Bud Shank: 'Holiday in Brazil,' 1958
One of the first jazz-samba recordings is now out on 180-gram vinyl
No American musician had a greater influence on the creation of the bossa nova in Brazil than Bud Shank. Antonio Carlos Jobim said so to Bud Shank when they spent time together in the late 1950s (to read my full interview with Bud on the bossa nova, go here).
Shank was a multi-instrumentalist reed player who was first introduced to the music of Brazil t…
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