Walter Wanderley - Moondreams

Bitrate: 320K/s

Time: 31:08

Size: 71.3 MB

Styles: Easy Listening, Latin jazz

Year: 1969/2006

Art: Front

[4:29] 1. Asa Branca

[2:38] 2. L'amore Dice Ciao

[2:43] 3. Penha

[3:07] 4. One Of The Nicer Things

[2:43] 5. Proton, Electron, Neutron

[3:39] 6. 5 30 Plane

[3:04] 7. Soulful Strut

[2:28] 8. Moondreams

[3:30] 9. Jackie

[2:42] 10. Mirror Of Love

Wanderley's second album during Creed Taylor's A&M residency opens with a bang, a fantastic rendition of the old Northern Brazilian standard "Asa Branca" that evokes the exhilaration of a street carnival. Midway through, the tempo kicks up, the band settles into a two-chord vamp, and the performance lifts into orbit; even the normally mild-mannered Wanderley dances wildly on organ and electric harpsichord.

Nothing else here, even the provocatively titled "Proton, Electron, Neutron," approaches "Asa Branca"'s energy. Yet on the whole, this is a somewhat better album than its predecessor on A&M; the sound is more open and less confined. The selection remains predominantly Brazilian, with an occasional American ringer like "Soulful Strut" and another Jimmy Webb tune, "5:30 Plane." The female voices (one of whom is Flora Purim) return on a few tracks; so do Hubert Laws and Romeo Penque on flutes. Eumir Deodato is in charge of the mauve-colored charts for flutes, trumpets and violas, and Airto Moreira makes an early impression pumping up the percussion section. ~Richard S. Ginell

Bass – George Duvivier, Jose Marino, Richard Davis; Drums – Joao Palma; Flugelhorn – Bernie Glow, Marvin Stamm; Flute – Danny Bank, Hubert Laws, Jerome Richardson, Joe Soldo, Romeo Penque; Organ, Harpsichord [Electric] – Walter Wanderley; Percussion – Airto Moreira, Lulu Ferreira; Trumpet – Bernie Glow; Viola – Archie Levin, David Mankovitz, Emanuel Vardi, Harold Coletta, Harry Zaratzian, Richard Dickler, Theodore Israel, Warren Tekula; Vocals – Flora Purim, Linda November, Stella Stevens, Susan Manchester .

Moondreams     

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