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I love Brazilian samba, bossa, jazz, and all sorts of the offspring of such styles, since the 1950-60s, when the rhythms of Brazil and post WWII north-American jazz began to blend. Some of the resulting music is amongst the best the world has enjoyed, in my view.<\/p>\n
Edison Machado is credited, on Wikipedia, as being a founding father of jazz samba\/bossa syle beats – ‘Through his creation of the samba no prato<\/i> (samba on the cymbals) and his early recordings, he helped shape Brazilian samba and bossa nova’. As a fan and student of such music, I thought I ought to get some of his recordings. I already have some stuff he did as a sideman, such as The Composer of Desafinado Plays<\/i>, by Jobim.<\/p>\n
Just as that’s not my favourite Jobim album, nor very remarkable for the drumming, I find this album somewhat disappointing. He may well have been an innovator, but this sounds like loads of other similar samba jazz of the era. So if, as I have done, you come to this after hearing tons of other similar stuff, it’s not that exciing or original sounding.<\/p>\n
Nevertheless, as an album done under Machado’s own name and leadership, the drums are much more prominent and active than on some of his dates as a sideman. And I’m sure as I listen to it more, and attempt to play along, etc, I’ll most likely come to like it more, and certainly to respect Machado’s drumming skills: Brazilian jazz, with it’s samba based beats, is not for the faint-hearted, drumming wise!<\/p>\n
The music is mostly mid and uptempo, the tracks quite short, and sounding almost like a big band: lots of brass\/horns, etc, and quite heavily arranged. None of the track titles jump out as familiar classics. I think four stars is rather generous, whilst just three is rather mean. Here on my blog I give it three and a half. Whereas on Amazon’s website it’s whole stars only, so I erred towards the more critical, and scored it just three there.<\/p>\n
Far from essential but possibly worth having if you’re really into Brazilian samba jazz, etc, or you’re studying Brazilian drum rhythms, as I continue to do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I love Brazilian samba, bossa, jazz, and all sorts of the offspring of such styles, since the 1950-60s, when the rhythms of Brazil and post WWII north-American jazz began to blend. Some of the resulting music is amongst the best the world has enjoyed, in my view. Edison Machado is credited, on Wikipedia, as being … <\/p>\n