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In 1953, the West Coast studio reedman Bud Shank created a first by going into the studio with the Brazilian master guitarist Laurindo Almeida. A good eight years before Stan Getz conducted a similar experiment called JAZZ SAMBA (with non-Brazilian guitarist Charlie Byrd), Shank and Almeida produced a natural-born musical hybrid that still sounds startlingly contemporary today. There aren't too many 1953 jazz albums about which one could make the same claim.
The two musicians stick with mainly Brazilian material, featuring such highly regarded pre-bossa nova composers as Ary Barroso, Luis Gonzaga, and Pixinguinha. The only stateside detour is in the company of the romantic standards "Stairway to the Stars" and Kurt Weill's "Speak Low," both of which sound perfectly at home in this context, thanks to Almeida's incredible fluency and Shank's unmannered, freshly conceived improvisations.
The Brazilian guitarist and composer Laurindo Almeida was closely identified with four different major genres across a lengthy career which began as a staff guitarist and bandleader at a radio station in Rio de Janeiro. Brazilian music remained an essential constituent of much of his subsequent work, whether played straight or combined with his other major loves, jazz and classical music. "Concert Creations for Guitar" is Alemeida's first album from 1950. It is a beguiling set of intimate unaccompanied pre-bossa guitar pieces that Almeida performed alone, unamplified onstage in those days which compliments "Brazilliance" perfectly.
Recorded in Los Angeles, California from April 15-22, 1953. Originally released on Pacific Jazz (1204).
Personnel: Bud Shank (alto saxophone, flute); Laurindo Almeida (guitar); Gary Peacock (bass); Chuck Flores (drums).
The Wire (p.69) - "Almeida's samba rhythm melds organically into jazz swing as Shank's alto enters." Brazilliance, Vol. 1 Music Laurindo Almeida Brazilliance, Vol. 1 Songs | 1. | Atabaque | |
| 2. | Amor Flamengo | |
| 3. | Stairway to the Stars | |
| 4. | Acertate Mas | |
| 5. | Terra Seca | |
| 6. | Speak Low | |
| 7. | Speak Low - (alternate take) | |
| 8. | Inquietacao | |
| 9. | Baa-Too-Kee | |
| 10. | Carinoso | |
| 11. | Tocata | |
| 12. | Hazardous | |
| 13. | Nono | |
| 14. | Noctambulism | |
| 15. | Blue Baiao | |
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