Antonio Adolfo - Viralata

Year : 2017/1979

Label : Far Out Recordings/Artezanal

Genre : Jazz, Latin Jazz

Style : Jazz Funk, Fusion, Samba

Essential album and timeless jazz funk classic from the Brazil '70 by the versatile pianist and arranger featuring bassist from Banda Black Rio, Jamil Joanes, Serginho Trombone and sound engineer Toninho Barbosa. "Viralata" is a pure fusion album including african rhythms and Adolfo's musical influences as well as jazz, marchinhas de carnavalbaião, Brazilian Nordeste music, MPB and funk. Antonio Adolfo started in classical music before embarking on the decisive musical turning point of the early 1960s in Brazil, the Bossa Nova, playing alongside its greatest actors in Jazz shows and tours among Leny Andrade, Carlos Lyra, Flora Purim, Wilson Simonal, Elis Regina and Milton Nascimento. In the seventies, he moved to US and recorded with  international renowned artists such as Sergio Mendes, Stevie Wonder, Herb Alpert, Earl Klugh, Dionne Warwick and many others.

Marcos Valle - Viola Enluarada

Year : 1968
Label : Odeon
Genre : Jazz, Latin
Style : Bossa Nova, MPB

"Viola Enluarada" is the second album from the Marcos Valle's pop era, tinged by a melancholic and sweet voice including baroque pop style, bossa nova materials and jazz expressions. Arranged by the brazilian maestro Dori Caymmi, Antônio Adolfo, Oscar Castro-Neves and Eumir Deodato (who played also piano), "Viola Enluarada" features some guests musicians such as Bossa Nova guitarist Roberto Menescal, and singers who lend their voice on several songs, the young Milton Nascimento on "Viola Enluarada" & "Requiem", the Jovem Guarda quartet "Golden Boys" on "Terra De Ninguém", and Valle's wife Anamaria on the catchy bossa song "Próton Elétron Neutron". Always written and composed with the collaboration of his brother Paulo Sérgio and produced by Milton Miranda.

 

Elis Regina - Elis Regina In London

 

Year : 1969

Label : Philips

Genre : Latin Jazz, Jazz
Style : MPB, Bossa Nova, Pop

One of the best and most popular brazilian jazz songstress since the sixties until his death in 1982, nicknamed the "Queen of Bossa". Recorded outside Brazil during her European tour at Philips Studio in Stanhope House, London, "In London" mixes Bossa Nova, Afro-Cuban Jazz & Pop sounds featuring legendary brazilian musicians who supported her on stage such as Antonio Adolofo (p), Roberto Menescal (g) & Wilson Das Neves (ds). Titles include bossa nova standards by Edu Lobo (Upa Neguinho, Corrida De Jangada), Jorge Ben (Zazueira), Jobim (How Insensitive), iconic brazilian pop song "Se Võce Pensa" (Roberto/Erasmo Carlos) and "Watch What Happens" by Michel Legrand. All tracks conducted, arranged by Peter Knight & His Orchestra.