Meirelles e Os Copa 7 - Tropical (1969)

Get set for a really nice record, solid from start to end, including this wonderful cover artwork. A record that was a commercial failure by the time of its release in 1969, being discovered and taken to the place were it should belong between the classic Samba Jazz records only a couple of years ago through a release. Blame it on zecalouro and his small green head to forget this record for such a long time.

This is Meirelles e Os Copa 7 - Tropical (1969), for London, not to be taken as the 70's group Copa 7, this is a expanded J.T. Meirelles Copa 5. Tropical is a very curious record, a Samba Jazz classic based on American tunes, instead of Bossa Nova standards. Several musicians that we are appreciate are on the set, such as: Juarez, Dom Salvador, and many others. It is all explained bellow. This is a really self-explanatory release. Tracks include:

Personnel

Chico Batera
(percussion)
Dom Salvador
(piano)
Helcio Milito
(percussion)
J.T. Meirelles
(flute)
Jorge Arena
(percussion)
Juarez
(sax tenor)
Luna
(percussion)
Maurillio Santos
(trumpet)
Pedro dos Santos
(percussion)
Robertinho Silva
(drums)
Pedro Barroso
(bass)

Track List

01 - Sombrero Sam
02 - Taboo
03 - The Jody Grind
04 - Fuego
05 - Barefoot Sunday Blues
06 - The Gringo
07 - Tropical
08 - Poinciana
09 - On Green Dolphin Street
10 - Summertime

Annoucement | Links to Commercially Available Music

From now on zecalouro will place eventual links to commercially available albums from the artists we share at Loronix. This is part of a hint sent by a Loronixer. I love the idea, it is a intelligent approach to generate more sales to the artists, give Loronixers the opportunity to get CDs with discounted prices and generate more credibility to our Music Community among the society.

Believe me, it is a major improvement. We will start with Amazon, but we will have products from Brazilian stores in the forthcoming days. Feedback, comments, suggestions and advice are appreciated and necessary to fine-tune our initiative.

Thanks a lot!

zecalouro

Angela Maria - Incomparavel (1962)

I forgot to address Mom's advice during the week. I'm doing it in the last minute, since it should be ready for this Saturday, when zecalouro's mother uses to access the Internet to see what is going on at Loronix. I expect her approval to this post. Actually, I'm sure that she will be amazed. This is a beautiful record with a very nice cover.

This is Angela Maria - Incomparavel (1962), for RCA Victor, the first out of a series of records made by Angela Maria in the early 60's for RCA Victor. We will find here the big voice of Angela Maria singing a repertoire of Sambas from Adelino Moreira, Monsueto, Lucio Cardim, Jair Amorim, among others. There is also an interest interpretation of M. Bottcher's Serenata do Assoviador (Auf Entel Shiebt Man Nicht), adapted by Miguel Gustavo. Tracks include:

01 - Garota Solitária (Adelino Moreira)
02 - O Grande Remédio (Umberto Silva / Toso Gomes)
03 - Preciso de Uma Companhia (Adelino Moreira)
04 - Despejo da Saudade (Monsueto / José Batista)
05 - Serenata do Assobiador (Auf Entel Shiebt Man Nicht) (M. Bottcher / Vrs. Miguel Gustavo)
06 - Ba-ba-la-ô (José Messias)
07 - Meu Ex-amor (Adelino Moreira)
08 - Matemática do Samba (Paulo Aguiar / Umberto Silva)
09 - Odeio-te Meu Amor (Adelino Moreira)
10 - Cantiga de Mandar Embora (Evaldo Gouveia / Jair Amorim)
11 - Incoerência (Lúcio Cardim / Nello Nunes)
12 - Não Me Perguntes (Adelino Moreira)

Zaccarias e Sua Orquestra - Frevo 40 Graus (1961) - 100th Frevo Anniversary Celebration

Hello, good night! Precisely, 100 years ago, a newspaper based in Recife state, Brazil, published a note with the repertoire of the rehearsals from main Carnaval clubs of the city. Among several ones, a give tune had a special name, "O Frevo", the first time in history that the name "Frevo" appeared written and this event celebrates the creation of this Carnaval genre that has the same name after 100 years, Frevo.

This is a small Loronix celebration for Frevo 100 year’s anniversary. The word Frevo has its origins from the word Ferver - free translated as boil, in English. If you never had the chance to see a Frevo performance, take a look at YouTube, there are several ones. A Frevo performance is very difficult and seems to me that you need to be an athlete to make such complex movements. Frevo is still very popular in Brazilian Northeast region, if you are planning to spend your Carnaval there, you should probably see several performances.

This is Zacarrias e Sua Orquestra - Frevo 40 Graus (1961), for RCA Victor. Maestro Zaccarias seems to be the master of mixing Brazilian rhythms with orchestra arrangements. He makes with Frevo this time on this nice set with single tracks on each side; Zaccarias connects all the tunes, ideal if you are planning to play Frevo on your Carnaval Party. Tracks include:

01 - Deixa de Xodó (David Vasconcelos)
02 - Homenagem à Folia (Edgard Morais)
03 - Lágrimas de Clarinete (Lourival Oliveira)
04 - Sempre Atrapalhado (Jorge Gomes)
05 - Sai Dessa (José Gonçalves "Zumba")
06 - O Adeus de Lia (José Felipe / João Santiago)
07 - Recordação de Merabeau (José Ferreira)
08 - Pra Você (Fernando Borges)
09 - Bueno no Frevo (Levino Ferreira)
10 - Segura Esse Bode (Irmãos Valença)
11 - Adeus dos Foliões (Francisquinho)
12 - Recordando a Mocidade (Edgard Morais)

Pedrinho Mattar Trio - Bossa Nova Bossa Nova (1964)

I'm coming from dinner, where I had the chance to hear this LP for the first time. In spite of the outstanding recording quality made by Claudio Fragnan, this LP is since now an essential on my instrumental Bossa Nova short list. It is a great close to Pedrinho Mattar tribute at Loronix, several friends were asking and hunting this record for a long time and now I understand why everybody has been tracking it down.

This is Pedrinho Mattar Trio - Bossa Nova - Bossa Nova (1964), for Farroupilha. Instead of a quartet, Pedrinho Mattar combo was reduced to a trio on this formation, highlighting Pedrinho Mattar piano on foreground. It is not everyday that you hear such tight piano, bass and drums album. Pedrinho Mattar Trio features Pedrinho Mattar (piano), Mathias da Silva Mattos (bass) and Toninho Pinheiro (drums, with further participations at Jongo Trio and Som Tres). Tracks include:

01 - Samba Pro Pedrinho (Walter Santos)
02 - O Amor Que Acabou (Chico Feitosa / Luis Fernando Freire)
03 - Azul Contente (Walter Santos / Tereza Souza)
04 - Consolação (Baden Powell / Vinicius de Moraes)
05 - Balanço Zona Sul (Tito Madi)
06 - Rimas de Ninguém (Vera Brasil)
07 - Nôa Nôa (Sergio Mendes)
08 - Beijo Swing (Geraldo Cunha / Milton de Paula)
09 - Sol (Mário Albanese)
10 - Cafuné (Denis Brean / Gilberto Martins)
11 - Eu Preciso de Você (Tom Jobim / Aloysio de Oliveira)
12 - A Mesma Rosa Amarela (Capiba / Carlos Penna Filho)

Pedrinho Mattar - Bossa Nova (1963)

Let's make our Tribute to Pedrinho Mattar. You remember yesterday that I was sad of do not have any LPs to make the Tribute and that we would make it later. For my surprise, I received a call this morning from Caetano, he was trying to manage a solution for it, since we live on different cities and it was impossible to make it timely.

However, Caetano could manage the situation. He asked for the help of our new friend Claudio Fragnan, probably, the only alternative in Rio de Janeiro for Pedrinho Mattar records. Such like Caetano, Claudio is also a respectable collector with all the records that we have been dreaming on our entire life on his great collection. I just made a phone call to Claudio and he was very pleased to help on making a respectful tribute to Pedrinho Mattar. Additionally, zecalouro and Loronixers found a new friend. Thanks Caetano for introducing Claudio and Thanks Claudio for providing these LPs to Loronixers.

We will focus our tribute with the early Pedrinho Mattar LPs, which are the ones that better fit the kind of music that we appreciate here. This first one is a repost, but you should not miss it. Claudio is a genius on the secrets of transforming vinyl on best of breed digital files. You will be amazed when hearing.

This is Pedrinho Mattar - Bossa Nova (1963), for Farroupilha, featuring a quartet with Pedrinho Mattar (piano), Mathias Mattos (bass), Antônio Pinheiro (drums) and Ayres dos Santos (guitar), Pedrinho Mattar debut LP. Tracks include:

01 - O Pato (Jaime Silva)
02 - Play Bach (Denis Brean)
03 - Canção dos Olhos Tristes (Tito Madi)
04 - Murmúrio (Djalma Ferreira / Luis Antônio)
05 - O Bolo (Walter Santos / Tereza Souza)
06 - Samba Triste (Billy Blanco / Baden Powell)
07 - Desafinado (Tom Jobim / Newton Mendonça)
08 - Tema do Boneco de Palha (Vera Brasil / Sivan Castelo Neto)
09 - Sambossa (Agostinho dos Santos / Ayres dos Santos)
10 - Amor e Paz (Tito Madi)
11 - Céu (Johnny Alf)
12 - Samba Só (Walter Santos)

Myriam Ribeiro - Apresentando Myriam Ribeiro (1961)

This is a great post. After last albums from Morgana and Lucienne Franco, I was tracking down remaining female singers from Sao Paulo, such as Estelinha Egg and others. However, the great Loronix community is always surprising me. Luiz Valenca, sent this wonderful record of a female singer from Sao Paulo that I even knew the existence. Probably Refer should bring plenty information of her. Anyway, while waiting for Refer and the tribute to Pedrinho Mattar, I want to introduce to you this gift from Luiz Valenca.

This is Myriam Ribeiro - Apresentando Myriam Ribeiro (1961), for Philips, the first and only LP released by this singer with arrangements of Maestro Carlos Monteiro de Souza. Myriam Ribeiro sings pretty well and you will probably stay like me, crying for additional information and the reasons for this single recording. I'm brief today, Loronix engineers needs my help, so I will let you with the amazing Myriam Ribeiro. Tracks include:

01 - Vem Felicidade (Vera Brasil / Berto Filho)
02 - A Quem Possa Interessar (Sivan Castelo Neto)
03 - Qual de Nós Dois (Luis Bittencourt / Alberto Paz)
04 - Dedé (Vadim)
05 - Samba Triste (Vadim)
06 - O Amor Numa Serenata (Serenade de La Nuit) (N. Goletti / Vrs. Vadim)
07 - De Repente (Vadim)
08 - Sambinha Gago (Marilena N. G. Viana)
09 - Canção Feliz (Sivan Castelo Neto)
10 - Estou Amando Outra Vez (Luis de França)
11 - Rimas de Ninguém (Vera Brasil)
12 - O Menino Desce o Morro (Vera Brasil / De Rosa)

Miltinho - Miltinho e Samba (1961)

Hello, Good Night! Happened again, but this time I could fix it timely. Yesterday, I start the day announcing Carnaval for the next Saturday, big mistake corrected by Caetano Rodrigues, Carnaval starts only at the end of the next week, not this next Saturday. Today, I was making another mistake, this time a huge one. I was preparing the first post as a celebration of the 100 years anniversary of Frevo. Stupid green bird, it is tomorrow. I'm happy to have checked some sources to avoid it. Anyway, since we will make the tribute tomorrow, I will show you a nice LP from Miltinho, with many fans and Loronix, some of them really fanatic and crazy, they never stop asking for Miltinho. That's it.

This is Miltinho - Miltinho e Samba (1961), for RGE. This is the Argentinean edition, released by Dimsa. Miltinho has the accompaniment of Orquestra RGE with arrangments and musical direction of Maestro Rubens Perez (Pocho) and Nelsinho, which is a guarantee of trombones on the set. I think this is the first record arranged by Pocho at Loronix. We will have another a solo Pocho album in the forthcoming days; Maestro Pocho is one of Caetano Rodrigues favorites. Tracks include:

01 - Poema das Mãos (Luis Antônio)
02 - Só Vou de Mulher (Haroldo Barbosa / Luis Reis)
03 - Lamento Bebop (Haroldo Barbosa / Luis Reis)
04 - Tema É Solidão (Édson Borges / Hianto de Almeida)
05 - O Velho e a Moça (Haroldo Barbosa / Luis Reis)
06 - Saudade Fique Comigo (Cyro Monteiro)
07 - Babá de Mulher (Haroldo Barbosa / Luis Reis)
08 - Lembranças (Raul Sampaio / Benil Santos)
09 - Chorando Chorando (Édson Borges / Armando Cavalcanti)
10 - Nós Dois a Sós (Miguel Gustavo)
11 - Um Dono Só (Luis Roberto / Silvério Neto)
12 - Que Sabe Você de Mim (Fernando César / João Leal Brito ''Britinho'')

Tito Madi - Sonho e Esperanca (1961)

I think that everybody knows that the Brazilian pianist Pedrinho Mattar has passed today at the age of 70, Sao Paulo state Santos city. It is disturbing because I had the chance today several of Pedrinho Mattar out of print records. Now I'm sad without a single Pedrinho Mattar album for a tribute. Pedrinho Mattar is great, part of my childhood memories and an important musician that build part of my decision to be also a musician with his TV shows. Probably Caetano will send us a good Pedrinho Mattar LP for a late, but proper homage to this great musician.

Stay with this great Tito Madi record, already scheduled to close the day. I spoke with Caetano about this record and he was very happy to see Sonho e Esperanca at Loronix. bossanovadreamer also gave nice feedback on this album, saying that it is among his Tito Madi favorites.

This is Tito Madi - Sonho e Esperanca (1961), for Columbia, with Orquestra lead by Maestro Lyrio Panicalli and Astor Silva. Tracks include:

01 - Sonho e Esperança (Sergio Malta)
02 - Quero Paz (Ricardo Galeno / Cirene Mendonça)
03 - Canção de Acordar Você (Tito Madi)
04 - A Vida Há de Passar (Violeta Cavalcanti / Valed Perry)
05 - Meu Amor Perdão (Ivon Cury)
06 - Dormir Sonhar (Vadico / Herberto Sales)
07 - Amor e Paz (Tito Madi)
08 - Que Sabe Você de Adeus (Tito Madi)
09 - Olhar Só Por Olhar (Tito Madi)
10 - Vem Hoje (Moacyr Silva / Antônio Maria)
11 - Deixa a Nega Gingar (Luis Cláudio)
12 - Não Tem Problema (Julio Nagib / Archimedes Messina)

Tuca - 2a Colocada no Festival Internacional de Musica - Setor Nacional (1966) | Single

This is the lovely little gift sent by claudia campinas from Cantos e Encantos to Loronixers. A single from the legendary Brazilian singer Tuca that I did not realize the existence, recorded for Chantecler to celebrate Tuca participation at a Festival from the 60's, Festival Internacional de Musica when Tuca made the second place.

This is Tuca - 2a Colocada no Festival Internacional de Musica - Setor Nacional (1966), for Chantecler, featuring the songs O Cavalheiro (Tuca - Geraldo Vandre) and Cirandando (Tuca - Consuelo de Castro). I'm picking the lyrics from O Cavalheiro as it is on the back cover with the music. No tracks this time, just the lyrics and a big thank you to claudia campinas.