Rain Forest is a 1966 album by Walter Wanderley. Studio Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs Walter Wanderley – arranger, electronic organ, piano " Samba do Avião (Song of the Jet)" (Jobim, Gene Lees) – 2:43 " Cry out Your Sadness" (Oscar Castro-Neves) – 2:46 " Bossa Na Praia (Beach Samba)" (Geraldo Cunha, Pery Ribeiro) – 3:54 " Taste of Sadness " (Luiz Antonio, Ferreira) – 2:54 " The Girl from Ipanema" (Norman Gimbel, Antônio Carlos Jobim, Vinícius de Moraes) – 2:38 " It's Easy to Say Good-Bye" (Tito Madi) – 2:03 " Summer Samba (So Nice)" (Norman Gimbel, Marcos Valle, Paulo Sérgio Valle) – 3:07 Despite all the sadness implied in the song titles, this CD has a jaunty feel to it and will be best enjoyed by nostalgic fans of that bygone era (). On "Beach Samba," Green gets to noodle a bit, but Bucky Pizarelli is heard stating the melody and nothing else. One exception is the pretty Ferreira/Marconi ballad "Rain," the only track where Wanderley plays piano rather than organ and which features a fine solo by Urbie Green on trombone. Organist Wanderley made a big splash with this CD, which went platinum in two years - and it does evoke strong water images, like "poolside" and "ice skating rink." The jazzmen are underutilized, since most of the tracks are less than three minutes long and leave little room to stretch out. From the first tune - the monster hit "Summer Samba," the listener is catapulted straight back to the '60s when bossa nova was new in the U.S. The notes for this CD ask, "What issue is more topical than the Brazilian rain forest? So what reissue would be more topical than Walter Wanderley's Rain Forest?" Politically, this may be true, but musically, this collection is anything but topical. Walter Wanderley – Rainforest (Full Album) Rain Forest is a 1966 album by Walter Wanderley.
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