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Concert And Album Signing - Minas Celebrates "Record Store Day" With The Reissue Of "Num Dia Azul", From 1983, On Vinyl And CDs
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Brendan McGeehan
She was 23, an American in love with Bossa nova. He was 26, a Brazilian infatuated with American rock and classical music. They were romantically involved and musically bound, drawn to each other's different cultures. Their lives merged romance, music, and youthful dreams, expressed in their first album, Num Dia Azul (In a Blue Day), recorded in 1981 and released on vinyl in Brazil in 1983. Practically all LPs were destroyed in a fire and consequently Num Dia Azul has ...
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Rare Vinyl "Num Dia Azul" Now Being Reissued By Minas
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Brendan McGeehan
Num Dia Azul is the first recording Minas has ever made. Orlando Haddad and Patricia King had just finished their degrees at University of North Carolina School of the Arts where Minas was established for a few years. Before they moved away, they decided to go into a studio in Greensboro, NC, and invite several musicians whom they had been doing gigs for the past few years, to cut several tracks. Orlando and Patricia moved down to Brazil in 1981, ...
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Sol Do Meio Dia (ECM 1116)
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Between Sound and Space - An ECM Records Resource
Egberto Gismonti Sol Do Meio Dia Egberto Gismonti guitars, piano, kalimba, percussion, flute, voice Nana Vasconcelos berimbau, percussion Ralph Towner guitar Collin Walcott tabla Jan Garbarek soprano saxophone Recorded November 1977 at Talent Studio, Oslo Engineer: Jan Erik Kongshaug Produced by Manfred Eicher Inspired by his time spent with the Xingu Indians of the Amazon, to whom the album is also dedicated, Sol Do ...
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Dia DiCristino Free Downloads of "Let's Do It" and "Whatever Lola Wants" at AAJ
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All About Jazz
A lot of exciting things to see and hear on Dia DiCristino's All About Jazz Profile page. Take advantage of the free downloads of “Let's Do It (Let's Fall In Love)" and “Whatever Lola Wants"! Also, there is the Moon River video which was shot in the beautiful Emberton Park in England. Look out for all of those lovely willow trees. As some of you may have heard, Dia's battle with Upper Motor Neuron Syndrome continues, and she has recently ...
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