Notes & Personnel Info |  | TROPIQUE SAMBA LOUNGE: SAMBA E AMOR brings together love songs from some of the biggest names in samba and bossa nova, including Gal Costa and Carlos Lyra. | | Personnel: Djavan, Gilberto Gil, Carlos Lyra (vocals, guitar); Joao Donato (vocals, piano, electric piano, keyboards); Johnny Alf (vocals, piano); Chico Buarque, Elza Soares, Elis Regina, Emilio Santiago, Gal Costa, Alaide Costa, Nara Leao (vocals); Durval Ferreira, Helio Capucci, Chiquito Braga, Geraldinho, Milton Nascimento (guitar); Octavio Burnier, Nathan Marques, Jose (Bigorna) Carlos, Helio Delmiro, Celso Fonseca (electric guitar); Raul Mascarenhas (flute, saxophone); Copinha (flute); Jorginho (alto saxophone); Paulinho Trumpete, Bidinho (trumpet, flugelhorn); D'Arcy, Mozart Ara£jo (trumpet); Edson Maciel, Edmundo Maciel, Joao Luiz, Serginho Trombone, Walter Batista DeAzevedo (trombone); Dom Salvador, La?rcio de Freitas, Antonio Adolfo , C?sar Camargo Mariano (piano); Jos? Roberto Bertrami, Marcos Resende (Oberheim synthesizer); En?as Costa, Luiz Carlos, Fernando Pereira, Lula Nascimento, Toninho Pinheiro, Plinio Araujo, Paulinho Braga, Tutty Moreno, Wilson DasNeves (drums); Chico Batera, Nelson Serra, Ariovaldo Contesini, Nelsinho, Robertinho Silva, Ze Carlos (percussion). | | Arrangers: Erlon Chaves; La?rcio de Freitas; Joao Donato; Lu¡z E?a; Theo de Barros. | | The third volume of the Tropique Samba Lounge series brings listeners full circle by including Joao Donato's version of the same song ("A Ra") that Gal Costa had opened the first volume with. (Donato, who wrote the song, takes it at a much faster pace.) Tropique Samba Lounge: Samba e Amor includes many of the same familiar names of previous volumes, all of them giants of Brazilian music during the '60s and '70s: Gilberto Gil, Elis Regina, Djavan, and Wilson Das Neves. ~ John Bush |
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