Music Video | Elizeth Cardoso & Luiz Bonfa – Manha de Carnaval

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Publicado em: Friday, February 06, 2009 by zecalouro

 

Hello! This is an extraordinary mid afternoon post that really worth checking out featuring Luiz Bonfa and Elizeth Cardoso performing Manha de Carnaval. Additionally, Luiz Bonfa makes a statement at the end explaining how Manha de Carnaval was created as the beginning of his partnership with Antonio Maria.

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Luiz Bonfa – Recado Novo de Luiz Bonfa (1963)

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Publicado em: Friday, November 14, 2008 by zecalouro

Hello, good evening! Loronix will be receiving a LOT of new visitors tomorrow and to welcome our new friends, Jorge Mello sent us a musician that has a special meaning to Loronix, the great Luiz Bonfa. This album falls on that “missing records” category, it was first released as the ending post of 2006. Recado Novo is very different from the other Luiz Bonfa releases we already know. Here, the focus is Luiz Bonfa as a singer, not as an instrumentalist. Let’s see.

This is Luiz Bonfa – Recado Novo de Luiz Bonfa (1963), for Odeon, featuring Luiz Bonfa guitar and voice in all tracks. Although not in this session, Maria Helena Toledo has an important participation here, delivering eight tunes composed with Luiz Bonfa, her husband at that time. Luiz Bonfa is backed by a not credited orchestra and his vocals are really enjoyable. Musicians in this session were not credited by Odeon and my searches did not return any additional information. Tracks include:

01 – Menina Flor (Luis Bonfá / Maria Helena Toledo)
02 – Amor Demais (Luis Bonfá / Maria Helena Toledo)
03 – Mania de Maria (Luis Bonfá / Maria Helena Toledo)
04 – Melancolia (Luis Bonfá / Maria Helena Toledo)
05 – Saudade Vem Correndo (Luis Bonfá / Maria Helena Toledo)
06 – Canção do Mar (Luis Bonfá / Maria Helena Toledo)
07 – Fio de Canção (Luis Antônio)
08 – Sem Esse Céu (Luis Bonfá)
09 – Cheiro de Saudade (Djalma Ferreira / Luis Antônio)
10 – Reverso do Verso (Luis Bonfá / Maria Helena Toledo)
11 – Indiferença (Luis Bonfá / Maria Helena Toledo)
12 – Chorou Chorou (Luis Antônio)

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Este disco já havia sido publicado aqui mesmo, no Órfãos do Loronix.

Luiz Bonfa – Meu Querido Violao (1959)

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Publicado em: Thursday, September 25, 2008 by zecalouro

Hello, good evening! It is very good to be back to Loronix after a quick hiatus of only two days that seems to last a century! I slept an average of 3 hours per day over the past two days, and these days were indeed days of intense work. My only chance to stay away from my notebook was to put eye drops. My eyes hurt!

Anyway, I have good news. A negotiation with a new Loronix collaborator was just closed this morning, a pioneer of Brazilian music at the Internet, active years before Loronix creation. This collaborator belongs to a dynasty of Brazilian music lovers, actually, the third generation of this well-known family. The days of hard work jeopardized his first post, postponed for tomorrow. I’m sure that everybody will be surprised with what comes ahead in the forthcoming days.

Meanwhile, we have a flawless release sponsored by Jorge Mello, which I would like to introduce again since we have several new friends who recently discovered Loronix. Jorge Mello is a musician, composer, music researcher, teacher, book writer and a major reference of the works of Anibal Augusto Sardinha, also known as Garoto. When you search Google about Garoto, Trio Surdina, and many other artists, you get loads and loads of Jorge Mello’s writing, including an essential series of posts released as O Cancioneiro de Garoto, at Suvaco de Cobra. Jorge Mello has been pleased us with fantastic albums and I would like to invite you to reach at the end of this post the remake of Jorge Mello’s participation at ESPN Brasil Pontape Inicial show.

These days away of Loronix are making me speak like a parrot! Better introduce another release sponsored by Jorge Mello. Let’s see.

This is Luiz Bonfa – Meu Querido Violao (1959), for Odeon, a repost with everything improved compared with the first made available almost three years ago thought a scratchy transfer at 128 Kbps. I never heard about a reissue of this album in digital format. Luiz Bonfa plays violao in all tracks, accompanied by a very creative percussion work, courtesy of Pedro “Sorongo” dos Santos. Do not miss Jorge Mello at ESPN Brasil. Tracks include:

01 – Mosaico (Luis Bonfá)
02 – Paisagem Amazônica (Luis Bonfá)
03 – Dobrado Mirim (Luis Bonfá)
04 – Autunin In New York (V. Duke)
05 – Dança Índia (Luis Bonfá)
06 – Even Song (E. Martin)
07 – Quebra-mar (Luis Bonfá)
08 – Marcha Escocesa (Luis Bonfá)
09 – Solea (Luis Bonfá)
10 – Yesterdays (J. Kerne / O. Harbach)
11 – Oração de Natal (Luis Bonfá)
12 – Prelúdio (Luis Bonfá)

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Luiz Bonfa – Luiz Bonfa’s Brazilian Guitar (1957)

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Publicado em: Monday, August 25, 2008 by zecalouro

 

Hello, good afternoon! Just a quick and extraordinary mid afternoon post to update this extraordinary album, kindly sent by Jorge Mello, which is Luiz Bonfa first album recorded for US audience in 1957, for Capitol. By the way, Capitol enthusiasm with Luiz Bonfa was so impressive that I decided to use Capitol liner notes to present this album to Loronixers. Capitol text worth a careful reading. Let’s see.This is Luiz Bonfa – Luiz Bonfa’s Brazilian Guitar (1957), for Capitol, featuring Luiz Bonfa in all tracks. Below, Capitol liner notes:

DOWN IN BRAZIL, Luiz Bonfa’ is regarded as a super-musician. Musicians who hear only his records, and haven’t seen him perform, charge him with “overdubbing” in the Les Paul manner to achieve the remarkable sounds for which he is so renowned. But Bonfa uses no mechanical tricks. His incredible technique is enough. Probably no guitarist in the world has Bonfa’s skill-speed-with the fingers. Segovia himself cannot match the fabulous Luiz for sheer technical virtuosity.

He started at 11, in Rio de Janeiro, where he was born October 17, 1922. At first Bonfa’s father taught Luiz. But the boy’s progress was rapid. Soon he was studying with Uruguay’s great classical master, Isaias Savio. Even Savio could take the young Luiz Bonfa’ no farther. And so Luiz, still in his teens, took to touring the various states of Brazil with his instrument. From each of the provinces he learned something of the people, and their cultures.

Back in Rio, Bonfa’s first records made an impact (not only in Brazil, but throughout South America) much as Les Paul did in 1950. But few listenes accepted the truth. “No man has technique so remarkable,” they argued. But Bonfa convinced all who came to see him perform, in a series of spectacular personal appearances in Rio, that his amazing dexterity and musicianship are legitimate.

Bonfa is aware of the great North American guitarists. George Van Eps, Barney Kessel, Tal Farlow and John Smith, he says, are his favorites, judged solely by their records. Luiz also is partial to the orchestras of Nelson Riddle, Les Baxter and George Shearing. He’s a fishing enthusiast and, eventually wants to live in California and perhaps teach young guitarists and make records.

This album was recorded in Rio in superb high fidelity, and Capitol is privileged to present the genius of Bonfa’ for the first time on records in North America.

Track List

01 – Batutacada (Luis Bonfá)
02 – Sambolero (Luis Bonfá)
03 – Monique (Luis Bonfá)
04 – Tenderly (J. Lawrence / W. Gross)
05 – Serenata (Antônio Rebello)
06 – Xangô (Luis Bonfá)
07 – Mamboleiro (Luis Bonfá)
08 – Cajita de Música (Isaias Sávio)
09 – Over The Rainbow (Harold Arlen / E. G. Harburg)
10 – Garoto (Luis Bonfá)
11 – Canção do Outono (Luis Bonfá)
12 – Calles de España (Luis Bonfá)

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Este disco já havia sido publicado aqui no Órfãos do Loronix. É a versão americana do disco Alta Versatilidade, cuja capa vai abaixo:

Luiz Bonfa – Black Orpheus Impressions (1968)

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Publicado em: Monday, July 21, 2008 by zecalouro

 

Hello, good evening! It is very easy to realize the artists I like most. This is really a shame, neutrality is very important. However, it is very hard to keep preferences under control, especially when you like Brazilian music. Luiz Bonfa is one of my favorite artists and for reasons that I don’t understand, I never took this album for a careful listen, and now I know what I lost, since it was made available for the first time by a contribution from Cesar Saldanha. Let’s see.

This is Luiz Bonfa – Black Orpheus Impressions (1968), for Dot Records, released in Brazil by RGE, another fantastic Jorge Mello contribution. Personnel listing features the legendaries Eumir Deodato, Dom Um Romao and Ron Carter, including sweet vocals by Maria Helena Toledo in some tracks. Thanks once again Jorge Mello for this album that I never thought to be updated. Tracks include:

Personnel

Luiz Bonfa
(violao, vocal)
Eumir Deodato
(piano, organ)
Ron Carter
(bass)
Dom Um Romao
(bass)
Marvin Stamn
(trumpet)
Maria Helena Toledo
(vocal)

Track List & Liner Notes Information:

 

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Este disco já tinha sido publicado anteriormente, aqui mesmo no Órfãos do Loronix.

Luiz Bonfa – O Violao e o Samba (1962)

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Publicado em Monday, June 02, 2008 by zecalouro

 

Hello, good evening! This is the first Luiz Bonfa album made available at Loronix, a looooong time ago in July 2006. The first out of many, all above the average recorded by one of the most celebrated artists in our community. I believe that many who were here over these two years had the chance to know the work of Luiz Bonfá by Loronix, especially the friends who live outside Brazil. I always had the hope of getting the first 1962 Odeon issue of O Violao e o Samba, an album that came back recently to EMI-Odeon catalog on a very limited edition. Thanks to our great friend Jorge Mello, this mandatory upgrade reaches the first page again for our delight. Let’s see.This is Luiz Bonfa – O Violao e o Samba (1962), for Odeon, one of the most acclaimed Luiz Bonfa LP, which is also the last Luiz Bonfa release in Brazil before he made the move to the United States. I was thinking about how things would be different if Luiz Bonfá decided to stay in Brazil. I love this kind of exercise because it makes you look at an artist career from different points of view. O Violao e o Samba counts with the participation of renowned Brazilian musicians, everything describe just below at personnel listing. Tracks include:

PersonnelLuiz Bonfa
(violao)
Edison Machado
(drums)
Sebastião Neto
(bass)
Luiz Carlos Vinhas, Chico Feitosa
(percussion)

Track List

01 – Inquietação (Ary Barroso)
02 – Nossos Momentos (Haroldo Barbosa / Luis Reis)
03 – Meu Nome É Ninguém (Haroldo Barbosa / Luis Reis)
04 – Lamento no Morro (Tom Jobim / Vinicius de Moraes)
05 – Pastorinhas (Noel Rosa / João de Barro)
06 – Você Chegou Sorrindo (Luis Bonfá)
07 – Murmúrio (Djalma Ferreira / Luis Antônio)
08 – Liberdade Demais (Hélio Nascimento / Mariano Filho)
09 – Amor Em Brasília (Luis Bonfá)
10 – Saudade da Bahia (Dorival Caymmi)
11 – Copacabana (João de Barro / Alberto Ribeiro)
12 – Amor de Solidão (Luis Bonfá / Maria Helena Toledo)

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Luiz Bonfa – Passeio no Rio (1960)

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Publicado em: Friday, May 09, 2008 by zecalouro

Hello, good morning! Yesterday I was very tired; life has been really busy down here. And when that happens, the day always ends in the worst possible way, by accident; I slept on the sofa reading the back cover of this beautiful EP sent to us by Jorge Mello. I feel in the obligation of sharing this one in this extraordinary morning post. Let’s see.This is Luiz Bonfa – Passeio no Rio (1960), for Odeon, featuring four songs, including the anthological Luiz Bonfa’s Manha de Carnaval, with Luiz Bonfa singing. I could not check if these songs were recorded exclusively for this 7-inch EP, which is something that I will let you identify, I’m late for work and must leave in a second. Have a good day and do not miss another Brazilian music night at Loronix today. Tracks include:

01 – Manha de Carnaval (Luiz Bonfa / Antonio Maria)
02 – Passeio no Rio (Luiz Bonfa)
03 – Samba de Orfeu (Luiz Bonfa / Antonio Maria)
04 – Mosaico (Luiz Bonfa)

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Não tinha esse disco. Porém, graças ao amigo Martoni ele pode ser buscado aqui.

 

Luiz Bonfa & Norma Suely – A Voz e o Violao (1960)

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Publicado em: Sunday, May 04, 2008 by zecalouro

 

 Hello, good evening! I hope you have the same surprise I had when I got this one from the hands of Jorge Mello. I had this one on my “impossible to find” category, but thanks Jorge, we can now heard and share our thoughts about it. A Voz e o Violao was recorded in 1960 by Luiz Bonfá and Norma Suely, owner of a very interesting voice that easily goes to popular and classic territory. Everything else I have to say are only assumptions and guesses, but I can guarantee that we are in front of a really worth checking album. Let’s see.

This is Luiz Bonfa & Norma Suely – A Voz e o Violao (1960), for Odeon, with Luiz Bonfa guitar in all tracks and Norma Suely singing on tracks 03, 06, 07, 09 and 11. Norma Suely discography accomplishes a few 78RPM and two LPs, which includes this once in a lifetime album with Luiz Bonfa and a 1964 Polydor release produced by Joao Mello and arranged by Lindolfo Gaya, definitively worth checking out. This is only the tip of the tip of an arrow called Jorge Mello’s music. Stay tuned, have a nice Sunday and thanks for your continuous support to Loronix. Tracks include:01 – A Voz do Violão (Francisco Alves / Horácio de Campos)
02 – Luar de Agosto (Nilo Queiroz / Baden Powell)
03 – Vagotonia (Lamartine Babo / Reinaldo Dias Leme)
04 – Samba do Orfeu (Luis Bonfá)
05 – Tema de Amor (Luis Bonfá)
06 – Quando a Noite Vem Amor (Luis Bonfá)
07 – Nasci Para Te Adorar (Luis Bonfá)
08 – Noche Azteca (Luis Bonfá)
09 – Rancho de Orfeu (Luis Bonfá / Haroldo Costa)
10 – Manhã de Carnaval (Luis Bonfá / Antônio Maria)
11 – Amor Sem Adeus (Luis Bonfá / Tom Jobim)
12 – Variações (Luis Bonfá).

 

Não tinha esse disco. Porém, graças ao amigo Martoni ele pode ser buscado aqui.

 

Aloysio de Oliveira Apresenta – Garoto & Luiz Bonfa | Genios do Violao (1996)

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Publicado em: Saturday, March 29, 2008 by zecalouro

This is a very special post that brings together Garoto and Luiz Bonfa, two legends of an instrument that is the face of Brazil, the acoustic guitar, the violao, so important to Brazilian music and the only country that has an exclusive name for this fascinating instrument. Brazil has many Genios do Violao on an endless list, starting with Garoto, Luiz Bonfa, Joao Gilberto, Rafael Rabello, Dino 7 Cordas and several gifted musicians. Brazil is also the only country that has a different name for this fascinating instrument. Genios do Violao is a compilation organized by the legendary Aloysio de Oliveira, just before his passing in 1995. Let’s see.

This is Aloysio de Oliveira Apresenta – Garoto & Luiz Bonfa | Genios do Violao (1996), for Odeon, featuring Garoto at the first seven tracks with the remaining ones to Luiz Bonfa. This contribution was made by a great friend that sent it to us without asking, which is wise of him, what is the use to ask with Garoto and Luiz Bonfa together? Tracks include:

01 – Maria (Ary Barroso / Luis Peixoto) – Garoto
02 – No Rancho Fundo (Ary Barroso / Lamartine Babo) – Garoto
03 – Tu (Ary Barroso) – Garoto
04 – Na Baixa Do Sapateiro (Ary Barroso) – Garoto
05 – Terra Seca (Ary Barroso) – Garoto
06 – Risque (Ary Barroso) – Garoto
07 – Aquarela Do Brasil (Ary Barroso) – Garoto
08 – Batucada (Luis Bonfá) – Luis Bonfá
09 – Sambolero (Luis Bonfá) – Luis Bonfá
10 – Monique (Luis Bonfá / Maria Helena Toledo) – Luis Bonfá
11 – Tenderly (J. Lawrence / Walter Gross) – Luis Bonfá
12 – Serenata (Antônio Rebello) – Luis Bonfá
13 – Xangô (Luis Bonfá) – Luis Bonfá
14 – Mambolero (Luis Bonfá) – Luis Bonfá
15 – Cajita De Música (Isaias Sávio) – Luis Bonfá
16 – Over The Rainbow (Harburg / Arlen) – Luis Bonfá
17 – Garoto (Luis Bonfá) – Luis Bonfá
18 – Canção De Outono (Luis Bonfá) – Luis Bonfá
19 – Calles De Espanã (Luis Bonfá) – Luis Bonfá

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Luiz Bonfa – Luiz Bonfa Plays Great Songs (1967)

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Luiz Bonfa – Luiz Bonfa Plays Great Songs (1967)
Publicado em: Wednesday, March 19, 2008 by zecalouro

I think I said everything I could about this great artist, Luiz Floriano Bonfa, or Luiz Bonfa, a worldwide acclaimed artist with a great way of playing, being also an important composer. I would like to invite you to visit another essential musician website owned and maintained by two Luiz Bonfa Japanese fans, Mr. Koichi and Motoko Yasuoka and their Luiz Bonfa Discography, with lots of information about each Luiz Bonfa recording release. You can also click on the tapestry I made from 170 Luiz Bonfa covers available at Luiz Bonfa Discography featuring the same tapestry with individual links and details on each album. I think you will be there for many hours. Thanks Mr. Koich and Motoko Yasuoka for this great Luiz Bonfa Tribute.This is Luiz Bonfa – Luiz Bonfa Plays Great Songs (1967), for Dot Records, made available here with my RGE-XRLP 6.197, original first 1967 Brazilian issue. Luiz Bonfa has the accompaniment of orchestra conduced by Nick Perito with arrangements by Nick Perito and Eumir Deodato. I could not identify the tracks arranged by Eumir Deodato, and I will let you this identification. Thanks once again for supporting Loronix and stay with Luiz Bonfa. Tracks include:

01 – Born Free (Black / Barry)
02 – Moon River (Mercer / Henry Mancini)
03 – Spanish Eyes (Kaempfert / Singleton / Snyder)
04 – Strangers In The Night (Kaempfert / Singleton / Snyder)
05 – Bubala (Luis Bonfá)
06 – The Exodus Song (Boone / Gold)
07 – More (Newell / Oliviero / Ortolani)
08 – Somewhere My Love (Paul Francis Webster / Jarre)
09 – Yellow Bird (Keith / Jarre)
10 – Manhã de Carnaval (Luis Bonfá)
11 – Seville (Luis Bonfá)
12 – A Man And a Woman (Barouh / Lai / Keller)

This is Luiz Bonfa – Luiz Bonfa Plays Great Songs (1967), at Loronix.  Hope uEnjoy!

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Luiz Bonfa – Luiz Bonfa Toca Melodias das Americas | Para Voce Dancar (1958)

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Publicado em: Tuesday, February 12, 2008 by zecalouro

 

I received many emails from several friends requesting this album and I can’t find a reason why this upgrade was not made earlier. This is a beauty of an album, first issued as Ritmos Continentais by Odeon in 1958, then reissued by Imperial in the 60’s with the name of Luiz Bonfa Toca Melodia das Americas | Para Voce Dancar. The requests received were primarily for a better vinyl transfer and I found this one on an excellent shape, and I’m really happy to have this great record with improved audio, including the FLAC files options and hi-res cover artwork scans. Let’s see.

This is Luiz Bonfa – Luiz Bonfa Toca Melodias das Americas | Para Voce Dancar (1958), for Imperial, the legendary Odeon subsidiary. Side A features renditions of International tunes in the Para Dancar style with no tracks separations, so far, the best Para Dancar music made available at Loronix, really gorgeous Side A. Side B features standard six tracks with compositions by Ary Barroso, Roberto Martins, Luiz Bonfa and others. Loronix Preview Center brings the nice 04 – Melodiando (Luiz Bonfa) which is my favorite. Tracks include:

Side A

You were meant for me (Nacio Herb Brown – Arthur Freed)
Mister sandman (Pat Ballard)
Whispering (J. Schonberger – R. Caburn – V. Rose)
My melancholy baby (Norton – Burnett)
Cheek to cheek (Irving Berlin)
Sweet Sue, just you (V.Young – Will Harris)
Frenesi (Alberto Dominguez)
Quiereme mucho (Gonzalo Rolg)
Quizas quizas (Oswaldo Ferrés)
Speak low (Ogden Nash – Kurt Well)

Side B

02 – Cai ,cai (Roberto Martins)
03 – Não tenho lágrimas (Milton de Oliveira – Max Bulhões)
04 – Melodiando (Luiz Bonfá)
05 – Eclipse (Margarita Lecuona)
06 – Na baixa do sapateiro (Ary Barroso)
07 – Swinging in Madrid (Luiz Bonfá)

This is Luiz Bonfa – Luiz Bonfa Toca Melodias das Americas | Para Voce Dancar (1958), at Loronix.  Hope uEnjoy!

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Esse disco já havia sido publicado aqui no Órfãos do Loronix.

Special Post | Several Music Videos

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Publicado em: Tuesday, January 15, 2008 by zecalouro

Our new player is really great! Now we can create playlists with several videos on a single post. I’m making available a medley with a new Luiz Bonfa video with Julie Andrews and Steve Lawrence and reposts of Ana Mazzoti, Os Cariocas, Flora Purim, Oscar Castro Neves and Walter Wanderley. Important, if you need to go back to the first screen to select a new video, click at the icon in the lower right corner, close to player time indicator.

Hope uEnjoy!

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Pelo texto do Zeca, o único vídeo que consegui identificar foi o do Luiz Bonfá com a Julie Andrews e Steve Lawrence. Os demais parecem ser reposts, não sei exatamente quais são …

Luiz Bonfa – Violao Boemio (1957)

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Publicado em:  Sunday, January 06, 2008 by zecalouro

 

Hello, good evening! Someone said the easiest way to spoil something is to change it. This is exactly what happened today with Loronix performance for some hours. I received reports from friends saying it was impossible to reach the first page. The introduction of Loronix Preview Center was the problem and I had to manage a solution that only came late tonight, sorry about this outage. In the other hand, while searching for the root cause of the problem, I could address some improvements that will make our site faster.Anyway, it is late in Brazil and I do not want to let you with no updates. We will have only this album today, a very important record in the very beginning of Loronix that makes me feel pleased to make available again on an above the average quality. Let’s see.

This is Luiz Bonfa – Violao Boemio (1957), for Odeon, presented here with an early 60’s Imperial reissue. I don’t remember if I said before that Imperial is an Odeon subsidiary that sold Odeon catalog using a door-to-door sales business model, such like the one used by Avon. Perhaps coincidences, but every Imperial vinyl I have are clean and play with no scratches. Imperial albums were manufactured with a sticker closing the hole in the middle of record to guarantee that potential buyers were not purchasing used albums.

I got this one with this sticker and I had to remove it before transfer to digital. Violao Boemio is one of the first Luiz Bonfa albums made available at Loronix and several friends could reach usfor the first time using Google to find this album. Check at Loronix Preview Center 01 – Bom que Doi, featuring Luiz Bonfa violao backed by a small percussion section, summarizing the whole experience. I’m sure that you will come back here after your test-drive at our new Preview Center. The first cover is Imperial reissue and the second is original Odeon 1957 first issue. Tracks include:

01 – Bom Que Doi (Luis Bonfá)
02 – Boulevard (Luis Bonfá)
03 – Abismo de Rosas (Américo Jacomino “Canhoto”)
04 – Índia (José Asunción Flores)
05 – Paramaribo (Luis Bonfá)
06 – Tinguá (Luis Bonfá)
07 – Dobradinho (Luis Bonfá)
08 – Eurídice (Tom Jobim / Vinicius de Moraes)
09 – Da Cor do Pecado (Bororó)
10 – Walquíria (Josué de Barros)
11 – Dona Carol (Luis Bonfá)
12 – Feitiço da Vila (Noel Rosa / Vadico)

This is Luiz Bonfa – Violao Boemio (1957), at Loronix.

Hope uEnjoy!

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Luiz Bonfa e Ed Lincoln – Noite e Dia com Luiz Bonfa e Eduardo Lincoln (1956)

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Publicado em: Wednesday, December 19, 2007 by zecalouro

 

What amazing day at Loronix. Three solid posts. The first Musidisc LP, the amazing Quem Viver Chorara by Fagner and now this repost that should take everybody by surprise, no mater if you are new or experienced with the music from Brazil. We had also three amazing cover artworks, being this one incredible to believe it was produced in 1956, 52 years ago. This album features very early recordings of Luiz Bonfa and Ed Lincoln, including the participation of Carlos Lyra as guitar player, perhaps one of his first participations on recordings. Anyway, I think the only fault is the absence of the back cover inside the music, someone used a pencil and destroyed all the surface. Let’s see.This is Luiz Bonfa e Ed Lincoln – Noite e Dia com Luiz Bonfa e Eduardo Lincoln (1956), for Continental, featuring Luiz Bonfa on guitar and Ed Lincoln (before taking the name of Ed Lincoln) on piano performing instrumental renditions of a Brazilian and international repertoire. There are four Luiz Bonfa compositions including 10 – Domingo Sincopado, one of the few Luiz Bonfa and Antonio Carlos Jobim compositions I know. A young Carlos Lyra backs the main performers on violao, including also Luiz Marinho and Joao Stockler, as detailed on personnel listing. Tracks include:

Personnel

Luiz Bonfa
(guitar)
Ed Lincoln
(piano)
Carlos Lyra
(violao)
Luiz Marinho
(bass)
Joao Stockler
(drums)

Track List

01 – Passeio no Rio (Luis Bonfá)
02 – Oración Caribe (Agustin Lara)
03 – Dancing In The Dark (A. Schwartz / Howard)
04 – Laura (Alcyr Pires Vermelho / João de Barro)
05 – Que Reste-til de Nous Amour (Charles Trenet)
06 – Tipi-tipi-tim (Maria Grever / R. Leveen)
07 – Agora É Cinza (Alcebíades Barcelos “Bide” / Armando “Marçal”)
08 – Trinidad (Luis Bonfá)
09 – Perdido de Amor (Luis Bonfá)
10 – Domingo Sincopado (Luis Bonfá / Tom Jobim)
11 – Poinciana (N. Simon)
12 – Night And Day (Cole Porter)

This is Luiz Bonfa e Ed Lincoln – Noite e Dia com Luiz Bonfa e Eduardo Lincoln (1956), at Loronix.  Hope uEnjoy!

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Esse disco já foi publicado aqui mesmo no Órfãos do Loronix.

Luiz Bonfa – Introspection: Bonfa Solo Guitar (1972)

Link na Internet Wayback Machine: Luiz Bonfa – Introspection: Bonfa Solo Guitar (1972)
Publicado em: Sunday, October 14, 2007 by zecalouro

tcisalpino is really great. With this upgrade, he is the first Loronixer to upgrade his own contribution, a nice and welcomed upgrade with major changes on cover artwork, MP3s and FLACS, which is a format that grows on popularity everyday. I will keep my original writing and I just want to say that Introspection is considered one of the best guitar solo album ever recorded, and recorded by the great Luiz Bonfa. Thanks tcisalpino, I’m sure that new friends will decide for the upgrade and everybody who made the first one as well.

This is Luiz Bonfa – Introspection: Bonfa Solo Guitar (1972), for RCA (USA), featuring Luiz Bonfa and his acoustic nylon guitar and considered by the critics as one of the best solo guitar albums ever made. Thanks once again tcisalpino for this great contribution to Loronixers. My writing does not have the quality needed to describe this music, so I will let you with a review from Thom Jurek/AMG. Tracks include:

For all of his prodigious output (literally dozens of albums) and his widely celebrated artistry as a guitarist, bandleader, interpreter of popular songs from many traditions, and composer (of two of the breakthrough bossa film soundtrack Black Orpheus’ most seminal cuts, no less), no Luiz Bonfá recording reaches the dizzying — if gently stated — heights of his acumen in the way Introspection does. Recorded in 1972, this album features eight of Bonfá’s own compositions played on solo guitar, whether the nylon-string he established his reputation on, the electric six-string, or a specially designed 12-string. The deep emotion in each track, dovetailed with his lushly articulated phrasings in spare passages of warm, languid, sometimes somber, and always deeply romantic poetic imagery, is heart-searing. From the elegance of his classical enunciations on “Enchanted Mirror,” where each line is mirrored with chromatic counterpoint, to the shifting scalar morphing in “Reflections,” to the gloriously complex yet seamless and edgeless harmonic interplay of “Rain,” to the shimmering Charlie Byrd and Django Reinhardt quotations in “Leque,” Bonfá’s guitar artistry is total. But more than this, these compositions sing; they carry the fire and intervallic dimensionality of sonatas and the human ambiguities of song. Introspection may be the one title — if you can only have one — in Bonfá’s catalog to own. It not only stands as his best work but, along with Bola Sete’s Shambhala Moon, may be the best guitar recording in the history of Latin music.

Track List:

01 – Enchanted Mirror (Luis Bonfá)
02 – Summertime Love (Luis Bonfá)
03 – Reflections (Luis Bonfá)
04 – Concerto For Guitar (Luis Bonfá)
05 – Rain (Luis Bonfá)
06 – Leque (Luis Bonfá)
07 – Missal (Luis Bonfá)
08 – Adventure In Space (Luis Bonfá)

This is Luiz Bonfa – Introspection: Bonfa Solo Guitar (1972), at Loronix. Hope uEnjoy!

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Esse disco já havia sido publicado aqui no Órfãos do Loronix.

Music Video | Luiz Bonfa @ Mike Douglas Show – Batucada & Manha de Carnaval (1966)

Link original: Music Video | Luiz Bonfa @ Mike Douglas Show – Batucada & Manha de Carnaval (1966)
Publicado em: Monday, September 24, 2007 by zecalouro

The mighty HansVonz delivers another nice Luiz Bonfa video to Loronix, an excerpt of Luiz Bonfa at Mike Douglas Show (1966), featuring Luiz Bonfa performing Batucada and Manha de Carnaval with participation of Mike Douglas on vocals. Thanks HansVonz, Loronixers will be pleased with this really nice one.

Hope uEnjoy!

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O vídeo que consegui, já tinha sido publicado aqui no Órfãos do Loronix: Além de Batucada e Manhã de Carnaval, ele também apresenta Menina Flor.

 

Music Video | Luiz Bonfa – Menina Flor (1966)

Link original: Music Video | Luiz Bonfa – Menina Flor (1966)
Publicado em: Saturday, September 15, 2007 by zecalouro

Hello, Good Evening! One of the benefits of the new Loronix design is the chance of showing bigger videos. However, several different browsers are available and people use several different screen resolutions and I cannot test on these several alternatives. That’s why I’m asking you to report something wrong with this post. Please leave a comment if something does not work as it should. I will be here to adjust things as they are reported.

Thank you. Let’s check this great Luiz Bonfa video sent by the great Loronix friend HansVonz. Luiz Bonfa performs Menina Flor at Mike Douglas Show (1966).

Hope uEnjoy!

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No vídeo que consegui, além de Menina Flor, Bonfá toca Batucada e Manhã de Carnaval.

Luiz Bonfa e Conjunto – 78rpm | Continental 16432 (1950)

Link original (só disponível nos Feeds RSS): Luiz Bonfa e Conjunto – 78rpm | Continental 16432 (1950)
Publicado em: Friday, September 07, 2007 by zecalouro

 

I could not wait longer to show Loronixers our second 78rpm album. I though I would make it once a week, but you know me, I can’t control the excitement with such things. So here we go on our second 78rpm album featuring another favorite of Loronixers.This is Luiz Bonfa e Conjunto – 78rpm | 16432 (1950), for Continental. Luiz Bonfa is backed by Conjunto and delivers a Choro on Side A and a Bolero on Side B, both written by Luiz Bonfa. Once again, direct link to the music is been provided.

Tracks include:

01 – Pescaria em Paqueta (Luiz Bonfa) – Choro
02 – Uma Prece (Luiz Bonfa) – Bolero

This is Luiz Bonfa e Conjunto – 78rpm | 16432 (1950), at Loronix. Hope uEnjoy!

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Não tinha esse disco. Porém, graças ao amigo Martoni, ele pode ser buscado provisoriamente aqui.

Music Video | Luiz Bonfa – Batucada

Link original: Music Video | Luiz Bonfa – Batucada
Publicado em: Tuesday, July 17, 2007 by zecalouro

The mighty HansVonz released a couple of days ago two new Luiz Bonfa videos at YouTube. I could not resist picking the one that I like most and show it to Loronixers. Luiz Bonfa (with a huge mustache) plays Batucada at Julie Andrews Show. The clip ends suddenly and it is a very short footage, but people like it so much that it is not a issue.

Hope uEnjoy!

Music Video | Luiz Bonfa & Perry Como – Manha de Carnaval

Link original: Music Video | Luiz Bonfa & Perry Como – Manha de Carnaval
Publicado em: Saturday, June 30, 2007 by zecalouro

Several friends were asking for Luiz Bonfa and Perry Como performing together. Here we go! Luiz Bonfa plays guitar and Perry Como sings Manha de Carnaval with English lyrics, he said he don’t speak Brazilian, you will see…

Hope uEnjoy!

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Este vídeo é uma continuação daquele apresentado aqui. Na realidade, ele já estava incluído no final dele.

Music Video | Luiz Bonfa – Sambolero & Tenderly

Link original: Music Video | Luiz Bonfa – Sambolero & Tenderly
Publicado em: Monday, June 25, 2007 by zecalouro

Hello, Good Evening! Please tell me if I need to stop with this series of opening posts featuring Luiz Bonfa. They are now coming and I think is not fair to keep waiting for showing later. I think this is one of the best I have ever seen, showing Luiz Bonfa playing Sambolero and his rendition to Tenderly. The gig happens on a TV show and perhaps the idea is to show guitar skills. Luiz Bonfa does not to seem to put much effort with such fantastic playing he makes here.

Hope uEnjoy!

Quick Challenge | Who is playing sax with Luiz Bonfa?

Link original: Quick Challenge | Who is playing sax with Luiz Bonfa?
Publicado em: Sunday, June 24, 2007 by zecalouro

Hello, Good Evening! Starting today with a quick and pretty easy challenge. You just need to watch the video and identify who is playing sax with the great Luiz Bonfa.

Hope uEnjoy!

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Conseguimos o vídeo graças ao bOssas nOvas, mas o mistério continua … Quem está tocando com Bonfá? Não me parece o Stan Getz …

Caterina Valente & Luiz Bonfa – Caterina Valente & Luiz Bonfa (1963) | Germany

Link original: Caterina Valente & Luiz Bonfa – Caterina Valente & Luiz Bonfa (1963) | Germany
Publicado em: Thursday, May 31, 2007 by zecalouro

We should thank the Loronix friend Stefan from Germany. He was responsible for calling my attention to this album, recorded in Germany, Hamburg. Caterina Valente is the lady that introduces Luiz Bonfa on last video. She was born in France and then moved to Germany where she started his professional career in 1953. Caterina Valente sings in six languages, including Portuguese, which is the language he sings on this marvelous album.

This is Caterina Valente & Luiz Bonfa – Caterina Valente & Luiz Bonfa (1963), for Decca Germany. This album was recorded in two days, January 23rd and 25th, featuring all compositions by Luiz Bonfa. Selected tracks were issued on several formats by Decca, including 45RPM, singles and EPs. The cover artworks of these editions are really worth to be seen, you can check all them together at Luiz Bonfa discography by Yasouka, here. Tracks include:

01 – Mania de Maria (Luis Bonfá / Maria Helena Toledo)
02 – Sorrindo (Luis Bonfá / Maria Helena Toledo)
03 – Se Eu Pudesse Voltar (Luis Bonfá / Maria Helena Toledo)
04 – Vem Só (Luis Bonfá)
05 – Indiferença (Luis Bonfá / Maria Helena Toledo)
06 – Melancolia (Luis Bonfá / Maria Helena Toledo)
07 – Menina Flor (Luis Bonfá / Maria Helena Toledo)
08 – Reverso (Luis Bonfá / Maria Helena Toledo)
09 – Saudade Vem Correndo (Luis Bonfá / Maria Helena Toledo)
10 – Cantiga da Vida (Luis Bonfá / Maria Helena Toledo)
11 – Teu Olhar Triste (Luis Bonfá)
12 – Samba de Duas Notas (Luis Bonfá)

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Este disco pode ser buscado na Rádio Forma e Elenco do Martoni. Agora ele também está disponível no Um que Tenha.

Before starting Loronix, I never realize how great is German passion for the music from Brazil. The evidences are clear, Baden Powell has a great popularity in German, helping on leveraging the interest for Brazilian music as a whole. Brazil-on-Guitar is another fantastic demonstration of dedication Germans have for Brazilian music. I could make several new friends Loronix friends on Germany, something that could only be accomplished with Loronix.

Loronixers from Germany, our country number 3, came last year from 136 different cities. Berlin takes the lead with 16% of visits, followed by Frankfurt 9% and Cologne with 7%, showing a low concentration on major cities. Germany is tuned as a whole at Loronix. It was also really difficult to select Germany picture and I took a decision based on a calm landscape showing mountains. Thanks a lot for the last year, Loronixers from Germany. You got the podium, third position.

Thanks, zecalouro

Music Video | Luiz Bonfa – Ski Song

Link original: Music Video | Luiz Bonfa – Ski Song
Publicado em: Thursday, May 31, 2007 by zecalouro

While Loronix engineers are making final cosmetic adjustments on hour Music from All Countries celebration, I invite you to watch Luiz Bonfa performing Ski Song on this magnificent video. Stay tuned for our third Music from All Countries day.

Hope uEnjoy!

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Graças ao bOssas nOvas conseguimos a versão acima do vídeo, mais completa que a originalmente disponível no Youtube.

Repost | Luiz Bonfa – Jacaranda (1973)

Link na Internet Wayback Machine: Repost | Luiz Bonfa – Jacaranda (1973) 
Publicado em: FRIDAY, MAY 11, 2007 by zecalouro Loronix 1 Year

 

Another repost, actually the most requested repost ever, an acclaimed Luiz Bonfa album with Eumir Deodato arrangements, also known as one of the best “Latin Jazz Fusion” albums from the 70’s. If you make a detailed examination on personnel listing you will see the amount of effort put on it by almost 50 musicians that were with Luiz Bonfa and Eumir Deodato in the set. I have been wondering how can we listen to Luiz Bonfa guitar in the middle of this ensemble. You don’t need to worry, as Koichi Yasuoka says, Bonfa guitar can be heard in all tunes.

This is Luiz Bonfa – Jacaranda (1973), for Ranwood. I will let you will AMG review that explains this record in details, giving it five stars and masterpiece. Tracks include:

AMG Review

After the initial shockwaves of Miles Davis’ seminal fusion recordings began to settle, jazz rock fusion began to become a genre unto itself. What Miles had created as a way of opening both the disciplines up to one another — in the same manner that bossa nova and rhythm and blues did in the 1960s — created a slew of musical possibilities before fusion closed in on itself in the later 1970s and became its own restrictive genre, full of sterile, workmanlike chops, and endlessly repetitive rhythmic constructs. But perhaps no one, not even Weather Report’s Joe Zawinul or Creed Taylor at CTI realized the full aesthetic and panoramic potential of fusing seemingly disparate elements together in an entirely new tapestry, the way that Brazilian composer and guitarist Luiz Bonfá did on Jacarandá in 1973. His collaborators, producer John Wood and arranger/conductor Eumir Deodato, assembled a huge cast of musicians in both New York and Los Angeles, and came up with nothing short of a grooving, blissed-out masterpiece of fusion exotica. The cast of players is in and of itself dizzying: Airto, Deodato, Bonfá on acoustic guitars, Stanley Clarke, Wood, Mark Drury, Ray Barretto, John Tropea (on electric guitars), Bill Watrous, Randy Brecker, Idris Muhammad, Jerry Dodgion, Sonny Boyer, Phil Bodner, Maria Toledo, and many others — including full string and horn sections. The ambitious Deodato charts opened up the principals and brought hard Afro-Cuban rhythms, softer Brazilian ones, funky riffing soul and R&B interludes, and classical themes and variations, as well as sophisticated jazz harmonics and syncopation to a collection of tunes by Bonfá and others. Sound like a mess? Hardly. This is one of the most disciplined and ambitions recordings to be issued during that decade. Here Bonfá’s gorgeous palette of samba and bossa melodies is married to film score dynamics, lush romantic cadenzas, smoking jazz grooves and cultured extrapolations of folk and popular music schemas. creating a stunning mosaic of color, release, pastoral elegance and bad-ass, intoxicating, polyrhythmic Latin soul vistas. While the entire album flows form front to back with seamless ease, there are a few standouts. The opener, “Apache Talk,” features Barretto’s congas creating a bottom for Muhammad’s brushes and snare, as Clarke’s bass plays one note insistently and hypnotically before Wood’s Rhodes and finally Bonfá’s 12-string come shimmering in with a funky urgency that is underscored by Tropea’s bluesy fills. When the horns finally enter, the entire thing is popping and grooving on its own punchy axis. It’s a wonder that Gilles Peterson hasn’t picked up on this cut yet. Elsewhere, Bonfá’s velvety tropical read of Enriqué Granados’ “Dance No. 5,” with its slippery classical guitar and extended harmonic palette, is a whispering wonder of sensual delight. The minor-key riffing in “Strange Message” that becomes a full-blown soundtrack-esque anthem is a wonder, and the jazzy soul of the title track with Drury’s popping stand-up bass playing counterpoint to Bonfá’s 12-string before Muhammad and Wood kick it on the funky side is breathtaking (Man, if Ralph Towner could only play 12-string like this, he might have been a contender!). Reissued on the JR label, in magnificent, warm, crystalline, 24-bit remastered sound, the album contains an excellent essay on Bonfá by executive producer Arnaldo DeSouteiro. This is the great fusion album that was never released here in the States, where the full possibilities of the new music were personified. If ever there were a case to order a CD online, this is it. It’s so fine it’s hardly even believable.

PersonnelLuiz Bonfá
(guitar, vocal)
Eumir Deodato
(piano, electric piano, keyboards)
John Wood
(electric piano)
Stanley Clarke
(electric bass)
Mark Drury
(bass)
Idris Muhammad
(drums)
Richard O’Connell
(drums)
Airto Moreira
(percussion)
Ray Barretto
(conga)
John Tropea
(electric guitar)
Sonny Boyer
(tenor sax)
Phil Bodner
(flute, oboe, english horn, clarinet)
Romeo Penque
(flute, bass clarinet, baritone sax)
Jerry Dodgion
(flute, alto sax)
Randy Brecker
(trumpet, flugelhorn)
Burt Collins
(trumpet)
John Frosk
(trumpet)
Marky Markowitz
(trumpet)
Marvin Stamm
(trumpet, flugelhorn)
Wayne Andre
(trombone)
Garnett Brown
(trombone)
Bill Watrous
(trombone)
Tony Studd
(bass trombone)
Jim Buffington
(french horn)
Peter Gordo
(french horn)
Harry Lookofsky
(violin)
Harry Cykmam
(violin)
Max Ellen
(violin)
Paul Gershman
(violin)
Emanuel Green
(violin)
Harry Katzman
(violin)
Harold Kohon
(violin)
Joe Malin
(violin)
David Nadien
(violin)
Gene Orloff
(violin)
Elliot Rosoff
(violin)
Irving Spice
(violin)
Alfred Brown
(viola)
Harold Coletta
(viola)
Selwart Clark
(viola)
Emanuel Vardi
(viola)
Charles McCracken
(cello)
George Ricci
(cello)
Alan Shulman
(cello)
Gloria Lanzarone
(cello)
Alvin Brehm
(arco bass)
Russell Savakus
(arco bass)
Sonia Burnier
(vocal)
Maria Helena Toledo
(vocal)

Track List01 – Apache Talk (Luis Bonfá)
02 – Jacarandá (Luis Bonfá)
03 – Gentle Rain (Luis Bonfá)
04 – You Or Not To Be (Tavinho Bonfá)
05 – Strange Message (Luis Bonfá)
06 – Dom Quixote (Luis Bonfá)
07 – Song Thoughts (Luis Bonfá)
08 – Danse V (Granados / Adpt. Luis Bonfá)
09 – Empty Room (Luis Bonfá)
10 – Sun Flower (Luis Bonfá)

This is Luiz Bonfa – Jacaranda (1973), at Loronix.  Hope uEnjoy!

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Como o título do post diz, este é um repost, e pode ser buscado aqui mesmo no Órfãos do Loronix.

Luiz Bonfa e Sylvia Telles – Luiz Bonfa e Sylvia Telles (1958) | EP

Link na Internet Wayback Machine: Luiz Bonfa e Sylvia Telles – Luiz Bonfa e Sylvia Telles (1958) | EP
Publicado em: FRIDAY, MAY 04, 2007

 

You don’t need to scratch your eyes or check your glasses; it is true, Luiz Bonfa and Sylvia Telles together on recording. Mr. E. made history at Loronix with his last contribution, Copacabana Palace OST with Bonus Tracks, additions and videos. Copacabana Palace alone was enough to instantly admit Mr. E. to Loronix Honor Pantheon. However, the tireless Mr. E strikes again with this unique EP and does not save another jewel for a later time, making together a video with Sylvia Telles that I never saw before. Thanks once again Mr. E., your music is really exciting and you also know the stuff you have.

This is Luiz Bonfa e Sylvia Telles – Luiz Bonfa e Sylvia Telles (1958), for Odeon (EP, BWB 1040). As I said, Mr. E. knows the business, he said this is the outcome of a supposed LP with Sylvia Telles singing Luiz Bonfa repertoire, however, Odeon seems to have aborted the project, making only this EP commercially available. Luiz Bonfa guitar can be heard in all tunes and share vocals with Sylvia Telles on Perdido de Amor.

The video is another Mr. E. trick and is important and exciting as the EP, showing Sylvia Telles performing Demais (Antonio Carlos Jobim / Aloysio de Oliveira) at the same Brazilian movie film Mr. E. sent to us, Assassinato em Copacabana. Sylvia Telles is Mr. E. favorite diva and he says she was in her peak. I agree 100% with Mr. E. Sylvinha is really great at this video that you should watch with a great attention as a rare piece. Thanks once again Mr. E. Tracks include:

Sylvia Telles – Demais

.01 – Tanto amor (Luiz Bonfá – Reynaldo Dias Leme)
02 – De braços lassos (Luiz Bonfá)
03 – Meu sonho (Luiz Bonfá)
04 – Perdido de amor (Luiz Bonfá)This is Luiz Bonfa e Sylvia Telles – Luiz Bonfa e Sylvia Telles (1958), at Loronix, by Mr. E.

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Este EP pode ser buscado no Parallel Realities. Note que, além das quatro faixas lançadas no EP, o Edson Mendes enviou para o Milan (Parallel Realities) mais 3 faixas com Bonfá e Sylvia Telles, retiradas de um CD de 2001 (série Bis – Sylvia Telles).  Como estas faixas não são listadas em nenhuma discografia de Sylvia nem de Bonfá, conclui-se que elas foram gravadas para o LP perdido de 1958. Com isto já são 7 faixas disponíveis:

5. De cigarro em cigarro (Luiz Bonfá)
6. Caminho sem fim (Luiz Bonfá)
7. Tabuleiro (Luiz Bonfá)

Existiriam outras faixas nos arquivos da Odeon (EMI)? Pesquisando sobre isso, encontrei uma mensagem no Orkut que indica que foram gravadas 12 faixas para o LP e que as 5 restantes seriam:
8 – Ranchinho de palha
9 – Cancao do vaqueiro
10 – Paz de espirito
11 – Tu bem querer
12 – Outro adeus

Espero que algum dia escutemos o LP na íntegra!

Quanto ao vídeo, ele foi conseguido graças ao nosso amigo AD (Brazilliance). Thanks, AD!

Copacabana Palace – Band Originale du Film (1962)

Link original: Copacabana Palace – Band Originale du Film (1962)
Publicado em: Saturday, April 28, 2007 by zecalouro

Hello, Good Evening! Sometimes we need to be straightforward, this is the time. Mr. E., the mighty Mr. E. that sent to us Mary Goncalvez, Zeze Gonzaga among several other truly amazing contributions, sent this pearl. I would like to title this post as “All About Copacabana Palace Film”, Mr. E. made a real strike, sending Copacabana Palace OST and 2 excerpts of that movie with Brazilian artists performing Bossa Nova songs. Thanks a million Mr. E. I’m sure this post will please everybody.

This is Copacabana Palace – Band Originale du Film (1962), for Festival, featuring Joao Gilberto, Os Cariocas, Norma Bengell, Miguel and Orquestra Gianni Ferrio. Self-explanatory album, the OST of Copacabana Palace movie. Mr. E. also made available some additional jewels, three songs extracted by the original film soundtrack and four other relevant songs that Mr. E. has gently picked up from other albums.

The tireless Mr. E. also makes available two excerpts of that movie, Joao Gilberto, Luiz Bonfa and Antonio Carlos Jobim performing Cancao do Mar together at the beach. We know this video is available at Loronix already, however, Mr. E. version has a much better quality and it is complete. I did not know that the previous one had some parts missing.

To end this magnificent contribution, Mr. E. pleases us with a music video featuring Os Cariocas and Joao Gilberto performing So Danco Samba. Wow! Thanks Mr. E. everybody will always remember your effort. Tracks include:

Original Sound Track

01 – So Danco Samba (Antonio Carlos Jobim / Vinicius de Moraes) with JOAO GILBERTO AND OS CARIOCAS
02 – Tristeza (Luiz Bonfa / Maria Helena Toledo) with NORMA BENGELL
03 – Samba do Aviao (Antonio Carlos Jobim) with MIGUEL
04 – Musique originale du Carnaval de Rio 1962 with ORQUESTRA GIANNI FERRIO

Bonus Tracks – Extracted from the OST

05 – Samba do Aviao (Antonio Carlos Jobim) with JULA DE PALMA AND OS 4×4 DE NORA ORLANDI
06 – Samboleiro (Luiz Bonfa / Maria Helena Toledo) with LUIZ BONFA
07 – Cancao do Mar (Luiz Bonfa / Maria Helena Toledo) with LUIZ BONFA, JOAO GILBERTO and ANTONIO CARLOS JOBIM

Bonus Tracks – Extracted from other albums – Mr. E. Specials

08 – Cancao do Mar (Luiz Bonfa / Maria Helena Toledo) with LUIZ BONFA
09 – Samboleiro (Luiz Bonfa / Maria Helena Toledo) with LUIZ BONFA
10 – Tristeza (Luiz Bonfa / Maria Helena Toledo) with LUIZ BONFA
11 – So Danco Samba (Antonio Carlos Jobim / Vinicius de Moraes) with OS CARIOCAS
12 – Samba do Aviao (Antonio Carlos Jobim) with OS CARIOCAS

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Music Video

So Danco Samba
Joao Gilberto and Os Cariocas

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Music Video
Cancao do Mar
Joao Gilberto, Luiz Bonfa and Antonio Carlos Jobim

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O vídeo de Canção do Mar não estava completo, mas graças ao amigo bOssas nOvas agora ele está.

Quanto à seleção feita pelo Mr. E., ela pode ser buscada na Rádio Forma e Elenco do Martoni. O filme completo está disponibilizado nos comentários desta postagem (baixem logo, pois não ficará disponível por muito tempo). O filme é falado em italiano, sem legendas …

Luiz Bonfa – The New Face of Bonfa (1970)

Link na Internet Wayback Machine: Luiz Bonfa – The New Face of Bonfa (1970)
Publicado em: SUNDAY, APRIL 15, 2007

Baden Powell fans have a great support from the great BrazilOnGuitar that I like to announce with a great pleasure on every Baden Powell post I made. Luiz Bonfa fans can also count with another tribute website that I would like to introduce to Loronixers today, which is the Luiz Bonfa Discography, owned and maintained by – taking his own words – two crazy fans of his guitar, Koichi and Motoko Yasuoka. Do not miss Luiz Bonfa Discography at http://www.kanji.zinbun.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~yasuoka/Bonfa/

This is Luiz Bonfa – The New Face of Bonfa (1970), for RCA (USA). I’m not sure, but I think this is the first and only album Luiz Bonfa plays electric guitar and also this unique Brazilian craviola that everybody can see at this album cover. Six tunes were recorded in Rio de Janeiro, while orchestra in New York complemented three of those six tunes. The remaining songs were recorded in New York. Personnel listing features renowned musicians and I invite you to reach this record description at Luiz Bonfa Discography for further information. Tracks include:

Personnel

Track List

01 – Window Girl
02 – For a Distant Love
03 – Macumba
04 – Africana
05 – Salvador
06 – Medieval
07 – Helicopter 274
08 – Man Alone
09 – Sofisticada
10 – Savanarole
11 – Peixe Bom

This is Luiz Bonfa – The New Face of Bonfa (1970), at Loronix.

Hope uEnjoy!

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Este disco pode ser buscado no Um que Tenha.  Um detalhe é que este não foi o único disco do Bonfá onde a craviola foi utilizada. No disco Introspection ele também usa, como discutido aqui.

Luiz Bonfa – Amor! | The Fabulous Guitar of Luiz Bonfa (1958)

Link na Internet Wayback Machine: Luiz Bonfa – Amor! | The Fabulous Guitar of Luiz Bonfa (1958)
Publicado em: MONDAY, MARCH 19, 2007

 

There was a plan for tonight, agreed with Caetano that could not be accomplished. Blame it on computer problems and a little bit of human and parrot mistakes in the process. That’s why I decided to show you this early Luiz Bonfa LP, never made available before at Loronix. Additionally, I’m showing a video with Luiz Bonfa and Caterina Valente performing Manha de Carnaval, in my opinion, one of the greatest videos available at Loronix ever, making sure that everybody will have a chance to see it and also urge everybody to send any Luiz Bonfa videos. This video is awesome and I’m sure everybody wants to see more.

This is Luiz Bonfa – Amor! | The Fabulous Guitar of Luiz Bonfa (1958), for Atlantic, featuring Luiz Bonfa (guitar), Don Elliott (mellophone, vibraphone, triangle), Tommy Lopez (bongo, conga), and Ralph Freundlich (flute). Amor is from a period that I like most amongst Luiz Bonfa albums, the late 50’s and a little bit of the early 60’s. I don’t need to say more, this release explains by itself and it is more than a replacement of the original plan. Tracks include:

01 – Brasília
02 – I’ll Remember April
03 – Lonely Lament
04 – Carnival
05 – George Back In Town
06 – Blue Madrid
07 – Island Of Trindade
08 – Old Times
09 – Marajó
10 – Indian Dance
11 – Nelly
12 – Preludio
13 – Yesterdays
14 – Bagpipes
15 – Arabesque

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Este disco pode ser buscado na Rádio Forma e Elenco do Martoni.

Luiz Bonfa & Don Burrows – Bonfa, Burrows, Brazil (1978)

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Publicado em: MONDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 2007

The choices were many for this closing post. They were sent to some Loronixers. One of them said I was killing him, torturing with all the choices. Anyway, the chance to make a mistake is reduced. I want to make like regular Brazilian people, turn on the TV, make some hot dogs and fall sleeping in 30 minutes watching the Carnaval parade. Meanwhile, you can stay with Luiz Bonfa.

This is Luiz Bonfa & Don Burrows – Bonfa Burrows Brazil (1978), for CPF – Australia, another collaboration from the Australian sax, flute player Don Burrows with Brazilian musicians, this time with Luiz Bonfa. Self-explanatory closing post. Bonfa guitar can be heard in all tunes. I took this sentence from one of the best Luiz Bonfa discographies available at the Internet, Luiz Bonfa Discography from Koichi Yasuoka, here. You cannot miss Yasuoka work.

Tracks include:

Personnel:

Don Burrows
(flute, alto flute, alto sax, percussion, bamboo flute)

Luiz Bonfá
(guitar, vocal)

George Golla
(electric guitar, guitar)

Paul Baker
(bass)

Doug Gallagher
(conga drums, drums)

Tony Ansell
(piano)

George Andre
(bass, arrange)

Jose Boto
(drums)

Julian Lee
(strings arrange)

 

01 – The Shade Of The Mango Tree (Luis Bonfá)
02 – Sofisticada (Luis Bonfá)
03 – Enchanted Sea (Luis Bonfá)
04 – Batucada (Luis Bonfá)
05 – Menina Flor (Luis Bonfá)
06 – Gisele (Luis Bonfá)
07 – Prelude (Luis Bonfá)
08 – Passeio no Rio (Luis Bonfá)
09 – Morning Of The Carnival (Luis Bonfá)
10 – Amoroso (Luis Bonfá)
11 – Indian Dance (Luis Bonfá)
12 – Himalaia (Luis Bonfá)
13 – The Glentle Rain (Luis Bonfá)
This is Luiz Bonfa & Don Burrows – Bonfa Burrows Brazil (1978), at Loronix.

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