Note: the CD I listened to was the 2007 Rudy Van Gelder Edition with three bonus tracks.
According to a brief note in CashBox magazine, this album was the first Bossa Nova album released on the Blue Note label. Not particularly innovative, but quite good. Very similar to Getz albums of the time, except when Kenny Burrell gets a solo turn, then everything seems to kick up a notch.
Sadly, this was the last album Quebec recorded before his death in January 1963, at the age of 44, from lung cancer.
Quebec - tenor saxophone
Kenny Burrell - guitar
Wendell Marshall - bass
Willie Bobo - drums
Garvin Masseaux - chekere
Original liner notes by Nat Hentoff.
Reviews/ratings:
- Billboard (★★★★): "deserving of some attention."
- DownBeat (★★★½): "a pleasant, unpretentious set of pretty ballads played with assurance and quiet passion."
- The Penguin Guide to Jazz (5th ed., 2000): ★★★
- The Rolling Stone Jazz & Blues Album Guide (1999): ★★½
- The Virgin Encyclopedia of Jazz (1999): ★★★
Peak on the US Billboard Top 200 chart: Did not chart
Tracks: My favorites are Lloro Tu Despedida, Me 'N You, Shu Shu, Blue Samba, and Linda Flor. Unusual for the time, there's nothing on this album written by Jobim.
Bonus tracks: alternate takes of Loie, Shu Shu, and Favela.
Personal Memory Associated with this CD: None.
Previously revisited for the blog:
Easy Living (1987)
It Might As Well Be Spring (1964)
Blue & Sentimental (1963)
Heavy Soul (1962)
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