CD Reissue of the Week - "O Violão de Heraldo do Monte"

CD Reissue of the Week
"O Violão de Heraldo do Monte" (London/Think!) 1970/2011

An easy-listening oriented album cut by Heraldo do Monte (one of the founders of the legendary Quarteto Novo, alongside Théo de Barros, Hermeto Pascoal and Airto Moreira) for Odeon's subsidiary label London in 1970, and now reissued on CD for the very first time by the independent Japanese label Think! Records, distributed by Disk Union.

Using only acoustic guitar and backed by a small group of uncredited musicians, Heraldo performs such tunes as Michel Legrand's "Recit de Cassard" (aka "Watch What Happens"), Bobby Timmon's "Moanin'" (an Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers anthem), Joe Zawinul's "Mercy Mercy Mercy" (a Cannonball Adderley hit) and Stevie Wonder's "My Cherie Amour", placed alongside Brazilian songs composed by Jorge Ben, Toquinho, Antonio Adolfo, Edu Lobo and Lupicinio Rodrigues.