I found this record of Black Orpheus when I was 15. Brought it and my record player to college. Every night I had strangers who became friends who wanted to hear it. I am now 72. Still love it....best album ever.
Charlie was the unsung hero of the Bossa Nova craze in the US. When he discovered the sound in Brazil, he made a bee line to Stan Getz, and the rest, as they say, is history.
Realmente é surpreendente, e enlevante, ver esses gringos brancos tocando um samba-jazz tão originalmente brasileiro, respeitando a origem da musica mas dando uma característica própria. Orgulho do meu país e da nossa musica, e encantado pela universalidade da Música como forma de arte.
Byrd was just incredible. Was lucky enough to see him perform many times and exchange a few words with him once in a small club. A unique guitarist and one of the very greats.
***** Nothing much, I caught him catching a smoke between sets, I said how much I enjoy the show, he asked me which piece I liked the best, I said "Body and Soul" which was unbelievably beautiful.
@@myinnocentdevil I had the privilege of seeing Charlie a handful of times in a little jazz club in Lake Buena Vista outside of DIsney World. It was a great club with A+ acoustics. This place had a great, GREAT house trio (piano, bass, drums) and Charlie would come there solo, as he had a great rapport with this trio. A woman little younger than Charlie at the time (1979) she played eyes closed and lips mouthing the notes she was playing...sexy. Charlie began to notice me and my girl sitting front at every set, and he nodded to me. This man is the reason I took up fingerstyle guitar, so I was knocked out. I had brought his latest album (BLUEBYRD) and between sets he very nicely wrote a message on it in a lovely script...I would not part with it for anything. He also, and he'd not played this the other times I'd seen him, played "Carinhoso"...which was on the album he just autographed. And, he gave me a secret look. Charlie did not typically peer at the audience, so it was, I was sure, no accident. To call Charlie Byrd a gentleman would be an understatement. A crushing blow when he died. I have all of his albums which I obsessively collected while he was still with us...garage and yard sales...records you could not find anywhere now...just the later ones on CONCORD Label. But gems like "The World of Charlie Byrd" double album...forget it. The vinyl stores, the few that are left, will probably have them, but not at the 2-5 dollar range that I bought them at. If you run across a Charlie Byrd album-- GET IT.
Llegue por el azar, pero que fortuna, llevo escuchando varios videos de Luis Bonfá, y me fascinó, un genio de la musica, y nunca lo habia escuchado. Gracias a la hermosa musica de brasil
Charlie Byrd was a real inspiration to me when I was young and in the classical guitar programme at university. Even though I didn't play jazz, I could appreciate the tremendous level of musicianship that went into his concerts and especially how energetic his playing was considering he was already an older gent at that time.
I love so much this outstanding guitar player. I discovered Charlie Byrd in the mid-sixties, just after the beginning of the Samba craze ('Jazz Samba'), and his Blues Sonata accompanied many hours in my youth!
Chuck Redd is great! He's a brush artist who knows how. A great replacement for Bill Reichenbach. A quote attributed to Chet Baker is, "It takes a pretty good drummer to be better than no drummer at all.” Charlie Byrd is still one of my favorites. Nice to have a brother who's a bassist and knows all your nuances.
I’m not saying Mr. Redd is not a great drummer. I’m just saying that his rhythm in this song is not samba. I believe he could have tried harder instead of letting it go.
We saw him at Jazz Alley in Seattle with a couple from Chile in the mid 80s. I approached CB at his table with his friends during his last break of the evening and I think I said, "Some folks from your home away from home want to meet you - Chile." He was gracious and called them over to say 'Hi'. What a great guy. I rember that he played a very moving version of Villa Lobos 1st Prelude for Guitar. Full of feeling, better than most of the classical stars...
En Enero 1968 escuché el precioso álbum de bossa nova : Stan Getz, Joao Gilberto, Antonio Carlos Jobim, y despertó en mí el cariño por el compás melodioso de la bossa nova, y me adentré en conocer más a fondo de sus orígenes de las composiciones de samba , comparsas de carnaval , batucadas . Y aprecie el film Orfeo Negro, Luis Bonfa en USA , Ary Barroso , Vinicius de Moraes, Astrid Regina y con el fondo de Samba Saravah del film francés un hombre y una mujer. Y hoy , la guitarra pasmosa de Charlie Bird
It's magnifying to see a group of man being passionate to what they do. All those atmosphere, rhythm, jazz, mojo, excellence, professionalism, art!! It gives you feeling of being co- with them as a listener whenever the hell you are.
Incredible mix of musical taste and virtuosity. Innovative and flawless performance from giants of music (kind of a sterile review, but the piece moved me to tears)
No Luiz Bonfa in this video, except Samba de Orfeo is Bonfa's composition. Great interpretation, though. Check Redd seems to still be alive. He became an internation star after joining Charlie BIrd. Thank god for BossaNova.
For some reason this reminds me of "Maria" from a band called Bon Entendeur. It's a really nice French song and I recommend you listen to it at least once
My Dad had a jazz band background In the Tidewater VA area and knew Charlie Byrd~in fact I used to confuse Charlie Parker with Charlie Byrd!! (when very young)
Fantastic and what a fine bass player his kid brother was. It would be interesting to find out which of the Duke's Places this was recorded in, which the year and whether it is still used as a jazz venue. Because of the quality of the filming there must be other clips from this gig.