Brazilian Romance
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Brazilian Romance is a 1987 studio album by Sarah Vaughan
Sarah Vaughan
Sarah Lois Vaughan was an American jazz singer, described by Scott Yanow as having "one of the most wondrous voices of the 20th century."...

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This was Vaughan's last album, though she later contributed to Quincy Jones
Quincy Jones
Quincy Delightt Jones, Jr. is an American record producer and musician. A conductor, musical arranger, film composer, television producer, and trumpeter. His career spans five decades in the entertainment industry and a record 79 Grammy Award nominations, 27 Grammys, including a Grammy Legend...

' 1989 Back on the Block
Back on the Block
Back on the Block is a 1989 studio album produced by Quincy Jones. It features many famous and important musicians and singers, including Ella Fitzgerald, Miles Davis, Joe Zawinul, Ice-T, Big Daddy Kane, Sarah Vaughan, Dizzy Gillespie, George Benson, Luther Vandross, Dionne Warwick, Barry White,...

. Brazilian Romance was Vaughan's third album of Brazilian music, following Copacabana
Copacabana (Sarah Vaughan album)
Copacabana is a 1979 album by Sarah Vaughan. This was Vaughan's second album of Bossa nova following I Love Brazil! and her third album of Brazilian music, Brazilian Romance would follow in 1987.-Track listing:...

(1979) and I Love Brazil!
I Love Brazil!
I Love Brazil! is a 1977 studio album by Sarah Vaughan, accompanied by prominent Brazilian musicians Milton Nascimento, Dori Caymmi and Antonio Carlos Jobim....

(1977)

Track listing

  1. "Make This City Ours Tonight" (Tracy Mann, Milton Nascimento
    Milton Nascimento
    -Biography:Nascimento's mother was the maid Maria Nascimento. As a baby, Milton Nascimento was adopted by his mother's former employers: the couple Josino Brito Campos, a banker employee, mathematics teacher and electronic technician; and Lília Silva Campos, a music teacher and choir singer...

    ) - 2:57
  2. "Romance" (Danilo Caymmi, Mann, Paulo César Pinheiro) - 3:30
  3. "Love and Passion" (Mann, Nascimento) - 3:58
  4. "So Many Stars" (Marilyn Bergman
    Marilyn Bergman
    Marilyn Bergman is a composer, songwriter and author.She was born Marilyn Keith in Brooklyn, New York and studied psychology and English at New York University...

    , Alan Bergman
    Alan Bergman
    Alan Bergman is an American lyricist and songwriter.-Life & career:Born in Brooklyn, New York, he studied at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and UCLA. His involvement in the entertainment industry began in the early 1950s as a director of children's television shows...

    , Sérgio Mendes
    Sergio Mendes
    Sérgio Santos Mendes is a Brazilian musician. He has released over thirty-five albums, and plays bossa nova heavily crossed with jazz and funk....

    ) - 4:07
  5. "Photograph" (Caymmi, Mann, Pinheiro) - 2:31
  6. "Nothing Will Be as It Was (Nada Será Como Antes)" (Ronaldo Basos, Nascimento, Renne Vincent) - 4:44
  7. "It's Simple" (Caymmi, Mann, Pinheiro) - 2:58
  8. "Obsession" (Caymmi, Mann, Gilson Peranzzetta) - 3:09
  9. "Wanting More" (Fernando Leoporace, Mann) - 3:54
  10. "Your Smile" (Caymmi, Pinheiro, Wolf) - 3:08

Personnel

  • Sarah Vaughan
    Sarah Vaughan
    Sarah Lois Vaughan was an American jazz singer, described by Scott Yanow as having "one of the most wondrous voices of the 20th century."...

     - vocal
  • Milton Nascimento
    Milton Nascimento
    -Biography:Nascimento's mother was the maid Maria Nascimento. As a baby, Milton Nascimento was adopted by his mother's former employers: the couple Josino Brito Campos, a banker employee, mathematics teacher and electronic technician; and Lília Silva Campos, a music teacher and choir singer...

     - vocals
  • George Duke
    George Duke
    George Duke is a multi-faceted American musician, known as a keyboard pioneer, composer, singer and producer in both jazz and popular mainstream musical genres. He has worked with numerous acclaimed artists as arranger, music director, writer and co-writer, record producer and professor of music...

     - keyboard
  • Alphonso Johnson
    Alphonso Johnson
    Alphonso Johnson is an American jazz bassist who has been influential since the early 1970s.-Biography:Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Johnson started off as an upright bass player, but switched to the electric bass in his late teens. Beginning his career in the early 1970s, Johnson showed...

     - bass
  • Dan Huff - guitar
  • Dori Caymmi
    Dori Caymmi
    Dorival Tostes Caymmi is a Brazilian singer, guitarist, songwriter, arranger, and producer who is a two-time Grammy Award winner .-Biography:...

     - guitar, arranger
  • Carlos Vega - drums
  • Paulinho da Costa
    Paulinho Da Costa
    Paulinho da Costa is a Brazilian percussionist born in Rio de Janeiro, considered one of the most recorded musicians of modern times. Playing over two hundred percussion instruments, he has participated in thousands of recording sessions, Grammy Award-winning albums, hit songs, soundtracks, radio...

     - percussion
  • Hubert Laws
    Hubert Laws
    Hubert Laws is an American flutist and saxophonist with a 40+ year career in jazz, classical, and other music genres. Alongside Herbie Mann, Laws is probably the most recognized and respected jazz flutist...

     - flute solo on "Obsession"
  • Tom Scott
    Tom Scott (musician)
    Tom Scott is an American saxophonist, composer, arranger, conductor and bandleader of the west coast jazz/jazz fusion ensemble The L.A. Express.-Biography:Scott was born in Los Angeles, California...

     - lyricon solo on "Love and Passion", tenor saxophone solo on "Make This City Ours Tonight"
  • Ernie Watts
    Ernie Watts
    Ernest James "Ernie" Watts is an American jazz and rhythm and blues musician. He plays saxophone and flute. He might be best known for his work with Charlie Haden's Quartet West and his Grammy Awards as an instrumentalist...

     - alto saxophone solo on "Nothing Will Be as It Was"
  • Marcio Montarroyos
    Márcio Montarroyos
    Márcio Montarrotos was a Brazilian trumpet player.Starting his studies with classical piano, he later went to trumpet and jazz.In the 70's, he traveled to USA, to study at Berklee School of Music.1988 the Swiss TV invited Montarroyos to produce two one- Hour Concerts together with the german guitar...

     - flugelhorn solo on "Romance", trumpet solo on "Make This City Ours Tonight"
  • Chuck Domanico
    Chuck Domanico
    Charles Louis Domanico , better known as Chuck Domanico, was an American jazz bassist, playing both acoustic and electric bass on the West Coast jazz scene.Domanico was born in Chicago...

     - acoustic bass on "Photograph"
  • Siedah Garrett
    Siedah Garrett
    Siedah Garrett is an American songwriter and singer.-Biography:She appeared as a contestant on Password Plus in 1980.She performed "One Man Woman" on Quincy Jones' Grammy-Award winning "Back on the Block."...

     - background vocal on "Your Smile"
  • Gracinha Leporace
    Gracinha Leporace
    Gracinha Leporace is a female Brazilian singer known most notably for her work with her husband Sérgio Mendes and his band. She has featured regularly in much of the group's releases over the last four decades and, most recently, can be heard as the Portuguese-singing female vocal in the hit Mas...

     - background vocal on "Your Smile"
  • Kate Markowitz
    Kate Markowitz
    Kate Markowitz is an American singer-songwriter. Markowitz is perhaps best known as a back-up vocalist who has recorded and performed with a number of singers, most notably James Taylor but also Willy DeVille, Shawn Colvin, Mylène Farmer, Don Henley, Billy Joel, k.d. lang, Lyle Lovett, Graham...

    - background vocal on "Your Smile"
  • Gordon Marron - violin
  • Barry Socher
  • Wilbert Nuttycombe
  • Robert Sanov
  • Jay Rosen
  • Shari Zippert
  • Ronald Folson
  • Irving Geller
  • Jean Hugo
  • Connie Kupka
  • Arthur Zadinsky
  • Bill Hybel
  • Marilyn Graham
  • Joseph Goodman
  • R. Hill
  • Kenneth Burward-Hoy - viola
  • Gareth Nuttycombe
  • Marilyn H. Baker
  • Herschel Wise
  • Suzie Katayama - cello
  • Larry Corbett
  • David Speltz
  • Todd Hemenway
  • Gayle Levant - harp
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