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Initial thrill

Kenia
Discos: MPB / Jazz

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Ficha técnica Discos

Sello MCA
Estilo MPB / Jazz
Año de Edición Original 1987

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Kenia (voz)

Dick Oatts (saxo soprano, saxo alto), Stan Harrison (saxo alto, saxo tenor), Michael Brecker (saxo tenor), Mark Soskin (piano eléctrico, teclados, arreglos), Chuck Loeb (guitarras), Zev Katz o Sergio Brandão (bajo eléctrico), Savron Hudson (batería, caja de ritmos), Mino Cinelu (percusión).

Primera edición en CD, de 1990 del disco lanzado originalmente en 1987 por el sello Zebra.

"The artist was born Kenia Acioly into a family of Italian origins in the city of Nova Iguaçu, a distant working class suburb of Rio de Janeiro. When she was six, Kenia’s family moved to Copacabana. Later, she lived in Niterói, Rio’s sister city across Guanabara Bay, and chic Leblon, one of the city’s most upscale neighborhoods. Each stop along the way provided opportunities to explore the local cultural peculiarities that go into making Rio and its neighboring environs one of the world’s most exotic locales.
An interest in music came early; she studied piano and learned to play the guitar by ear. Singing however, became her path to success in music world. Influenced by such Brazilian greats as the late Elis Regina, she also began listening to such North American artists as Sarah Vaughan, Carmen McRae and George Benson. And her choice of music to interpret came not from the bossa nova of the 1960s but from the talents of the generation of composers that followed and put the Brazilian sound on the worldmap once again.
After her arrival in the U.S. in 1980, Kenia’s talents were quickly recognized by such leading music producers as Creed Taylor, who signed her to accompany Brazilian jazz trumpeter Claudio Roditi on his debut release Red on Red. She also played a key role in Taylor’s The Devil’s
Toothpick, a music fi lm that documented the ritualistic dance and music styles associated with the Afro-Brazilian Candomblé religion. And she launched her own successful solo recording career, producing four popular and critically acclaimed albums for the MCA and Denon labels between 1987 and 1991 that helped define the emerging “Smooth Jazz“ radio format of the day. The success of these ventures established Kenia as one of the most popular and successful U.S. based Brazilian musicians since the heyday of Sergio Mendes and Brazil ‘66 (...)" (texto extraído del sitio de la artista)

Temas

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01
Brincadeira
Ricardo Bomba
03:47
02
Initial thrill
Mick Leeson - Peter Vale
04:23
03
Doce doce
Aécio Flávio - Paulinho Tapajós
04:39
04
Sim ou não
Djavan
03:40
05
Don't let me be lonely tonight
James Taylor
03:56
06
Sina
Djavan
04:53
07
Cruisin'
William Robinson, Jr. - Marvin Tarplin
04:48
08
Captivated
Randy Goodrum
03:44
09
Missing you
Ricardo Bomba - William Soden
04:30
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