SEALED latin jazz LP LUIZ BONFA “Brazilian Scene” PHILIPS ’65 orig UNPLAYED

$

30

Artist:  LUIZ BONFA

Title:   “The Brazilian Scene”

Label:   PHILIPS ~ PHS 600-208.  Stereo pressing on medium weight vinyl.  Label is black with silver text. 

Year:   1965

Condition: 

DISC:  Vinyl is MINT UNPLAYED with 100% of original gloss, as clean as can be found.  Disc is still sealed in plastic inner sleeve.  A gorgeous *unplayed* disc you will never need to upgrade.        

JACKET:  Jacket is NEAR MINT with flawless front and back panels.  Nice seams and corners.  No writing, stickers, or other problems.  A beautiful jacket worthy of display.

Track Listing: 

Side One:

• Avocado
• Moonlight in Rio
• Malaguena Salerosa
• Zomba
• Yesterday
• That Old Black Magic  

Side Two:

• I Can’t Give You Anything But Love, Baby
• Embolada
• Bye Bye Blues
• Her Face
• Sambalero
• Dream Girl

Review:

“There is something truly majestic in the guitar playing and composing of Luis Bonfa.  From solo dates such as 1959's Solo in Rio (issued stateside by Smithsonian Folkways) to his 1972 masterpiece, Introspection, his sound is as telltale as the two other Brazilian guitar greats, Baden Powell and Djalma de Andrade (aka Bola Sete).  Bonfa's elegance in style is what sets him apart from even these great masters.  There is something utterly unhurried and gentle about his manner of playing, even during its most intense moments or in the most decorative settings (there were a lot of those during the bossa craze).  The Brazilian Scene, released in 1965 on the Philips imprint, sits right on the knife edge between something as wonderfully organic as his solo recordings and the more stylized Anglo projects that were flooding the bins at the time.  This date was produced by Hal Mooney, who also served as co-arranger along with Bonfa.  The Brazilian Scene set features 12 tunes, seven of which are Bonfa originals, and one an arrangement of a traditional song ("Malaguena Salerosa").  The rest are pop standards and some that would be (the Beatles’ "Yesterday").  The studio group includes Bonfa's New York studio band, featuring the great drummer Helcio Milito, bassist Donald Payne, and flutist Jerome Richardson, with strings and a chamber orchestra that were dubbed in later.  Bonfa's group was recorded absolutely live from the floor; his guitar playing, full of gorgeous dual pizzicatos, popping bass notes, and extended chord voicings, was captured as it is with no overdubs.  This may not seem unusual until you hear it.  More often than not it does feel as if a minimum of two guitarists are playing -- check the fluid, kinetic dual pizzicatos and single notes in the traditional tune, where his bass notes ground a flitting attack of two- and then one-string leads amid his basslines, which also feel twinned.  Other standouts include the dark edges of "Zomba," with its foreboding horns and dramatic strings.  Bonfa moves through them with his minor-key melody playing out in old Brazilian folk dance style, where chords are folded amid twinned lead lines and a hypnotic bassline -- accented on the codas by Milito.  It does have the feeling of gentle exotica because of the orchestrations, but Bonfa's playing removes the flowery edges in the tune.  Of the pop standards, his reading of "That Old Black Magic" transforms the tune into a top-flight samba, with ticking triple-time percussion by Milito.  The band performs this one without accompaniment from the orchestra, and it is among the set's highlights.  As far as mid-'60s bossa goes, this one falls to the Yankee side of that a bit, but this is no easy listening date, either.  This is colorful and polished Brazilian jazz performed by a crack group with tasteful -- if sometimes overly busy -- arrangements. “

(courtesy Thom Jurek, allmusic.com.)

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