Brazilville

Charlie Byrd, Bud Shank | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 25, 1990)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Concord Records
• ASIN: B000003OXD
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #262,197 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Brazilville

2. What You Are Doing the Rest of Your Life?

3. Zingaro

4. Speak Low

5. How Insensitive

6. Saquarema

7. Charlotte's Fancy

8. Yesterdays

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Real Brazilliance Volume 2, May 21, 2002

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William Gowers (Louisville, KY United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Brazilville (Audio CD)

In 1953 Bud Shank recorded Brazilliance with acoustic guitarist Laurindo Almeida. That record predated Stan Getz' ventures into Bossa Nova by several years. You might say Bud Shank was ahead of his time. After releasing that record, Bud Shank attempted to create a sequel by releasing Brazilliance Volume 2. The sequel never quite lived up to the original. It featured Bud's flute playing and contained standards that didn't quite fit the Bossa Nova gendre.
Well, it took Bud Shank 20 years to get it right, but get it right he did with Brazilville. This CD is the real followup to the original Brazilliance. This CD swings with the fire of Rio. What we have here is an acoustic rhythm trio headed by co-leader Charlie Byrd that perfectly compliments the genius of Bud Shank's alto sax. Buy this CD. It's a masterpiece that was 20 years in the making.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Gem, April 11, 2005

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Brownian Motion (State College, PA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Brazilville (Audio CD)

This 1981 live date at Charlie's Club in Georgetown gives us an idea of what the L.A. Four would have sounded like if Laurindo Almeida played jazz guitar and Jeff Hamilton kept his drumming less obtrusive. This is a classic album; the interplay between Byrd and Shank is masterful; the choice of tunes is thoughtful; and the date produced a pair of masterpieces: Kurt Weill's "Speak Low", and and the old Jerome Kern standard "Yesterdays". Get this album before it disappears.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars a jewel, August 23, 2006

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Mari Plooij "MCP" (Zutphen, NL) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Brazilville (Audio CD)

I was so happy to discover that this album came available as CD. It's an absolute jewel in my collection.