Luiz Bonfa, Stan Getz - Jazz Samba Encore!
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Free Music Review: A MUST have Master Piece
Hit: 5 Stars
This album should get a rating of 6 in the scale of 5. Is incredible how a guitar, a saxophone can make exquisite harmony with the addition of just percussion and a bass. Master Bossa Nova masters Luiz Bonfa and Stan Getz leave a great legacy no other instrumental album in the history of Bossa Nova has done.If you are a Bossa Nova, Jazz or guitar afficionado, this is a must have album. Luiz Bonfa, the one and only player that "makes a guitar sound like and orchetra by itself", proves to the world that he is indeed has earned the respect of his peers as the "one and only". I guarantee you, once you listen to this album, you will be looking for Luiz Bonfa music all over. I did.
And for Stan Getz, can someone else make a sax create moods of happiness, melancoly, sadness etc...
The combo of Getz and Bonfa is an incredible harmony of one master speaking to the other via their instruments.
I have heard nearly all Bossa Nova music and others alike. I highly recommend this album. Once you listen to it, you will be listening to it over and over. The guitar improvisation will make you think, "how in the world can someone play like this". And you will then be writing the next review like me in here.
Free Music Review: Lots of suinge!
Hit: 5 Stars
Though I am very fond of the previous album, Jazz Samba, over time this one has edged it out. The first venture sometimes seems like disconnected pieces assembled into an album, whereas this Jazz Samba Encore has a sustained swing and drive that give it an overall all sense of direction and unity that Jazz Samba now lacks for me.Also there is, in my estimation, more artistic balance on this album - Bonfa's playing and Toledo's singing are right there at Getz's level all the time, every time.
This is a superb effort, there isn't a slice of turkey on the entire album. Pure pleasure.
Free Music Review: It will haunt you forever.
Hit: 5 Stars
'Jazz Samba Encore' is a more muted affair than its predecessors 'Jazz Samba' and 'Big Band'. Although featuring both men, the emphasis is more on Luiz Bonfa than Antonio Carlos Jobim, and Bonfa's songs 'lack' Jobim's pop instincts, favouring a restrained, more groove-based effect, which can be quietly intoxicating, Getz's melancholy sax contributing to the mood. Even more upbeat songs like 'So Danco Samba', despite its title, are more of a late night shuffle than a beach monster. The effect can be largely attributed to singer Maria Toledo, whose strangely disembodied voice haunts the songs. She is rarely the focus, floating in and out of the background like a presiding ghost. Even in a song she clearly dominates, such as 'Insensatez', a phantosmagoric quality makes her vanish into the precious sadness of this song which, with Jobim's understated, unbearably poignant piano, is surely the most beautiful ever written.
Free Music Review: One of the Greatest Albums Ever Created ie. a masterpiece
Hit: 5 Stars
Luiz Bonfa's playing is as beautiful as Stan Getz's playing is as good as Maria Toledo's singing. After several years I still can't get over how good these three are, and how beautiful each arrangement is - Antonio Carlos Jobim lent a hand with the arrangements and also appears on several tracks playing the piano in his distinct and most singinglike way. There are upbeat sambas as well as some incredibly moving slower tracks. Their version of "Insensatez" is, without doubt, the most beautiful ever recorded. It's such a treat to hear such wonderful music!
Both Stan Getz and Luiz Bonfa as masterful "singers" of their instruments. Everything they play on this album is singable; and I give you my personal guarantee that they will give you goose bumps, make your eyes water, spine tingle. Maria Toledo's voice is one of a kind - powerful, with a dark but sensitive tone.
Writing these things now as I ponder the effect "Jazz Samba Encore" has had on me, I realise that I am in love with the album. Everything I could and would say about it will be written from the perspective of one dizzy and confused by his emotions. It is impossible for me to retain a cool, unaffected tone in my writing because of my feelings for the album. As a result, I risk hyperbole and sickly attempts to poeticize upon what really speaks for itself - sample the music, keeping in mind that the initial beauty that strikes you will continue as you come to know the album better and the subtleties reveal themselves. Everyone who hears this album loves this album.
Free Music Review: Stan's Shack out Back
Hit: 4 Stars
This is an aptly titled album. Whereas Jazz Samba consists of a series of discrete cuts which are fairly polished and clearly a product of the studio, the Encore! album has an intimate, somewhat edgy and unpolished quality. Stan and company, in the woodshed. On the other hand, I couldn't help visualizing Astrud as singing in a tiled bathroom down the hall, somewhere. Early 60's production values: gotta love 'em.You may think the first 10 minutes are a little thin, but these are artists who have it in their blood, and this becomes more and more apparent as the music continues; you are in good hands.
The precursors of the sketchy, haiku-like quality of which -- believe it or not -- Sadao Watanabe has been known to exhibit considerable mastery in his solos, are apparent, here, as is the counteracting lyricism seen later, as in Apasionado, at the extreme end of Getz's career. The cut "Amorous Cat," on the latter album, showing these two styles in delicious tension.
On the second hearing, the "thinness" mentioned above, slippped by me. In fact, I was driving in the mountains with the CD on "repeat." I didn't even recognize that it had repeated, until track 4... I thought "Geez, I've never heard such a long CD!" Duh. So, the early tracks did blend just fine with the lusher later ones.
If you liked the first, ya gotta get this one. It's edgier.
Derek