Continuing with my Backgrounder series, today I decided to share with you a 1966 Brazilian album entitled Bossa, by the Conjunto Copacabana Bossa, or the Copacabana Bossa Set.
Produced and arranged by gutiarist Paulo Tito (above), the group included members of the Banzo Trio—Nelson Racy (p), Ditinho (b) and Howard França (d) as well as an unknown guitarist (Tito?), tenor saxophonist, flutist, trumpeter and vocalist. What I love about this album is its hotel feel. One senses that if you could travel back in time to Rio in 1965 and you walked into a hotel along the four-mile stretch of Copacabana Beach, this is exactly the kind of music you'd hear in the lounge. It's like a tall glass of a lemon-flavored drink over ice with fizz.
Here are the album's songs, along with their composers in parentheses...
- Arrastão (Edu Lobo/Vinicius de Moraes)
- Chuva (Durval Ferreira/Pedro Camargo)
- Balanço Zona Sul (Tito Madi)
- Meditação (Tom Jobim/Newton Mendonça)
- Garota Moderna (Jair Amorim/Evaldo Gouveia),
- Primavera (Carlos Lyra/Vinicius de Moraes)
- Samba de Verão (Marcos Valle/Paulo Sérgio Valle)
- Canto do Quilombo (Luiz Carlos Sá)
- Preciso Aprender A Ser Só (Marcos Valle/Paulo Sérgio Valle)
- Gente (Marcos Valle/Paulo Sérgio Valle)
- Reza (Edu Lobo/Ruy Guerra)
- Giramundo (Luiz Carlos Sá)
Here's Bossa without ads so you can listen while reading, working or just sipping something cool with your feet up...
Other ad-free Backgrounders in my series:
- Zoot Sims Plays Bossa Nova, go here.
- Lee Morgan: Lee-Way, go here.
- Bossa Nova for Swinging Lovers, go here.
- Leon Spencer: Louisiana Slim, go here.
- Bossa Nova Modern Quartet: Bossa Nova Jazz Samba, go here.
- Bill Evans & Luiz Eça: Piano Four Hands, go here.
- Ray Brown Trio: Don't Get Sassy, go here.
- Os Tatuis: Os Tatuis, go here.
- Waltel Branco: Mancini Tambem É Samba, go here.
- Jack Wilson Plays Brazilian Mancini, go here.
