Bossa Rio - Alegria!

 

Year : 1970

Label : Blue Thumb Records

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

Second album produced for the american market of the brazilian group Bossa Rio (not to be confused with the Sergio Mendes's Bossa Rio Sextet), featuring Gracinha Leporace (Sergio Mendes's wife), Pery Ribeiro, Manfredo Fest (org), Octavio Bailly Jr (b) from Bossa Três, Ronald Mesquita (ds) and Dwight Dickerson (p). Discovered and produced by Sergio Mendes, based on the Brasil '66 legacy, Bossa Rio borrows the similar recipe of the famous brazilian band, namely, a mixture of Jazz, Bossa Nova & Western Pop Music. The band performs the classics of Bossa Nova (keeping with their brazilian roots), from Jorge Ben (Que Pena, Zazueira) & Marcos Valle (Mustang Cor De Sangue), Jazz (Girl Talk) & covers songs by The Bealtes including others international pop hits (Spinning Wheel, The Night Has A Thousand Eyes, Don't Go Breaking My Heart).

Sérgio Mendes & Brasil '66 - Stillness

Year : 1970
Label : A&M Records
Genre : Jazz, Latin Jazz
Style : MPB, Samba, Bossa Nova 

"Stillness" is the last album recorded by Sérgio Mendes with his famous Brasil '66 group, featuring guest saxophonist Tom Scott. The original band was created in 1966, based on initiative by Richard Adler, Sergio Mendes & Herb Alpert, to form a band ables to sing in English as well as Portuguese, cut for an international audience including pop, jazz and latin music. They quickly gained international recognition with their first success, the cover song of Jorge Ben "Mas Que Nada" released in 1966. Titles include various brazilian songs from Gilberto Gil (Viramundo) to Caetano Veloso (Lost In Paradise) by Oscar Castro-Neves (Celebration Of The Sunrise) and western pop songs songs from Joni Mitchell (Chelsea Morning), Blood Sweet & Tears (Sometimes In Winter). All tracks produced by Herb Alpert & Sérgio Mendes.

Herbie Mann - Latin Fever

Year : 1964

Label : Atlantic

Genre : Jazz, Latin Jazz

Style : Bossa Nova, Afro-Cuban Jazz

Recorded between New York and Rio De Janeiro by one of the most wellknown jazz flutist including African to Latin America expressions. It features the top Brazilian musicians of the period such as Baden Powell, Durval Ferreira, Sergio Mendes & Antonio Carlos Jobim. During the New York sessions, the line-up include Bill Suyker, Paul Griffin, Rudy Collins, Clark Terry & Ernie Royal. Titles include jazz standard, "Harlem Nocturne",  "Fever", Bossa Nova classic "How Insensitive" by Antonio Carlos Jobim, "The Golden Striker" by John Lewis from The Modern Jazz Quartet, Sergio Mendes' "Groovy Samba".