Post #611141 by TikiTomD on Fri, Oct 21, 2011 2:07 PM

Aloha, Tigertail777...

I was turned on to Lisa Ono by Mark Riddle of DigiTiki.com (aka Marty Lush of the Tikiyaki Orchestra), who played selections from the Bossa Hula Nova album on The Quiet Village Podcast Episodes 25 and 33 (http://www.digitiki.com/podcast.htm)... “Swingtime in Honolulu” is a personal favorite from that album. The album itself is cited as “a beautiful marriage of Hawaiian and Bossa Nova music.” I suppose the accuracy of that statement varies with the listener, but I happen to agree...

Lisa’s bio is here: http://www.onolisa.com/english/biography.html. Some of her albums are now hard to get and/or expensive, although iTunes carries a limited selection that you can sample, but currently none from that album. The only place I know that you can purchase a reissue of Bossa Hula Nova is at CD Japan (http://www.cdjapan.co.jp/search3.html?r=any&exact=&q=lisa+ono+bossa+hula+nova&order=score&media=&step=20), though it’s possible that you might be able to order it through Amazon.com.

I have these albums, all really great, but only the one has a Hawai’i focus:

Cerenato Carioca (1992)

Rio Bossa (1996)

Bossa Hula Nova (2001)

The Music of Antonio Carlos Jobim “Ipanema” (2007)

-Tom