{"id":56,"date":"2010-01-24T02:18:06","date_gmt":"2010-01-24T02:18:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/funky16corners.lunarpages.net\/?p=56"},"modified":"2010-01-25T10:50:30","modified_gmt":"2010-01-25T15:50:30","slug":"funky16corners-brings-you-a-taste-of-brazil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/?p=56","title":{"rendered":"Funky16Corners Brings You a Taste of Brazil"},"content":{"rendered":"

Originally Posted 1\/3\/2010<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Sergio Mendes & Brasil 66<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Luiz Eca of Tamba 4<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Bola Sete with the OG Sleeve Face??<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Listen\/Download -Brasil 66 – Chelsea Morning <\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Listen\/Download -Tamba 4 – We and the Sea <\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Listen\/Download -Bola Sete – Suite Judy Blue Eyes <\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Greetings all.<\/strong><\/p>\n

First and foremost, Happy New Year to all of you that don\u2019t hew to one of the more obscure calendars.
\nAs befits a blogger of my advanced age and parental status, I spent New Years Eve quietly, with the extended Funky16Corners<\/strong> fam in upstate NY. I won\u2019t jive you and say that I haven\u2019t spent many a past New Years greased to the gills and running wild like an escaped baboon, but those years are far behind me. I no longer possess the recuperative powers of my youth, and while I may partake in a cocktail every now and again, mass consumption thereof is but a memory.
\nI hope you all had a great time in the celebratory fashion of your choosing, and remained safe, warm and ready to soak up some quality music in the year two thousand and ten, the arrival at which is something that would have boggled my fevered brain decades ago, when such a date sounded like so much science fiction. Since we\u2019ve arrived at this point on the timeline, and have neither become the first course in an alien feast, nor bow before a race of super intelligent apes, I have to assumed that the Jules Vernes <\/strong>of our age were \u2013 no matter how imaginative \u2013 somewhat less Jules Verne-y than the OG.
\nThat said, I have decided to bring in the New Year with something mellow.
\nMy digs of the past year were as always, diverse and satisfying, and today\u2019s selections are proof.
\nThe music of Brazil is something that I could not live without. Much like my fascination with the sounds of Jamaica, though I am in no way an expert, my love for the music made by our neighbors in the south, particularly after the foundation of bossa nova, runs very, very deep.
\nThe three records I bring you this fine day were all created by Brazilian performers that had a presence here in the US.
\nSergio Mendes and Brasil 66<\/strong> (and later 77, etc) actually had a fair amount of popularity in the US with a number of Top 40 hits in the US between 1966 and 1971, including their powerhouse cover of Jorge Ben\u2019s \u2018Mas Que Nada\u2019. The group went a long way to popularizing (and pop music-a-fying) the sounds of Brazil for the US market, to the point where I actually remember my parents owning a couple of their records.
\nThe Brasil 66 version of Joni Mitchell\u2019s<\/strong> \u2018Chelsea Morning\u2019 was on the 1971 LP \u2018Stillness\u2019 and is a great, jazzy take on an oft covered singer songwriter chestnut. ‘Stillness’ was the last album that would feature vocalist Lani Hall<\/strong>, who went on to marry none other than the group\u2019s producer, Herb Alpert<\/strong>. Mendes\u2019 piano is featured prominently and there\u2019s lots of great percussion in the background.
\nTamba 4,<\/strong> led by pianist Luiz Eca<\/strong> had a long history in Brazil as a trio, reforming in 1968 as Tamba 4 and releasing a couple of albums on CTI in the US in the late 60s.
\nTamba 4\u2019s \u2018We and the Sea\u2019 was the title track from their 1968 CTI debut. It\u2019s a great example of the group\u2019s sound, with Eca\u2019s piano, flautist Bebeto <\/strong>and Ohana\u2019s<\/strong> percussion joining with Gary McFarland<\/strong>-esque wordless vocalizations. If you haven\u2019t heard any of their stuff, it has been reissued and some of it can be found in iTunes. I\u2019m also reposting their very tasty, 45-only version of \u2018California Soul\u2019.<\/a>
\nThough I only ever knew of the Brazilian guitarist Bola Sete<\/strong> via his 1960s recordings with the genius Vince Guaraldi,<\/strong> by the time he was making those records he was past 40 and had had a long career in his home country. His American discovery was by Dizzy Gillespie<\/strong> in New York in 1962 and he joined the trumpet master at the Monterey Jazz Fest that year. He went on to tour with Gillespie, eventually relocating to San Francisco where he met up with Guaraldi.
\nThe tune I bring you today is a very mellow reworking of Crosby, Stills and Nash\u2019s<\/strong> \u2018Suite Judy Blue Eyes\u2019 from Bola Sete\u2019s 1971 LP \u2018Workin\u2019 on a Groovy Thing\u2019.
\nThe version is laid back with (of course) a Brazilian flair and sounds as if it might have been the inspiration for guitarist Fareed Haque\u2019s<\/strong> 1997 reworking of the entire \u2018D\u00e9j\u00e0 vu\u2019 LP for Blue Note*. Oddly enough, though I dig CSN\/CSNY, \u2018Suite Judy Blue Eyes\u2019 has never been one of my favorite tunes from their catalog, and I like the way that Bola Sete removes the time-worn number from its shambolic and overreachingly ambitious (nothing like a bunch of longhairs reaching deep into their serapes to call something they wrote a \u201csuite\u201d) hippie roots, recasting it as a meditation of sorts.
\nI hope you dig the sounds, and I\u2019ll be back on Wednesday with something a little closer to home.<\/p>\n

Peace<\/strong><\/p>\n

Larry<\/strong><\/p>\n

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*This was part of a short-lived series that Blue Note commissioned of jazz artists redoing entire classic albums which included Charlie Hunter covering Bob Marley\u2019s \u2018Natty Dread\u2019 and Everette Harp\u2019s version of Marvin Gaye\u2019s \u2018What\u2019s Going On\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n

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PS Head over to Iron Leg for some Christmas pop.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Originally Posted 1\/3\/2010 Sergio Mendes & Brasil 66 Luiz Eca of Tamba 4 Bola Sete with the OG Sleeve Face?? Listen\/Download -Brasil 66 – Chelsea Morning Listen\/Download -Tamba 4 – We and the Sea Listen\/Download -Bola Sete – Suite Judy Blue Eyes Greetings all. First and foremost, Happy New Year to all of you that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pMKgo-U","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":123,"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56\/revisions\/123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}