When I just accepted the fact that Loronix was running out of new Walter Wanderley releases, someone - that asked for not being identified even by aliases - sent me this Walter Wanderley - Kee-Ka-Roo (1967), for Verve. The original cover is gatefold, when closed, shows only the first half of this image. I decided to experiment, presenting front and back cover opened.This is the last Walter Wanderley release for Verve, very nice production as you can realize by this cover. This is Walter at his back with eleven instrumental tracks plus one track - Wait Until Dark - sung by Marge Dodson. Walter is a really great figure, some of his later works has songs with some sad titles such this mentioned Wait Until Dark, Take a Chance with Me and Errinho a Toa, for instance.
Walter has great musicians on the recording session for Kee-Ka-Roo, including the American guitar player John Pizarelli, as follows: Walter Wanderley (organ and electric piano), John Pizarelli (guitar), Jose Marino (bass), Dom um Romao (drums), Alfonso de Paula (trumpet and percussion), Jerome Richardson (flute) and Bobby Rosengarden (percussion and vibes). Tracks include:
01 - Amazonas
02 - Kee-ka
03 - Canto de Ossanha
04 - Taka a Chance With Me
05 - Music To Watch Girls By
06 - Errinho a Toa
07 - Sambão
08 - The Bobo
09 - Wait Until Dark
10 - Menino das Laranjas
11 - Sebato Sera
12 - Sensuous
