Slide Plays Jobim
Slide Hampton Plays the Music of Antonio Carlos Jobim came out in 2002. The novelty is due to Slide Hampton’s fluid, swinging arrangements and the prominence of his wonderful trombone, not a common instrument in most Jobim interpretations. Hampton, the musical director of the Dizzy Gillespie All-Star Big Band and a 2005 NEA Jazz Master, jazzifies Jobim with subtle differences in pulse, texture, and musical vocabulary (such as quotes, trades, and endings). The result is even more impressive since the band assembled by Hampton and producer John Lee features some of the busiest first-call Brazilian musicians in New York, all of whom hold this music firmly in their DNA: Helio Alves, Claudio Roditi, Duduka da Fonseca, and Maucha Adnet. Adnet is a terrific singer with a sensuous, smoky voice that (to these ears) has never been recorded adequately until now; at last, her vocals are fully as nuanced on disc as they are live. Adnet, who sang with Jobim for ten years, describes this music as Jobim with “more movement, more jazz. The Jobim fan will delight in this CD, which contains twelve of his most beloved songs; a meditative version of Dori Caymmi’s beautiful “O Cantador” ends the set without breaking the mood. Well-paced and recorded with clarity and warmth,
Slide Hampton  (Artist)    Format: Audio CD
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