Post #223743 by tiki mick on Wed, Mar 29, 2006 10:09 AM

I just got the new Sergio mendes, but was less then thrilled with all the rapping on it (uh, uh, 3 to the bass, uh, uh)

There is one song without rapping that is good. Don't have the album in front of me right now, so I don't have the name of the song, but it goes "gia, gia, gia" or something like that.

I had gotten another album from him that was recorded in the late 90's, that had a lot of authentic carnival samba in the first few tracks, and then shifted over to pop-brazilian-fusion for the rest of the album, and featured Nathan East on bass. Very groovy smooth jazz type stuff!

I wanted to check out the new Herp Alpert album, but again, looks like he has some hip-hoppers on it, which is a total turn off to me. The album cover is great, though!!