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Jazz Samba
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0731452141323
Format: Original recording reissued
Label: Polygram Records
Manufacturer: Polygram Records
MPN: 521413
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Polygram Records
Release Date: May 20, 1997
Studio: Polygram Records
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Editorial Review:
Guitarist Charlie Byrd was invited to travel and play in Brazil during a cultural goodwill tour sponsored by the Kennedy administration in 1961. He was completely enamoured by the music, and when he returned, he headed straight for the recording studio to make the now classic Jazz Samba. Collaborating with Stan Getz on tenor sax and backed by a band that included Gene Byrd (bass, guitar), Keter Betts (bass), and Buddy Deppenschmidt and Bill Reichenbach (drums), Byrd forged a new and brilliant sound. American record companies were to churn out hundreds of watered bossa-pop albums that have since given the style its lounge-addled image, but this album stands as a tribute to the vitality and adaptability of jazz. --Louis Gibson
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - A Higly subjective tribute to a Great Jazz Album
Want to know what the world was like in 1963, in San Francisco, on sunny afternoons, when all the windows were open on a garden from a small apartment high on the Ashbury Street Hill where Anne and Stan Rice lived and wrote? --- Before the Flower Children came. ---- Then listen to this classic album, the album that defined "jazz" for me more than bossa nova. It was an album that made me want to flee the foggy streets of San Francisco, put on khaki clothes and drift south. It took me well over ... Read More
Rating:  - ok but not ideal
it's great, i just don't dig Byrd's vibe as much as i do Joao Gilberto or Luiz Bonfa or AC Jobim. i dig the way the brazillian guys did their thing so much more, Getz/Gilberto is a good starter, Jazz Samba Encore, and anything else with those guys playing guitar is worth a listen...
Rating: - Swirling, beautiful bossa nova-jazz
Jazz is all about being evocative- the greatest examples of the genre have always been the ones that take the listener to another place, that have expressed emotions and ideas with uncanny accuracy. In essence, the best jazz recordings feel like they're coming from somewhere inside you, born out of your dreams and private thoughts and inner longings. Which, I guess, is why I'm so fond of Jazz Samba. The album's warm, lyrical tone instantly paints a portrait of some sun-splashed and utterly peaeful ... Read More
Rating: - Bossa nova music that dips, swings, boasts fine harmonic structures--and an infectious rhythmic pulse !!!
Bossa nova music was created largely by Antonio Carlos Jobim and João Gilberto in the late 1950s and early 1960s. When Charlie Byrd and his trio heard it, they wanted to make a bossa nova album of their own. The result is this wonderful CD.
The CD track set opens with an extended version of "Desafinado." The guitar gets plenty of air time in bossa nova music; and Charlie Byrd's guitar solo stuns me with its beauty and sensitivity. "Desafinado" plays with a few key changes to enhance the ... Read More
Rating: - Old School
This CD was all I expected and more. It was soothing without being muzac, and there was plenty of latin for spice. I was raised with the old school style of jazz and this really fit the bill!
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