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!, her third album of Brazilian music, Brazilian Romance followed in 1987.

Reception

Although the contemporaneous review by Los Angeles Times jazz critic Leonard Feather was somewhat mixed, he did not fault the featured artist:
''That this set does not reach the consistent heights of its predecessor, "I Love Brazil," cannot be blamed on Vaughan. The difference lies in the accompaniment, which this time is spotty. Who needs that unison choir background on "Smiling Hour"? Vaughan is not Mitch Miller. The simplistic percussion on "Bonita" could be a metronome. Still, Hélio Delmiro's guitar, an unidentified cello and the incomparable Vaughan contralto applied to "Dindi," "Gentle Rain" and Jobim's "Double Rainbow" elevate this to 3½ stars.

Track listing

  1. "Copacabana" - 3:39
  2. "The Smiling Hour " - 4:19
  3. "To Say Goodbye " - 3:49
  4. "Dreamer " - 3:41
  5. "Gentle Rain" - 2:50
  6. "Tetê" - 4:41
  7. "Dindi" - 5:32
  8. "Double Rainbow " - 3:34
  9. "Bonita" - 3:54

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