Equinox

Artist: Sergio Mendes
Label: Umvd Labels
Category: Music

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Format: Original recording remastered
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 082839412223
EAN: 0082839412223
ASIN: B0000631D2

Release Date: 2002-05-21

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Listmania:

25 More of my Favorite Albums
Music I am Guilty of Having Owned
Bossa Nova
Music that makes me happy!!!
My Favorite Alan & Marilyn Bergman Songs
1960's ESSENTIAL albums!!!
My favourite Bossa Nova!!!
Some of my favorite Latin albums
Jazz & Pop '67

Tracks:

Constant Rain (Chove Chuva)
Cinnamon And Clove
Watch What Happens
For Me
Bim-Bom
Night And Day
Triste
Gente
Wave
So Danco Samba

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Customer Reviews:

If You Can Own Only One Brasil 66 Album, Here It Is.......2007-02-24

Sergio Mendez and his talented musicians recorded many fine albums throughout the '60s, but Equinox may have been the apex. At a playing time of under thirty minutes, it is like life itself: rich, sweet, and short.

Yes, this IS their best!.......2007-01-20

Family friends introduced me to this album in the early '70's when I was in my early teens and I fell in love with it immediately. I wore that album out listening to it and eventually had to replace it. I even had it on an 8 track tape!! That thing was awful, but that didn't stop me from playing it. LOL!

I don't know what it is about this album, but every song is just... fabulous. The vocals, the melodies, the arrangements, they're all terrific and memorable.

After my turntable broke I never replaced it and I lost the cassette I made of the album. Over the past several years I forgot about this album, as it wasn't on cd then. While searching for something online the other day something made me think of it and I looked to see if it was downloadable. Then I thought, wait, let me see if it ever came out on cd and to my surprise and happiness it had! I ordered it and I can't wait for it to get here. Listening to the little snippets online leave me longing for more, for the real thing.

Yeah, it's short. Oh well, that's how the album was. Bonus tracks? A double cd? I don't know, that's not the album I remember, the album I want. I loved it just the way it was and will love it just the way it is when it FINALLY gets here. :-) I just wish I had discovered it again sooner!

This is the "real' greatest hits album!.......2006-10-23

I bought this album in 1966 and played it untill it turned to gray and then lost it in the shuffle of getting married ,kids and moving etc. I bought another copy,an LP. from a catalog for around$25.00 , I was very happy,now I see this on CD for half the price!! This album is tops! It's allways a favorite of mine ,it's one of those 60's "Bests" albums in the line of Pet Clarks "MyLove" with Tony Hatch arrangements and Beach Boys Pet Sounds,Beatles"Rubber Soul".....What an era... sigh..

Incredible music, but packaging and timing isn't.......2006-08-18

When listening to this CD, I thought of the Irving Berlin quote that great music should be 1/3 melody, 1/3 harmony, 1/3 rhythm. This CD meets that rigorous standard.

Many of us have heard these melodies before. Watch What Happens was a hit for Lena Horne, of all people. Night and Day was from a Fred Astaire-Ginger Rogers movie. Wave, Triste, So Danco Samba are all standards.

But Mendes and crew put a wonderful touch to these songs. Incredible arrangements, solid musicianship. There is melody, harmony and rhythm.

However, CD runs less than 30 minutes, packing as noted in other reviews is awful. This could have easily been combined with another CD.

The 5 stars is for the music.

"Cold, No I Won't Believe Your Heart Is Cold. . . Maybe Just Afraid To Be Broken Again. . .".......2006-07-02

After watching Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66 40th Anniversary concert last Sunday at the Hollywood Bowl, I'm still in the mood for more Sergio Mendes music. I've been listening to all of his remarkable and my all-time favorite CDs and I'm enjoying every minute of it. I could listen to his music for hours and hours without tiring!

This album, produced by Herb Alpert and Jerry Moss of A & M Records in 1967, is one of my absolute favorites from my collection. The impressive track listing consists of the liveliest Bossa Nova rhythms so typical of Sergio Mendes arrangements. He has made a name for himself in the music world and is one of the pioneers of Bossa Nova and has created and arranged the kind of music that is so endearing not only to my ears but also to his myriad fans. All his arrangements and interpretations are so splendid and his female vocalists, Lani Hall and Janis Hansen, deliver quite well. They have the most beautiful and lovely voices and they sing with feelings and emotions as evident to the lovely tracks such as two of Antonio Carlos Jobim's compositions, "Wave" and "Triste," Cole Porter's "Night and Day," Johnny Mandel/Alan & Marilyn Bergman's "Cinnamon and Clove," Paolo Sergio Valle and Marcos Valle's "Gente," and Jorge Ben's "Constant Rain" (Chove Chuva).

The beauty of this recording is not only attributed to Sergio Mendes' perfectly wonderful arrangements, his piano playing and his vocals on some of the tracks, but also the combined talents of John Pisano (guitar), Bob Matthews (bass/vocals), Jose Soares (percussion/vocals), João Palma (drums/vocals), Lani Hall and Janis Hansen (vocals).

My number one favorite from this collection is a beautiful song melody-wise and lyric-wise, composed by Michel Legrand and Norman Gimbel, "Watch What Happens."

"Let someone start believing in you
Let him hold out his hand
Let him touch you and
Watch what happens . . .

When someone who can look in your eyes
And see into your heart
Let him find you and
Watch what happens. . .

Cold, no I won't believe your heart is cold
Maybe just afraid to be broken again
Let someone with a deep love to give
Give that deep love to you
And what magic you'll see."

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