Deodato

The Brazilian keyboardist/producer/arranger was responsible for some of the funkiest instrumental jams laid to wax during the 1970s. For his second solo LP, he delivers a relentless array of party-centric jams that still hold up today. "Skyscrapers" and "Soul Strut" are completely out of control.

CTI Records is a hot jazz label right now, and with artists like Airto, Hubert Laws, Ron
Carter and similar heavies in their stable, the future looks bright indeed for the Creed
Taylor clan. But despite its reputation as a progressive jazz label, CTI's most commercially
successful artist to date has not been a "jazzman" in the traditional sense, but Brazilian
arranger Eumir Deodato. Buoyed by the startling success of the "Also Sprach Zar... More >