano and others musicians schooled in the Afro/Brazilian and cool jazz traditions. Those who once dismissed Mendes as a musical lightweight with a gimmicky bossa nova sound have been proven wrong. Mendes' music anticipated much of today's world fusion music that combines conventional pop music with the exotic percussion and swaying tempos of third world music.

Today's Menedes fans are hipper than the cocktail hour core Brazil '66 Sixties fan base. The newer Sergio Mendes devotees are twenty and thirty somethings raised on punk and post-punk. It's the same musically sophisticated audience that rediscovered a a host of overlooked world music icons including; the French pop of Serge Gainsboro, the samba music of Carlos Antonio Jobim, the eccentric psychedelic music of Os Mutantes, the Afrobeat of Fela Kuti and buoyant ska rhythms of jazzy Jamaica's Skatalites. To their credit, these younger fans have created a demand for re-release of material by these overlooked artists, including Sergio Mendes

This album, "Four Sider" has more songs than any anthology, BUT song per song "Four Sider" is not as consistently sumblime as another Brasil '66 anthology, "Classics Vol. 18." "Four Sider's" inclusion of weak cover versions of songs like, Buffalo Springfield's "For What It's Worth" or Otis Redding's "Sitting On the Dock of the Bay" may test the patience of a novice fan. "Classics Vol. 18" avoids some of Brazil '66's less inspired music.

On the other hand, the internet bible of music criticism AMG, has selected "Four Sider" as the best Mendes anthology. It's a toss of a coin..."Four Sider" may have four more songs than "Classics Vol. 18, but not necessarily songs of the 24 karat variety. The choice is yours. As a footnote, in 1992 Sergio Mendes released a solo album, the "Brasilerio" which has become a cult masterpiece of Afro/Brazilian roots music. Fans of Mendes should check out that CD, as well.

some refreshing sixties sounds, but..........2004-05-18

I can't help but think of Mr. Mendes, Herb Alpert, and Jerry Moss meeting every night for dinner and drinks to discuss the future of Latin music in the U.S., various audiences ripe for Latin crossover, good people for Sergio to get to know, etc. There really is an undercurrent of business on this record, like the club/disco music unleashed by many folks a decade later. Still, much of it is enjoyable because it is so reminiscent of a certain period in the sixties.

Tracks:

Mas Que Nada
So Many Stars
Viola
With a Little Help from My Friends
Wichita Lineman - Sergio Mendes,
Batacuda (The Beat)
Dois Dias
Easy to Be Hard
Roda
Some Time Ago
Masquerade
Fool on the Hill
You Stepped Out of a Dream
Moanin'
Salt Sea
For Me
Stillness
Cinnamon and Clove
Going Out of My Head
Look Who's Mine
Like a Lover
Ye-Me-Le
Day Tripper
Viramundo

Tracks:

Wave
What the World Needs Now
For What It's Worth
Where Are You Coming From?
Chelsea Morning
Lost in Paradise
Joker
Night and Day
Scarborough Fair
Canticle
Tim-Dom-Dom
Pretty World
Look of Love
One Note Samba/Spanish Flea
Agua de Beber
Can Do Nooso Amor
Empty Faces
Triste
Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)
Bim Bom
So DanSamba
Sometimes in Winter
Constant Rain (Chove Chuva)
Pradizer Adeus (To Say Goodbye)

Album Description

Outstanding two CD collection featuring 48 of the act's finest Easy Listening/Bossa Nova tracks recorded for A&M records from 1966-71, During the late '60s, Mendes was the most popular Brazilian artist in the U.S., and has remained a musical icon internationally for decades. More than two hours of solid Latin-tinged Lounge nuggets including the top 40 hits 'The Fool On The Hill', 'The Look Of Love' and 'Scarborough Fair/ Canticle', Other tracks featured include 'Mas Que Nada', 'With A Little Help From My Friends', 'You Stepped Out Of A Dream', 'Wichita Lineman', 'What The World Needs Now', 'For What It's Worth', 'Stillness', 'Agua De Beber' and many more. A&M.

Customer Reviews:

fantastic album.......2007-03-27

have been an avid fan of bossa nova music for years... and sergio mendes has always an amazing musician! love this album a lot!

the very best of sergio mendes and brazil 66.......2007-01-28

this album is amazing. retro, spicy and just flat out good.

One of the greatest musical groups ever!.......2006-08-26

I just recently discovered Brasil '66 when I heard "Pretty World" on a jazzy oldies type station. I knew instantly that the singer was someone special & a master singer. Now I'm listening to many of their songs and I never get tired of them. Their music is just pure, clean, good, real music! It is free from technical gimmicks or anything heavy or unnecessary. Their music is so happy, innocent, and fun. I LOVE IT. I can't get enough of it! They're definitely my favorite right now. The best thing about Brasil '66 is Lani Hall. What a great singer she is. Also the jazzy bossanova instrumentals are refreshingly different from anything I've listened to before. I'm looking forward to getting better hi-fi equipment so I can hear them in all their glory. I bet they sound really great on a tube stereo system.

Love this CD!.......2006-08-08

I listen to this CD when I go for my evening walks. It's wonderful music to walk to (and dance to!). I am absolutely crazy about Sergio Mendes & Brazil 66!. My favorite song on this CD is "Sometimes In Winter." It's a beautiful, haunting song. All the songs are great, but that is the best.

The K-Man was right........2002-04-25

This CD is a timeless, time-capsule treasure trove of pure pop pleasure. Sergio Mendes is a bossa nova Bacharach - not just because he covered both types of music, but because he shares whith the American an interest in revivifying the aesthetic of Tin Pan Alley, tempering it with a 60s pop melancholy (both especially cherish the inherent sadness of brass), and, in Mendes' case, cooling it with jazz discipline gleaned from his association with Jobim. The half century of melodic miracles on this CD may be divided into three types:

1. Cover versions of pop standards so annoyingly familiar you never want to hear the originals again. Mendes takes songs by the likes of the Beatles, Bacharach, Jimmy Webb and Simon & Garfunkel, re-arranges and re-imagines them in a samba mode, convincing you that they were originally written in Brazil after all. 'The Fool On The Hill' nearly collapses under its visionary excess; 'Day Tripper' becomes alive through slick jazz rhythms; 'What The World Needs Now' throttles at a frightening pace; 'Cheslea Morning' and 'Night and Day' exude sunny Rio rays; 'Norwegian Wood' brings out the yo-yo intensity buried in the original.

2. Arrangements of bossa nova classics by Mendes' old jamming cohorts. These are less radical than the above, and the attempts by anonymous, if proficient, session singers to replicate the idiosyncratic Astrud/Joao vibe don't always work; but the subtle reworkings offer new takes on old favourites - 'Bim Bom' is especially definitive, Mendes mining the wistfulness in the most frivolous of songs, sensing the music's soul in the piano. 'One Note Samba', which segues here into 'Spanish Fly', shouln't work, and doesn't, but is invigorating nonetheless.

3. Less familiar covers and original songs (written by Mendes and friends), which rarely equal the emotional depth of Jobim or Bonfa, but offer groovy bliss, warm generosity, bouyant fun and reflective sorrow in equal measures. 'Sometimes In Winter' is a pretentious epic with the most glorious melodic bridge; 'Pretty World' is one of the few songs that knows what being rapturously in love actually sounds like; 'Cancao Do Nosso Amor' and 'Pradizer Adeus' know the same despondancy that provoked Jobim's 'Insensatez'.

Tracks:

With A Little Help From My Friends
Roda
Like A Lover
The Frog
Tristeza (Goodbye Sadness)
The Look Of Love
Pradizer (To Say Goodbye)
Batucada (The Beat)
So Many Stars
Look Around

Customer Reviews:

Great.......2007-01-01

For anyone who remembers this group, this is a great CD. Timeless in my opinion.

A great cd to listen to while puffin' a sweet cigar..........2006-08-16

This cd with the acception of With a Little Help From My Friends and the even more watered down Like A Lover, is a classic. The Frog is by far the album's highlight and is sophistocated bossa nove(Brazilian jazz), tje rest of the album is more or less superior bossa nova, some more on the jazz side, some on the pop(Friends and Lover) side. The album has a nice flow and the songs sung in Portuguese are usually the highlights, however The Look of Love is a lounge classic. This is a great cd for smokin' big ole' cigars to. I recently enjoyed a Phillies Blunt Banana flavored cigar to this, it went perfectly.

Beautful music.......2006-08-08

I first heard this music in the '60's when it came out. I loved it then, and I love it now. I am so happy to have this music back in my life.

Look Around Is Great!!.......2005-10-25

Wow...this CD is great! What a treat to listen again to tunes that I heard as a kid in the late '60's and into the 70's. I can remember older siblings playing the original vinyl Lp of this album. And Lani Hall...one of the best-quality(and sexiest) female voices I've ever heard! Her rendition of So Many Stars on this CD is without equal. They don't make albums like this one anymore...what a shame. I would recommend this CD to anybody that enjoys brasilian-flavored music with just a touch of jazz/pop thrown in for good measure. You wouldn't regret the purchase.

Bachelor Pad Music at its best.......2005-07-09

Very nice album of "Bachelor pad music" a la Stereolab. Very enjoyable though as usual with SM the second half is not as good as the first. Excellent arrangements, more fleshed out than the combo from the debut album, with strings used to lush out the very melodic music.

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The Real Thing

Sergio Mendes & the New Brasil '77
Sergio Mendes & Brasil '77
Manufacturer: Collector's Choice
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000O78IQM
Release Date: 2007-06-05

Tracks:

I Love Me Tomorrow
Love City
Mozambique
If You Leave Me Now
Penninsula
Why
The Real Thing
P-Ka-Boo
Life

Customer Reviews:

The Real Thing.......2007-06-14

Following the great Homecooking Sergio Mendes' New Brasil 77 put out this self titled follow up album.This album was recorded not long after Songs in the Key of Life and it shows-fresh from his work on that album Sembello brings Stevie Wonder himself along with hom on this album to contribute to the smooth "Love City" and the marvelously funky "The Real Thing",both of which are loaded with Wonder's brilliant songwriting tradmarks and are among the best songs Sergio Mendes produced in the 70's.And as far as funk is concered Sembello again adds his spice to the absolute MONSTER instrumental "Mozambique",which not only jams but jams HARD and the groove just embeds itself into your head."P-Ka-Poo" visits the same territory but adds horns blasting,latin percussion and vocals but grooves nonetheless.As far as covers breezy versions of "Love Me Tomorrow" which is actually a little bouncy and Chicago's "If You Leave Me Now"-even though Sembello wrote it "Why" actually does sound like Stevie Wonder where "Peninsula" showcases very strong Brazilian roots.The album ends with "Life",an easy going latin-pop groove with kind of a cute synthesizer hook at the beginning.Any fan of Homecooking or any Stevie Wonder music from this period will feel right at home here and will be in for a pleasant (and often extremely funky) listening experience.

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Some Interesting Arrangements of Early 20th Century French Music
B. Marsalis delights, but does not surprise
The Disc Title Says it All
Fairly lackluster, but interesting to hear
Shivers down my spine

Creation

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ASIN: B00005A8I4
Release Date: 2001-03-06

Tracks:

Gymnopedie No.3
Children's Corner Ste: The Little Shepherd
Pavane Pour Une Infante Defunte
La Creation Du Monde, Op.81
Requiem, Op.48: Pie Jesu
Sorocaba (Saudades Do Brasil No.1), Op.67
Scaramouche Ste, Op.165c: I. Vif
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Scaramouche Ste, Op.165c: III. Brazileira
Corcovado (Saudades Do Brasil No.7), Op.7
Sumare (Saudades Do Brasil No.9), Op.67
Concertino Da Camera: I. Allegro Con Molto
Concertino Da Camera: II. Larghetto
Concertino Da Camera: III. Animato Moto
Laranjeiras (Saudades Do Brasil No.11), Op.67
Children's Corner: Golliwogg's Cake-Walk

Amazon.com

This CD is the long-awaited follow-up to jazz saxophonist Branford Marsalis's 1986 debut, Romances for Saxophone with the English Chamber conducted by Andrew Litton. Since that project, Marsalis has led his own jazz combos and worked with The Grateful Dead and Sting. On this recording, Marsalis's superb soprano and alto sax are buoyed by the wonderful, conductorless Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, an ensemble that was featured on Herbie Hancock's Gershwin's World. Marsalis's clear sound and mature phrasing imbue French classics like Ravel's "Pavane pour une infante défunte," Debussy's ragtime-rhythmed "Golliwogg's Cake-Walk," and Fauré's "Pie Jesu" with verve and vitality. Marsalis navigates the New World syncopations of Darius Milhaud's "Saudades do Brasil" with the same ease he displays on the composer's jazz-inspired ballet, "La création du monde." On Jacques Ibert's showcase for the alto saxophone, "Concertino da camera," Marsalis's negotiation of its florid melody and his swing-spiced cadenza show that the innovations of jazz improvisation have enriched and extended the classical tradition. --Eugene Holley Jr.

Customer Reviews:

Some Interesting Arrangements of Early 20th Century French Music.......2007-02-04

A few years back, I remember hearing Branford Marsalis interviewed as part of an intermission feature of a broadcast from, the Metropolitan Opera. He was speaking about the one opera that made him fall in love with the musical form. Most people who fall in love with opera usually name a work such as LA BOHEME or RIGOLETTO as a first love, but for Marsalis the choice was TRISTAN UND ISOLDE. As he began stating his reasons for choosing one of Wagner's monumental and challenging works, he began discussing the composer's intricacies of the vocal and orchestral components and the originality of the work. It was obvious we were hearing a musician's musician speak. Marsalis has the same appreciation for what a composer intends in this collection of early twentieth century French compositions and just like the interview, demonstrates that he is a musicians' musician.

CREATION is a collection of early twentieth century works arranged for saxophone and orchestra. Marsalis is joined by the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra for arrangements that are original yet also respect the intention of the composers. Overall CREATION is a great relaxation disc, with the exception of some of the Milhaud pieces (the arrangement of LA CREATION DU MONDE is perhaps the one piece that makes this collection of what could be termed background music somewhat startling). Our local classical music radio station often plays some of the pieces from this collection and calls the pieces "tracks to relax." The selections are varied from Debussy, Satie, Ravel and Faure to the more experimental sounds of Darius Milhaud. The choice of selections shows the variety of the music and in many ways shows that the line between classical and jazz in the twentieth century is not always as fixed as it seems.

This collection provides great musical entertainment and offers some interesting interpretations of great music that's certain to be enjoyed by many.

B. Marsalis delights, but does not surprise.......2005-08-16

Can an album seem pleasant, become a bit predictable, and then drift into the beautiful category? Here is graceful playing by one of the best saxophonists alive today, but there is no perspiration in the music. Why perspiration? Because when playing like this is so effortless, it does not ask much of the listener to join in with the musician's effort.
Then I realize this is all BS. Just listen to one of the best instumentalists playing very nice tunes. It is not his fault if it is so smooth, and clean. Just great.

The Disc Title Says it All.......2004-10-14

"Creation" is probably the best word one could choose for this fine effort. This is an interesting recording, one that mostly excels, but also has some shortcomings.

Branford's playing is a lot of things here, studied, practiced, prepared, thorough, and strong. It could have been more sensitive and collaborative. This is not something that necessarily need be laid at his door; it could be a "group" thing as much as anything. Other reviewers have noted that ensemble players often have difficulty working within an orchestra setting, and that the presence of a conductor could have kept things in check.

But that was not the point of this effort. If Orpheus and Branford had wanted a conductor they would have hired one. So one must use a more nuanced and blended yardstick to measure this . The compositions themselves clearly have a strong jazz influence, so the conceptual approach of the players is not only entirely appropriate but interesting. And that's what in the end separates jazz music from classical music. You may not like what people play or the way they play it, but at least it's not the same old stale sh-t. Branford's history of exploring a variety of musical stylings comes in well here; I appreciate his playfulness and almost joyful approach to some of these pieces. That's the way I think they ought to be played.

Highly Recommended.

Fairly lackluster, but interesting to hear.......2001-12-08

Branford Marsalis is an excellent jazz saxophonist.

However, he runs into the same problems many jazz musicians have when trying to "cross over" into classical: too little emphasis on tone quality, rough articulation, trouble blending with the strings, and in some cases, sloppy ensemble technique.

Perhaps this latter problem has more to do with the lack of a conductor than a lack of skill.

Marsalis plays quite respectably on the Ibert. He doesn't take the ossia altissimo passages, but many "classical" artists don't either, so I can't fault him for that.

The "Scaramouche" comes off the best of all the traditional recital pieces on this disc. Marsalis caputures the fleeting playfulness of the first movement, and his technique is flawless here.

His tone is unacceptably bright and raucous in the "Creation du Monde," however. His playing in that piece is beyond the range of any interpretation I've ever heard. Much of this has to do with the placement of the microphones and the production of the recording as well.

I would have preferred that the disc include fewer transcriptions, but Marsalis seems to enjoy recording transcriptions instead of the more serious works for classical saxophone. It would be interesting to hear him play some of the heavier repertoire: the Glazonov concerto, the Dubois Concerto, the Dahl concerto, etc.

Shivers down my spine.......2001-08-03

If you're a Branford Marsalis fan, you'll be on the edge of your seat 4 seconds into the opening cut. Imagine his exquisitely clear alto sax intoning the melody of Satie's Gymnopedie. And with Orpheus's incredible group energy (it's an orchestra whose members conduct themselves) and you'll understand.

I thought it would be wonderful background as I sat working at my computer -- it's so incredible it's distracting. Savor this.

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