Produktinfo: This 1962 project marked the American recording debut of Brazilian masters Sergio Mendes and Dom Um Romao in a program of great jazz-inflected sambas by Antonio Carlos Jobim, Joao Donato and others. Includes two alternate takes.
When he arrived in New York, Mississippi native Mose Allison presented himself as a piano player who occasionally sang and played trumpet. This was the balance Allison struck on six memorable Prestige albums recorded between 1957 and ’59; but what really caught the public’s attention and made him one of the mus…
"It is difficult . . . for some people, who only know Armstrong's singing from his latter-day pop hits, to realize that he was one of the most influential vocalists of the twentieth century. . . . His unique phrasing and masterly vocal readjustments of a song's rhythms influenced countless singers. . . ." Ar…
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