Results for "Bola Sete"

Bola Sete

Born: July 16, 1923

Bola Sete (born Djalma de Andrade) was a Brazilian guitarist born on July 16, 1923 in Rio de Janeiro and who died on February 14, 1987 in Greenbrae, California. Sete played jazz with Vince Guaraldi as well as with Dizzy Gillespie. His song "Bettina" was featured on the "Tribe Vibes" breakbeat compilation, as it had been sampled by the musical group A Tribe Called Quest. Bola Sete's name means "Seven Ball". In Brazilian billiards, the seven ball is the only black ball on the table, and Bola got this nickname when he was the only black member of a small jazz group. He studied guitar at the Conservatory of Rio and he started performing with his own sextet and local samba groups while he was still a student

Bossa Nova Guitar (Verve Jazzclub)

Label: Verve Records
Released: 2009

Brazilian Horizons Vol. 2 (Brazil)

Label: BMG
Released: 2023

Brazilian Horizons Vol. 2

Label: Milestone
Released: 1999

Moacir Santos: Coisas

by Marc Myers
July 16, 2023

Moacir Santos was a Brazilian composer, multi-instrumentalist and educator who never became as well known as his peers, including Bola Sete and Baden Powell. While he collaborated on songs with Nara Leão, Roberto Menescal and Sérgio Mendes among others, he privately taught artists who went on to become highly successful global bossa nova singers and songwriters. ...

Liberation Hall Announces Bossa Nova And Charlie Parker Titles For Record Store Day, Saturday, April 22

February 16, 2023

CHARLIE PARKER – The Long Lost Bird Live Afro-CuBop Recordings VARIOUS ARTISTS – Bossa Nova at Carnegie Hall Liberation Hall today details a pair of jazz vinyl releases for Record Store Day, the annual retail event which celebrates independent record stores in the U.S. and abroad. Record Store Day is set for Saturday, April 22. ...

Popular Jazz Songs: 2021

by Michael Ricci
January 1, 2022

All About Jazz tracks how often a featured song is heard, and the following represent the most popular in 2021. If you missed them the first time around, give them a listen now, and enjoy! Say It Again From: From Now On By Leon Brenko Menart I ...

Samba in Seattle: Live at the Penthouse, 1966-1968

By Bola Sete

Label: Tompkins Square
Released: 2021
Track listing: Disc One (December 1 & 8, 1966) 1. Consolação – Baden Powell, Vinicius de Moraes 2. Meditação – Antônio Carlos Jobim, Newton Ferreira de Mendonça 3. Prelude No. 1 – Heitor Villa-Lobos 4. Soul Samba – Bola Sete 5. Deve Ser Amour – Baden Powell, Vinicius de Moraes 6. Valsa de Uma Cidade – Ismael Netto, Antônio Maria 7. Garota de Ipanema – Antônio Carlos Jobim, Vinicius de Moraes 8. Malagueña - Ernesto Lecuona Disc Two (October 13 & 20, 1967) 1. The Shadow of Your Smile – Johnny Mandel, Paul Francis 2. Webster 3. Satin Doll – Duke Ellington, Billy Strayhorn 4. Spanish Dance No. Five – Enrique Granados 5. Prelude No. 3 in A Minor – Heitor Villa-Lobos 6. Manhã de Carnaval – Luiz Bonfá, Antônio Maria 7. A Felicidade – Antônio Carlos Jobim, Vinicius de Moraes 8. Samba de Orfeu - Luiz Bonfá, Antônio Maria 9. Samba de Avião – Antônio Carlos Jobim 10. Samba de Verão – Marcos Valle, Paulo Valle 11. Valsa de Uma Cidade – Ismael Netto, Antônio Maria 12. Asturias - Isaac Albéniz 13. Partita in E Major, BMV 1006a III. Gavotte ‘en Rondeau’ – Johann Sebastian Bach 14. Flamenco Fantasy – Bola Sete Disc Three (July 26 & August 2, 1968) 1. Tristeza – Haroldo Lobo, Niltinho 2. Corcovado – Antônio Carlos Jobim 3. Deve Ser Amour – Baden Powell, Vinicius de Moraes 4. Consolação – Baden Powell, Vinicius de Moraes 5. O Barquinho – Roberto Menescal, Ronaldo Bôscoli 6. One Note Samba – Antônio Carlos Jobim, Newton Mendoça 7. Satin Doll - Duke Ellington, Billy Strahorn 8. Recuerdos de la Alhambra – Francisco Terraga

All About Jazz Top 10 Tracks: November 2021

December 8, 2021

All About Jazz features a free song every day spanning all genres of jazz, and of the tracks featured in November, these ten represent our reader's favorites as indicated by total listens. Musicians and record labels can submit full length MP3s for consideration here. Enjoy! Top Tracks Say It Again Leon Brenko ...

Vince Guaraldi’s Christmas Sauce: Adding Spice to Charlie Brown Vanilla

by Arthur R George
November 18, 2021

It's not simply that pianist Vince Guaraldi slipped jazz past the unsuspecting in composing A Charlie Brown Christmas, the evergreen “Peanuts" animation and soundtrack that has become inescapably part of the holiday. First broadcast in 1965, going on to six decades ago, A Charlie Brown Christmas is a tradition unto itself. It returns to television through ...