Cascades & Rapid Transit

Azymuth | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (April 3, 2001)
• Original Release Date: 1982
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Milestone
• ASIN: B00005AKJC
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #92,010 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Club Morocco

2. Cascade of the Seven Waterfalls

3. Through the Window

4. Remembering Milton

5. Festa Nativa

6. A Woman

7. Indian Pepper

8. Make Mine Guaraná

9. Afternoon

10. Missing Doto

11. Somewhere in Brazil

12. I'm Just Looking Around

13. Montreux

14. Gate of Time

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Cascades is a great CD!! Rapid Transit on the other hand..., November 22, 2002

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smoothjazzandmore (Ogdensburg, NY USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Cascades & Rapid Transit (Audio CD)

I've been looking for this album since I was in college back in the early 90's. I was thrilled when I found out Fantasy Records re-released it along with another obscure Azymuth album. I love the first 7 tracks which represents the Cascades CD, especially "Indian Pepper" and "Cascades of the Seven Waterfalls". I found it to be one of their best recordings. Rapid Transit though is not one of their better efforts. I wasn't too impressed with many of the tracks. I found it very abstract, like a painting. Maybe it will grow on me. Overall, get the CD for the first 7 tracks. You wont be disappointed!!

4.0 out of 5 stars I'm just looking around, November 22, 2011

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Ulysses Newkirk (Detroit, Michigan, US) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Cascades & Rapid Transit (Audio CD)

I've loved this album a very long time. Still, I managed to forget half of what I love about it.

As every time I've had a copy, its grown wings or legs, to have it back in my collection is a joy.

I sort of hid it from my memory

I'm so glad it Rapid Transit is back in my life.

5.0 out of 5 stars Milestone of Brazilian Jazz, June 22, 2007

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Papetti "papetti" (Mexico City) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Cascades & Rapid Transit (Audio CD)

This double set is very important in the Brazilian Jazz world, because it offers one of the best representatives of its genre in Cascades, also, this album is very hard to find now and one of the most sought-after ones by Azymuth loyal fans.

Azymuth has written an important page in the music industry; it's amazing and almost impossible to find groups or musicians who can release not only 2 albums, but 2 super albums in the same year, and that's exactly what Azymuth did back in 1982 when they released "Telecommunication" and "Cascades"; these two, are albums with an impressive level of musiquality hard to match anywhere; 5 of Cascades 7 cuts were extensively aired and reached high rankings on radio transmissions everywhere in the world in the 80's - 90's; these hits are:

1) Club Morocco / 2) Cascade of the Seven Quedas / 3) Through the Window / 5)Festa Nativa and 7)Indian Pepper.

Another amazing feat reached here by Azymtuh is that after 25 years; these super hits sound soooo modern and up-to-date because they didn't use musical formulas that easily fade away. Not to be missed by Jazz and Brazilian Jazz fans out there.