Jazz Samba Encore! (Verve Acoustic Sounds Series)

Independent shop in BallardDirections

Available from Light in the Attic Records when we last checked, in the last two days. Sold from the shop’s own store; the price there is the one that counts.

Recorded in February and March of 1963 and released later that year, Jazz Samba Encore reunites Stan Getz with Luiz Bonfá & Maria Toledo in a more intimate setting than the landmark Jazz Samba, shaped by Bonfá’s darker harmonic palette, Toledo’s distinctive vocal and percussive presence, and Getz’s warm, unhurried lyricism. Blending Bonfá’s originals with works by Antônio Carlos Jobim, the album deepens the evolving dialog between Brazilian songcraft and American jazz phrasing, with Bonfá’s nylo