101 Strings Orchestra - Play Million Seller Hits of Today Written by Simon and Garfunkel

1. Mrs. Robinson
2. Feelin' Groovy
3. Homeward Bound
4. When the Trees That Are Green Turn to Brown
5. Scarborough Fair
6. The Boxer
7. The Sounds of Silence
8. I Am A Rock
9. Orange Grove Avenue
10. Trav'lin' Again

Million Seller Hits of Today

Sadao Watanabe - Plays Ballads

1. Here's That Rainy Day
2. My Foolish Heart
3. I Thought About You
4. Old Folks
5. Spring Is Here
6. Little Girl Blue
7. That's All
8. They Say It's Wonderful
9. My Romance
10. Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child
11. Once Upon A Summertime
12. A Nightingale Sang in Barkley Square
13. It's Easy to Remember

Plays Ballads

Gary Burton, Chick Corea, Pat Metheny, Roy Haynes and Dave Holland - Like Minds

1. Question and Answer
2. Elucidation
3. Windows
4. Futures
5. Like Minds
6. Country Roads
7. Tears of Rain
8. Soon
9. For A Thousand Years
10. Straight Up and Down

Personnel:

Gary Burton, vibes

Chick Corea, piano

Pat Metheny, guitar

Dave Holland, bass

Roy Haynes, drums

Like Minds

In Memoriam

(1941 - 2021)

The Outriggers - Captivation - Hawaiian Moods

1. Blue Hawaii
2. King Kamchamcha
3. Lovely Hula Hands
4. The Hukilau Song
5. To You Sweetheart, Aloha
6. Hawaiian War Chant
7. On the Beach at Waikiki
8. My Tane
9. Mapauna
10. The Moon of Manakoora
11. Sweet Someone
12. Kuu Ipo

Captivation

Antonio Carlos Jobim - Tide - Arranged and Conducted by Eumir Deodato

1. The Girl from Ipanema
2. Carinhoso
3. Tema Jazz
4. Sue Ann
5. Remember
6. Tide
7. Takatanga
8. Caribe
9. Rockanalia
10. Tema Jazz (Alternative Take 1)
11. Tide (Alternative Take)
12. Tema Jazz (Alternative Take 2)
13. Tema Jazz (Master Take in Full)

Tide

101 Strings Orchestra - Million Seller Hits of 1969

1. Hair
2. Scarborough Fayre
3. Aquarius
4. Lonely Boy
5. Galveston
6. Good Morning Starshine
7. I'll Never Fall in Love Again
8. Soulsville
9. Oh Happy Day
10. Wichita Lineman

Million Seller Hits of 1969

Antonio Carlos Jobim - Wave - Arranged and Conducted by Claus Ogerman

1. Wave
2. The Red Blouse
3. Look to the Sky
4. Batidinha
5. Triste
6. Mojave
7. Dialogo
8. Lamento
9. Antigua
10. Captain Bacardi

Wave

Dick Hyman - A Zillion Strings

1. Symphony
2. Caravan
3. I'll Never Be the Same
4. The Glow Worm
5. More Than You Know
6. Just in Time
7. I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles
8. Willow Weep for Me
9. Kaipuala
10. (All of A Sudden) My Heart Sings
11. Sugar Blues
12. My Darling, My Darling

A Zillion Strings

101 Strings Orchestra - Plays Songs Written by Carole King

1. Hey Girl
2. Up on the Roof
3. Tapestry
4. Portrait of Carole
5. It's Too Late
6. It's Going to Take Some Time
7. Chains
8. Just Once in My Life
9. Go Away Little Girl
10. King for A Day

Songs Written by Carole King

Alfred Newman - Conducts Selections from Fiorello & The Sound of Music

1. Politics and Poker
2. When Did I Fall in Love
3. Little Tin Box
4. 'Til Tomorrow
5. Gentleman Jimmy
6. On the Side of the Angels
7. The Sound of Music
8. Do-Re-Mi
9. My Favorite Things
10. Climb Ev'ry Mountain
11. Sixteen Going on Seventeen
12. Maria

Selections from Fiorello & The Sound of Music

Benny Goodman - Seven Come Eleven

1. Alone Together
2. I Cover the Waterfront
3. A Smooth One
4. Send in the Clowns
5. You Are the Sunshine of My Life
6. Seven Come Eleven
7. Sweet Lorraine
8. And the Angels Sing
9. I Only Have Eyes for You
10. Slipped Disc
11. Limehouse Blues

Seven Come Eleven

Waldo de Los Rios - Oberturas

1. Rosamunda (Schubert)
2. Romeo y Julieta (Tchaikovsky)
3. Caballeria Ligera (Franz von Suppé)
4. El Murciélago (Johann Strauss)
5. El Sueño de Una Noche de Verano (Mendelssohn)
6. El Barbero de Sevilla (Rossini)
7. Egmont (Beethoven)
8. Don Pasquale (Donizetti)

Oberturas

Stan Getz & Charlie Byrd - Jazz Samba

1. Desafinado
2. Samba Dees Days
3. O Pato
4. Samba Triste
5. Samba de Uma Nota So
6. E Luxo So
7. Baia
8. Desafinado (Original 45 RPM Hit Single Version)

Jazz Samba

The Saxophonist

The Guitarist

Antonio Carlos Jobim - The Composer of Desafinado Plays

1. The Girl from Ipanema
2. O Morro
3. Agua de Beber
4. Dreamer
5. Favela
6. Insensatez
7. Corcovado
8. One Note Samba
9. Meditation
10. Jazz Samba (So Danco Samba)
11. Chega de Saudade
12. Desafinado

The Composer of Desafinado Plays

As the Schweppes man would say, this is a most "curiously refreshing" album. Curious, for during the entire length of the disc, Jobim, who is the featured soloist, plays what amounts to one-finger piano. Refreshing, because it is one of the loveliest and most deliciously lyrical albums to result from the bossa nova wave with which we've been inundated this last year.

All 12 selections are Jobim compositions, and each is so suffused with ardent, luminous grace and beauty, such soaring, uncloying lyricism, such unaffected tenderness and compassion, that one can only marvel at Jobim's superlative gifts as a melodist. Beautiful and romantic as his melodies are, and for all the deep strain of plaintive melancholy at their core, they are never saccharine or bathetic; never do they descend to the trivial or the facile. Rather, they exude a great love and humanity, to which one must respond immediately and fully.

The arrangements for the string orchestra Claus Ogerman has fashioned capture perfectly the essence of lilting gaiety and wistful sadness of Jobim's music, and they further complement and second the composer's effortless, deceptively simple single-note piano lines with their wonderful rhythmic strength and melodic clarity. Each setting superbly brings out the characteristic essence of the melody to which it has been wedded.

This collection is an unabashed delight from beginning to end, offering as it does a perfectly realized celebration of pure, lambent melodic beauty without a single trace of the contrived or the labored. Jobim's melodies sing effortlessly and they sing of the human heart.

If the bossa nova movement had produced nothing more than this album, it would have been more than justified. I cannot recommend this album highly enough and only wish there were more stars to award it.

(Pete Welding)

Antonio Carlos Jobim - Elenco

1. Garota de Ipanema
2. O Amor em Paz
3. Agua de Beber
4. Vivo Sonhando
5. O Morro Nao Tem Vez
6. Insensatez
7. Corcovado
8. Samba de Uma Nota So
9. Meditacao
10. So Danco Samba
11. Chega de Saudade
12. Desafinado

Elenco

"Se o movimento Bossa Nova tivesse produzido apenas este disco, já estaria plenamente justificado", sentenciou o crítico Pete Welding após salpicar cinco estrelas - a cotacao máxima - na coluna de discos da revista americana Down Beat, uma espécie de Bíblia sagrada dos jazzistas. Ele se referia ao LP de selo Verve 8547, Antonio Carlos Jobim - the Composer of Desafinado Plays, gravado em Nova York em 9 e 10 de maio de 1963, e editado aqui logo no início do catálogo ELENCO (ME-9). O disco foi mais um jab da Bossa Nova no atonito jazz do início dos anos 60.

Antes dele, a dupla Stan Getz (sax) e Charlie Byrd (guitarra) fez misérias com o LP Jazz/Samba (nomeado para oito Grammys, um recorde para a época, ganhou o "best jazz performance"), onde se destacava a faixa Desafinado, um single que vendeu um milhao de cópias e motivou o título deste LP que apresentava Jobim ao público americano. O sucesso do disco da dupla, inusitado para a área instrumental mesmo nos EUA, provocou uma suíte, o Jazz Samba Encore!, com Getz, desta vez um dueto com o violonista brasileiro Luís Bonfá.

Embora desorganizado, o espetáculo Bossa Nova no Carnegie Hall, na noite de 21 de novembro de 62, revelou ao planeta o novo modo de tocar samba e catapultou em definitivo para a glória internacional Tom Jobim, Sérgio Mendes, Carlos Lyra, Luis Bonfá e Joao Gilberto. O filme Orfeu Negro (músicas de Bonfá e de Jobim) reforcava a blitz da bossa pelo lado do cinema, enquanto Arthur Murray instruía os pares, "como dancar Bossa Nova". A febre chegou ao ponto descrito pela contracapa, de Dom Cerulli na edicao original deste LP, de aplicar-se aos standards o sotaque da moda. Era um tal de Stardust Bossa Nova, Fly Me to the Moon Bossa Nova, isso sem contar os despautários de Eddie Gourmé e o embolerado Trio Los Panchos (Blame It on the Bossa Nova) e até Elvis Presley de Bossa Nova Baby (3o. lugar na parada americana em 63). The Girl from Ipanema, na gravacao histórica de Stan Getz, Joao e sua mulher, na época, Astrud Gilberto e o piano de Jobim, completaria o quadro de forma arrasadora, com mais de um milhao de cópias vendidas instantaneamente e a insercao definitiva entre as músicas mais tocadas nos EUA em todos os tempos.

Este The Composer marca a estréia solo tardia de Jobim, já aos 36 anos, um raro exemplo de luminar contido pela modéstia. "Eu nao me achava muito um artista. Eu era mais um arranjador e compositor", esquiva-se. Depois de muitos encontros num barzinho Jim and Andy's, "onde ia a canalhada toda, Gerry Mulligan, Paul Desmond, Stan Getz", ele confessa que "quis correr da raia" com o produtor Creed Taylor. "Eu disse que gravava no Brasil e mandava o disco", diverte-se hoje. Mas Creed, além de impor Nova York, apareceu de maestro alemao a tiracolo. "Esse homem enlouqueceu", protestou o compositor, antes de deparar-se com a flexibilidade e sutileza dos arranjos de Claus Ogerman. "Um ouvido formidável", elogiou depois. Ficou fregues e ainda gravaria com ele Urubu e Matita Pere. "O Claus tinha na cabeca aqueles contrapontos que eu fazia com a melodia", garante.

Quando gravou este LP, estava há um ano sem pilotar o one finger piano, que se transformaria em marca pessoal. Jobim tinha razoes práticas para o estilo: "Queria mostrar as melodias, delinear bem as melodias, num período em que elas ainda eram  desconhecidas nos EUA. Tudo bem didático, bem claro. Tinha um improvisozinho, mas o forte era aquela coisa sucinta da Bossa Nova", avisa. E aproveita para lembrar sua admiracao por Chet Baker ("ele trazia a nota afinada, sem vozeirao"), um ícone da atmosfera cool da bossa nova que transpira deste LP. Com o brasileiro Edison Machado na bateria e destaques para os solos de Leo Wright (flauta) e Jimmy Cleveland (trombone), Tom fez um clássico, um disco atemporal. O recato do piano em sintonia com a opulencia medida das orquestracoes promove a síntese da bossa jobiniana. Uma aparencia de simplicidade nas harmonias ricas e um lirismo melódico que nunca atinge o transbordamento. Apenas o toque na medida de um genio da raca.

(Tárik de Souza)

Ray Anthony - The Anthony Choir

1. Sweet & Lovely
2. Jalousie
3. To Each His Own
4. My Reverie
5. At Last
6. There Are Such Things
7. Adios
8. Over the Rainbow
9. The Moon Is Low
10. Stairway to the Stars
11. I Hear A Rhapsody
12. As Time Goes By

The Anthony Choir

Harry Zimmerman - Bongos / Reeds / Brass Vol. 2

1. Under Paris Skies
2. Indian Summer
3. Carnival of Venice
4. Sunday
5. Vaya Con Dios
6. The Girl That I Marry
7. On A Little Street in Singapore
8. Blue Tango
9. Orchids in the Moonlight
10. You're the Cream in My Coffee
11. In My Solitude
12. Oh Susanna / Swanee River

Bongos Reeds Brass Vol. 2