Dick Farney & Claudette Scares - Amor Em Paz ġ4. Walter Wanderley - Samba De Uma Nota So Ġ7. Joyce With Gilson Peranzzetta - Corcovado Ġ5. 0 out of 5 stars Nice mix/variety of bossa nova standards Reviewed in the United States on JI'm not usually fond of compilations per se, but I like this one a lot.Ġ1. ♫ Buy 'Bossa Nova Classics' (MP3 album) on the Official Halidon Music Store: 🎧 Listen to our 'Bossa Nova & Samba' playlist on Spotify. (Customer from Amazon) Best Of Bossa Nova Torrent Music The liner notes by Gerald Seligman are brief but generally informative. But if you're ready to dig a little deeper and don't need yet another recording of Astrud's 'Agua de Beber' in addition to the four you already have, 'The Story of Bossa Nova' is worthwhile. And Joao Donato's own recording of his composition 'A Ra' stands out as one of the strangest pieces every to be called bossa nova, or anything else.įor novices, some of the compilations on Verve would probably give a better sampling of the best known recordings by the big names. More recent recordings by Leila Pinheiro, Joyce, and Nana Caymmi keep things from sounding too dated, while an excellent instrumental piece by the Milton Banana Trio ventures deep into jazz territory. Pery Ribeiro's 'Garota de Ipanema' has little of the easy-listening sound of the Getz/Gilberto and Jobim/Claus Ogerman versions, while some of the touches on Sylvia Telles' 'Fotografia' come across like cheesy sound effects from 'I Dream of Jeannie' (or worse yet, classic 'Star Trek'). Many of the compositions are the Jobim standards, but the early recordings, some dating from 1959 (contemporary with Joao Gilberto's first albums), show clearly their influence from the pre-rock North American popular music of the day, in their familiar orchestration and 'crooner' feel. 'The Story of Bossa Nova', while including a few more recent additions, concentrates on the original recordings by the first generation of singers and performers who first turned the now-classics into hits and paved the way for worldwide popularity.

A bossa nova compilation without a single track by Joao Gilberto? Of course that's not necessarily a bad thing, and it underscores the interesting selection of lesser-heard recordings in this collection.

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