Tuesday, September 25, 2007

Sexteto Espetacular - Para Sua Festa (1959)

Hello, good evening! I want to start today with a great find, which is an obscure group assembled by Copacabana label in 1959, probably to give a response to Prestige and other record labels that were making a lot of money with their releases in the Para Dancar style. Copacabana created Sexteto Espetacular, featuring not credited musicians from their cast to deliver this album, really above the others.

This is Sexteto Espetacular - Para Sua Festa (1959), for Copacabana. Little I know about Sexteto Espetacular, except it is the first and only album released by this sextet of not credited musicians that includes, piano, bass, drums, guitar, vibes and accordion performing a repertoire of Brazilian and international standards grouped as four medleys. Tracks include:

01 - Viva o Samba (Altamiro Carrilho)
02 - Exaltação a Bahia (Vicente Paiva / Chianca de Garcia)
03 - Casadinhos (Luis Bittencourt / Tuiú)
04 - É Luxo Só (Ary Barroso / Luis Peixoto)
05 - Ruega Por Nosotros (Ruben Fuentes / Alberto Cervantes)
06 - L'edera (S. Seracini / V. D'Acquisto)
07 - Accarezzame (P. Calvi)
08 - Nada Mais Existe (Lina Pesce)
09 - Concerto D'autunno (Bargoni / Danpa / P. Siegel)
10 - You do Something To Me (Cole Porter)
11 - Melodie D'amour (H. Salvador / M. Lanjean)
12 - Se Todos Fossem Iguais a Você (Tom Jobim / Vinicius de Moraes)
13 - Martha (Leal Brito "Britinho")
14 - Suas Mãos (Pernambuco / Antônio Maria)
15 - Eu Sou Assim (Lina Pesce)