Friday, March 30, 2007

Dick Hyman - Brasilian Impressions (1966)

Here we go on Caetano Rodrigues release showing this time a Brazilian music tribute album from a piano virtuoso, Dick Hyman. This is Dick Hyman tribute to Brazilian music. Hyman recorded once an album with eleven versions of the tune "A Child is Born" performing the style of eleven different pianists. Let's see how the versatile Dick Hyman performs with the music from Brazil.

This is Dick Wyman - Brazilian Impressions (1966), for Command, arranged by Dick Hyman and performed by Joe Palmer (bassoon), Romeo Penque (oboe), Stanley Webb (clarinet, horn), Jimmy Abato (clarinet), Clark Terry (flugelhorn), Phil Kraus (percussion), Walter Lewinsky (clarinet), Johnny Pacheco (percussion), Dick Hyman (organ, piano), Johnny Mirice (clarinet), Joe Wilder (flugelhorn). Tracks include:

01 - Sugarloaf
02 - Time for Love
03 - Samba de Duas Notas
04 - Mas que Nada
05 - Message to Michael
06 - Song of the Jet
07 - Jazz'n'Samba
08 - Insensatez
09 - Eleanor Rigby
10 - RI
11 - Day in the Life of a Fool
12 - O Barquinho