Genre
Samba jazz and bossa nova. Described as "a masterpiece of hip Brazilian swing," the album presents twelve instrumental tracks - a mix of Deodato originals alongside compositions by Marcos Valle, Paulo Sérgio Valle, Baden Powell, and Luiz Bonfá - driven by Deodato's scorching Hammond B3 organ solos.
Release
Originally released in 1965 by Equipe Records, Brazil.
Production
All arrangements and conducting by Eumir Deodato, who also played Hammond B3 organ and piano throughout. The ensemble comprised Maurílio Santos on trumpet, Edson Maciel on trombone, Walter Rosa on tenor saxophone, Aurino Ferreira on baritone saxophone, Geraldo Vespar on electric guitar, Sergio Barroso on bass, Wilson Das Neves on drums, Rubens Bassini and Humberto Garin on percussion, and Jorginho on congas. Recorded at CBS Studios, Rio de Janeiro.
Reception
The album has been described by the Vinyl Factory as capturing "the deeper, groovier side of that magical, hazy sound of sixties Rio." It has since become one of the most celebrated documents of the Rio de Janeiro samba jazz scene of the mid-1960s, praised by collectors and critics as an essential and somewhat neglected masterwork of the genre.
Eumir Deodato
Eumir Deodato (born Eumir Deodato de Almeida, June 22, 1943, Rio de Janeiro) is a Brazilian-American pianist, organist, arranger, composer, and producer, one of the most prolific figures in the history of popular music. He began his career as a studio arranger in Rio de Janeiro in the early 1960s, collaborating with Roberto Menescal, João Donato, and Marcos Valle, while simultaneously leading Os Catedráticos - his samba jazz ensemble - across three albums between 1964 and 1965. After relocating to New York in the late 1960s, he built a second career as one of the most sought-after session arrangers and producers in the American music industry, working with Frank Sinatra, Aretha Franklin, Tom Jobim, Kool & the Gang, George Benson, Earth, Wind & Fire and Björk, among many others. His jazz-funk reworking of Richard Strauss's Also Sprach Zarathustra (1972) became a top-five US pop hit and won him the Grammy Award for Best Pop Instrumental Performance. He has composed or arranged on nearly 500 albums, including sixteen platinum records, and sold over 250 million records in the United States alone.
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