Leny Andrade - A Sensacao (1961) [2021] Hi-Res

A powerful, dynamic debut. Leny Andrade was apparently a protege of crooner Ivon Curi, who helped her get a recording contract. Like Elza Soares, who was also starting out at this tme, Andrade displays an overwhelming debt to Ella Fitzgerald, copying Ella's famous scat style right down to the vocal tone and phrasing. It's almost embarassing, but it's also pretty good, and certainly a striking sound for a Brazilian pop singer. The repertoire is all samba-cancao and bossa nova, with several songs by Durval Ferreira, and a few each by new composers such as Luiz Bonfa and Antonio Carlos Jobim. Andrade's approach, with it's powerful gusts of vocalese and exaggerated emotive passages, may have been out of synch with Brazilian tastes -- it wasn't until she had worked the nightclub scene for several years and put out a live album in the more clattersome bossa-trio style that she really made a splash on the national scene. Still, this is a fine album, certainly one of her best and most cohesive... Well worth checking out!

Tracks:

01 - SamBop 02:05
02 - Um Amor Igual Ao Seu 02:06
03 - Samba de Uma Notá Só 01:57
04 - Procurando Você 03:18
05 - Não Dá Pé 01:58
06 - Eu e Deus 02:58
07 - Meu Amor Foi Embora 02:48
08 - Filosofia 02:16
09 - Águas Paradas 03:18
10 - O Amor e a Rosa 03:21
11 - Canção Que Volta Só 02:17
12 - Receita Para Esquecer 01:35