Rain Forest

by Walter Wanderley

Rain Forest cover art

Built around the massive crossover hit 'Summer Samba (Samba de Verão)', this album highlights Wanderley's rapid, staccato Hammond organ technique. The trio arrangement applies a sleek, lounge-oriented gloss to traditional bossa nova rhythms, popularizing the genre for an international pop audience.

Genres

  • Lounge
  • Bossa nova
  • Samba-jazz

Tracklist

  1. Summer Samba (So Nice)
  2. It's Easy To Say Goodbye
  3. Cried, Cried (Choru, Choru)
  4. Rain
  5. The Girl From Ipanema
  6. Beloved Melancholy (Saudade Querida)
  7. Taste Of Sadness
  8. Beach Samba
  9. Call Me
  10. Cry Out Your Sadness
  11. The Great Love
  12. Song Of The Jet