''Latin Impressions'' is an album by American jazz guitarist
Charlie Byrd featuring tracks recorded in 1962 and released on the
Riverside label.
Riverside Records discography
accessed October 31, 2012
Reception
In its October 11, 1962 issue, '' DownBeat'' magazine gave the album 4.5 stars. AllMusic
AllMusic (previously known as All Music Guide and AMG) is an American online music database. It catalogs more than three million album entries and 30 million tracks, as well as information on musicians and bands. Initiated in 1991, the databa ...
awarded the album 3 stars.[Allmusic Review](_blank)
accessed October 31, 2012
Track listing
''All compositions by Charlie Byrd except as indicated''
# "The Duck (O Pato)" (Jayme Silva, Neuza Teixeira) - 5:30
# "Amor Flamenco" (Laurindo Almeida
Laurindo Almeida (September 2, 1917 – July 26, 1995) was a Brazilian guitarist and composer in classical, jazz, and Latin music. He and Bud Shank were pioneers in the creation of bossa nova. Almeida was the first guitarist to receive Gra ...
) - 2:04
# "Azul Tiple" - 3:32
# "Canción di Argentina" (Traditional) - 2:02
# " Carnaval (Theme from ''Black Orpheus'')" (Luiz Bonfá
Luiz Floriano Bonfá (17 October 1922 – 12 January 2001) was a Brazilian guitarist and composer. He was best known for the music he composed for the film ''Black Orpheus''.
Biography
Luiz Floriano Bonfá was born on October 17, 1922, in ...
, Maria Toledo, Antônio Maria
Antônio Maria de Araújo Morais, known as Antônio Maria (17 March 1921—15 October 1964), was a Brazilian writer of pop music lyrics as well as radio sports commentator, poet, composer, and chronicler.Luiz Artur Ferraretto, ''E o rádio? : no ...
) - 2:34
# "Homage à Villa Lobos" - 3:14
# "Bogotá" (Ricardo Romero) - 3:48
# "Mexican Song No. 2" (Manuel Ponce
Manuel María Ponce Cuéllar (8 December 1882 – 24 April 1948) was a Mexican composer active in the 20th century. His work as a composer, music educator and scholar of Mexican music connected the concert scene with a mostly forgotten traditi ...
) - 2:46
# "Mexican Song No. 1"(Ponce) - 0:56
# "Samba de uma Nota Só
"Samba de uma Nota Só", known in English as "One Note Samba", is a bossa nova and jazz standard song composed by Antônio Carlos Jobim with Portuguese lyrics by Newton Mendonça. The English lyrics were written by Jon Hendricks. It was first recor ...
" (Antonio Carlos Jobim
Antonio is a masculine given name of Etruscan origin deriving from the root name Antonius. It is a common name among Romance language-speaking populations as well as the Balkans and Lusophone Africa. It has been among the top 400 most popular ma ...
, Newton Mendonça Newton Ferreira de Mendonça (February 14, 1927 – November 22, 1960) was a musician, composer, and lyricist. He began as a pianist in 1950.
Mendonça was born in Rio de Janeiro. In 1953 he started working with Antônio Carlos Jobim, somethin ...
) - 2:54
# "Galopera (Acuaiero Asuncena)" (Mauricio Cardozo Ocampo
Mauricio Cardozo Ocampo (May 14, 1907 – May 5, 1982) was the main reference of the so-called "golden generation" of the Paraguayan popular music and a strict studious of the Paraguayan folk music.
Biography
He was born in Ybycuí on May 14, ...
) - 2:11
# "Vals" (Agustín Barrios
Agustín Pío Barrios (also known as Agustín Barrios Mangoré and Nitsuga—Agustin spelled backward—Mangoré; May 5, 1885 – August 7, 1944) was a Paraguayan virtuoso classical guitarist and composer, largely regarded as one of the greatest p ...
) - 5:32
Personnel
* Charlie Byrd - 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 ...
, tiple
A tiple (, literally treble or soprano), is a plucked typically 12-string chordophone of the guitar family. A tiple player is called a ''tiplista''. The first mention of the tiple comes from musicologist Pablo Minguet e Irol in 1752. Although ma ...
*Gene Byrd - guitar, bass
*Keter Betts
William Thomas "Keter" Betts (July 22, 1928 – August 6, 2005) was an American jazz double bassist.
Early life and education
Born in Port Chester, New York, he was nicknamed "Keter", a short form of the word mosquito. He graduated from Port ...
- bass
* Bill Reichenbach - drums
References
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1962 albums
Charlie Byrd albums
Riverside Records albums