Jazz Samba Encore

• Wave
• Stan Getz/Joao Gilberto
• Jazz Samba (Restored/Rm)
• Plays The Cole Porter Songbook
• Silver Collection

If you are a Bossa Nova, Jazz or guitar afficionado, this is a must have album. Luiz Bonfa, the one and only player that "makes a guitar sound like and orchetra by itself", proves to the world that he is indeed has earned the respect of his peers as the "one and only". I guarantee you, once you listen to this album, you will be looking for Luiz Bonfa music all over. I did.

And for Stan Getz, can someone else make a sax create moods of happiness, melancoly, sadness etc...

The combo of Getz and Bonfa is an incredible harmony of one master speaking to the other via their instruments.

I have heard nearly all Bossa Nova music and others alike. I highly recommend this album. Once you listen to it, you will be listening to it over and over. The guitar improvisation will make you think, "how in the world can someone play like this". And you will then be writing the next review like me in here.

Also there is, in my estimation, more artistic balance on this album - Bonfa's playing and Toledo's singing are right there at Getz's level all the time, every time.

This is a superb effort, there isn't a slice of turkey on the entire album. Pure pleasure.

The effect can be largely attributed to singer Maria Toledo, whose strangely disembodied voice haunts the songs. She is rarely the focus, floating in and out of the background like a presiding ghost. Even in a song she clearly dominates, such as 'Insensatez', a phantosmagoric quality makes her vanish into the precious sadness of this song which, with Jobim's understated, unbearably poignant piano, is surely the most beautiful ever written.

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