Irany Pinto - Irany Toca Blues em Surdina (1960)

Hello, good evening! Here we go on another album discovered in the last raining days in Rio de Janeiro. I have to admit this one was excluded for lack of attention. Irany Pinto was renowned violinist with a recording career that spans decades, including a sequel recorded for Odeon with 12 albums titled Boleros em Surdina, being the first released in 1957 and the last in 1969 as Boleros em Surdina Nr. 12, which is also the last Irany Pinto Career LP. Let's see.

This is Irany Pinto - Irany Toca Blues em Surdina (1960), for Odeon, perhaps a variation of the Boleros sequel with Irany Pinto performing a repertoire based on American standards by Cole Porter, Irving Berlin, George Gershwin and others. Irany Toca Blues em Surdina features arrangements by Maestro Oswaldo Borba conduced by Maestro Orlando Silveira with everything under direction of the renowned Aloysio de Oliveira. Unfortunately, Odeon did not credit musicians in this session. Tracks include:

01 - Smoke Gets In Your Eyes (Kern / Harbach)
02 - Love Is a Many Splendored Thing (S. Fain / Paul Francis Webster)
03 - A Pretty Girl Is Like a Melody (Irving Berlin)
04 - Solitude (Duke Ellington / Ellis)
05 - Blue Moon (R. Rodgers / L. Hart)
06 - Blue Skies (Irving Berlin)
07 - The Man I Love (George Gershwin / Ira Gershwin)
08 - Body And Soul (Heyman / Sour / Green)
09 - Stella By Starlight (V. Young / N. Washington)
10 - Stardust (H. Carmichael / Parish)
11 - Stormy Neather (Harold Arlen / T. Koehler)
12 - My Melancholy Baby (N. Burnett / M. Belle / Watson)