Clebanoff And His Orchestra
Lush, Latin & Bossa Nova Too! (1963)
LATIN AMERICAN "Lush Latin And Bossa Nova Too!" by Clebanoff and his orchestra has a most unprepossessing title, complete with ominous exclamation mark, but in the event proves to be one of the nest and most discerning albums of Latin American mood music for some considerable time. Mr Clebanoff directs a string orchestra for this LP with some woodwind and a most efficient and convincing rhythm section. A further point in its favour is Mr Clebanoff's choice of material. There are four good compositions by guitarist Charlie Byrd, one of the first North American musicians to become accurately and productively orientated to the bossa nova, and three by the Argentine-born pianist and arranger Lalo Schifrin, who has also contributed some sterling work to the bossa nova movement. The other tracks are two well-presented pops in Wonderful, Wonderful and Poinciana, Dorival Caymmi's Samba Da Minha Terra (Samba Of My Homeland), Xavier Cugat's Nightingale and Maria Grever's What A Difference A Day Made. Mr Clebanoff's orchestra, with its authentic rhythmic basis including a pandeiro (samba tambourine) with the correct dry sound, makes the most of each tune, and the LP should please a wide audience, not excluding the more demanding aficionados of Brazilian music.
01 Whispering Bossa Nova
02 Ela Mi Deixou (She Has Gone)
03 Mima
04 Yvone
05 Wonderful Wonderful
06 Poinciana
07 Jazz Samba
08 Nightingale
09 Samba Of My Land
10 Silvia
11 O Passaro
12 What A Difference A Day Made
