Herbie Mann: Brazil, Bossa Nova And Blues / Right Now (CD)

Herbie Mann (1930-2003)

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Label:: Fresh Sound
Year of recording ca.:: 1962
UPC/EAN:: 8427328607704
Release date:: 20.3.2013

Product Information

This gentle and warm blend of jazz and bossa nova was inspired by flautist Herbie Mann's 1961 Brazilian tour. A well-chosen, simpatico group invests these attractive compositions with warmth while slipping deftly into the blend of relaxation and lyricism the idiom calls for. As leader, Mann generally takes on the theme statements, but his unpretentious - yet always melodic - playing works well in this context. A major benefit to the sessions is Billy Bean, a superb guitarist with a great gift for improvisation, whose versatility adds considerably more orchestral colour and texture to Mann's group. Vibist Haygood Hardy's rhythmically sinuous and serpentine solos are also consistently well constructed, while the rhythm section, which carries the soloists along irresistibly, yet always with restraint, is one of the best Mann ever had.

Featuring: Herbie Mann (fl), Haygood Hardy (vb), Dave Pike (marimba), Billy Bean (g), Bill Salter, Don Payne (b), Willie Bobo (d), Carlos “Patato” Valdés (conga), Jose De Paula (tambourine), Carmen Costa (maracas), Johnny Pacheco, Willie Rodriguez (perc)