Word: deodato
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...Castro says his album "Samba Raro" is a tribute to the artists of the past he feels deserve recognition, including Edison Machado, Eumir Deodato, Moacir Santos, Jorge Ben and Baden Powell. Each song focuses on a different act or group of acts; the title track, for example is dedicated to Brazilian acts from the '60s. While he draws from the past, he's also looking to the future and considers the album his "way of baptizing the style" he's developed...
...MONTGOMERY: DOWN HERE ON THE GROUND (A & M). One more in a series of well-planned, well-played and welcome albums that has brought the late guitarist to the crest of his popularity. With splendid backing, and complementary arrangements by Don Sebesky and Eumir Deodato, Wes plucks another musical honor for himself. His double-octave runs and honest, single-note phrases illuminate such tunes as the rockish Wind Song, The Other Man's Grass Is Always Greener, Coin' On to Detroit, and convey an especially sweet sadness in Georgia On My Mind...
...three cities are, in that order, Rome, London, Paris. In Rome young Deodato is a foundling, serving, unwillingly, as a Franciscan friar. What really interests him is sculpture, a young woman who looks like a statue by Bernini, and her revolutionary brother, whom he hides in the Catacombs...
...London young Deodato, escaped from friarhood, seeks his lost identity, gets involved in a slummy, fancy piece of Victorian poisoning, yearns for the beautiful young woman, and exposes himself to some of the deadliest mid-19th-Century slang to be found in any 20th-century novel...
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