Sergio Mendes RIP

[Teasing the Korean]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-13821845/Sergio-Mendes-dead-83-Brazilian-musician-worked-John-Legend-James-Bond-song-Oscar-nominated-Real-Rio.html

[JSngry]

I enjoyed a lot of his records over the years.

RIP

[gvopedz]

Decades ago, I would hear this song coming out of houses:

 

[HutchFan]

R.I.P.

 

[JSngry]

Who else has covered Clifford Coulter?

[soulpope]

😪 .... R.I.P    ....

[mikeweil]

1 hour ago, JSngry said:

I enjoyed a lot of his records over the years.

RIP

Just my thoughts. Some Greatest Hits LP was among my first ten buys.

RIP

[Mark13]

The artist who brought us 'The Most Complex Pop Song of All Time', according to Rick Beato

I don't have the technical knowledge to second that. I just enjoy his records. Especially the early ones.

RIP

Edited September 6, 2024 by Mark13

[soulpope]

Sergio Mendes & Brasil`66 "Fool On The Hill" (A & M Records) 1968 .... one of the best Beatles Cover Songs .... ever ....

[Teasing the Korean]

For many of us in the US, Brasil '66 and Getz & Gilberto were the primary gateways into Brazilian music.  In the 1990s and early part of the millennium, with the revival of Bossa and Brazilian music in the US, it became trendy to put down Brasil '66 as not being "authentic," a problematic word if there ever was one.  As one of those who was scarfing up as many Brazilian LPs and CDs as I could find during that time, I never engaged in the Brasil '66 bashing.  I loved them in the 1960s and I love them now.

I saw Sergio live in 2008, and he signed autographs after the show.  I had my copy of The Swinger from Rio for him to sign.  When I got to the front of line, I asked, "Excuse me, but aren't you the swinger from Rio?"  He smiled and replied, "I used to be!"

[Bill Nelson]

As I began my first radio DJ stint in '69, a cart of Mendes' hit, 'Fool On the Hill' was a go-to airplay favorite.  Sergio's albums for A&M have been in my collection and then to Elektra and Verve.  My fave track from his 'Brasileiro' (1992):

 

[Hardbopjazz]

R.I.P. Sergio.   Thanks for the samba. 

[Kevin Bresnahan]

Although I never got to see him play, I've enjoyed his LPs.

Covid claims another Jazz great.

[JSngry]

54 minutes ago, Kevin Bresnahan said:

Covid claims another Jazz great.

Source?

[sgcim]

1 hour ago, Teasing the Korean said:

For many of us in the US, Brasil '66 and Getz & Gilberto were the primary gateways into Brazilian music.  In the 1990s and early part of the millennium, with the revival of Bossa and Brazilian music in the US, it became trendy to put down Brasil '66 as not being "authentic," a problematic word if there ever was one.  As one of those who was scarfing up as many Brazilian LPs and CDs as I could find during that time, I never engaged in the Brasil '66 bashing.  I loved them in the 1960s and I love them now.

I saw Sergio live in 2008, and he signed autographs after the show.  I had my copy of The Swinger from Rio for him to sign.  When I got to the front of line, I asked, "Excuse me, but aren't you the swinger from Rio?"  He smiled and replied, "I used to be!"

Great closing paragraph! Have you seen that Netflix film, "They Shot The Piano Player" yet? It involves a Brazilian "Samba Jazz" pianist, Francisco Tenório Júnior, a young Brazilian samba-jazz pianist who disappeared in Buenos Aires on March 18, 1976. He only put out one album as a leader, when he was only 22, but went on to play on many important Jazz Samba/Bossa Nova records as a sideman. I posted on it in the Miscellaneous Music section amonth ago.

RIP, Sergio. You brought the world some great music that people are too stupid to appreciate now.

[Rabshakeh]

2 hours ago, Teasing the Korean said:

In the 1990s and early part of the millennium, with the revival of Bossa and Brazilian music in the US, it became trendy to put down Brasil '66 as not being "authentic," a problematic word if there ever was one.  

Huh? I was a young youth at the time, but whatever 1990s culture industry spigot I was drinking from at the time led me to believe that Sergio Mendes was "cool". I had an image in my head of him as some sort of Alain Delon figure. An exemplar of the 1960s high culture chic.

I remember being pretty shocked when streaming happened, and I first actually heard Brazil '66 for myself. Turns out Mendes was never in fact "cool". 

Good records though. Some of the best in that zone.

RIP. 

[gvopedz]

"No official cause of death was given, however the family said Mendes had been suffering with long-term Covid, and the musician was known to have suffered respiratory problems since the end of 2023."

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cm2ng6ng17no

[Teasing the Korean]

29 minutes ago, Rabshakeh said:

Huh? I was a young youth at the time, but whatever 1990s culture industry spigot I was drinking from at the time led me to believe that Sergio Mendes was "cool". I had an image in my head of him as some sort of Alain Delon figure. An exemplar of the 1960s high culture chic.

I remember being pretty shocked when streaming happened, and I first actually heard Brazil '66 for myself. Turns out Mendes was never in fact "cool". 

Good records though. Some of the best in that zone.

RIP. 

Not sure I understand your second paragraph.  

[Teasing the Korean]

4 hours ago, soulpope said:

Sergio Mendes & Brasil`66 "Fool On The Hill" (A & M Records) 1968 .... one of the best Beatles Cover Songs .... ever ....

All four of their Beatles covers are fantastic!  Three of their Fabs covers smoke the originals.  "Day Tripper" is a wash, IMO.

[Teasing the Korean]

This track from Look Around is fantastic in every way.

 

[sgcim]

19 minutes ago, Teasing the Korean said:

This track from Look Around is fantastic in every way.

 

I just wrote a BB chart on their version of that, using SD's "Black Cow as my groove.

[Teasing the Korean]

3 minutes ago, sgcim said:

I just wrote a BB chart on their version of that, using SD's "Black Cow as my groove.

Did you try to recreate those string voicings for the brass or reeds? Is that Richard Hazard?

[JSngry]

Grusin

[Teasing the Korean]

3 minutes ago, JSngry said:

Grusin

Of course.  He did great arrangements for them. 

[JSngry]

Fine TV scores too, like It Takes A Thief.

And I think it's ok to like this one:

https://youtu.be/-0KpIEWleuQ?si=r9-A0HdldOQfJs8k

11 minutes ago, Teasing the Korean said:

Of course.  He did great arrangements for them.