Walter Wanderley
Walter Wanderley
Person from Brazil
Genres: bossa nova, exotica, jazz, latin jazz, lounge, Bossa Nova, brazil, easy listening
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About Walter Wanderley
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, he could stretch out when he wanted to. Wanderley started playing the piano at age 5, taking a year of theory at 12, and well before he was out of his teens, he moved to São Paulo and got a recording contract. Juxtaposing American hits and Afro-Cuban dance music, he built a following in Brazil during the 1950s, and by the early-'60s, he was immersed in the emerging bossa nova field, recording with Joao Gilberto in 1961 and on his own. Encouraged by Tony Bennett, among others, Wanderley finally took off for New York in 1966, where Creed Taylor recorded him for Verve. His first album, Rain Forest, yielded a smooth-sailing Top 30 hit single, "Summer Samba," peaking at No. 26 and proving that bossa nova was far from a spent force in 1966. Settling in Los Angeles, Wanderley went on to make four more albums for Verve and two for A&M, and other material was issued on World Pacific, Philips, Tower and Canyon. He continued to work at a lower profile after bossa nova went into eclipse in the '70s - and by the time of his death from cancer in 1986, he was virtually a forgotten man. But when the lounge movement discovered him, the values of his out-of-print albums suddenly skyrocketed. BORN: May 12, 1932 (Recife, Brazil) DIED: September 4, 1986 (San Francisco, CA) LIVED IN: the San Francisco area after coming to the U.S.
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Walter Wanderley — Top 29 songs
| Artist | Song title | Like / Dislike | |
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| Walter Wanderly | Summer Samba | ||
| Walter Wanderly | O Ganso | ||
| Walter Wanderly | Taste Of Sadness | ||
| Walter Wanderly | Agua De Beber | ||
| Walter Wanderly | Beach Samba | ||
| Walter Wanderly | Call Me | ||
| Walter Wanderly | Cry Out Your Sadness | ||
| Walter Wanderly | O Menino Decse O Morro | ||
| Walter Wanderly | The Girl From Ipanema | ||
| Walter Wanderly | O Barquinho | ||
| Walter Wanderly | Cried Cried | ||
| Walter Wanderly | So Nice (Summer Samba) | ||
| Walter Wanderly | Song Of The Jet | ||
| Walter Wanderly | The Great Love | ||
| Walter Wanderly | Cheganca (The Great Arrival) | ||
| Walter Wanderly | It's Easy To Say Goodbye | ||
| Walter Wanderly | Beloved Melancholy | ||
| Walter Wanderly | Poema Da Vida | ||
| Walter Wanderly | Nega Do Cabelo Duro (With Astrud Gilberto) | ||
| Walter Wanderly | So Nice (Summer Samba) (With Astrud Gilberto) | ||
| Walter Wanderly | O Orvalho Vem Caindo | ||
| Walter Wanderly | To The End Of The Earth | ||
| Walter Wanderly | Samba de una sola nota | ||
| Walter Wanderly | Dolores | ||
| Walter Wanderly | Wave | ||
| Walter Wanderly | Voce E Eu | ||
| Walter Wanderly | A Mesma Rosa Amarela | ||
| Walter Wanderly | Here's That Rainy Day (With Astrud Gilberto) | ||
| Walter Wanderly | Como E Bom Dancar |