Essa é uma lista da discografia das escolas de samba do Grupo especial do Carnaval do Rio de Janeiro por ano de lançamento. A lista traz as faixas contidas em cada álbum e seus respectivos intérpretes e compositores. O primeiro álbum foi lançado em 1968 e desde então é produzido anualmente.
A fluent and skilled musician, famous in his native country as a classical Spanish guitar player, Almeida went to the USA in the 40s to work in film and television studios. His jazz work was first widely exposed during a spell with Stan Kenton in the late 40s. Although continuing his film and television work, Almeida also took many opportunities to play jazz, joining forces with bass player Harry Babasin, altoist Bud Shank and drummer Roy Harte in 1953. The work of this group anticipated many of the hallmarks of the bossa nova craze that came a few years later. During his career Almeida won Grammy awards in 1959 for his performance on Danzas, and the following year for The Spanish Guitars Of Laurindo Almeida and Conversations With The Guitar…
A fluent and skilled musician, famous in his native country as a classical Spanish guitar player, Almeida went to the USA in the 40s to work in film and television studios. His jazz work was first widely exposed during a spell with Stan Kenton in the late 40s. Although continuing his film and television work, Almeida also took many opportunities to play jazz, joining forces with bass player Harry Babasin, altoist Bud Shank and drummer Roy Harte in 1953. The work of this group anticipated many of the hallmarks of the bossa nova craze that came a few years later. During his career Almeida won Grammy awards in 1959 for his performance on Danzas, and the following year for The Spanish Guitars Of Laurindo Almeida and Conversations With The Guitar…
Não É Azul, Mas É Mar é o oitavo álbum de estúdio do músico, cantor e compositor brasileiro Djavan, lançado em 1987 pela Columbia. Gravado em Los Angeles nos Estados Unidos, foi lançado no Brasil, Estados Unidos, Japão e em alguns países da Europa, sendo que nos três últimos países o álbum foi lançado na versão em inglês, intitulada Bird of Paradise. Os principais hits do álbum são "Soweto", "Me Leve" e "Dou-Não-Dou" (um dos principais hits do álbum, selecionado para entrar na trilha sonora da telenovela brasileira Mandala, em 1987) e alguns outros de destaque entre público e crítica: "Florir", "Maçã", "Doidice" e "Carnaval do Rio".
“His performance brought a veritable roar of approval from the audience,” wrote the Irish Times, after Pavel Nersessian received the 1st Prize in the GPA Dublin International Piano Competition in 1991. Being one of the most remarkable pianists of his generation in Russia, he is known for his ability to play equally convincingly in the whole palette of the piano repertoire. He won prizes in the Beethoven Competition in Vienna in 1985, the Paloma O’Shea Competition in Santander, and the Tokyo Competition.
During the 70s, the Japanese jazz scene was in an incredibly intense phase - one that had players breaking out of older modes that were often strict copies of American jazz, and working in newer styles that often blended soul, modal, and spiritual jazz with freer-thinking ideas and more Eastern-inspired modes. The result was an incredible batch of music that was probably more strongly recorded by the Three Blind Mice label than any other Japanese imprint - because unlike some of their contemporaries, TBM didn't fill their catalog with work by American players, and often focused exclusively on Japanese artists.