If the first track on this 1963 Jorge Ben album sounds familiar, Sergio Mendes & Brasil 66 got radio play with it on their first hit album, lead vocal by (future Mrs. Herb Alpert) Lani Hall.
You don't need to be a bossa nova expert to love Jorge Ben's seductive, suave, and oft-covered "Mas, Que Nada!," the opening track of his 1963 debut. The album also features early signature tunes like the giddy "Tim Dom Dom," with its vocal imitations of a guitar, and the gentle samba "Chove Chuva." The breezy, modernist big-band arrangements here offset the intimate tone of his singing and strumming. Jorge Ben got funkier and more eclectic in years to come, but he never sounded sweeter than this.
Ten years before the Eliane album, Jobim sang his song Agua de Beber with Astrud Gilberto on her debut album.
Wrote about half the tunes & played guitar on the rest.
With Antonio Carlos Jobim on guitar and the arrangements by Marty Paich, it was released via Verve Records in 1965. It peaked at number 41 on the Billboard 200 chart.
In 2017, NPR placed it at number 73 on the "150 Greatest Albums Made by Women" list.
You don't need to be a bossa nova expert to love Jorge Ben's seductive, suave, and oft-covered "Mas, Que Nada!," the opening track of his 1963 debut. The album also features early signature tunes like the giddy "Tim Dom Dom," with its vocal imitations of a guitar, and the gentle samba "Chove Chuva." The breezy, modernist big-band arrangements here offset the intimate tone of his singing and strumming. Jorge Ben got funkier and more eclectic in years to come, but he never sounded sweeter than this.
Ten years before the Eliane album, Jobim sang his song Agua de Beber with Astrud Gilberto on her debut album.
Wrote about half the tunes & played guitar on the rest.
With Antonio Carlos Jobim on guitar and the arrangements by Marty Paich, it was released via Verve Records in 1965. It peaked at number 41 on the Billboard 200 chart.
In 2017, NPR placed it at number 73 on the "150 Greatest Albums Made by Women" list.
