Saturday, January 19, 2008

Ze Maria - Voce Quer Dancar? (1959)

Ze Maria is one of the most interesting musicians that I had the chance to know with Loronix. He has a vast discography that can be described on three different phases, being the second the most successful and well covered at Loronix with his album with Jorge Ben and others releases from the 60's. The third phase starts in the 70's, when Ze Maria released only instrumental albums with repertoire of international standards, not released at Loronix. This is the first album from his first phase, the 50's phase with Ze Maria on Para Dancar releases. Voce Quer Dancar is an above the average Para Dancar album, with lots of instruments performed by not credited musicians backing Ze Maria at the piano. Let's see.

This is Ze Maria - Voce Quer Dancar? (1959), for Internacional, once again delivering a fantastic cover with this beautiful furniture design from the 50's. Ze Maria delivers nice piano playing backed by bass, percussion, guitar, drums, vibraphone and a nice piston played by Barriquinha, the only credited musician from Ze Maria conjunto. I'm making available at Loronix Preview Center track 02 - Fantasia Impromptu by Frederic Chopin. Tracks include:

01 - Você Passou (Nazareno de Brito / Alcyr Pires Vermelho)
02 - Fantasia Impromptu (Op 66) (Frederic Chopin)
03 - Return To Me (D. Minno / C. Lombardo)
04 - Sabrás Que Te Quiero (Teddy Fregoso)
05 - Tammy (Jay Livingston / R. Evans)
06 - Till (Sigman / Danvers)
07 - Piove (Domenico Modugno / Verde)
08 - Mon Manége a Moi (J. Constantin / N. Glanzberg)
09 - Paraíba (Humberto Teixeira / Luis Gonzaga)
10 - Jura (Zé da Zilda / Marcelino Ramos / Adolfo Macedo)
11 - Adiós (Enric Madriguera)
12 - Improviso Em Mambo (Zé Maria)