No One Cares About Josefa's 50 Albums List

Gonna go with Cory, because that's the only solo album I know, not counting all her contributions to Dr. Buzzard's---and it's really good---while Sheila Jordan has several of her own, also the ones with Steve Kuhn, George Russell etc---but damn, sorry Sheila!

A Is For Acid

The Grace Jones album is called PORTFOLIO not Portrait, goddamn it.

It’s either Sheila or June for me….will probably go with Sheila because she was genuinely nice and sweet to every fan who talked with her after her Blue Note show in NY back in March.

It’s either Sheila or June for me….will probably go with Sheila because she was genuinely nice and sweet to every fan who talked with her after her Blue Note show in NY back in March.

(Sorry about the double post, got a weird error and didn’t think the first one went through)

Sheila is some kind of force of nature, such great energy, who always makes me think "I'll have what she's having."

Sinatra takes this one - perfect album from start to finish, fantastic heavy/dreamy atmosphere, best enjoyed just after sunset with a generous tumbler of scotch.

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i voted for Ray Barretto

thank you

Voted La Lupe!!

I can't resist giving love to La YIYIYI

great list josefa. love all the latin jazz, freestyle, brazilian music, 80s r&b. and missing persons!

prob gonna pick sergio mendes, perfect album

Great looking list although I will admit to not having heard most of it. Voted Yma Sumac over Deep Purple and Lydia Lunch of the ones I do know.

Turns out Yma's real name was Zoila Augusta Emperatriz Chavarri del Castillo, I love her even more now.

some good records here, i voted acid as well

Acid for me too. It’s canonical imho tho.

lol another vote for acid, lots of interesting stuff to check for here for sure. I'm sure that Milva must be lush.

There's an awful lot here that I'm not familiar with, but gonna go with Exposé because I've been bumping that one a lot lately.

I'm glad people aren't finding the list too alienating. Certainly with the Italian stuff - Milva, Ornella Vanoni, and Nada (although her album here is sung in Spanish) - it's been difficult to find anyone who's familiar with it, unless they are literal Italians. Some Italian restaurants might play this kind of material, e.g. Emilio's Ballato on Houston St. in NYC plays it on a constant loop.

The Juan Calle, the Percy Faith, and the Peggy Lee were all thrift store finds from many years ago that have just stuck with me.

Ornella Vanoni is partially well known through the use of l’appuntamento on one of the oceans eleven movies.

Ocean’s 12 according to google.

I knew this list would be interesting. There is a lot here I have never heard..

Little known fact (unless you’re well versed in Brazilian music): that song is actually a cover of “sentado a beira do caminho” by Roberto Carlos and Erasmo Carlos.

I actually like that version better, but Ornella’s version is quite gorgeous:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2prF3jC6H9M

Roberto Carlos, there's a blast from the past.

Ah, didn't know about Ornella in Ocean's 12.

White Lotus featured some old Italian records too, but I forget which except for the Raffaella Carrà song they used in the opening credits.

The Brazilian - Italian connection is interesting. One of the Ennio Morricone compositions that Milva sings on her album - "Metti, una sera a cena" - is very Bossa nova sounding.

70’s (even 60’s) onwards there’s a lot of crossover hits between Italy, Brazil and Spanish speaking countries (mostly Mexico). It’s not uncommon to have say Italian artists re-recording their songs in Spanish and making them bigger hits (Eros Ramazotti, Laura Pausini, Gianluca Grignani… some examples) or idk Mexican artists having their biggest hit be a cover of an italian song (Mercurio’s “vuela vuela” top of my mind)… I guess the 3 languages are similar enough that lyrics can be switched without losing the original intention or sounding awkward.

metta, una sera a cena is one of his classics... you know about the record he did with chico buarque, right?

Oh yeah Ana Carolina also covered the popular Ginaluca Grignani song so that one was actually a hit in portuguese, italian and spanish.

There’s hundreds of examples of this crossover hit thing between italy, brazil and latinamerica but I don’t want to invade the thread with them.

actually I don't know the Buarque/Morricone record

xp Just because it's on this list, I will mention that the Nada album is exactly what you're talking about, an Italian singer rerecording her hits in Spanish - and they were hits again in that form

Clap Hands, Here Comes Charlie! - cos I love crying a river while listening to the murmur of a brook at eventide!

Another factor to consider in the Italy-Brazil connection is that Italian immigration to the country was pretty huge - second biggest white swttler group after the Portuguese if I'm not mistaken, so the roots run deep.

I watched a few musicarelli - 60's Italian musicals meant to showcase contemporary teen pop sensations - this Summer. They vary from endearing to absolutely rotten. But anyway if you look them up on letterboxd often all the reviews will be from Brazilian users.

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Missed Bow Wow Wow the first time I scanned the list, which is surprising given the lengthy title, but I might have voted for that over Exposé. Might.

Started the Teena Marie album and while I haven't finished listening to it yet, that title track rules so hard.

Had never listened to the Nu Shooz album all the way through and that was a good time.

I haven't listened to that Lydia Lunch in a long time - will have to revisit.

"Lee Konitz Plays with the Gerry Mulligan Quartet"

glad I checked this one out, it's a delightful live compilation I'd never heard before.

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The Sinatra and especially the June Christy albums are masterpieces - the Lee Konitz album may be great too but he’s made so many it’s hard for me to keep track which is which.

I have an indelible memory of listening to Live in Seattle in my apartment in Florida in 1992 while Hurricane Andrew was raging outside my window,. It was absolutely the perfect soundtrack, just beautiful.

And yes, I’ve noticed that the Konitz/Mulligan material has been repackaged in many permutations, leading me to wonder which exact one I have (strangely can’t locate it right now)

missed this. would have been tough to choose from Yma Sumac, Les Baxter, Ray Baretto & Lydia Lunch.

The title track of Acid has one of the greatest bass lines of all time, which is a pretty crowded field to be in.