Marcos Valle

First released in 1966 on Warner Bros., Marcos Valle's third album was his debut US release. An instrumental set, it is packed (if a 29-minute album can be so described) of great tunes composed by Valle with his brother Paulo. Like Antonio Carlos Jobim's own-name US debut, The Composer Of Desafinado Plays (Verve, 1963), another instrumental set, Braziliance was likely conceived as a showcase for the brothers' songwriting, with a view to generating covers by US artists. Valle plays understated piano and guitar and is often submerged beneath the florid big-band-plus-strings arrangements of Eumir Deodato.

PERSONNEL:

• Marcos Valle- guitar, piano
• Eumir Deodato- arrangements
• Unknown orchestra.

TRACKS:

• SIDE A
• A1. Crickets Sing For Anamaria
• A2. If You Went Away
• A3. Batuque
• A4. The Face I Love
• A5. So Nice
• A6. Surfin’ In Rio

• SIDE B
• B1. Tanto Andei
• B2. Dorme Profundo
• B3. Brasileiro
• B4. Little Patricia
• B5. Passa Por Mim
• B6. Brazilian Duck