''Bossa Nova Carnival'' is an album by American jazz vibraphonist

Dave Pike David Samuel Pike (March 23, 1938 – October 3, 2015) was an American jazz vibraphone and marimba player. He appeared on many albums by Nick Brignola, Paul Bley and Kenny Clarke, Bill Evans, and Herbie Mann. He also recorded extensively as le ...

performing compositions by

João Donato João Donato de Oliveira Neto is a Brazilian jazz and bossa nova pianist from Brazil. He first worked with Altamiro Carrilho and went on to perform with Antonio Carlos Jobim and Astrud Gilberto. Career A professional at the age of 15, Donato play ...

which was recorded in 1962 for the New Jazz label.Prestige Records Catalog: New Jazz/Status 8200/8300 series
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Reception

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awarded the album 4½ stars and in the review by Alex Henderson, he states, "''Bossa Nova Carnival'' wasn't an exercise in knee-jerk, insincere bandwagon jumping. Pike wanted to make a meaningful, individualistic contribution to Brazilian jazz. So instead of doing exactly what

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, and Charlie Byrd were doing and performing a lot of Jobim songs, he enlisted Brazilian composer João Donato. Everything on this excellent vinyl LP was written by Donato, who provides sensuous, caressing melodies that Pike and his sidemen (who include Kenny Burrell on guitar and Clark Terry on flügelhorn) bring a lot of warmth and sensitivity to. The music swings, but it does so in a subtle, mellow, consistently melodic fashion. Undeniably one of Pike's most essential albums".

Track listing

''All compositions by João Donato'' # "Samba Lero" – 4:41 # "Sono" – 5:36 # "Serenidade" – 5:14 # "Carnival Samba" – 4:27 # "Philumba" – 5:18 # "Melvalita" – 4:02 # "Ginha" – 3:56 # "Sausalito" – 6:04 Note *Recorded at Van Gelder Studio in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey on September 6, 1962 (tracks 2, 4, 5 & 7) and September 7, 1962 (tracks 1, 3, 6 & 8)

Personnel

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vibraphone The vibraphone is a percussion instrument in the metallophone family. It consists of tuned metal bars and is typically played by using mallets to strike the bars. A person who plays the vibraphone is called a ''vibraphonist,'' ''vibraharpist ...

marimba The marimba () is a musical instrument in the percussion family that consists of wooden bars that are struck by mallets. Below each bar is a resonator pipe that amplifies particular harmonics of its sound. Compared to the xylophone, the timbre ...

* Clark Terry – flugelhorn (tracks 2, 4, 5 & 7) *

Kenny Burrell Kenneth Earl Burrell (born July 31, 1931) is an American jazz guitarist known for his work on numerous top jazz labels: Prestige, Blue Note, Verve, CTI, Muse, and Concord. His collaborations with Jimmy Smith were notable, and produced the 1965 ...

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guitar The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that typically has six strings. It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming or plucking the strings with the dominant hand, while simultaneously pressing selected strin ...

* Chris White – bass *

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– drums *Jose Paulo –

cabasa The cabasa, similar to the shekere, is a percussion instrument that is constructed with loops of steel ball chain wrapped around a wooden cylinder. The cylinder is fixed to a long, wooden or plastic handle. The metal cabasa was created by Mart ...

, bandero

References

{{Authority control 1962 albums Dave Pike albums New Jazz Records albums Albums recorded at Van Gelder Studio Albums produced by Elliot Mazer