Friday, April 27, 2007

Moacyr Marques e Seu Conjunto - Jazz & Bossa Nova

I think this post is special; it is the start of a series of two records of a great importance to Brazilian instrumental music. I did not research to understand why they are important; I'm dropping my own opinion this time and part of Caetano's opinion, since we have been talking about both albums for a couple of days. The first is from an artist that is still active and even keep and maintain a website with very complete information on his career, recordings, participation and projects. I've been there for a while before writing these lines and I invite you to visit Moacyr Marques website, also known as Bijou at http://www.mmbijou.com.br.

This is Moacyr Marques e Seu Conjunto - Jazz & Bossa Nova (uncertain), for Tiger. This is the first Moacyr Marques album and also an instrumental music masterpiece. The title is really honest and appropriate, Jazz & Bossa Nova. What amazes me most is recording date, I think it was recorded between the 1959 and 1960. Jazz & Bossa nova also features Zequinha (piano), Arthur Barbosa (bass) and the legendary Wilson das Neves (drums).

This is a really hard to find album and Caetano is a lucky guy to have it, but the vinyl was not on a good shape, really scratch. I'm making available this time an alternative at Flac format with no tracks separation, no noise reduction and also no Rapidshare. If someone skilled on noise reduction can make it better than I did, I will appreciate a lot. You can download and try this looseless alternative, here (185Mb). Tracks include:

Personnel

Moacyr Marques "Bijou"
(clarone, sax tenor)
Zequinha
(piano)
Artur Barbosa
(bass)
Wilson das Neves
(drums)

Track List

01 - Taking a Chance On Love (V. Duke / J. Latouche / T. Fetter)
02 - Silk Stop (João Donato)
03 - My Fanny Valentine (R. Rodgers / L. Hart)
04 - Anniversary Theme (José Marinho)
05 - Lullaby Of Birdland (G. Shearing)
06 - Calipso In Brazil (Moacir Marques "Bijú")
07 - Teleco Teco Nº 2 (Nelsinho / Oldemar Magalhães)
08 - A Saudade Não Foi Leal (Norival Reis / Jorge Duarte)
09 - Samba Feliz (Roberto Martins / Osvaldo Santiago)
10 - Real Conclusao (Artur Barbosa)
11 - Gin-kana (Emílio Batista / Ruy Rey)
12 - Idéias Erradas (Dolores Duran / Ribamar)


5 comments:

Anonymous said...

THANKS A LOT FOR THE LOSLESS ALTERNATIVE!

NOW, IF YOU COULD DO IT EACH TIME YOU POST A NEW LINK IT WOULD BE GREAT!

JEAN.

bossanovadreamer said...

Caaaetano!
You are really great-I was crying for this album and here it is- I was amazed since I saw the cover in your book-Moacyr plays fantastic on this album (what a saxsound !!) but the complete group plays beautiful.
Thanks so much-
Also big thanks to Zeca who was sending my wish to Caetano

Best wishes

Anonymous said...

Working on the the "clean-up".

Anonymous said...

Zeca e Murillo Fernandes trocaram figuras sobre esta capa, naquele espaço que vocês chamam,
boiolamente,de... "quadradinho"...
Deixa eu fazer meu comentário, pois não? Sou do ramo, pombas!
Ela não é apenas 'muderna' na imagem, linguagem visual e economia de cores; a tipografia é ousada,com letras de desenho que somente se vê em artes gráficas naqueles trabalhos que se dependuram em paredes de mostras.
Parece capa de disco de jazz intrumental, sim senhor, e isso não é nenhum desdouro até porque a palavra 'jazz' tá no título.
E vai além: alguém reparou que a capa NÃO TEM o nome do artista? Vamos lembrar de outras
capas de elepê que ousaram renunciar a esse recurso? Eu começo: Elvis Presley 'For LP Fans Only'.
Agora é com vocês, macacada...
O selo do disco parece ser Tiger. Se sim, esse selo pertence ao maestro Guio de Moraes, que o Loronix, se quiser ser mesmo de responsa, tem de homenagear um dia.

Unknown said...

Helo! Moacyr Marques is my father and he is live. I just want to thanks al of comments you all post in this blog. Plese go to his web cose all of you can get a CD copy of all his LP, and ypu can know his last work. I'm so proud of him. One more information Arthur Barbosa is my uncle, my mother's brother. And my mother was a singer ... I'm just an architect ... and if you can contact me write to smsguarah@yahoo.es