Mendes Sergio & Brasil66 - Look Around

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Feb 28, 2016 Sold Date

Dec 11, 2015 Start Date

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Artikel Name: Look Around
Genre: Jazz Produkt Typ: LP (Vinyl) Label: MUSIC ON VINYL Titelanzahl: 10

Trackliste LP - 1

Mendes, Sergio & Brasil '66 - With A Little Help From My Friends Mendes, Sergio & Brasil '66 - Roda Mendes, Sergio & Brasil '66 - Like A Lover Mendes, Sergio & Brasil '66 - The Frog Mendes, Sergio & Brasil '66 - Tristeza (Goodbye Sadness) Mendes, Sergio & Brasil '66 - The Look Of Love Mendes, Sergio & Brasil '66 - Pradizer Adeus (To Say Goodbye) Mendes, Sergio & Brasil '66 - Batucada (The Beat) Mendes, Sergio & Brasil '66 - So Many Stars Mendes, Sergio & Brasil '66 - Look Around

Beschreibung

Sergio Mendes took a deep breath, expanded his sound to include strings lavishly arranged by the young Dave Grusin and Dick Hazard, went further into Brazil, and out came a gorgeous record of Brasil '66 at the peak of its form. Here Mendes released himself from any reliance upon Antonio Carlos Jobim and rounded up a wealth of truly great material from Brazilian fellow travelers: Gilberto Gil's jet-propelled "Roda" and Joao Donato's clever "The Frog," Dori Caymmi's stunningly beautiful "Like a Lover," Harold Lobo's carnival-esque "Tristeza," and Mendes himself (the haunting "So Many Stars" and the title track). Mendes was also hip enough to include "With a Little Help From My Friends" from the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper LP. As things evolved, though, the one track that this album would be remembered for is the only other non-Brazilian tune, Burt Bacharach's "The Look of Love," in an inventive, grandiose arrangement with a simplified bossa beat. The tune just laid there on the album until Mendes and company performed it on the Academy Awards telecast in 1968. The performance was a sonic disaster, but no matter; the public response was huge, a single was released, and it become a monster, number four on the pop charts. So much for the reported demise of bossa nova; in Sergio Mendes' assimilating, reshaping hands, allied with Herb Alpert's flawless production, it was still a gold mine. ~ Richard S. Ginell

Richard S. Ginell