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Track Listing
1. A Felicidade
2. Canta de Ossanha
3. Balan Samba
4. Day of the Roses
5. Man and a Woman, A
6. Who Will Buy
7. Somewhere in the Hills
8. Goin' Out of My Head
9. Tristeza
10. Berimbau
11. Laia Ladaia
12. A Banda
13. Born Free
14. Yellow Sun
15. Flame Tree
16. Zebra
17. Dark River
18. Topaz
19. Tree of Life
20. Girl From Uganda
21. Magenta Mountain
22. Johannesburg Blues
23. Jalaba
24. Azure Sands
25. Kalahari
| Details | | Producer: | Gene Norman | | Distributor: | Select-O-Hits | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes
Originally released as 2 separate LPs: BRAZIL NOW (1966)/AFRICAN BLUE (1967).
Released in 1966 and 1967 as the albums BRAZIL NOW and AFRICAN BLUE, the 25 tracks on this well-annotated collection capture composer/arranger/tenor saxophonist Les Baxter towards the end of his primary creative period. Baxter's special brand of easy listening and world music influences wasn't as unique by the mid-'60s as it had been a decade before. Bossa nova artists like Antonio Carlos Jobim and Joao Gilberto were making a heftier, more authentic version of the same sort of music that's on this disc, and at the time, Baxter's slick orchestral arrangements sounded kind of old-fashioned.
Now, of course, that's kind of the point, and in hindsight, there's no way you can go wrong with tunes like Francis Lai's "A Man and a Woman" and Jobim's "Berimbau." Hipsters might have originally been smirking when they revived this music, but there's genuine artistry to be found here.
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