Search - Paul Winter :: Jazz Meets the Bossa Nova / Jazz Meets Folk Song

Musiclifer

07/07/2001

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Finally! These great albums are out on CD!! Yea!! I bought both of these original LPs in the sixties. Before ANYONE ever heard of Paul Winter. It knocked me out the first time I put it on the turntable, especially the Bossa Nova album. It is a classic of the great union of the traditional style of Brazil and American "white-jazz". At first, one might think that such a marriage is not a very attractive possibility, but this album proves that to be wrong. The arrangements are clean and lovely. Crisp and bright. And with wonderfully light solos. A great classic Bossa Nova album. The folk-song album is similar."

Slick early 60's Jazz

Harold G. Meeks Jr. | raleigh nc | 12/12/2007

(5 out of 5 stars)

"A friend gave me "Jazz meets Bossa nova" on vinyl and I have really enjoyed it. It is very much in line with other stuff from the early 60's, exploring the borders between jazz, bossa nova/samba and pop music.



When I call the music "slick", it is not intended to be an insult. It is clean, precise, tight but not syrupy -- the improvisations fit inside a framework. Everything just clicks. Paul Winter is a phenomenal sax player, but the rest of the sextet is just as good.



I also like the way the album is recorded. There is a lot of nice ambience, space between the instruments. It reproduces really well on a good stereo system.



From what I've read, this was made while Paul Winter was still in college. Perhaps that this is why it sounds so fresh and dynamic.



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Paul Winter

Peter J. Poulos | Sacramento,California | 11/17/2008

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Some years before Paul Winter started playing Soprano making a lot of money doing those nature albums and songs for whales at one time was a real serious Jazz Musician. Jazz Meets The Folk Song has not aged well, nor have I ever really cared for albums that concentrated on material derived from Folk Music or Plays much. The material really in essence depending on what shows, really can be very forgetful.. plays from so long ago they do not carry years later. For instance Music from Bells Are Ringing, unless you see the movie have no idea. Folk Songs like Swing That Hammer Or Waltzing Matilda for us here in the States, it just doesn't translate very good.The Stronger of the sessions here on this 2 Lp on 1 Cd release would be Jazz Meets The Bossa Nova. Again some people may think that Bossa Nova had a faze in the early 1960's, I would say that anything with some cool Latin Stylings still plays well today."