Wave - Antonio Carlos Jobim

 

Lamento

Wave

Antonio Carlos Jobim

Produced by Creed Taylor

Cover Photographs by Pete Turner

Album Design by Sam Antupit

Recored at Van Gelder Studios

Engineer: Rudy Van Gelder

Recorded May 22, 23, 24 and June 15, 1967

A&M Records CTI 

Personnel:

Conductor:

Claus Ogerman

Violins:

Bernard Elchen

Lewis Eley

Paul Gershman

Emanuel Green

Louis Haber

Julius Held

Leo Kruczek

Harry Lookofsky

Joseph Malignaggi

Gene Orloff

Raoul Poliakin

Irving Spice

Louis Stone

Celli:

Abe Kessler

Charles McCracken

George Ricci

Harvey Shaprio

Bass:

Ron Carter

Drums:

Domum Romao

Bobby Rosengarden

Claudio Ston

French Horn:

Joseph Singer

Flutes & Piccolo:

Ray Beckenstein

Romeo Penque

Jerome Richardson

Trombones:

Urbie Green

Jimmy Cleveland

Piano & Guitar & Harpsichord:

Antonio Carlos Jobim

From the inside cover: Jobim's music is basically an offshoot of traditional Brazilian forms and its introduction to this country has produced popular hits as well as some imposingly successful jazz albums. On this LP, Jobim plays piano or guitar on all numbers except Antiqua, on which he plays harpsichord for the first time on records. His one vocal – Lamento – is in Portuguese and is characterized by a unique and plaintive lyrical quality. Incidentally, Jobim wrote Lamento with Vinicius de Moraes, who is considered, with Jobim, the co-founder of Bossa Nova.

The inspiration for these songs comes from everyday life (The Red Blouse, Dialogo, for example) and, with one exception, the songs are all Brazil-oriented. The exception is Mojave, a number spawned when Jobim had his first view of our Mojave Desert.

Claus Ogerman is a personal and professional friend of Jobim's. Among the musicians Ogerman leads Domum Romao and Claudio Slon, two of Brazil's best young drummers; Ron Carter, Miles Davis's bassist; and Bobby Rosengarden, whose percussion displays on the Tonight Show have brought him considerable renown. The two trombonists are Jimmy Cleveland and Urbie Green; Green's solos are heard on almost every track. The orchestration is diverse and imaginative – Dialogo, for example, is a duet between Green's trombone and Romeo Penque's bass flute. And one must single out again the percussionists for their aptitude and experience. Claudio Slon, the driving force in this album, has worked with Walter Wanderley, who recorded Summer Samba; Domum Romao with with Astrid Gilberto; Bobby Rosengarden, though North American, has made the percussion aspect of Brazilian music a personal hobby and has become one of this country's leading authorities on it.

I find Jobim's treatment of his material inventive and almost incredibly versatile. Robert Benchley once said of Larry Hart's lyrics that there were unmistakeable signs that Hart had given the matter some thought. Jobim has given what you hear an awful lot of thought. – George Frazier IV

Wave

The Red Blouse

Look To The Sky

Batidinha

Triste

Mojave

Dialogo

Lamento

Antiqua

Captain Bacardi