VA - Bossa Jazz: The Birth Of Hard Bossa Samba Jazz And The Evolution Of Brazilian Fusion 1962-73 - 2CD (2011)

This double album features many of the great Brazilian jazz bossa
groups involved in the bossa nova explosion of the early 1960s. The
amazing hard driving music, played by these groups who backed the
famous bossa nova singers of the day - Elis Regina, Jorge Ben, Joao
Gilberto - became known as hard bossa or samba jazz.

Sergio Mendes, Raul de Souza, Airto Moreira, Deodato, Edu Lobo - all
of these artists started their careers here - all pioneering,
creative musicians who defined a musical genre. By the end of the
1960s an exodus of Brazilian musicians to the United States led to
the subsequent emergence of Brazilian jazz fusion in the USA in the
early 1970s. Brazilians such as Sergio Mendes, Deodato, Joao Donato
- all of whom were integral to the earlier bossa nova scene - began
to collaborate with their counterpart American jazz players, such as
Airto Moreira joining the Miles Davis electric group and Dom um
Romao joining Weather Report.

This album tells the story of this musical journey - an essential
key to understanding the link between 1960s bossa nova and the
Brazilian fusion that emerged in the USA in the 1970s. Absolutely
killer tunes throughout!