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Soft Samba Strings

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Released
  
1967

Artist
  
Gary McFarland

Producer
  
Creed Taylor

Label
  
Verve - 8682

Release date
  
1967

Genre
  
Jazz

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Recorded
  
October 27, 1966 at Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey and November 7, 1966 at CTS Studios, London

Soft Samba Strings(1965)
  
Scorpio and Other Signs(1968)

Similar
  
Gary McFarland albums, Jazz albums

Soft Samba Strings is a 1965 album by jazz arranger and vibraphonist Gary McFarland.

Contents

Reception

Douglas Payne reviewed the album for AllMusic and compared it dismissively to Soft Samba writing that it was "A misleading title that has less to do with Soft Samba and more to do with McFarland's similar feature for Zoot Sims (Waiting Game). Rather dull, perhaps because a strong soloist like Sims is missing".

Track listing

  1. "Full Moon and Empty Arms" (Buddy Kaye, Ted Mossman) – 2:20
  2. "Skylark" (Hoagy Carmichael, Johnny Mercer) – 3:00
  3. "I Know The Meaning" (Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky) – 3:07
  4. "Manhã de Carnaval (Morning of the Carnival)" (Luiz Bonfá, Antônio Maria) – 2:50
  5. "The Lamp Is Low" (Bert Shefter, Mitchell Parish, Peter DeRose) – 4:55
  6. "My Reverie" (Larry Clinton, Claude Debussy) – 2:50
  7. "These Are the Things I Love" (Harold Barlow, Lew Harris) – 2:15
  8. "Theme From "13"" (Gary McFarland) – 2:20
  9. "Once We Loved" (McFarland) – 1:45
  10. "Our Love" (Buddy Bernier, Larry Clinton, Robert D. Emmerich) – 2:20

Personnel

  • Gary McFarland - arranger, vibraphone, vocals
  • Jack Parnell – conductor
    • Production
  • Creed Taylor - producer
  • Pete Tuner, Acy Lehmann - cover design
  • Rudy Van Gelder - engineer (Englewood Cliffs)
  • Jack Clegg – engineer (London)
  • Val Valentin - director of engineering

    • References

    Soft Samba Strings Wikipedia
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