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Wednesday, January 2, 2019

Concierto De Aranjuez - Laurindo Almeida

Concierto De Aranjuez
Laurindo Almeida
Executive Producer Kiyoshi Otoh
Co-producer:Yukio Morisaki
U.S.A. Project Coordinator: Kiki Miyake
Recording Engineer: Don Synder
Re-mixing Engineer: Yoshihiro Suzuki
Master Engineer: Tohru Kotetsu
Album Design: Heyqlow Kobayashi
Cover Photograph: Hajime Sawatan
Recorded March 27, 28, 1978 at Gold Star Studios, Los Angeles, California
Inner City Records IC 6031
1978

Available from online dealers so I will not be posting a sample. Presented here to share the original cover art.

From Billboard - April 28, 1979: The classical Rodrigo work in the LP title runs almost 10 minutes. Almeida follows it with eight additional cuts, all pops, including a couple of superior medleys. A brilliant virtuoso of the guitar when he came out of Brazil to join Stan Kenton, Almeida's delicate artistry here indicates he is even more skillful 30-plus years later. Best cuts: "Concierto De Aranjuez," "Gershwin Medley" and "The Summer Knows."

Concierto De Aranjuez
The Summer Knows
Star Dust
How Insensitive
Songs From "Black Orpheus"
(Manha De Carnival / Felicidade / Samba De Orfeu)
Fly Me To The Moon
Cool Cat Keeps Coat On
Holiday For Strings
Gershwin Medley
(It Ain't Necessarily So / I Got Rhythm / Summertime / Prelude No. 2)

1 comment:

  1. Mark Betcher, estive lendo o seu comentário, sobre os artistas,é uma verdade , mais não vou entrar no merito da coisa,gostaria de saber se você disponibiliza o Album do Laurindo Almeida, este sim foi um dos artistas mais injustiçados no meu Pais(Brazil) é um excepcional interprete(foi), mais nunca foi reconhecido,mais acho que atraves dos albuns hoje possa ser reconhecido,você liberaria o link deste Album.Obrigado.

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