From a performance probably in the 70s. The song as I know it from the studio recording kicks in at 3:57.
Speculating sometimes on personnel but . . . Lester Bowie (trumpet), Malachi Favors Maghostut (bass), Joseph Jarman (saxophone), Roscoe Mitchell (saxophone), Don Moye (drums), pretty much everyone (percussion instruments).
I’ve found nobody, not even the immortal Astrud Gilberto, sings “The Girl from Ipanema” as good as Martina DaSilva. I’ve also found she sings it a lot, which is great. Every rendition adds something new. Check out other versions here.
Martina is supported by Tony Glausi (trumpet), Liya Grigoryan (piano), Russell Hall (bass) and Charles Goold (drums). The song is by the great Antônio Carlos Jobim and Vinícius de Moraes.
Maybe Martina’s haunting vaporwave version with Adam Neely is still the best (to me at least).
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This is eine kleine New Year’s music post over at BoFN.
R.I.P. Pat Martino (August 25, 1944 – November 2, 2021). Title track from El Hombre (1967).
Pat Martino (guitar), Danny Turner (flute), Trudy Pitts (organ), Mitch Fine (drums), Vance Anderson (bongos), Abdu Johnson (congas).
Seasonal reblog:
Chick Corea (piano), John Patitucci (bass), Tom Brechtlein (drums).
John McLaughlin, “Binky’s Beam,” from Extrapolation (1969).
John McLaughlin (guitar), John Surman (baritone sax), Brian Odgers (bass), Tony Oxley (drums). I played this album endlessly when I had it on vinyl back in the day.
Flora Purim, “Just to Say Goodbye,” from Stories to Tell (1974).
Happy New Year!
From ye olde Charlie Brown Christmas Special of yore. A Charlie Brown Christmas (1965).
Vince Guaraldi (piano), Fred Marshall (bass), Jerry Granelli (drums).
Pulcherrima Rosa, 15th Century Motet, sung by the Hilliard Ensemble with Jan Garbarek accompanying on tenor sax, Jesus College, Cambridge (1994). There was a whole album with Jan Garbarek and Hilliard called Officium, on ECM records. Youtubes with anything from that label are blocked, but fortunately we have this live performance.
“Pulcherrima Rosa” (The Most Beautiful Rose)
Pulcherrima rosa de spina floruit
Ex flore germinosa lilium genuit
Servans pudorem ex virgineo more
Peperit factura factura factorem.
Virgo singularis te nulla dignior
Fulgens stella maris luna lucidior
Sic succuristi regina mundo tristi
Eve matris sic quae noxam que solvisti.
Esto nobis grata tis aput filium
Mater advocata post hoc exilium
Nos per iuvamen pater natus ac flamen
Tuum mater virgo solvat omnes.
Amen.
Most Beautiful Rose, blooming from a thorn
From the budding flower, a Lily born
Serving modestly and in a Virginal way
The created one bore The Creator
Unique Virgin, no-one is worthy of you
Gleaming Star of The Sea, Light and The Moon
Serving modestly and in a Virginal way
The created one bore The Creator
Such succour Queen of this sad World
And Mother of Eve who lightens our punishment
Serving modestly and in a Virginal way
The created one bore The Creator
Freely for us, beside your Son, Mother and witness
After this Earthly exile
Serving modestly and in a Virginal way
The created one bore The Creator.
Amen.
What Do You Do for an Encore? 