Jazz Samba Encore! is a bossa nova album by Stan Getz and Luiz Bonfá, released on the Verve label.[5] It is bossa nova in a slower groove. It contains a mix of Jobim standards as well as originals from Bonfá. Performers also include Antonio Carlos Jobim and vocalist Maria Toledo, Bonfá's wife. The painting on the cover is a piece by the influential New York based abstract expressionist Olga Albizu from Puerto Rico.

Jazz Samba Encore!
Studio album by
ReleasedApril 1963[1]
RecordedFebruary 8–9 and 27, 1963
StudioWebster Hall, New York City
GenreJazz, bossa nova
Length40:12
LabelMGM/Verve
ProducerCreed Taylor
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Down Beat
(Original LP release)
[2]
AllMusic[3]
New Record Mirror[4]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz[5]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide[6]

Track listing edit

  1. "Sambalero" (Luiz Bonfá) – 2:08
  2. "Só Danço Samba (I Only Dance Samba)" (Antônio Carlos Jobim/Vinicius de Moraes) – 3:36
  3. "Insensatez (How Insensitive)" (Jobim/de Moraes) – 3:21
  4. "O Morro Não Tem Vez" (Favela) (Jobim/de Moraes) – 6:53
  5. "Samba de Duas Notas (Two Note Samba)" (Luiz Bonfá) – 4:18 (reference to Jobim's "One Note Samba")
  6. "Menina Flor" (Bonfá/Maria Toledo) – 4:08
  7. "Mania de Maria" (Bonfá/Maria Toledo) – 2:43
  8. "Saudade Vem Correndo" (Bonfá/Maria Toledo) – 3:39
  9. "Um Abração no Getz (A Tribute to Getz)" (Bonfá) – 4:23
  10. "Ebony Samba – Second Version" (Bonfá) – 4:33
  11. "Ebony Samba – First Version" (Bonfá) – 3:48 *
  • (bonus CD track)

Personnel edit

In popular culture edit

The bridge of "Saudade Vem Correndo" is prominently sampled in the 1995 song "Runnin'" by hip hop group The Pharcyde, from their album Labcabincalifornia. In turn, "Runnin" is interpolated in the 2003 song "Fallen" by R&B singer Mýa, from her album Moodring. "Saudade Vem Correndo" is also sampled in the 2019 song "Make Believe" by rapper Juice WRLD, from his album Death Race for Love.[7]

References edit

  1. ^ Billboard Apr 20, 1963
  2. ^ Down Beat: May 9, 1963, Vol. 30, No. 11
  3. ^ Ginell, Richard S. "Luiz Bonfá / Stan Getz – Jazz Samba Encore!". AllMusic. Retrieved July 10, 2014.
  4. ^ RLM. (19 October 1963). "Stan Getz/Luiz Bonfa: Jazz Samba Encore" (PDF). New Record Mirror. No. 136. p. 10. Archived from the original (PDF) on 1 April 2022. Retrieved 6 August 2022.
  5. ^ a b Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 545. ISBN 978-0-14-103401-0.
  6. ^ Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 82. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.
  7. ^ Samples of Saudade Vem Correndo