Do the Bossa Nova / My Kinda Groove

Herbie Mann | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 8, 1999)
• Original Release Date: 1999
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Collectables
• ASIN: B00000IJSV
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #48,171 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. It Must Be Love

2. Ugly Girl

3. Love In Peace

4. You And I

5. One Note Samba

6. Blues Walk

7. Consolation

8. Old Bossa

9. Blues In The Closet

10. Morning After Carnival

11. Vikki

12. Mushi Mushi

13. Soul Guajira

14. Spanish Grits

15. Saudade De Bahia

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars The child of a happy marriage., March 30, 2000

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Oto A. Maia (Pretoria South Africa) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Do the Bossa Nova / My Kinda Groove (Audio CD)

Herbie Mann travelled to Rio in 1962 and came back with the album "Do the Bossa Nova", today a classic example of that happy marriage of jazz and Brazilian popular music. He teamed with Castro Neves, Baden Powell and the great Tom Jobim, the composer of Quiet Nights and The Girl from Ipanema to cover bossa nova standards and more percussive mainstream samba numbers. The result is irregular but always inspired and worth listening. The track Consolação, a dueto of flute and guitar, Mann and Powell, is hypnotic!

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Brazil and jazz = good stuff, November 9, 2003

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Scott Woods (Columbus, Ohio United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Do the Bossa Nova / My Kinda Groove (Audio CD)

Mann gives us an incredibly smoothed-out old-school latin jazz workout much in the vein of his work at the time. This particular double-album CD is a steal not only at its price, but because the quality of the music on both records is so consistently good. Using his flute to guide the ambience and not simply to embellish it, the tracks are infectious bits of bachelor pad/martini napkin-wet coolness; so much so that even on tracks that burn-out a little ("Menina Feia" and "Voce E Eu" leap to mind) retain their essential Mann-ness. This double record is a great place to start with his fairly large catalogue.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Understated beauty, March 13, 2011

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Melvin Perez "Music Is My Game" (riverside, california United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Do the Bossa Nova / My Kinda Groove (Audio CD)

Herbie Mann delivered powerful jazz and latin music that was understated; that is, it was easy to listen to by people from all walks of life. The casual listener to the most ardent aficionado loves listening to Herbie Mann's arrangements.