Listening to: Antonio Carlos Jobim, Astrid Gilberto, Stan Getz
Suffering from: Recurrent Carpel Tunnel Syndrome in my left hand/wrist
I don't know how I stumbled accross the soft, silky breezes of Brazilian Jazz. I do know when: 1962. I was 16. I would sneak off the the Capital City Newstand (we didn't really have book stores like we have now) and read the New Yorker Magazine. I was in love with Joan Beaz and Bob Dylan and the other folkies of the time and sometimes found articles about them in the New Yorker. I would also leaf through Sky and Telescope, Scientific American, and the nudists news and photos in Sun and Health. I spent many a Saturday afternoon scanning paperbacks such as Havelock Ellis' Psychology of Sexand the ones on Astrophysics by George Gamov. Somewhere in my teenage millieu of sex, cosmology and the Big Apple, I learned of this film which contained the haunting melody Manana de Carnival. That, in short, led to Jazz Samba, Getz/Gilberto, Antonio Carlos Jobim. By the time this French Romance was released with it's overwhelming sound track (including a Jao Gilberto original) the Samba had a lifelong fan.
:: Tom 3:04 PM [+] ::
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