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Originally Released: 1991
Discs: 1
Label: GNP/Crescendo
Item Number: BCI406872
Details
The Colors of Brazil African Blue
Les Baxter
Track Listings
Title
Listen
1.
A Felicidade
2.
Canta de Ossanha
3.
Balan Samba
4.
Day of the Roses
5.
Man and a Woman, A
6.
Who Will Buy
7.
Somewhere in the Hills
8.
Goin' Out of My Head
9.
Tristeza
10.
Berimbau
11.
Laia Ladaia
12.
A Banda
13.
Born Free
14.
Yellow Sun
15.
Flame Tree
16.
Zebra
17.
Dark River
18.
Topaz
19.
Tree of Life
20.
Girl From Uganda
21.
Magenta Mountain
22.
Johannesburg Blues
23.
Jalaba
24.
Azure Sands
25.
Kalahari
Originally released as 2 separate LPs: BRAZIL NOW (1966)/AFRICAN BLUE (1967).
Released in 1966 and 1967 as the albums BRAZIL NOW and AFRICAN BLUE, the 25 tracks on this well-annotated collection capture composer/arranger/tenor saxophonist Les Baxter towards the end of his primary creative period. Baxter's special brand of easy listening and world music influences wasn't as unique by the mid-'60s as it had been a decade before. Bossa nova artists like Antonio Carlos Jobim and Joao Gilberto were making a heftier, more authentic version of the same sort of music that's on this disc, and at the time, Baxter's slick orchestral arrangements sounded kind of old-fashioned.
Now, of course, that's kind of the point, and in hindsight, there's no way you can go wrong with tunes like Francis Lai's "A Man and a Woman" and Jobim's "Berimbau." Hipsters might have originally been smirking when they revived this music, but there's genuine artistry to be found here.
Category:
Easy Listening
Release Date:
04/26/05
Originally Released:
1991
Mono / Stereo:
Stereo
Discs:
1
Availability:
Y
Studio / Live:
Studio
Area:
USA
Is Import:
N
Distributor:
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The Lost Episode
By Popular Request
Tamboo!/Skins
The Pop Side
Voices in Rhythm
The Academy Award Winners/The Soul of the Drums
Primitive & Passionate/les Baxter Balladeers
Fruit of Dreams
Unchained Melodies
Brazil Now
Colors Of Brazil/African Blue
Similar Titles
The Lost Episode
By Popular Request
Tamboo!/Skins
Artist: Les Baxter
Artist: Les Baxter
Artist: Les Baxter
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