Saxophonist Paul Winter’s career has taken in numerous divergent turns, from straight jazz to experiments with world and new age music. Signed to Columbia early in his career, he was sent on a State Department tour of Latin America in 1962..
The contacts he picked up on that trip proved fruitful for a return trip two years later. Briefly making the country his home, he recorded two albums in Rio De Janeiro with the cream of local bossa talent. Originally released in 1964, The Sound Of Ipanema features Sérgio Mendes on piano, Sebastião Neto on bass and Milton Banana on drums, with one of the genre’s founders, Carlos Lyra providing the songs and the work’s defining presence. His intimate, velvet smooth vocals and intricate guitar lines blend sweetly with Winter’s gentle and unobtrusive sax lines throughout, finding their apogee on superlative versions of Você E Eu and De Quem Ama. - Record Collector
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KH4h8N_525k&list=RDKH4h8N_525k&start_radio=1
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