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LATIN BEAT REVIEWS.(Reseña)

From: Latin Beat Magazine  |  Date: 5/1/2000  |  Author: Gonzalez, Elmer; Mangual, Rudy; Rivera, Gilbert; Tamargo, Luis; Varela, Jesse

BEBEL GILBERTO

Tanto Tiempo

(Six Degrees)

I was just a kid roaming the streets of Long Beach selling the Los Angeles Herald Examiner for a dime when I heard Astrud Gilberto singing So Nice (Summer Samba) on KHJ Radio. The Watts riots had just happened and for better-or-worse the formulaic but genre-bounding rotation of Top 40 AM radio was bringing a bit of Brazil to us amidst busing and desegregation. It was saxman Start Getz who introduced the soothing sensual rhythms ...

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