Walter Wanderley
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Brazilian pianist, organist and arranger (1932-1986) of Bossa Nova and latin jazz
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1914
- Works
- 10
Top works
- As palavras, a amizade e o tempo
- Eliseu Viana, o educador (1890-1960)
- Família Wanderley; história e genealogia
- Gente da gente
- Irineu Sóter Caio Wanderley
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Brazil
- Active from
- 1932-05-12
- Active to
- 1986-09-04
Discography
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 350,746
- Total plays
- 3,026,919
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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,
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- The Iron Cage Revisited: Institutional Isomorphism and Collective Rationality in Organizational Fields
· 1983 · cited 31,511x
- A global reference for human genetic variation
· 2015 · cited 17,786x
- Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 15,964x
- The diagnosis of dementia due to Alzheimer's disease: Recommendations from the National Institute on Aging‐Alzheimer's Association workgroups on diagnostic guidelines for Alzheimer's disease
· 2011 · cited 13,454x
- A logical calculus of the ideas immanent in nervous activity
· 1943 · cited 13,223x
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