Misteries Ofthe Rain Forest

In the heart of South America lies the life line of Brazil, Peru, and Bolivia. These waters are the bloodstream of the largest tropical forest inthe world, the Amazon Rain Forest. Receiving twelve hours of rain and twelve hours of sunlight everyday, its inhabitants are as unique as their environment. Animals range from jaguars to capybaras to monkeys, and the forest contains 20% of all species of birds in the world. Music of the Amazon is rich Latin America Rhythms, moving like the river at a slow consistent pace, always reaching its final destination.

The Amazon Rain Forest • Level 2
Original • American English
Penguin Readers | 2005 | PDF, 40 pages | 9.97 MB

The Amazon Rain Forest is the largest rain forest in the world. It is 10,000,000 years old and many different kinds of plants and animals live here. The forest is important for the world's weather and wildlife, but it is disappearing fast. Read this book and learn about this wonderful forest - and its problems. What will its future be?

The notes for this CD ask, "What issue is more topical than the Brazilian rain forest? So what reissue would be more topical than Walter Wanderley's Rain Forest?" Politically, this may be true, but musically, this collection is anything but topical. From the first tune - the monster hit "Summer Samba," the listener is catapulted straight back to the '60s when bossa nova was new in the U.S. and everyone wanted a piece of it. Organist Wanderley made a big splash with this CD, which went platinum in two years - and it does evoke strong water images, like "poolside" and "ice skating rink." The jazzmen are underutilized, since most of the tracks are less than three minutes long and leave little room to stretch out. One exception is the pretty Ferreira/Marconi ballad "Rain," the only track where Wanderley plays piano rather than organ and which features a fine solo by Urbie Green on trombone…