Jazz for aficionados

Dizzy, 'Bahiana' album

https://youtu.be/4LUK1VAk7ww?feature=shared

Laurindo Almeida and Bud Shank 'Brazziliance'

https://youtu.be/VJ1P24myqok?feature=shared

@stuartk No big deal it was all AI. 

@alexatpos, a bit of a sidestep into the "classical" world, but staying in Brazil. Hector VillaLobos was a Brazillian street musician as well as Brazil's most famous classical composer. His Preludes for guitar have all of the duende of the streets and Laurindo Almeida plays them absolutely beautifully with more depth of feeling than I've heard from any other guitarist. 

@audio-b-dog, The first time I heard of Tania Maria it was the song Don’t Go - 1985(?) which was a minor hit in the states, she sung in english and the song was very very funky and at the time when it came to Brazilian artists I was listening to only Brazilian artists on US labels such as Airto Moreira, Eumir Deodato and Flora Purim, to name a few.

Then in the early 2000’s I wanted to visit Brazil and started to listen to Brazilian based recordings to help with my learning of Portuguese and the culture of Brazil so Tania Maria’s music wasn’t something I listened to because I was listening to what would be described as her musical heroes from Brazil who had much older recordings that I was fascinated with. Artist like Candeia, Cartola and Os Tincoãs, to name a few. I was trying to find the essence of Brazilian music without any US influence, if you will. Real ’old school’ Brazilian music. As I said in an earlier post, I had it real bad in those days.

Here is a video of the artists Os Tincoãs with their daughters of a song originally released in 1973(?) Mateus Aleluia e Thalma de Freitas - Cordeiro de Nanã | Compacto Petrobras. In this song they are singing to the deities in Candomblé, Orixás: Iansã , Obaluaê and Iemanjá. At the time I was trying to find and understand the root(s) of Brazilian music. This is a beautiful song straight out of and from the Recôncavo Baiano region of Bahia, Brazil.

Now this album here, Vinicius + Bethânia + Toquinho - La Fusa (Mar del Plata) (1971) I’ve always liked this black and white album and thought it was a tour de force by the three artists together.

@alexatpos,  Outstanding music! You’ve posted something I can surely sink my teeth into! Thanks!

@tyray, I think you are much more of a musical scholar than I am. I am more of a joyous listener, unapologetically listening to whatever pleases me. Van Morrison is often on my turntable. I went to a Robyn concert by accident and now I’m a fan of the Swedish lady. My musical listening generally changes from rock (jazz-influenced like Van Morrison, Everything But The Girl), jazz, and classical. I found that I liked Brazilian music by accident. So much in my life is by accident. But then I became a real fan. The first Brazilian song I heard that knocked my socks off was a cover of Wando’s "Nega Do Obaluae." If that doesn’t get you up and dancing then nothing will. I lost my copy in a divorce, and I scoured for years to find it again. I had to order it from a Brazilian seller.

I studied classical guitar for several years, and I wanted to play VillaLobos’s Preludes. Technically, I was okay on a few of them, but I am not a musician. I do not feel the spirit and rhythm as a musician, but I do as a listener. If you haven’t listened to VillaLobos’s Preludes, I think you might like them. He also wrote choros, which I think came from being a street musician. He must have been influenced by older Brazilian music since he was born in 1887 and died in 1959. I am working on going through his string quartets which are difficult to sink my teeth into.

Thanks for sending me videos. I’ll have to listen to them later and I’ll comment.