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Backgrounder: 'Eumir Deodato Plays Marcos Valle'

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Marc Myers
May 26, 2023
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In 1964, Brazil's Equipe label released Impulso!, an album by a 20-year-old studio keyboardist and arranger named Eumir Deodato. Today, Deodato is probably best known for his 1973 album Prelude and his work for producer Creed Taylor and his CTI label in the 1970s.


Back in Brazil in the early 1960s, Deodato played organ in the style of many bossa nova pla…

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