LoginSolo In Rio 1959
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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 reissu
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Manufacturer: Smithsonian Folkways
Release date: 22 February 2005
Number of discs: 1
EAN: 0009307404832 UPC: 093074048320
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Release date: 22 February 2005
Number of discs: 1
EAN: 0009307404832 UPC: 093074048320
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