Jazz LP CHARLIE ROUSE “Bossa Nova Bacchanal” BLUE NOTE 4119 NY USA RVG ear NICE

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Artist:   CHARLIE ROUSE                                     

Title:   “Bossa Nova Bacchanal” 

Label:   BLUE NOTE ~ # BLP 4119.  Monaural pressing on medium thick vinyl.  

Label address is “BLUE NOTE RECORDS INC. * NEW YORK USA” on both sides. 

“VAN GELDER” and “ear” symbol are stamped in the runout groove on both sides.  

Jacket address is as follows:  “For Complete Catalog Write to BLUE NOTE RECORDS INC., 43 West 61st St., New York 23” 

Year:  1963 

Personnel: 

Charlie Rouse – tenor sax

Kenny Burrell & Chauncey “Lord” Westbrook – guitar

Lawrence Gales – bass

Willie Bobo – drums

Potato Valdez – conga

Garvin Masseaux – chekere 

Condition:  

DISC:  EXCELLENT with full original gloss.  Has been played a small number of times and handled with care.  There are a couple slight hairline paper scuffs but no serious or audible marks or distracations.  Plays beautifully with superb fidelity.  Labels are clean.  This hard-to-find LP is one that you will never need to upgrade.       

JACKET:   Jacket is EXCELLENT with nice bright artwork.   Nice seams, spine and corners.  Reverse has inspection stamp mark and couple small light stains at lower right, otherwise clean.  Overall a very nice jacket to accompany the beautiful disc. 

Track Listing: 

Side 1:

• Back to the Tropics  -  3:55
• Aconteceu  -  3:00
• Velhos Tempos  -  4:45
• Samba De Orfeu  -  6:20 

Side 2:

• Un Dia  -  5:55
• Meci Bon Dieu  -  5:50
• In Martinique  -  5:25 

Review: 

“This 1962 date by tenor saxophonist Charlie Rouse celebrates a grander and funkier scale of what Stan Getz and Charlie Byrd did earlier in 1962 with the bossa nova.  Unlike Getz, Rouse didn't feel he needed to be a purist about it, and welcomed all sorts of Afro-Caribbean variations into his music.  His choice of bandmates reflects that: a three-piece percussion section with drummer Willie Bobo, conguero Carlos "Patato" Valdes, and Garvin Masseaux on chekere (a beaded percussion instrument that is played by being shaken).  Add to this bassist Larry Gales, and a pair of guitarists, Kenny Burrell, and Chauncey Westbrook, along with Rouse, and it is an unusual and exotic sextet.  Burrell and Masseaux were part of Ike Quebec's band on Soul Samba, but the two recordings couldn't be more different.  For his part, Rouse's embrace of bossa nova, as well as other Latin and Caribbean music, is firmly rooted in jazz -- and not American jazz trying to be Brazilian.  Rhythmically, Rouse, who is a hard bopper if there ever was one, takes the rhythmic and harmonic concepts of the samba, marries them to Afro-Caribbean folk styles, and burns it all through with the gloriously unapologetic swing of jazz.  The standout selections here are a pair of Luiz Bonfá tunes, "Velhos Tempos," and his classic "Samba de Orfeu."  On the former, both guitarists play unamplified guitars in rhythmic counterpoint as Rouse offers first the melody, and then an improvisation in the upper register of the horn, on the latter, nix the counterpoint and listen, as both guitarists shimmer through the changes, one playing just behind the beat for a reverb effect.  The percussion interplay is startling in its complexity, but seamless and warm in its balance, resulting in a fine section solo in the middle of the cut that is infectious.  Ultimately, this is one of Rouse's finest moments as a leader.” 

(review courtesy of Thom Jurek, allmusic.com)

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