Artist.......: Joyce & Tutty Moreno
Album........: Samba Jazz & Outras Bossas
Label........: Far Out
Genre........: Latin
Catnr........: FARO123
source.......: CDDA
rip.date.....: Jul-30-2008
str.date.....: 000-00-0000
quality......: VBR/44,1Hz/Joint-Stereo
Url..........: www.faroutrecordings.com
track title time
01. Penalty 03:31
02. April Child 04:40
03. Embalo 03:26
04. Compositor 04:17
05. Shangri-La 04:22
06. Devagar Com A Louτa 02:53
07. Feijao Com Arroz 04:52
08. Berimbau 03:27
09. Garoto 03:29
10. Sabe Quem? 03:27
11. Tema Pro Baden 03:33
12. Bodas De Vinil 03:27
13. Magica 03:49
Runtime 49:13 min
Size 65,1 MB
Release Notes:
'Samba Jazz & Outras Bossas' is the new album from
Joyce in collaboration with her husband Tutty
Moreno.
With 'Samba Jazz & Outras Bossas' Joyce and Tutty
have turned to their samba-jazz roots to create an
album that is influenced by the golden-era of
bossa-nova and US jazz from the 60s. All tracks
feature Joyce on vocals for a mix of high-octane
samba-jazz and ethereal bossas with either full
lyrics or samba-scats; the latter seeing Joyce hark
back to classic tracks such as 'Feminina'; the
album contains a wonderful new version of the
scat-anthem 'Magica'.
'Samba Jazz & Outras Bossas' was produced by Joyce
and Tutty themselves and marks a milestone - 30
years - of them working together. Tutty's dexterous
percussive swing has underpinned Joyce's forays
across Brazilian music over the last 30 years,
creating one of the most prolific musical
partnerships in jazz & Brazilian music.
Described by Antonio Carlos Jobim as "one of the
greatest singers of all time", Joyce sheds a little
light on the album: "Samba jazz is a style that
grew popular among Rio's youth in the late '60s. It
is a mix of bossa and jazz, and it's the music that
nurtured our generation. Samba jazz has always been
the base for everything that myself and Tutty have
done; if you check some older compositions of mine,
such as 'Feminina', written in 1977, that's pure
samba-jazz, and on this CD we have brought this
vibe to the fore again."
Whilst Joyce's previous album 'Rio Bahia' was a
more 'romantic and rootsy' affair, with 'Samba Jazz
& Outras Bossas' she returns to the music that she
is best known and most loved for, with a pedigree
of players she considers her dream team. Featured
alongside Joyce and Tutty are Helio Alves on piano,
Nailor Proveta on reeds, bassist Jorge Helder, Lula
Galvao on guitar as well as guest appearances from
Teco Cardoso (flute), Vittor Santos (trombone) &
JessΘ Sadoc (trumpet).
"Few musicians today really know what samba-jazz is
about", opines Joyce. "Many of the best
instrumentalists from Brazil have either gone to a
more traditional way, deep back into the roots,
like choro music, or to a Berklee-style fusion.
Helio Alves, who lives in NYC, is probably the only
pianist of his generation who understands and plays
this samba jazz musical language. Nailor Proveta is
a hell of an arranger, and one of the best reed
soloists on the planet. Jorge Helder has the
perfect notion of Rio swing, as does Lula Galvao.
It was indeed a dream team for us to play with."
'Samba Jazz & Outras Bossas' features a mix of five
samba-jazz classics plus eight new Joyce
compositions. Covers include a scorching version of
Tenorio Jr's 'Embalo' featuring incredible horns
soloing from Nailor Proveta (alto sax,
arrangement), Teco Cardoso (baritone sax), Vittor
Santos (trombone) & JessΘ Sadoc (trumpet), plus a
sublime version of the Baden/Vinicius classic
'Berimbau' with stellar playing from Helio Alves
who's key-work seems to lift the tune up to the
heavens. There are also interpretations of 'April
Child' originally written by Moacir Santos/ R.Evans
/ J.Livingston, a fantastically uplifting version
of 'Devagar Com A Louca' composed by Luiz Reis and
Haroldo Barbosa and that was originally a big hit
for Elza Soares in the 1950s, plus a new version of
'Magica', a bona-fide samba-jazz and Joyce classic
here in a wonderful new version with regal sax
playing from Teco Cardoso, Henrique Band & Nailor
Proveta who also contributes some majestic clarinet
work.
Highlights amongst the new Joyce compositions are
'Penalty', a classic 'Feminina' style bossa
featuring a heavy Joyce scat; a wonderful mid-tempo
bossa in ode to song-writers everywhere called
'Compositor'; 'Shangri-La', a tribute to 'Tereza My
Love', one of Joyce's favourite Tom Jobim ballads;
and 'Tema Pro Baden', a bossa in 7/8 that pays
tribute to Baden Powell, who Joyce refers to as a
'a creator in the Brazilian school of guitar'