We & The Sea [Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered]

Tamba Trio, Tamba 4 | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (April 4, 2000)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered
• Label: Polygram Records
• ASIN: B00004S95U
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #75,628 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #81 in Music > World Music > Latin Music > Samba

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14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Vast Improvement from the Japan Import, April 6, 2000

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J. B Brent (Oak Ridge, Tennessee USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: We & The Sea (Audio CD)

Tamba 4 WE AND THE SEA (A&M SP 3004-CTI) was recorded in 1967, featuring the virtuoso piano playing of Luiz Eca, Bebeto (flute), Dorio (bass/percussion/guitar) and Ohana (drums). Lots of contrasts in volume, making for an exciting performance. With material provided by Jobim and Baden Powell, you can't go wrong. A&M of Japan reissued this in 1986, but an overzealous effort to reduce tape hiss resulted in a loss of the "highs." Fortunately, Verve's remastering solved that problem. Many, many thanks to Verve By Request for bringing back the vintage A&M jazz titles we've missed for so many years. Looking forward to more.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars More Bossa Nova beyond category, November 21, 2004

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Carlos from Rio "Carlos from Rio" (Rio de Janeiro, RJ Brazil) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: We & The Sea (Audio CD)

Tamba 4 is Tamba Trio with one more member who entered the group just for these CTi sessions. Tamba Trio was one of the most creative and successful trios among the so-many Brazilian Bossa Nova trios. Tamba's longtime career in Brazil includes solo albums and also a big set of standard albums in collaboration with so many big Bossa Nova artists in Brazil with memorable results. Artists like Leny Andrade, Edu Lobo, Quarteto em Cy, Maysa, and Sylvia Telles.

Luiz Eca was the late genius at the piano and behind the string arrangements. Bebeto was the multi-instrumentalist on sax, bass and flute. Elcio Milito was the drummer. Both Eca and Bebeto contributed inventive vocals for the original Tamba ensemble, a distinctive mix of instrumental trio with vocals.

Legends say Creed Taylor would not have liked these Tamba 4 sessions results! However Japanese A&M staff discovered Tamba's material within the label's files and issued their 2 CTi albums for the 40th year celebration of Bossa Nova what made them big hits among those who sample Bossa Nova.

'We and The Sea' [Nos e o Mar] - the title song was a smash hit in Brazil both as an intrumental by Tamba Trio and as the famous ultimate vocal rendition of Leny Andrade, also backed by Tamba.

'Moca Flor' was another Tamba smash hit in Brazil featuring the distinctive vocal solo by Bebeto.

'Dolphin' is the beautiful Luiz Eca composition widely covered in the USA by Bill Evans (available in his Complete Verve Recordings), Stan Getz, and Jacky Terraisson among so many others. 'Iemanja' is also a beautiful composition by Luiz Eca.

Here you'll also find some Bossa Nova standards like "O Moro' and 'Consolacao', both Tamba smash hits in Brazil.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Simply one of the best, May 12, 2004

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Frostokovich "SFauth" (Merion Station, PA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: We & The Sea (Audio CD)

One of the premier jazz recordings out of Brazil in the late '60s, this has been a long time arriving in CD format while other CTI recordings received quick translations.
If you've never heard this quartet, you need to. It did for Brazilian music then what Suba did for it in the past decade.