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Nova Bossa: Red Hot on Verve
by Various Artists.
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(1996)
The companion album to Red Hot + Rio. It contains the original versions
of many of the same Bossa Nova classics.
US release.
Audio CD.
Excerpts from the Liner Notes
Samba fused three sounds that thrived in Rio de Janeiro at the end of the 19th centry:
West African polyrhythms, Portuguese melodies and Native American chants. This
potent combination was turned into a classic myth by the poet Vinícius de Moraes,
whose play "Black Orpheus," brought Afrocentric Brazilian culture and samba to
international attention...
Within a few years, American jazz musicians like Herbie Mann, Charlie Byrd and
Stan Getz began to sample these new exotic songs. By 1962, Jobim's "The Girl from Ipanema"
performed by Getz with João Gilberto and his wife Astrud, on the Verve label,
became the biggest hit in the U.S., the year before the Beatles arrived...
By the late '60s, a new generation of artists began to emerge in Brazil from the
Afrocentric northeastern state of Bahia. Let by Gilberto Gil and Caetano Veloso, they
merged bossa with rock by adding more aggressive beats and avoiding romantic lyrics.
This new movement, called tropicalismo, demonstrated the continued vitality of
Brazilian music and that samba, like the blues, grew from the multicultural character of
the Americas to become one of the great art forms of the 20th century.
If you are ever to own only one album of bossa nova, this is it. The music
makes you smile. It makes anyone smile.
— Kristian R