Arrangements by, Eumir Deodato--who also strums acoustic guitar as warm and inviting as the tropical dawn... Features Hubert Laws’ flute and Joe Farrell’s saxophone as the primary solo voices and of course, A.C. Jobim on keys & guitar. This is Stone Flower (1970):: : : : : : more... http://www.dougpayne.com/adsnote11.htmTracks:1. Tereza My Love - 4:202. Children's Games - 3:253. Choro - 2:0
"The Girl from Ipanema" waltzed onto the scene in 1964 with words and music by Antonio Carlos Jobim, Vinicius de Moraes with English lyrics by Norman Gimbel. The song quickly became the most recorded item during the 1960's and still evokes its charm to this day. The song itself describes a young woman noticed by one young man in particular. His thoughts turn to his own shyness in approaching su...
The title of this song actually could be sung by both a man or woman without changing the words for “Dindi” is a considered a form of extreme tenderness between couples. Not too many people attempted this song except for Frank Sinatra and Astrud Gilberto, both of whom contributed great performances. But this one, to my mind, has everything right: Riddle has this song set with great sincerity a
This is one of the best examples of how closely Jobim and Riddle worked with each other. Riddle’s orchestral accompaniment never overshadows Jobim, instead he gives the composer/singer one of great sparsely orchestrated counter melodies for which he was so well known.
The strings sit out on “Agua De Beber,“ capturing the quirky vocal line and a great sampling of the intimacy of the bossa sound as well as the wit of the composer’s own performance.