Brazilliance 1

Laurindo Almeida, Bud Shank | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 7, 1991)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Blue Note Records
• Run Time: 48 minutes
• ASIN: B000005HH3
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #102,976 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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39 of 39 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars After 55 years I'm still dazzled by this album, September 26, 2000

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Victoria - Kentucky - See all my reviews

This review is from: Brazilliance 1 (Audio CD)

My very first Bossa Nova album, I bought this while in high school on 10-inch LPs. Effervescent, light, joyous, romantic -- everything you dream Rio de Janeiro could be. It's more of a precursor to the Antonio Carlos Jobim Bossa Nova explosion a few years later. But Bud Shank and Laurindo Almeida picked up on the potential for fusing jazz and the samba early on. I'm not a musician, but I know this album is pure genius. The soft sax and vibrant guitar will dazzle you. The interwoven rhythms of sax, guitar and drums go on and on. My favorite track is "Stairway to the Stars." Still gets me dreaming. They tried to follow up with a second album -- Braziliance II -- but it never achieved that spark of divine fire the first one did.

18 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Not only musicly great but also a historic recording, January 7, 2005

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Nelson M. De León (Puerto Rico) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Brazilliance 1 (Audio CD)

As the other reviewer says, this is an awesome recording. Whats worth noting also is that this is also probably the first bossa nova recording ever done (or at least a recording of brasilian songs that most closely match bossa nova and what it will be). These were recorded long before (7 years or so) Jobim and Joa gilberto recorded and 10 years before the great getz/gilberto recording wich started the bossa nova craze. Truly great for bossa nova or brazil music collectors.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars BEFORE BOSSA NOVA, October 5, 2006

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COMPUTERJAZZMAN "computerjazzman" (Cliffside Park, New Jersey United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Brazilliance 1 (Audio CD)

BEFORE THERE WAS JOBIM, GILBERTO, OR GETZ, THERE WAS THIS MUSIC, WHICH WOULD LATER BE COINED BOSSA NOVA MUSIC. RECORDED IN 1953, THIS RECORDING WAS AT LEAST TEN YEARS AHEAD OF ITS' TIME. GREAT ALBUM, IF YOU LIKE THIS YOU HAVE TO GET VOLUME TWO AS WELL.