Big Band Bossanova Hard Bop Super Sounds Namba and The

Super Sounds Namba and The Pelikans

Mark Kavuma rapidly became a key trumpet player on the British Jazz scene

Between 1979 and 1982

these tracks (save for some light overdubs and post-production) feel closest to their 30 years of celebrated live performances

Big Band Bossanova Hard Bop Super Sounds Namba and TheThe 1953 Bud Shank Laurindo Almeida recordings are recognized as being the precursors of bossa nova jazz fusion. However, two 1962 Stan Getz LPs, Jazz Samba and Big Band Bossa Nova (presented here), and the albums that followed them in 1963, Jazz Samba Encore and Getz Gilberto, would start the bossa nova craze. The bossa fervor soon crossed the Atlantic, as attested by the following review by Nigel Hunter in the February 1963 edition of the British