Cheganca - Walter Wanderley

 

Take Care, My Heart

Cheganca

The Walter Wanderley Trio

Arranged by Walter Wanderley

Produces by Creed Taylor

Director of Engineering: Val Valentin

Cover Design: Acy R. Lehman

Cover Photo: Jay Maisel

Verve V-8676

1966

Walter Wanderley - Electric Organ

Bobby Rosengarden - Percussion

Sol Gubin (Percussion on "Take Care, My Heart)

From the inside cover (gatefold): Walter Wanderley was born in Recife, which sounds like a small, sleepy Brazilian village. Recife is in Brazil, but as a village it's about as small and sleepy as Washington, D.C.

Wanderley's music, like his background, is urban. At the same time Joao Gilberto and Antonio Carlos Jobim were living and writing on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro, Walter Wanderley was creating another new Brazilian sound a few hundred miles away in Sao Paulo, where he had moved at the age of 15. 

It's not surprising that their styles contain subtle differences. The softly swinging Gilberto-Jobim approach reflects the atmosphere of Rio, an enchanting city where sky, sea, mountains, and even the air become the ingredients of music. Sao Paulo, on the other hand, is a thriving industrial city (larger than Rio, even larger than Chicago). And Walter Wanderley's music, which grew out of  Sao Paulo, is Sao Paulo – dynamic, sophisticated, but still shaded with the delicate beauties of Brazil.

When Rio and Sao Paulo got together (when Wanderley and Gilberto met and made an album together) the new music of Brazil began to catch the ears of the rest of the world. Almost everywhere except the United States, that is, where only a few copies of the historic Wanderley-Gilberto album were smuggled in.

Meanwhile in Brazil, Wanderley, on his own, recorded Desafinado, Quiet Nights, Meditation, Little Boat – all smash hits throughout Latin America, in France, and in other countries. But it was his recording of The Girl For Ipanema that really burst out of Brazil. Stan Getz and Joao Gilberto subsequently recorded it in New York, with Astrid Gilberto singing the delightful English lyrics. The rest is popular music history.

All that remained was to get Walter Wanderley himself to New York, where he could be recorded and his records made available to the world-wide audience already waiting for him. A few months ago, Verve Records did just that. The rewarding result was Walter Wanderley's first American album, Rain Forest, an instant success throughout the country with both record buyers and disc jockeys (who treated their listeners to Walter's Summer Samba all summer long). 

Shortly thereafter, a new album reunited the names of Gilberto and Wanderley, with Astrid and Walter bringing us the beautiful, bittersweet A Certain Smile A Certain Sadness.

This is only the third Verve album for "Brazil's Number One Organist," as he was appropriately introduced to Americans. With this recording, that introduction requires a slight revision. For Walter Wanderley is now rapidly becoming everyone's number one organist." From anywhere. – Bob Lee - KRHM-FM, Los Angeles

From Billboard - February 18, 1967: Wanderley offers thrilling interpretations of a dozen pop bossa nova numbers perfect for listening or dancing in this package that is sure to be a hot sales item. His organ solos are accentuated by a strong rhythm backing making "Cheganca," "Take Care, My Heart" and "A Man And A Woman" gems. Strong follow-up to his hit LP "Rain Forest."

Cheganca (The Great Arrival)

Amanha

Take Care, My Heart

Agua De Beber

Here's That Rainy Day

O Ganso

Mar Amar

Voce E Eu

O Menino Desce O Morro

Dá-Me (Stay, My Love)

Amor De Nada

A Man And A Woman (Un Homme et Une Femme)