Vinyl suggestions: Mellow bossa nova/Prozac-like easy listening music?

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Hi everybody --

I'm looking for mellow bossa nova album suggestions the next time I go vinyl shopping. I've already got the following Jobim-oriented albums:

Carlos Antonio Jobim - Wave (I love everything about this album)

Perry Como - Lightly Latin (Como covers Jobim -- by far the best album Perry Como ever did)

The Marina Strings - Plays the Love Theme from 'Skyjacked' (wonderfully detached Prozac-like dentist office renditions of Jobim, Mancini, and others)

Stan Getz and Joao Gilberto - Getz/Gilberto, Getz/Gilberto #2

Stan Getz - The Best of Two Worlds

Walter Wanderley - Rain Forest

Walter Wanderley and Astrud Gilberto - A Certain Smile, A Certain Sadness

Claudine Longet - The Look of Love, Claudine, Love is Blue (there's usually a few bossa nova tracks on each album)

Based on the above list, what suggestions do you have for what I should get next? I'm especially interested in albums filled with covers of Jobim songs -- the more laid back, the better!

Note that the album suggestions must be available on vinyl (I'll be shopping at a record store which has a pretty big selection).

Thanks in advance...

― popmusic, Friday, 5 March 2004 03:29 (twenty-two years ago)

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― popmusic, Friday, 5 March 2004 03:30 (twenty-two years ago)

How about Sergio Mendes?

― maypang (maypang), Friday, 5 March 2004 04:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Bebel Gilberto

Sergio Mendez for sure

― hector (hector), Friday, 5 March 2004 04:26 (twenty-two years ago)

Sade

― jim wentworth (wench), Friday, 5 March 2004 05:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Nara Leao - vento de maio
Stan Getz & Luiz Bonfa & Maria Toledo - Jazz Samba Encore

mellolounge/exotica:
Robert Drasnin - Voodoo
The Out-Islanders
Jack De Mello

― eleki-san (eleki-san), Friday, 5 March 2004 05:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Another recommendation for Sergio Mendes here. Here's one to keep an eye out for: http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/dre500/e524/e52458mg9go.jpg

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Friday, 5 March 2004 05:24 (twenty-two years ago)

Actually, I own (er, owned) most of Sergio Mendes' albums... In theory, I should really, really like his stuff (the Herb Alpert connection, jet set Euro-jazz, mid/late-'60s female singers, lots of bossa nova stuff) but I don't. Believe me, I've tried. There's something about the vibe/feel of the playing on those records that sounds... nervous. And forced.

But keep the suggestions coming! I'm making a list...

― popmusic, Friday, 5 March 2004 13:29 (twenty-two years ago)

The album Frank Sinatra made with Jobim is really wonderful, so mellow it's almost comatose.

http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B000002K9P.02.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

― LondonLee (LondonLee), Friday, 5 March 2004 13:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Comatose is good!

― popmusic, Friday, 5 March 2004 13:42 (twenty-two years ago)

Check out "Getz Au Go Go". It's a live album with the Stan Getz Quartet. About half the songs contain beautiful vocals from Astrud Gilberto. One of the best sounding recordings you'll ever here, especially on vinyl.

― William R Henderson (Cabin Essence), Saturday, 6 March 2004 19:05 (twenty-two years ago)

I assume you know about usual suspects Marcos Valle, The Tamba Trio, Joao Gilberto, Joyce, etc. More fun to discover, I would think, are the kind of one-off artifacts (Perry Como!!) you would never expect to exist.

Suggestions:
Hi-Lo's Happen To Bossa Nova (Every bit as fantastic as the name sounds!)
Duke Ellington - Afro Bossa
Dave Brubeck - Bossa Nova Album (or something like that)
Deodato - Bossa Nova Sessions Vol 1 & 2
Quincy Jones - Big Band Bossa Nova
Lalo Schifrin - Bossa Nova Groove

― Curt (cgould), Saturday, 6 March 2004 23:18 (twenty-two years ago)

More:
Vic Damone - Stay With Me
Herbie Mann - Latin Fever
Jumping Jacques - Sugar and Spice
Chris Montez - Foolin' Around Brazil

― Curt (cgould), Sunday, 7 March 2004 00:24 (twenty-two years ago)

I just picked up the Les Baxter LP "Que Mango" today for about 5 bucks, that's some great stuff. It's a 1970 LP, and the most well-known song these days is probabll "Tropicando", since it was the opening cut on the Thievery Corporation DJ Kicks CD.

I second Getz Au Go Go

― Gear! (Gear!), Sunday, 7 March 2004 00:29 (twenty-two years ago)

four years pass...

nice thread. can we have more?

― moonship journey to baja, Friday, 25 April 2008 05:44 (eighteen years ago)

also opened this thread because i was listening to jobim's "tide" and decided to start "100 top easy-listening albums" but then i was like "nah, better use search function"

― moonship journey to baja, Friday, 25 April 2008 05:45 (eighteen years ago)

http://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/lionel_hampton/soft_vibes___soaring_strings/

― Bangelo, Friday, 25 April 2008 05:49 (eighteen years ago)

no bossa, but makes everything OK

― Bangelo, Friday, 25 April 2008 05:52 (eighteen years ago)

Astrud Gilberto with Stanley Turrentine. Deodato produced on CTI. I <3 this album.

― gnarly sceptre, Friday, 25 April 2008 09:15 (eighteen years ago)

It's also got some Toots!

― gnarly sceptre, Friday, 25 April 2008 09:15 (eighteen years ago)

As far as Tom Jobim covers go, Ella Abraca Jobim, an album of Jobim songs sang by Ella Fitzgerald, is pretty much unfuckwithable.

― Tuomas, Friday, 25 April 2008 09:27 (eighteen years ago)

Don't get any of the albums where Jobim sings all the songs himself though, he's not half as good as a singer than as a composer.

― Tuomas, Friday, 25 April 2008 09:28 (eighteen years ago)

As for laid-back Brazilian-tinged pop jazz, this is one of my favourites:

http://qblog.nov.ru/images/uploads2/butterfly_dreams.jpg

It has Stanley Clarke on bass and George Duke on keys, but little prog-jazz noodling, just great playing. I love love love Airto Moreira's (Flora's husband) 70s stuff too, but it tends to be more energetic than laid-back.

― Tuomas, Friday, 25 April 2008 09:35 (eighteen years ago)

there is nothing laid back about the first track on Butterfly Dreams! God, I love that song. It is a high energy jam. and there is a reprise of it later, i think.

― scott seward, Friday, 25 April 2008 09:44 (eighteen years ago)

Search: anything by Vinicius Cantuaria, tho I'm not 100 percent sure about some of his English lyrics stuff.

― Noodle Vague, Friday, 25 April 2008 09:46 (eighteen years ago)

I'd also recommend picking up a George Shearing record. There's tons of cheapo copies to be had.

― gnarly sceptre, Friday, 25 April 2008 10:18 (eighteen years ago)

there is nothing laid back about the first track on Butterfly Dreams! God, I love that song. It is a high energy jam. and there is a reprise of it later, i think.

You mean "Dr. Jive"? Yeah, it's a great tune, though the rest of the albums is more laid back than that.

― Tuomas, Friday, 25 April 2008 10:21 (eighteen years ago)

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