MINT- LAURINDO ALMEIDA Virtuoso Guitar Crystal Clear Records CCS-8001 White

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Up for Consideration is one (1) NEAR MINT in Every Way - LAURINDO ALMEIDA Virtuoso Guitar Crystal Clear Records CCS-8001 in Pressed in Virgin White Vinyl. This Special Limited Edition 12" LP is recorded Direct to Disc and is a MUST HEAR for any Audiophile but only with a Great Turntable and even better stylus!  
Condition: 
Vinyl - Never Played, looks Immaculate!  Sleeve - Mint Jacket - Mint - (only because it's been opened) 


Review, Track Listing and Artist Comments:  This extraordinary Brazilian guitarist, composer, and arranger was introduced to music by his mother, a concert pianist who gave him his first lessons. Like his sister, however, he would eventually choose the guitar as his primary instrument. As a teenager, Almeida witnessed, and participated in, a great deal of civil unrest; the experience galvanized him and fueled a lifelong passion for the politics of his native country. At age 19, he became a performer aboard the Brazilian ocean liner Cuyaba, which enabled him to travel to Europe, hear the legendary Django Reinhardt in Paris, and experience a great deal of foreign culture.

In Brazil, he formed a guitar duo named Cordas Quentes with Garoto, who he met at Radio Mayrink Veiga in Rio de Janeiro. In 1947, he went on tour with singer and actress Carmen Miranda's band. This led him to Hollywood, where he performed on film soundtracks and appeared in concerts with violinist Elizabeth Waldo; he also composed the first of his more than 800 scores for movies and television series. He was to win Oscars for his soundtracks to The Old Man and the Sea (1958) and The Magic Pear Tree (1970). He soon joined the innovative Stan Kenton Orchestra and became a featured soloist. After three years, he established permanent residence in Los Angeles and began an astonishingly prolific recording career that was to earn him ten Grammy awards.

Almeida's palette of stylistic and emotional expression was wide-ranging. His early '50s Brazilliance albums with Bud Shank helped establish the bossa nova style in the States several years before the craze hit. He also recorded and toured with the Modern Jazz Quartet and was equally at home with classical and modern concert music, such as Gnattali's Concerto de Copacabana and the Guitar Concerto of Villa-Lobos.

From 1974 through 1982 he was a member of the chamber Jazz group The L.A. Four. It was during the 1960s when he enjoyed his greatest recognition, winning several Grammy Awards for his work. In 1961, he won Grammy Awards for Best Engineered Album, Classical and Best Chamber Music Performance. The following year he won Grammy Awards for Best Classical Performance - Instrumental Soloist or Duo and Best Contemporary Classical Composition.

In 1965 he won Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Jazz Performance - Large Group or Soloist with Large Group.

Track Listing:

Yesterday
Jazz-Tuno At The Mission
Late Last Night
Radames Gnattali:
Sonata For Guitar and Cello
1. Allegretto Comodo
2. Adagio  3. Com Espirito

Recorded 1977 on the Crystal Clear Labe and is catalog number CCS 8001 on Virgin White Vinyl.  This was recorded Direct to Disc at 45 RPM

Jacket is white background with embossed foil on the artist name, guitar and title of album. This jacket process is no longer done as it was very expensive to make.

Statement From Laurindo Almeida:

"A recent recording of mine that came out very well is a 45 rpm direct- to- disc album on the Crystal Clear label, called "Virtuoso Guitar". They claim the sound is better at 45, you know. The first side is in popular idiom, with "Yesterday" by Lennon and McCartney, and two of my compositions-- one of them written jointly with a guy who was born in England, Leonard Feather, who lives there in the Valley. The other musicians with me on these are Clare Fischer on piano, Chuck Domanico on bass, Chuck Flores on drums, Emil Richards on vibes and marimba, and Aime Maurice Vereeck on percussion. On the second side I recorded the Sonata For Guitar And Cello in three movements, again by Radames Gnattali. The cellist was Frederick Seykora; I wrote some percussion effects to be played by Chuck Flores in addition-- a little cymbals and things here and there."

The direct- to- disc thing is very difficult to do, because it's not done on the tape-- it's done on the disc. You start each side from the beginning, and if you make a mistake you've got to start the whole thing all over again. It's very, very demanding!  
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