Wednesday, July 25, 2007

Quarteto Excelsior - Jantar Dancante (1955) 10-inch

Hello, Good Evening! Para Dancar albums are getting popular, people is giving a great feedback on comments and also in number of downloads. That's why we are starting today with another album in the style, featuring the legendary Quarteto Excelsior that will call the attention of everybody, including the friends that do not appreciate the style. Let's see.

This is Quarteto Excelsior - Jantar Dancante (1955) 10-Inch, for Copacabana. This is the first record released by Maestro Zaccarias and his Quarteto Excelsior, once again delivering a record ahead of its time. Jantar Dancante was released two years earlier than Coquetel Dancante (already available at Loronix) and it is even better. Maestro Zaccarias delivers nice clarinet solos and sings such like Bossa Nova performing with Fats Elpidio, Bill and Romeu. Tracks include:

Personnel

Maestro Zaccarias
(clarinet, vocals)
Fats Elpidio
(piano)
Bill
(bass)
Romeu
(drums)

Track List

01 - Aproveita a Maré (Valdrido Silva / Humberto de Carvalho) Baião
02 - O Orvalho Vem Caindo (Noel Rosa / Kid Pepe) Samba
03 - Baião Gracioso (Zaccarias) Baião
04 - Implorar (Germano Augusto / Kid Pepe / Gaspar) Samba
05 - Embraceable You (George Gershwin / Ira Gershwin) The High And The Mighty (N. Washington / D. Tiomkin) Fox
06 - Vera Cruz (S. Cahn / H. Friedhofer) Silk Stockings (Cole Porter) Dansero (H. Daniels / S. Parker) Bolero
07 - Melody Of Love (T. Glazer / H. Engelmann) Mister Sandman (P. Ballard) Fox

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5 comments:

  1. AnonymousThursday, 26 July, 2007

    Delicioso de ouvir. Deixei tocando direto aqui no trabalho.
    Valeu, Zeca! :-)

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  2. AnonymousMonday, 10 September, 2007

    Hey Zeca!
    Thanks for the link, as always you are a prince in actions as well as words. This 10" is a perfect compliment to 'Dancante'. Very very nice. Hope all is well with you. New York sends you it's many regards.
    JW

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  3. zecalouroMonday, 10 September, 2007

    jbwalker,

    Great! I hope you have the same pleasure I had on restoring this really nice album. There was some pretty hard work on making this cover acceptable.

    Cheers, zeca

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  4. AnonymousMonday, 10 September, 2007

    Zeca,
    The cover looks GREAT. How you find the time for all you do is way beyond my understanding. I am extremely grateful to be able to benefit from your hard work. As an American I of course came to Brazilian music through Bossa Nova and Tropicalia and thanks to you and contributors to your site I have had an incredible education over the past month as I looked through and sampled so much of what you have to offer. I wish I had things to give to YOU! So I will again say, Thank you so much.

    JW

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  5. zecalouroMonday, 10 September, 2007

    jbwalker,

    The cover is clean, but I could not make everything. Look at the legs of the piano, I had to cut them. I'm sad about this. The Copacabana logo was taken from another album, but is pretty quite similar to the original one.

    The empty space between the logo and the bass had track names in two columns. I did not find a similar typeface, so I decided to remove them.

    I think this album experience some bad moments on it's 52 years of life. He was probably victimized by a flood, the lower half was really destructed and a water line was visible just bellow the piano keys. Send me an email, please, so I can send you how it looks before restoration.

    I'm quite a nerd on these things.

    Time is precious, but I work at home, so things are easy. I develop some kind of automation to do these things, while writing this text, I'm installing a software for a customer, ripping an album and scanning covers of another, everything in the same time.

    What I need to learn is to talk at the phone and multitasking. I have to stop everything while on the phone.

    Cheers, zeca

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