Leny Andrade - A Sensacao '1961 [2021]

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       A powerful, dynamic debut. Leny Andrade was apparently a protege of
crooner Ivon Curi, who helped her get a recording contract. Like Elza Soares,
who was also starting out at this tme, Andrade displays an overwhelming debt to
Ella Fitzgerald, copying Ella's famous scat style right down to the vocal tone
and phrasing. It's almost embarassing, but it's also pretty good, and certainly
a striking sound for a Brazilian pop singer. The repertoire is all samba-cancao
and bossa nova, with several songs by Durval Ferreira, and a few each by new
composers such as Luiz Bonfa and Antonio Carlos Jobim. Andrade's approach, with
it's powerful gusts of vocalese and exaggerated emotive passages, may have been
out of synch with Brazilian tastes -- it wasn't until she had worked the
nightclub scene for several years and put out a live album in the more
clattersome bossa-trio style that she really made a splash on the national
scene. Still, this is a fine album, certainly one of her best and most
cohesive... Well worth checking out!

Tracks:

01 - SamBop 02:05
02 - Um Amor Igual Ao Seu 02:06
03 - Samba de Uma Notá Só 01:57
04 - Procurando Você 03:18
05 - Não Dá Pé 01:58
06 - Eu e Deus 02:58
07 - Meu Amor Foi Embora 02:48
08 - Filosofia 02:16
09 - Águas Paradas 03:18
10 - O Amor e a Rosa 03:21
11 - Canção Que Volta Só 02:17
12 - Receita Para Esquecer 01:35 

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