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BYRDLAND (Columbia). As one of the first importers of bossa nova, Charlie Byrd still likes to toss off a samba or two on his amplified guitar, and he can pluck soul from folk-blues like Work Song, but mostly he keeps up a sophisticated patter with pop hits (Theme from "Mr. Lucky") and old ballads (I'll Be Around...
HORACE SILVER has led a successful quintet for ten years now, featuring his own melodic but hard-driving piano and compositions both bright and Silvery blue. The title piece of his Cape Verdean Blues (Blue Note) is a spunky bit of funk with a samba beat. In Nutville, Bonita and Mo' Jo, Veteran Trombonist J. J. Johnson adds a third horn to the trumpet and sax of the mellow, swinging combo...
GETZ AU GO GO (Verve). Tenor Saxophonist Stan Getz and Mrs. Gilberto again (One Note Samba, Corcovado...
...ever there was a popular revolution, it was the one that last week toppled Brazilian President João ("Jango") Goulart. In São Paulo, samba dancers whirled through the streets, singing, shouting and kicking. In Rio, some 300,000 cariocas pranced and danced along the Avenida Presidente Vargas beneath a storm of confetti, tootling carnival horns, waving handkerchiefs, clapping every back within reach. At a Copacabana restaurant, three tired, rain-drenched college boys tramped in off the street, plopped down at a table and lovingly draped a damp green, blue and yellow Brazilian flag over the fourth chair...
...Ragtime Two-Step. The light-footedness took place at two White House parties, the annual diplomatic corps reception, and a state dinner for Sir Alec Douglas-Home. Regardless of what the musicians played, samba, cha-cha-cha, Dixieland or waltz, Lyndon kept in time with a simple two-step...