SALENA JONES SINGS JOBIM (with the Jobim's)

SALENA JONES
Olá pessoal! Arranjei um tempinho livre no domingo, prá preparar a postagem deste excelente álbum da SALENA JONES, mais uma cantora pouco conhecida no Brasil (apesar de veterana...), que se entrega de corpo e alma à obra do "Maestro Soberano".
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SALENA JONES
Born Joan Elizabeth Shaw in Newport News, Virginia, same home town as Ella Fitzgerald. "I loved Sarah Vaughan so much and adored Lena Horne's elegance, I put them together as ‘Salena.’ It looked good. And I kept Joan in ‘Jones.’” And that's how Salena Jones was born." Jones began singing in church, school and began club work at the age of fifteen. After winning a talent contest in New York's Apollo Theater, singing "September Song". She began making demonstration records for Peggy Lee and Lena Horne, acquired her own contract. Her first disc was 1949's "He Knows How to Hucklebuck", with the Paul Williams Orchestra—and she toured and sang throughout the 1950s with Louis Armstrong, Arthur Prysock, Cab Calloway, Duke Ellington and Big Maybelle—sharing bills with fellow Newport News natives the The Five Keys as well as LaVern Baker. In her career to date Salena has recorded over forty albums, covering nearly five hundred songs, and sold over 500,000 albums worldwide. In Rio de Janeiro not long before Antonio Carlos Jobim's death she recorded Salena Sings Jobim With The Jobims (1994), Jobim's hits sung in English, with Paulo Jobim on vocals, flute and guitar, grandson Daniel Cannetti Jobim on
piano and the composer himself on two duets. A beautiful recording and one of her best. She is now based in the United Kingdom.
(Source: wikipedia - edited by CB)
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MINHA OPINIÃO: SALENA foi mais longe do que muitas outras cantoras, pois contou com o auxílio luxuoso do próprio Tom Jobim, cantando, tocando piano e arranjando algumas faixas. De quebra ainda vieram Paulinho Jobim - responsável pela maioria dos arranjos, voz e violão - e Daniel Jobim, piano. O repertório é o creme do creme da obra do Maestro Soberano e os músicos, um verdadeiro "dream team". Só podia ser OURO EM PÓ!
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SALENA JONES SINGS JOBIM (with the Jobim's)

PERSONNEL:
Tom Jobim : Piano, voz e arranjos
Paulo Jobim : Violão, voz e arranjos
Daniel Jobim : Piano
Danilo Caymmi : Flauta
Paulinho Trompete : Flugelhorn
Raul de Souza : Trombone
Diana Lacerda : Violoncelo
Márcio Eymard Mallard : Violoncelo
Paulinho Braga : Bateria
Tião Neto : Contrabaixo
Ricardo Costa : Percussão


TRACKS/FAIXAS:
1. Esperança Perdida
2. Água de Beber
3. Inútil Paisagem
4. Corcovado
5. O Morro Não Tem Vez
6. Dindi
7. Desafinado
8. Insensatez
9. Garota De Ipanema
10. O Amor Em Paz
11. Meditação
12. Samba De Uma Nota Só
13. Bonita
14. Samba Do Avião