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Sergio Mendes spent the '70s straying very far from his Brazilian roots. The Sergio Mendes album from 1975 is very much in the smooth soul/quiet storm bag and Magic Lady from 1978 is a straight disco record. Neither of the records are the disasters you might have already pegged them as. Sergio Mendes is actually a small pleasure and Magic Lady, while overly smooth, isn't an embarrassment. The best part about Sergio Mendes is the sweetly harmonizing vocals of Bonnie Bowden and Sondra Catton and the laid-back groove that percolates throughout the album. The songs are all covers. Some like the Beatles' "Here Comes the Sun" or Donny Hathaway's "Someday We'll All Be Free" have interesting arrangements, while some like Stevie Wonder's "I Believe (When I Fall in Love It Will Be Forever)" have hackneyed or meandering arrangements. Best to call it a mixed bag and cherry-pick the three or four good songs. Unlike Sergio Mendes, which actually has some emotional weight, Magic Lady is total disco fluff that sounds like it was made by the house band on the lido deck of the Love Boat. Every track has the same frothy beats and cooing vocal combo topped off with shimmering strings, synth-drum fills, and choogling percussion. By the time the disc is over, you sort of have to admire Mendes and company for so fully appropriating the disco ethic and becoming a faceless disco machine. Only the occasional piano run that peeks out from behind the sequins gives any clue that Mendes was once a semi-respected musician. Not that respect will pay the bills. By the '70s, jazz sure didn't, nor did bossa nova. Mendes did the best he could and 30 years later Collectables was there to make sure the listening public knew it. ~ Tim Sendra
2 LPs on 1CD: SERGIO MENDES (1975)/MAGIC LADY (1979).
Personnel: Sergio Mendes (piano, synthesizer, percussion); Sergio Mendes; Bonnie Bowden Amaro, Marietta Waters, Sondra Catton, Bonnie Bowden, Bonnie Bowden, Carol Rogers (vocals); Clifford Coulter (piano); Chuck Rainey, Nathan Watts (bass guitar); Raymond Lee Pounds (drums); Laudir DeOliveira, Steve Forman , Paolo Costa, Sebastian Neto (percussion); Oscar Neves (guitar, acoustic guitar); David T. Walker, Dennis Budimir, Michael Sembello, Benard Ighner, David Amaro (guitar); Jerome Richardson (flute); Tom Scott (saxophone); Chuck Findley (trumpet); Harvey Mason, Sr. (drums); Tower Of Power Horns.
Audio Mixer: Phil (Boogie) Schier.
Recording information: Kendun Recorders (1974-1979); Records Plant (1974-1979).
Photographer: Ed Caraeff.
Arranger: Sergio Mendes. Sergio Mendes Music Review Purchase Sergio Mendes CD To buy, Click on price to add to cart | Hatfield & The North Hatfield And The North CD (1974)
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One of the Canterbury scene's most revered bands, Hatfield and the North made up for the brevity of their career with some fascinating music. Always adventurous, the quartet had the keen sense to realize that only the most hardened jazz fans respond to numerous key changes and exceedingly complex time signatures, and thus enlivened their live set with the odd gnome smashing, suggestive lyrics, and jokey song titles. It worked a charm, with the band quickly amassing a large, loyal following at home in Britain and across the continent. On their eponymous debut, Hatfield stunningly succeeded in translating both their sense of fun and their musical brilliance onto disc. After a bit of light humor, the band slide into "Going Up to People and Tinkling", which glides gloriously across the keys and rhythm shifts. Both "Calyx" and "Aigrette" experiment with vocals as an instrument, while the exuberant "Rifferama" is a master class on the use of riffs. However, it's the expansive "Son of `There's No Place like Homerton'" that is this side of the album's centerpiece, a propulsive, keyboard driven piece that still awaits a modern dance troop's attention.
Personnel: Robert Wyatt (vocals, drums); Ann Rosenthal, Amanda Parsons, Richard Sinclair, Barbara Gaskin (vocals); ...
| | Hatfield & The North Rotters' Club CD (1975)
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Hatfield and the North's second LP stands as a high watermark for the prog rock associated with England's Canterbury scene and, while filled with stunning musicianship, demonstrates both the strengths and some of the weaknesses of the Hatfield style. Dave Stewart on keyboards, Phil Miller on guitar, Richard Sinclair on bass and vocals, and Pip Pyle on drums (supplemented by a few guest instrumentalists and the ever-ethereal Northettes with their "la la" backing vocals) generally show an admirable sense of restraint and, like their Canterbury peers, are careful to avoid the pomposity and bombast of better-known prog rockers of the era, such as Emerson, Lake & Palmer and Yes. But the Hatfields might actually have been light to a fault, particularly whenever a segue from one of their convoluted instrumental passages into a Richard Sinclair vocal vehicle occurred. Sinclair shares a bit of Robert Wyatt's singing approach, or at least Wyatt's more whimsical side, but his polite and mellow croon, while pleasant, is less idiosyncratic and ultimately rather bland. And, don' t look for much importance from the songs' nearly empty lyrical content; perhaps this was another conscious attempt to steer clear of the pretentiousness of the typically overbearing prog rock song style, but the words leave precious little to sink the listener's teeth into. Things actually get off to a relatively strong start with "Share It," a catchy little number with Sinclair expressing some idealistic and hard-to-criticize Brit hippie sentiments. At the several other places where vocals crop up, however, it's all a bit empty-headed ...
| | Sergio Mendes Fool On The Hill CD (1968) Remastered; Digipak
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The fourth album by Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66, 1968's FOOL ON THE HILL, managed to maintain the high quality of previous Brasil '66 outings, while introducing some new compositions from the relatively unknown Edu Obo--one of which, "Casa Forte," has since become a bossa nova standard. Although arranger Dave Grusin supplies tasteful orchestral backing on the slower numbers ("Canto Triste," "When Summer Turns To Snow") as well as on the title track, it's the Afro-derived groovers like "Upa, Neguinho" and "Lapina" which stand out, especially with their infectious choruses sung in Portuguese. As usual, star vocalist Lani Hall confidently takes the lead on the hit singles "Fool On The Hill" and the definitive cover version of Simon & Garfunkel's "Scarborough Fair." But it's the Brazilian-born guest vocalist Gracinha Leporace (later a regular member of Brasil '77) ...
| | Herb Alpert S.R.O. CD (1966) Remastered; Special Edition
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By late 1966, it seemed as if every TV commercial and every pop arranger had latched onto the Herb Alpert "Ameriachi" sound -- at which point the resourceful originator of that sound began to pare it down and loosen it up a bit. S.R.O. (Standing Room Only), referring to the Tijuana Brass' string of sold-out concerts, is an accurate title, for this LP is about a seven-piece band loaded with experienced jazzers who groove and swing together to a greater degree than on their previous albums. Sure, the arrangements are very tightly knit and don't allow much room for spontaneity, but they still sound fresh and uninhibited, and Alpert often allows the flavor of jazz to come through more clearly. Indeed, two of the album's three hit singles, "The Work Song" and "Flamingo," are jazz tunes -- the former nervous and driving, the latter joyously kicking -- and the third, "Mame," gets a nifty Dixieland treatment a la Louis Armstrong, with Alpert singing one verse. The sleeping gem of the record is guitarist John Pisano's "Freight Train Joe," a wistfully evocative tune that won't quit the memory, and the mournful Alpert/Pisano/Nick Ceroli tune "For Carlos" later became Wes Montgomery's "Wind Song." Though S.R.O. only went to number two on the LP charts, Alpert's creativity and popularity were still peaking. ~ Richard S. Ginell
By late 1966, it seemed as if every TV commercial and every pop arranger had latched onto the Herb Alpert "Ameriachi" sound -- at which point the resourceful originator of that sound began to pare it down and loosen it up a bit. S.R.O. (Standing Room Only), referring to the Tijuana Brass' string of sold-out concerts, is an accurate title, for this LP is about a seven-piece band loaded with experienced jazzers who groove and swing ...
| | Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66 CD (1966)
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SERGIO MENDES & BRASIL 66, the debut album from the famed Brazilian artist, features 10 tracks including "O Pato" and "Berimbau."
Sergio Mendes/Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66: Sergio Mendes; Jose-Paulo Soares, Janis Hansen, Lani Hall, Bob Matthews, Joao Palma.
This self-titled 10-track set, the debut album by Sergio Mendes and his Brasil '66 ensemble, establishes the template for the group's popular sound, with its mix of lush late-1960s pop and bossa nova. Although the band wouldn't achieve massive success until '68, tracks ...
| | Sergio Mendes And The New Brazil '77 CD (1977)
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This nine-track release by Sergio Mendes And Brasil '77 includes the tracks "Love Me Tomorrow" and "Love City."
This set of vintage ...
| | Nick Brignola Live At Sweet Basil-First Set CD (1992)
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Nick Brignola, normally one of jazz's top baritone saxophonists, is also featured on alto and soprano throughout this live quartet date. Joined by pianist Mike Holober, bassist Rich Syracuse, and drummer Dick Berk, Brignola stretches out on five standards and Wayne Shorter's "Mahjong"; the shortest performance is almost nine minutes long. Brignola proves to be an underrated alto and soprano saxophonist, although baritone was clearly his strongest ax. This is a superior and boppish blowing session with the underrated Brignola heard in his usual consistent top form. ~ Scott Yanow
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| | Edgewater Seasons Change CD (2005)
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| | Kay Hanley Babydoll CD (2005) Extended Play
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Kay Hanley, Your Summer "Baby Doll" By John Conroy "Some people buy Hummels to mark the different times of their life," the Boston-bred, critically-praised songstress suggests while lighting a cigarette poolside at her California home. "I write records." If the infectious rock n' roll power of her much-anticipated new EP Baby Doll is any indication, Kay Hanley is indeed in the time of her life. Marking a welcome return to form of the consummate chick rocker, it harks back to Hanley's days as the soaring siren behind the influential alt-rock band Letters to Cleo. A series of sold-out performances in Boston in the summer of 2004 provided the impetus for releasing Baby Doll. "I made it for my fans," Hanley admits. "To go back to Boston without something for them to hear and love and sing along with would have bummed me out. They deserve it." Letters to Cleo established Kay Hanley as one of rock's leading female vocalists. With a voice that swells from whisper to roar and an approachable, ebullient personality, the world discovered Hanley as that most elusive of rock stars - sexy without being threatening, feminine without being precious... the girl that girls want to be and guys want to be with. Awards and acclaim followed four major label albums and the hit single "Here and Now," and the band's gold records, global tours, cult animated television show Generation O (which featured Hanley voicing kid-rocker Molly), prominent and pivotal role in the film 10 Things I Hate About You, and Hanley providing the singing voice for Rachel Leigh Cook in Josie and the Pussycats saw Cleo's rabid following become legion. Yet a moribund creative ebb following the band's dissolution stymied Hanley and her husband and musical partner, former Cleo guitarist Michael Eisenstein. "We had settled into a disturbing amount of familiarity," says Hanley. "Nothing is worse for a creative mind than getting comfortable with things." With Michael on the road for a year and her at home to raise their daughter Zoe and son Henry on the way, Kay saw the writing on the wall. This was the future: an absent husband and father paying the bills and a mother who's given up her life for her family. There had to be a better way, an alternative in which both could work as musicians and not have to be away from each other or their children. The answer was found in a move across the country. Los Angeles freed Hanley and Eisenstein to examine their creative lives and afforded them greater artistic license. Now working on numerous individual and collaborative projects simultaneously, both artists recognize in Hanley an ambition never before demonstrated. "If you had told me before we moved out here that I would become the prolific writer I've become I'd have said you were crazy." After just one year in California, Hanley is on track to double her lifetime creative output, having written and recorded more than 20 songs - a feat that took her five years to accomplish in Boston. "For the first time I'm learning how to do the thing I've been doing my whole life on a completely different level." Kay's schooling comes principally from ladyapples, the female songwriting collective she leads with Michelle Lewis. Introduced by mutual friend Nina Gordon of Veruca Salt fame, Hanley started writing with Lewis as soon as she made the move out west. Before long the duo had the better part of an album written, a revolving roster of notable "third members" (including Gordon) and a development deal. "It's the most satisfying and exciting thing I've done since I joined Letters to Cleo," Hanley enthuses. With L.A. providing plentiful channels for her commercial aspirations, paying her dues as a songwriter is what gave Hanley the itch to work ...
| | Steve Allen All Star Jazz Concert CDs (2005) (Import) United Kingdom
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| | Satyricon Rebel Extravaganza + Intermezzo II CD (2006)
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| | Friktion How U Want It/It's Hot CD (2002)
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Many MC's have came and went in the rap game, but for some who've had the complete package to balance their attack, later went on to enjoy very successful careers as an artist.Such is the case for Friktion, who still in the preliminary stages of his career, is slowly bubbling with a soulful, persuasive flow and a killer mans voice. All in all what this artist is bringing to the table is of an aurora of fierce street knowledge which he picked up from his tough upbringing in the suburban projects off exit 8 in New Jersey. By being around places like Camden, Trenton, Brick City, and even Atlantic City, ...
| | Harry "Sweets" Edison Comp. Studio Recordings CD (2008) (Import)
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This release comprises two outstanding 1955 sessions by quintets featuring trumpeter Harry 'Sweets' Edison and drummer Buddy Rich. The latter was in fact the nominal leader of the sessions, although it is not easy to talk about leadership with two figures of such musical stature. Sweets and Rich are backed ...
| | Clutcho Sorairo Engine (Mini LP Sleeve) CD (2007) (Import)
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