Embalo

Tenório Jr. · 1964 · Title track of his only solo album

Context

Composed by pianist Tenório Jr. and arranged by Paulo Moura, "Embalo" gives its title to the musician's only album as a leader, released on RGE in 1964. The track combines an openly acknowledged bebop influence with a Brazilian feel, with a brass section up front, in the samba-jazz vein of Rio's Beco das Garrafas. Tenório Jr. disappeared in Buenos Aires in 1976, killed by Argentine repression; the album was reissued by Mr Bongo in 2017.

In the genealogy of jazz

This track belongs to Bossa nova, jazz samba. Among the origins and influences of Bossa nova, jazz samba: Latin jazz, Afro-Cuban.

By the same artist

• Nebulosa (1964)

Sources

• braziljournal.com
• twistedsoulmusic.org

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