I should have recalled that all-jazz WCUY in Cleveland played some bossa nova material as "Latin Jazz" in 1959 when I became a part-timer.
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Sergio Mendes, Brazilian bossa nova musician, dies at 83
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Late to this thread, but I used to be fascinated with the music of Sergio Mendes and Brasil '66, because he was so flexible and ecletic in adapting all sorts of musical genres to a samba/ jazz style. I used to attend his live concerts, as he was based in L.A. when he worked with Herb Alpert. At concerts, he frequently mentioned Antonio Carlos Jobim as his mentor, but he had many different mentors and inspirations. He did crossover songs like "The Look of Love" written by Hal David & Burt Bacharach, or a Beatles favorite "Fool on the Hill", or even a Cole Porter song from the 1930's "Night and Day". He did a really fun party song, "País Tropical" that sounds like tropical music with tropical percussion from the east coast of Mexcio, Honduras, Belize, etc.
Very sorry to hear of his passing. What an talent -- his fabulous piano arrangements were only part of his musical abilities.
There's a radio station in Rio de Janeiro calling themselves "Bossa Nova Blue" 103.1 whose format is samba and smooth jazz. I listened for awhile, and what they are playing seems to have musical roots in the artistry of Antonio Carlos Jobim, Joao Gilberto, Jorge Ben, and others who created Brazilian samba sounds. Here's the link to the Rio station:
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Very sorry to hear of his passing. What an talent -- his fabulous piano arrangements were only part of his musical abilities.
There's a radio station in Rio de Janeiro calling themselves "Bossa Nova Blue" 103.1 whose format is samba and smooth jazz. I listened for awhile, and what they are playing seems to have musical roots in the artistry of Antonio Carlos Jobim, Joao Gilberto, Jorge Ben, and others who created Brazilian samba sounds. Here's the link to the Rio station:
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"So Many Stars" was the only song he wrote, and it was only the music (according to the DJ). I just heard it performed by Stacey Kent. Alan and Marilyn Bergman wrote the words.
Sergio wrote more than just "So Many Stars", but not a lot more.
He's credited with two songs that he wrote on his own, "Groovy Samba", recorded by Cannonball Adderley, with Sergio's Bossa Rio Sextet, in 1963:
...and "Noa Noa", which Sergio recorded with Bossa Rio in 1964:
Besides "So Many Stars", he also co-wrote "Look Around" with Marilyn and Alan Bergman and Arino Mattos. It's the title track of the album that also includes "So Many Stars":
He co-wrote "Salt Sea" with Brasil '66 members Sebastian Neto and Lani Hall:
And finally, "Magic Lady", with Michael Sembello (who went on to have the hit from "Flashdance", "Maniac") and Gene Lees (a Canadian jazz critic who wrote the English lyrics for Jobim's "Corcovado"---"Quiet Nights of Quiet Stars"):
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Four years ago my wife and I spent Christmas in Rhodes, Greece. I remember laying on a beach in view of Lady Ga Ga's villa while the lifeguard station had a PA system playing a Sergio Mendes and Brazil 66 Christmas album. I'd never heard the album before, but the beach smells, warm sand and cool breeze off the Mediterranean with that music playing? Life can't get any better than that.
Kelly, you had a rare treat!
There has never been a Sergio Mendes and Brasil '66 Christmas Album released in North America. Suspicions that there might have been one have floated around, because one track was used on one of those B.F. Goodrich sampler albums (only a dollar at your local tire store!) released in 1969. This is that track:
They weren't the only artists (all from A&M) who only had the one Christmas song and not an entire album, but with the success of the Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass Christmas Album the year before, there was speculation they might try one with Brasil '66. From your experience, it sounds like maybe they did, but it only was released abroad.
When we returned to the States I searched for the album but came up empty. In hindsight, I should have gone over to the lifeguard shack and put eyes on the CD, tape, or whatever was playing. Not a huge follower of Sergio, I just assumed he must have released a Christmas album like most artists of the day, and one would be available. I think it was a combination of location, weather, and music that made those couple hours such a treat. Take any one sense individually, and it would just be nice but not special.
DJs can be wrong.
One of the DJs on Serenade Radio has been wrong at least once, but his specialty is "bringing you stuff you didn't know you didn't know".
“Not many people know this, because it isn’t true.”
That should be the motto of my website...
For those that don't know, www.worldradiohistory.com was created over 22 years ago to allow me to point to actual, published data on the radio industry.
I had to do this since I'd often be questioned when I'd say, "that's been done over and over and it never worked". Some people would tell me that I was wrong. So, better than causing resentment by arguing, I could bring up the relative documents on the Internet to show evidence of my point.
And we all know that people who don't know any real history believe that everything on the web is totally factual, so my tactic worked every time.
FIVE.
Broadway, Bossa Nova, Beatles, (Tijuana) Brass and Bacharach.
(“Our chief weapon is surprise…surprise and fear.”)
It's a remarkably complex song, because it's full of unusual chord progressions and key changes:
Imagine if Sergio and Brian Wilson had written a song together
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