TRACKLIST
A1 Num Dia Azul (In A Blue Day)
A2 Sinal Verde (Green Light)
A3 So Danço Samba (I Only Dance The Samba)
A4 Calma Mulher (Cool It Woman)
B1 Canção Da Chuva (Song Of The Rain)
B2 Samba Walk
B3 Choro Sambaião
DESCRIPTION
When I was around 14 years old, I heard Sergio Mendes for the first time. Not only did I immediately fall in love with Brazilian Music, but felt so much that this was the type of music that I had always been searching for… as if I had already, somewhere in a lifetime, been immersed in this incredible rhythmic, melodic, harmonic, and poetic music. The colorful culture… the tropical land… the spirit of happiness in Brazil was always a mirage, a conscious and unconscious dream that I was trying to grasp. A few years ago, Orlando and I met; music brought us together and together we made this album that is really the beginning of much ahead. I thank most of all Orlando, my husband and musical companion, for being a big part and helping me discover and realize my dreams, and for all the love, support and spirit he has given me. And this is what this album captures – the spirit and love behind the music among all the musicians and people involved in this work.
Patricia King Haddad
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Numa excurssão de lazer na praia dos alunos da Escola de Artes da Carolina do Norte, alguém me deu um violão para tocar. Segurando o instrumento comecei a tocar canções de rock nas quais ninguém presto muita atenção. Porém uma garota se aproximou e pergunatndo se eu era brasileiro, pediu em Inglês: - Toca uma música brasileira? Então me senti envergonhado pois eu só tocava rock, mas com dificuldade cantei e harmonizei metade da canção Corcovado, de Jobim. Naquele dia me toquei de que trilhava o caminho errado e passei então a estudar, pesquisar e a amar a música e a cultura do nosso país. Este disco foi a conclusão de um periodo de sete anos anos e meio que passei nos Estados Unidos estudando música clássica, aprendendo e tocando música brasileira. A nossa banda Minas viajou muito se apresentando em diversos estados e sempre recebendo as melhores reações do publico. É interessante notar que os músicos, com excessão do baterista paulista Manoel, no instrumental Sambawalk, são todos americanos e todos entusiastas e amantes da música brasileira. A propósito, o nome da garota que se aproximou de mim naquele dia azul de sol, se chamava Patricia King.
MUSICIANS:
ORLANDO HADDAD – Guitars and Vocals
PATRICIA KING – Pianos and Vocals
ROBBIE LINK – Acoustic Bass on Sinal Verde
Canção da Chuva, Choro Sambaião
RICHARD MARSHALL - Electric Bass on Calma Mulher
RICK HEYMAN - Electric Bass on Sambawalk
GREG HYSLOP – Electric Bass on Num Dia Azul, Só Danço Samba
Electric Guitar Solo on Só Danço Samba
DAVID LICHT – Drums and Percussion
DAVID VIA – Drums on Sinal Verde, Canção da Chuva
BRUCE MARTIN – Drums on Choro Sambaião
MANOEL MONTEIRO – Drums on Sambawalk
DENNIS LICHT - Percussion
ORLANDO and MANOEL – Batucada on Sambawalk
KOFI BURBRIDGE – Flute on Num Dia Azul
RON RUDKIN – Flute on Canção da Chuva
Flute and Piano on Sinal Verde
SCOTT ADAIR – Soprano Sax on Choro Sambaião
Produced by Orlando & Patricia Haddad for Blueazul Records
Recorded and mixed at The Process Studio, Greensboro, NC, by Ron Schrank
And Bob Kelly, May and Nov. 1981
Sambawalk recorded at Duncan Music Studio, Winston Salem, NC, Dec.
1979, engineer: David Wells
Mastered at Polygram Discos Ltda, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Cover by “Ao Lápis Studio”(Rique and Dulce Bittencourt)
Cover photo by Antonio Muniz
Artwork recovery – Barbara Karp, Karp Graphic Design
Record label photo by Kurt Eslick
Audio recovery and re-mastering– Brendan McGeehan
All songs © Blueazul Music, BMI
Só Danço Samba © Corcovado Music Corp., VM Enterprises.
Special thanks: Our parents, all the musicians listed above, Brian Faulkner,
Ron Schrank, Coquinho, Dave Belnap, Jody Crawford, Rick Heyman, John
And Clarice Scarritt, The Harrisons, Esther Young, David Oaks, Antonio
Henrique Nitzsche, and everyone who pre-ordered.
Released in Brazil in July of 1983
Re-released in Philadelphia, April of 2016