Edu Lobo

Astrud Gilberto, Milt Jackson, Dave Grusin, Herbie Mann, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Oscar Peterson and many others.
The Jazz Club series is an attractive addition to the Verve catalogue. With it's modern design and popular choice of repertoire, the Jazz Club is not only opened for Jazz fans, but for everyone that loves good music.

Bossa Nova translated as the "new beat" or "the new style", grew out of Rio De Janeiro in 1958. The instigators were a handful of artists with a desire to break from tradition, developing the samba rhythms with the influence of cool American jazz to find a music with such a warm soul and natural rhythm that no-one can help but tap and sway to its beat. Bossa Nova is palm trees swaying, it is like melting sugar in hot coffee, it is the setting sun and warm sand underfoot. It is the sound and beat of Brazil, it is one of the world's coolest musical styles and it remains to this day one of the world's great musical treasures.

Finally Blue Note issues a Latin collection from its Italian (Italiana SPA) and Brazilian (EMI-Odeon) vaults that reveals the true diversity of its catalog and exploits some of the serious sensuous grooves that DJs have been spinning for over a decade. This is the first of three volumes, all of which feature the rarest most representative tracks from the various trends in jazz that grew out of Brazilian pop in the '60s, '70s, and even '80s. For starters, there's the mean brass swagger of Luis Amuda Perez on "Upa Neguinho," which was written by Edu Lobo. Besides being a popular dance tune (you can hear that in the opening measures), it is a masterpiece of Brazilian big band arrangement. Also featured is the stellar "Noa Noa," a trademark of Sergio Mendez. This is a tough bossa nova trio jam, with arpeggiated piano figures cutting right through the rhythms in the tune. In addition, Mandrake Som's "Beriambu" was the first to utilize in a swinging pop jazz context the use of the one string percussion instrument – there's also a very soul-jazzy sax solo in the break. This set's full of warm, frighteningly good examples of bossa, samba, and even the MPB and Joven Guarda rhythms as they inform folk and jazz melodies and modal figures.

Hermeto Pascoal & Gropo's double album contaings 18 songs and pays homage to musicians such as Miles Davis, Ron Carter and Vinícius Dorin. The group consists of long-time partners: Itiberê Zwarg on bass, Fábio Pascoal on percurssion, André Marques on piano, Ajurinã Zwarg on drums and Jota P. on sax.

Francesca Ajmar is certainly one of the best known and recognized performers of the Brazilian song in Italy. And one of the few European singer to perform in South America. As many as 4 of its 7 discs as leaders are dedicated to the “carioca world”. She is equipped with a persuasive and refined voice, with perfect Portuguese diction, gives us this new record in the company of a milestone artist of Brazilian music, the saxophonist Hector "Costita" Bisignani, already at the side of the greatest artists of "bossa nova" : Sérgio Mendes , Hermeto Pascoal, Tom Jobim, João Donato, Edu Lobo, Chico Buarque, João Gilberto, Johnny Alf, Dick Farney, Elis Regina, Milton Nascimento, Zimbo Trio, Wilson Curia. Supported by Michele Franzini (piano), Tito Mangialajo Rantzer (double bass), and Vittorio Sicbaldi (drums), jazz musicians who boast an undisputed artistic curriculum. An imaginary journey to Brazil to with Tom Jobim, Johnny Alf, Carlos Lyra, Edu Lobo, just to name a few, as well as some original compositions.

This popular set matches the brilliant harmonica player Toots Thielemans with such top Brazilian performers as Ivan Lins, Djavan, Oscar Castro-Neves, Dori Caymmi, Ricardo Silveira, Joao Bosco, Gilberto Gil, Milton Nascimento, Caetano Veloso, Luiz Bonfб, Edu Lobo and Eliane Elias, in addition to bassist Brian Bromberg, keyboardist Michael Lang, trumpeter Mark Isham and Dave Grusin. Thielemans is often in a supportive role behind the many soothing Brazilian singers and performers.