Brazilian pianist, organist and arranger (1932-1986) of Bossa Nova and latin jazz
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A Brazilian organist/composer who stumbled upon a gold mine in the 1960s, Walter Wanderley has been resurrected posthumously in the 1990s, a purveyor of lounge music for a young generation. Yet his sound on the organ, generated by a crisp, lightweight, staccato attack, can be mistaken for no one else's - and his choice of material showed much good taste, particularly when exploring his countrymen' s songs. Although his most popular records contained only a minimum of melodic jazz improvisation,
5 total works indexed
· 1983 · cited 30,468x
· 2015 · cited 17,405x
· 2020 · cited 15,380x
· 2011 · cited 13,270x
· 1943 · cited 13,052x
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