Altamiro Carrilho & Canhoto e Seu Regional - Choros Imortais (1964)

It has been two months since we made the last Choro album at Loronix. It is a lot of time, and to fulfill the needs of several friends, including Martoni, from The Netherlands, I would like to offer what is considered by many, the best Choro album recorded in Brazil. Actually, the first out of two legendary Choro albums recorded by Altamiro Carrilho and Regional do Canhoto titled “Choros Imortais”. Let’s see.

This is Altamiro Carrilho & Canhoto e Seu Regional – Choros Imortais (1964), for Copacabana, presented here by a SOM SOLP reissue, probably released in the late 60’s. I could not track any information about the release year. Altamiro Carrilho has several albums available at Loronix, but it is the first time an album with the participation of Canhoto is being released. Canhoto, born as Waldiro Frederico Tramontano, was an important Choro musician. He lead more than 40 years his Conjunto Regional, responsible for the first steps of several renowned musicians in the style, such like Dino 7 Cordas, Altamiro Carrilho, Meira, Orlando Silveira, Gilson de Freitas and after the departure of Altamiro Carrilho in the early 60’s, Carlos Poyares. This photo brings Canhoto e Seu Regional in the 50’s, taken from Acervo Sergio Prata and probably features the members of this recording session, not provided by Copacabana. Tracks include:

Personnel

Canhoto e Seu Regional (*)
from left to right

Meira
(violao)
Orlando Silveira
(accordion)
Dino 7 Cordas
(violão 7 cordas)
Gilson de Freitas
(pandeiro)
Canhoto
(cavaquinho)
Altamiro Carrilho
(flute)

(*) needs confirmation

Tracks List

01 - Doce de Coco (Jacob do Bandolim)
02 - Língua de Preto (Honorino Lopes)
03 - Naquele Tempo (Pixinguinha / Benedito Lacerda)
04 - Harmonia Selvagem (Dante Santoro)
05 - Evocação (Rubens Leal Brito)
06 - Urubatan (Pixinguinha / Benedito Lacerda)
07 - Chorei (Pixinguinha / Benedito Lacerda)
08 - Cinco Companheiros (Pixinguinha)
09 - Sofres Porque Queres (Pixinguinha / Benedito Lacerda)
10 - Cuidado Violão (José Toledo)
11 - Lamentos (Pixinguinha)
12 - Carinhoso (Pixinguinha / João de Barro)

Challenge | Who are They?

Hello, good evening! Here we go on another very easy challenge game, this time with only one artist to be identified since I’m sure that everybody should easily confirm who is backing the singer with a guitar! Baden Powell, which I never saw playing guitar before. Piece of cake, who is singing?

Hope uEnjoy!


Sorry, I could not resist extending today’s challenge a little bit showing Baden Powell again. Both photos were taken at the anthological Bossa Nova concert at Faculdade de Arquitetura, Rio de Janeiro, 1959. This second challenge has also only one artist to be identified. Just tell me how is playing trumpet behind Baden Powell. Not so easy, but I think people should make it very fast this time.

You can get large versions of first and second photo, here and here.

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Baden Powell - Baden Powell (1971)

Hello, good evening! I’m late for today’s post, but it is for a very good reason. Loronix page load time was increasing daily and some friends were even with no access to Loronix. It was a critical situation, fixed by the replacement of CBox, also known as Quadradinho, for another tagboard solution. Cbox was the root cause of the problem. You should feel the difference while reading this message.

Anyway, I’m really tired and this is not the best situation to write this important post, kindly made available by the great Jorge Mello. This album was recorded by Baden Powell in Paris, just after the excellent series of three albums called Baden Powell Quartet Volumes 1, 2 and 3. This album does not have a title and you need to take it on your hands to read the back cover and understands that Baden Powell makes a tribute album for two great musicians with a strong influence of Baden’s career, which are Pixinguinha and the legendary Garoto. Baden Powell performs four renditions of each one and completes the repertoire with two compositions by his own. Let’s see.

This is Baden Powell – Baden Powell (1971), for Barclay, a tribute to Pixinguinha and Garoto, with Baden performing and singing with one of his favorite’s divas, Jeanine de Waleyne. Baden Powell is an awesome musician and there is something that really makes him different from all others, he puts passion on everything and this makes the different, especially on these renditions of two other geniuses. We should say thank you to Jorge Mello for this really nice album. Tracks include:

Personnel

Baden Powell
(voice, violao)
Nelson Serra de Castro
(drums)
Cesario Alvim
(bass)
Silvio Silveira, Luiz Agudo
(percussion)

Special Guests

Jeanine de Waleyne
(voice on tracks 04, 08)
Raymond Guiot
(flute on 04)
Pierre Gossez
(sax on 02)

Track List

01 - Carinhoso (Pixinguinha / João de Barro)
02 - Violão Vadio (Baden Powell / Paulo César Pinheiro)
03 - Bom de Dedo (Garoto)
04 - Naquele Tempo (Pixinguinha / Benedito Lacerda)
05 - Gente Humilde (Chico Buarque / Garoto / Vinicius de Moraes)
06 - Rosa (Pixinguinha)
07 - Pausa Para Meditação (Garoto)
08 - Márcia Meu Amor (Baden Powell)
09 - Filho de Furinha (Garoto)
10 - Um a Zero (Pixinguinha / Benedito Lacerda)

Challenge | Who are They?

Hello, good evening! After a short break, the challenge game is back with a VERY EASY challenge. Your mission is to identify the musicians at this photo. The first to write a non-anonymous comment with the correct answer wins a 1-month Premium Rapidshare account. Never was so easy, don’t you think?

Hope uEnjoy!

Oops! I forgot to tell you that a hires version is available here.

Quarteto em Cy - Querelas do Brasil (1978)

Hello, good evening! I think we will have today the same situation we had tomorrow on our last post, an unknown album recorded by a great artist and never released in CD. Maybe I’m wrong, but except from some occasional and small reissues, Quarteto em Cy – Querelas do Brasil, never had a chance to be released at the digital age. This is a repost, Querelas do Brasil was made available first in November 2006 with no back cover, transferred at a low bitrate and had a track missing. Everything is now updated and I hope you have a very nice time with this great vocal group. Let’s see.

This is Quarteto em Cy – Querelas do Brasil (1978), for Philips, which is probably the most “political flavored” album released by the girls, with several lyrics about Brazilian problems of that time. By the way, the album title is taken from one of those songs; Querelas do Brasil by Mauricio Tapajos and Aldir Blanc. Such as many Brazilian albums released in the 70’s, Querelas do Brazil features a constellation of Brazilian musicians, including Sivuca, Antonio Adolfo, Luizao, Neco, Copinha, Raul de Barros and many others. Tracks include:

Personnel

Paulinho Braga, Zequinha
(drums)
Luizao Maia, Jamil Joanes
(bass)
Luis Claudio, Miltinho
(acoustic guitar)
Neco
(cavaquinho)
Luis Claudio
(violao de 12 cordas)
Ze Roberto Bertrami
(organ, moog)
Wilson das Neves, Hermes, Chacal, Zequinha, Normando
(percussion)
Sivuca
(accordion)
Copinha, Franklin da Flauta, Celso, Jorginho
(flute)
Raul de Barros
(trombone)
Netinho
(clarinet)
Gilberto, Eliseu
(pandeiro)
Marcal, Eliseu, Bezerra
(tamborim)
Bezerra, Roberto Pinheiro
(ganza)
Doutor
(repique)
Reinaldo
(surdo)
Wilson das Neves
(caixa)
Geraldo Bongo
(agogo)
Nenem
(cuica)

Track List

01 - Querelas do Brasil (Maurício Tapajós / Aldir Blanc)
02 - Angélica (Chico Buarque)
03 - Maresia (Sueli Costa / Abel Silva)
04 - Love Love Love (Caetano Veloso)
05 - Estrela Guia (Maurício Tapajós / Paulo César Pinheiro)
06 - Última Cena (Miltinho / Paulo César Pinheiro)
07 - Salve o Verde (Jorge Ben)
08 - Santo Amaro (Luis Cláudio Ramos / Franklin da Flauta / Aldir Blanc)
09 - Sapato Velho (Mú Carvalho / Cláudio Nucci / Paulinho Tapajós)
10 - Plataforma (João Bosco / Aldir Blanc)
11 - Canudos (Edu Lobo / Cacaso)
12 - Não Posso Me Esquecer do Adeus (Caetano Veloso)

Jorge Ben - Bem-vinda Amizade (1981)

Hello, good evening! It is always very easy to find information about Jorge Ben albums and career, especially information written by people outside Brazil, where Jorge Ben seems to have a giant popularity. Every Jorge Ben album released at Loronix created at least ten comments, no exception. However, I could not find much information about Bem-vinda Amizade, perhaps never released on CD. Maybe I’m wrong. I had a nice time with this album today; several songs were popular by the release time in 1981. Let’s see.

This is Jorge Ben – Bem-vinda Amizade (1981), for Som Livre, featuring well known Jorge Ben compositions. I’m not versed on Jorge Ben discography, but this one seems to be on a more relaxed mood, different from Alo Alo, Como Vai?, released in the same year. Personnel listing features several percussionists supporting Jorge Ben guitar with the accompaniment of bass, drums and keyboards, in some tracks played by the legendary Lincoln Olivetti. Tracks include:

Personnel

Jorge Ben
(violao, voice, guitar, percussion)
Roberto Dargbli
(bass)
Bomba Sjostedt
(piano, organ)
Pena, Miss Lynn
(drums)
Nenem, Bidu, Luiz Carlos, Cowbel, Joaozinho, Luizinho, Naila
(percussion)
A Banda do Ze Pretinho, As Gatas
(choir)
Lincoln Olivetti
(organ)
Jane Duboc, Guilherme Lamounier, Sonia Bournier, Robinson Jorge
(choir)
Mu
(keyboards)
Chiquinho do Acordeon
(accordion)
Serginho
(trombone)
Luiz Wagner
special guest on 10
(guitar)

Track List

01 - O Dia Que o Sol Declarou o Seu Amor Pela Terra (Jorge Ben)
02 - Santa Clara Clareou (Jorge Ben)
03 - Oé Oé (Faz o Carro de Boi na Estrada) (Jorge Ben / Augusto de Agosto)
04 - Era Uma Vez Um Aposentado Marinheiro (Jorge Ben)
05 - Lorraine (Jorge Ben)
06 - Curumim Chama Cunhantã Que Eu Vou Contar (Todo Dia Era Dia de Índio) (Jorge Ben)
07 - Katarina Katarina (Jorge Ben)
08 - Ela Mora Em Matogrosso Fronteira Com o Paraguai (Jorge Ben)
09 - Para Que Digladiar (Jorge Ben)
10 - Luis Wagner Guitarreiro (Jorge Ben)

Elza Soares - Elza Soares (1973)

Hello, good evening! One of my dreams is to access the Internet at a reasonable speed through a mobile phone. Just to support some quick decisions I have to make when I’m not home, such like this one I will tell you. I found this album today at Copacabana by one of those prices that nobody believes. All I had with me was this fantastic cover, very similar, actually, the same cover used by EMI Odeon on a Elza Soares box set released in 2003.

A complimentary information was the release year, 1973. I had no choice besides taking R$ 3 Reais from my pocket and take it home, where I discovered this is an Elza Soares career album never released before at Loronix. I have this album, but never considered for Loronix because of this cover, showing Elza Soares a little frightening and dark, exactly the opposite of what we have right now with this Odeon Coronado reissue, where Elza is only joy and happiness. Let’s see.

This is Elza Soares – Aquarela Brasileira (1973), for Odeon, which is the last album recorded by Elza Soares at Odeon, her record company since the first album released in 1960. Musicians in this session were not credited by Odeon and I had little time to do a search and retrieve additional info. But who cares about that? This is Elza Soares, never released at Loronix. Tracks include:

01 - Aquarela Brasileira (Silas de Oliveira)
02 - Busto Calado (Rubens da Silva / Orlando Costa ''Maestro Cipó'')
03 - Pranto de Poeta (Nelson Cavaquinho / Guilherme de Brito)
04 - Dia de Graça (Candeia)
05 - Maria José (Fritz / Nereu Gargalo)
06 - Zelão (Sergio Ricardo)
07 - Canoa Furada (Gisa Nogueira)
08 - Solidão (Luis Roberto / Paulo Martini)
09 - Sete Linhas (Sidney da Conceição)
10 - Festa da Vinda (Cartola / Nuno Veloso)
11 - Lá Vou Eu (Delcio Carvalho)
12 - Eu Não Toco Berimbau (Serrinha / Mazola)

Paulinho Nogueira - Paulinho Nogueira (1965)

Hello, good evening! I had a crazy week, with lots of things to do and I can’t believe how fast these five days passed so quickly. When I was a kid, my grandfather said that as long as we get older as fast the time goes away. That’s what I’m feeling. I remember Christmas as it was last week. Anyway, Jorge Mello comes to please us again with another of his awesome albums, featuring an artist of great appreciation at Loronix, Paulinho Nogueira. Let’s see.

This is Paulinho Nogueira – Paulinho Nogueira (1965), for RGE, featuring an instrumental Paulinho Nogueira with a reduced percussion accompaniment in charge of Radamanto and Rogerio. This is the kind of album that grabs your attention at the first hearing; Paulinho Nogueira performs a repertoire of well known bossa nova cuts, including his rendition of Luiz Bonfa’s Manha de Carnaval and Paulinho’s Bachianinha Nr. 1. My choice to Loronix Preview Center is 06 – So Tinha de Ser com Voce (Antonio Carlos Jobim / Aloysio de Oliveira). Tracks include:

Personnel

Paulinho Nogueira
(violao, arrangements)
Radames, Rogerio
(percussion)

Track List

01 - Menino das Laranjas (Theo de Barros)
02 - Inútil Paisagem (Tom Jobim / Aloysio de Oliveira)
03 - Aleluia (Edu Lobo / Ruy Guerra)
04 - Minha Namorada (Carlos Lyra / Vinicius de Moraes)
05 - Bachianinha Nº 1 (Paulinho Nogueira)
06 - Só Tinha Que Ser Com Você (Tom Jobim / Aloysio de Oliveira)
07 - Jesus Alegria dos Homens (Johann Sebastian Bach)
08 - Arrastão (Edu Lobo / Vinicius de Moraes)
09 - Você (Roberto Menescal / Ronaldo Bôscoli)
10 - Opinião (Zé Keti)
11 - Samba Bom (Vera Brasil)
12 - Manhã de Carnaval (Luis Bonfá / Antônio Maria)

Gal Costa - O Sorriso do Gato de Alice (1993)

Hello, good evening! I spent a lot of time deciding the album we would have today at Loronix. It happens every day, it is always very hard to make this choice. All options were very good, each one with its ups and downs, but in the last minute I thought it would be a great idea to bring Gal Costa back to Loronix front page. It has been quite a time since her last release was made, and she is an artist that everybody loves. Let’s see.

This is Gal Costa – O Sorriso do Gato de Alice (1993), for BMG RCA, featuring Gal Costa with Arto Lindsay production and a constellation of special guests. Although issued very recently in 1993, this album has been unexplainably out of print. I read some reviews today and it is interesting how they vary at the extreme, with some people saying this is Gal Costa at her best and others – probably influenced by the arrangements with lots of percussions – saying it does not add much to Gal Costa discography. I think Jorge Ben fans with have a nice entertainment with Sorriso do Gato de Alice, featuring several Jorge Ben songs, including Alkahool, one of my favorites here. Tracks include:

Special Guests

Caetano Veloso
Djavan
Gilberto Gil
Jorge Ben
Paulinho da Viola


Personnel

Paulo Belinati
(violao, viola, seresta, percussion, arrangements)
Arthur Maia
(bass, arrangements)
Jurim Moreira, Carlos Bala
(drums)
Marcal, Marcos Suzano, Marcelo Costa, Monica Millet
(percussion)
Mark Ribot, Celso Fonseca, Arto Lindsay
(guitar)
Paulo Calazans
(keyboards)
Paulinho da Viola
(violao)
Jorge Ben
(violao)
Oswaldo Lenine
(violao)
Jota Moraes
(marimba)
Mauro Senise
(flute)
Marcos Pereira
(viola)
Gilberto Gil
(violao)
Djavan
(violao)
Nico Assumpcao
(bass)
Frank London
(piston)

Track List

01 - Bahia Minha Preta (Caetano Veloso)
02 - Bumbo da Mangueira (Jorge Ben "Jorge Benjor")
03 - Errática (Caetano Veloso)
04 - Mãe da Manhã (Gilberto Gil)
05 - Gratitude (Arto Lindsay / Caetano Veloso)
06 - Eu Vou Lhe Avisar (Jorge Ben)
07 - Nuvem Negra (Djavan)
08 - Lavagem do Bonfim (Gilberto Gil)
09 - Serene (Djavan / Arto Lindsay)
10 - Você e Você (Gilberto Gil)
11 - Alkahool (Jorge Ben)

Egberto Gismonti - Egberto Gismonti (1969)

Hello, good evening! Here we go with another nice album sponsored by Jorge Mello, which is the very first Egberto Gismonti LP, recorded for Elenco in 1969. If you are used with Egberto Gismonti albums released after his departure from Brazil, you will have a surprise with this one. Gismonti sings and the whole atmosphere is Bossa Nova, although released in a time where the movement had already lost his momentum. Let’s see.

This is Egberto Gismonti – Egberto Gismonti (1969), for Elenco, featuring a blend of vocal and instrumental tracks with Egberto Gismonti singing, arranging all tracks and playing piano, violao and organ. There are two very special guests, Dulce Nunes, singing with Egberto Gismonti at 09 - Clama Claro and Durval Ferreira playing violao on 03 – Pr’um Samba. The whole session features accompaniment by the renowned Wilson das Neves and Sergio Barroso, as described in personnel listing. Tracks include:

Personnel

Egberto Gismonti
(voice, violao, piano, organ, arrangements)
Wilson das Neves
(drums)
Sergio Barroso
(bass)

Special Guests

Durval Ferreira
(violão)
Dulce Nunes
(voice)

Track List

01 - Salvador (Egberto Gismonti)
02 - Tributo a Wes Montgomery (Egberto Gismonti)
03 - Pr'um Samba (Egberto Gismonti) with Durval Ferreira
04 - Computador (Egberto Gismonti)
05 - Atento Alerta (Egberto Gismonti / Paulo Sergio Valle)
06 - Lírica II (Pra Mulher Amada) (Egberto Gismonti)
07 - O Gato (Egberto Gismonti)
08 - Um Dia (Egberto Gismonti)
09 - Clama-claro (Egberto Gismonti / Arnoldo Medeiros) with Dulce Nunes
10 - Pr'um Espaço (Egberto Gismonti)
11 - O Sonho (Egberto Gismonti)
12 - Estudo Nº 5 (Egberto Gismonti)