Luiz Bonfa - Solo in Rio 1959
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Artist: Luiz BonfaBrand: Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
Edition: Music CD
Audio: Spanish (Original Language)
CD Release Date: 2005-02-22
Model: SFW40483
Music Label: Smithsonian Folkways
Soundtracks:
- Pernambuco
- Night And Day
- Shearing
- Sambolero
- Calypso Minor
- Uma Prece (A Prayer)
- Bonfabuloso
- Quebra Mar (The Seawall)
- Luzes Do Rio (Lights Of Rio)
- Perdido De Amor (Lost In Love)
- Manha De Carnaval
- Amor Sem Adeus (Love Without Goodbye)
- Variacoes Em Violao (Variations On Guitar)
- Seringuerio
- Chopin
- Na Baixa do Sapateiro [In the Shoemaker's Hollow]
- Murder
- A Brazilian In New York
- Prelude To Adventure In Space
- Tenderly
- Blue Madrid
- Marcha Escocesa (Scottish March)
- Fanfarra (Fanfare)
- Samba De Orfeu
- Manha De Carnava
- Perdido De Amor 2
- Sambolero 2
- Qubra Mar 2
- Seringueiro Excerpt
- Seringueiro 2
- Luzes De Rio 2
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Free Music Review: Personal, intimate and introspective
Hit: 5 Stars
This recording is the meeting of two virtuosos - one the brilliant Brazilian guitarist Luiz Bonfá (1922-2001) and the other a recording technician and ethnomusicologist, Emery Cook (1913-2002), who captured this solo performance with a battery-driven Nagra III on an evening in Rio more than 45 years ago. Issued originally on a Folkways LP, containing 17 tracks, this reissue on CD by the Smithsonian reproduces the entire recording session of 31 songs.
If you like the light, haunting and rhythmic touch of bossa nova (especially if you were around during its emergence in American popular music and jazz in the early 1960s), you'll thoroughly enjoy this CD. There are a few standards ("Tenderly," "Night and Day") and two versions of "Manhã de Carnival" from the film "Black Orpheus." And the rest are lesser known Bonfá compositions and spur of the moment improvisations, one flowing easily from the other.
The CD comes with a 32-page booklet featuring a lengthy biography and appreciation by guitarist-composer-writer Anthony Weller and a track-by-track commentary on each song. Personal, intimate and introspective, this recording will give many hours of pleasure.
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One of the most creative guitar virtuosos of the 20th century, Luiz Bonfá is celebrated as one of the principal architects of the cool Brazilian sound of bossa nova - and as co-author, with Antônio Carlos Jobim, of the film score to "Black Orpheus." But Bonfá was far more than the composer of "Manhã de Carnaval." His technical mastery, intimacy, and dynamism suffuse every track of this first CD edition of his masterpiece, a long-unobtainable solo 1959 LP, along with a half-hour of previously unreleased material from the original studio session. 70 minutes, 31 tracks, 32 page booklet with extensive notes by Anthony Weller.Luiz Bonfá, along with Antonio Carlos Jobim, Baden Powell and Joao Gilberto, helped invent Brazilian Bossa Nova. "The whisper heard around the world" was budding during the 1950s but achieved full flower a decade later. It was a coolly intellectual yet irresistibly melodic marriage of African-derived samba rhythms with American jazz and French Existentialism. Bonfá eventually became world-famous due to his contributions to the score of Orfeo Negro, a much-honored film in which the tragic Greek legend was transmuted to Rio during Carnival time. The present tracks were produced by Emory Cook and this invaluable reissue not only revives a beautiful album but contains 15 previously unreleased tunes. The sonic environment is clear and spacious throughout, uncluttered by unnecessary studio adulterations. Bonfá was not a great singer but his wistful, straight-from-the-heart delivery makes mere technique seem showy and overdone. However, as a guitarist, he had no superiors and few peers. --Christina Roden
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