Flora Purim: Speak No Evil

Bossa Nova / Brazilian Jazz
premiera polska: 2003-08-01
kontynent: Ameryka Południowa
kraj: Brazylia
opakowanie: Jewelcaseowe etui
opis:
Editors's info:
Speak No Evil is a 2003 album by the Brazilian singer Flora Purim. The name of the album is a tribute to a 1965 album and song by Wayne Shorter.
The album is a fusion of jazz, samba, and other Latin rhythms, featuring Airto Moreira, Oscar Castro Neves, and her daughter, Diana Booker.
The album reached number fifteen on the jazz album chart at Billboard magazine.

All Music Guide:
Two realities are abundantly clear from listening to this Brazilian songstress legend's latest mix of standards and originals -- she swings magnificently with great jazz company (including her husband, percussion legend Airto Moreira) and she's far more emotionally effective singing in her native Portuguese than in her heavily accented English. Her phrasing is solid on classics like "You Go To My Head" and the samba flavored "I've Got You Under My Skin," but her thick accent keeps the ears distracted somewhat from the message her heart seeks to convey. Fortunately, on these and other English language tunes by Don Grusin, Wayne Shorter and the vastly underrated L.A. keyboardist/songwriter Bill Cantos, she's surrounded by bandmates that propel her to great heights. On the opener "This Magic," that includes Moreira's jamming with flutist Gary Meek and members of The Yellowjackets. The same crowd turns "Speak No Evil" into a similarly wild trad-jazz affair. But compare her strained vocals on those tracks with her effortless vocal magic on Brazilian classics like "Tamanco no Samba" and "O Sonho" and the distinction between mere very good and close to perfection is clear. Another gem is the samba-lite tune written by Airto and Yutaka Yokokura, "Primeira Estrela," which rolls along on the strength of Purim's vocal harmonies with Yutaka and Oscar Castro Neves' beautiful acoustic guitar. To truly speak no musical evil, Purim should concentrate on mas Portugues.
by Jonathan Widran

muzycy:
Flora Purim: vocals
Airto Moreira: drums (except "This magic"), percussion (except "Speak no evil) and vocals (in "Primeira estrela")
Michito Sanchez: percussion (in "This magic" and "Speak no evil")
Jimmy Branly: drums (in "This magic") and percussion (in "Speak no evil")
Gary Meek: flute, alto saxophone, tenor saxophone, clarinet, bass clarinet
Jimmy Haslip: bass (in "This magic" and "Speak no evil")
Trey Henry: bass (in "You go to my head", "Don't say a word", "Ain't necessarily so" and "I feel you")
Gary Brown: bass (in "Tamanco no samba", "Primeira estrela" and "O sonho")
Russell Ferrante: keyboards (in "This magic" and "Speak no evil")
Christian Jacob: keyboards (in "You go to my head" and "Ain't necessarily so")
Oscar Castro Neves: keyboards (in "I've got you under my skin") and acoustic guitar
Marcos Silva: keyboards (in "Tamanco no samba" and "O sonho")
Bill Cantos: keyboards (in "Don't say a word" and "I feel you")
Yutaka Yokokura: keyboards (in "Primeira estrela")
Diana Booker: vocals (in "Primeira estrela")

utwory:
1. This Magic (Booker/Grusin)
2. You Go To My Head (Coots/Gillespie)
3. Speak No Evil (Rubin/Shorter)
4. I've Got You Under My Skin (Porter)
5. Tamanco no Samba (Divo/Menezes)
6. Don't Say A Word (Cantos)
7. Primeira Estrela (Moreira/Yokokura)
8. It Ain't Necessarily So (Gershwin/Gershwin)
9. I Feel You (Cantos)
10. O Sonho [Moon Dreams] (Gismonti)

wydano: 2003
nagrano: Recorded at Entourage Studios, North Hollywood, CA
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