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Walter Wanderley
Artist Biography For 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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Biography - 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. read less
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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. read less
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