# CD review: Duduka Da Fonseca & Helio Alves – Samba Jazz & Tom Jobim 2019: Video, CD cover

- Link: https://jazzblues.eu/2019/12/21/cd-review-duduka-da-fonseca-helio-alves-samba-jazz-tom-jobim-2019-video-cd-cover/
- Published: 2019-12-21T13:57:13+01:00
- Author: https://JazzBlues.EU

**In the late 1950s, Brazilian guitarist João Gilberto and pianist/composer Antônio
Carlos (Tom) Jobim revolutionized American music with the introduction of the bossa
nova and the samba to the jazz lexicon. **

America’s love affair with these lyrical rhythms has never gone away—in fact, we
continue to discover more about these jazz innovators and their influence through
albums like _Samba Jazz & Tom Jobim_ (Sunnyside).

Three Gilberto/Jobim devotees—drummer Duduka Da Fonseca, pianist Helio Alves, and
singer Maucha Adnet—form the creative team behind this release; the recording draws
from the trio’s show by the same title, presented at Dizzy’s Club Coca Cola annually
since 2007. An even mix of vocal and non-vocal tracks, the album showcases Adnet
on all of the Jobim titles and two powerhouse trumpeters on two of the non-Jobim
instrumentals: Claudio Roditi on his own high-velocity samba, “Gemini Man,” and 
Wynton Marsalis with a more straight-ahead take on Raul de Souza’s “A Ventade Mesmo.”

Rio de Janeiro-born Adnet, who sang with Jobim’s ensemble Banda Nova for the last
10 years of his life, upholds the bandleader’s legacy on a smattering of his well-
and lesser-known bossas, among them the lusciously arranged “Dindi”; a lilting, 
flute-accented “Pato Preto”; and a brief, fluttering “A Correnteza,” all in the 
original Portuguese. Adnet also tosses in an outlier: a disarmingly emotional rendering
of the English-language “I Love You, Porgy” from the Gershwins’ American opera, 
_Porgy and Bess_, with only the lightest touch of a Brazilian groove in the drums.

Da Fonseca and Alves, from Rio and São Paulo, respectively, contribute their own
originals to the album: Halve’s dynamic “Untitled” and frenetic “Helium,” and Da
Fonseca’s intriguingly outré “Alana.” These three modern tunes serve as a reminder
that not all Brazilian jazz today is bossas and sambas: Gilberto and Jobim started
something that is still unfolding.

 _Samba Jazz & Tom Jobim: _Gemini Man; Alana; Untitled; Pato Preto; Dindi; A Correnteza;
Pedra Bonita Da Gavea; Helium; Você Vai Ver; Polo Pony; A Vontade Mesmo; I Loves
You Porgy.

1. Gemini Man (feat. Claudio Roditi) (06:01)
 2. Alana (06:28) 3. Untitled (07:02)
4. Pato Preto (03:58) 5. Dindi (06:50) 6. A Correnteza (02:50) 7. Pedra Bonita Da
Gavea (06:04) 8. Helium (06:00) 9. Você Vai Ver (03:56) 10. Polo Pony (04:55) 11.
A Vontade Mesmo (feat. Wynton Marsalis) (04:50) 12. I Loves You Porgy (Bonus Track)(
06:27)

**Billy Drewes – saxophones & flute (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10, 12)**
 **Romero Lubambo–
guitars (1, 2, 5, 9, 10, 11)** **Hans Glawischnig – bass** **Maucha Adnet – vocals(
4, 5, 6, 9, 10, 12)** **Helio Alves – piano & Rhodes** **Duduka Da Fonseca – drums****
Claudio Roditi – trumpet (1)** **Wynton Marsalis – trumpet (11)**

⌊Image result for Duduka Da Fonseca & Helio Alves - Samba Jazz & Tom Jobim"⌉⌊Image
result for Duduka Da Fonseca & Helio Alves - Samba Jazz & Tom Jobim"⌉⌊Image result
for Duduka Da Fonseca & Helio Alves - Samba Jazz & Tom Jobim"⌉⌊Image result for 
Duduka Da Fonseca & Helio Alves - Samba Jazz & Tom Jobim"⌉

### _Related_